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Cat had a great point. I read once that prostitutes would take a "potion" to prevent pregnancy. Basically the same method as other women.... Pessaries, maybe abortion. -- Nikole Wellman | Cat had a great point. I read once that prostitutes would take a "potion" to prevent pregnancy. Basically the same method as other women.... Pessaries, maybe abortion. -- Nikole Wellman | ||
| − | + | On the topic of prostitutes and abortion, and not the reading, my mother was a nurse in one of the major hospitals in Houston, TX, and when she first started working there she got a call from a room asking for assistance. A woman needed help getting from the toilet back to her bed. My mom helped her back to the bed, and went to the bathroom and saw a fetus in the toilet. My mom freaked out. The other nurses explained to her that the woman had had an abortion, and that she routinely went to the hospital to have one, and that was the woman's form of birth control. They were also fairly certain she was a prostitute. Keep in mind that this was the early 1980's. | |
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| + | To discuss the actual reading, the letters were depressing. I will admit to being slightly impressed by the man writing to ask about contraceptives for fear of his wifes health, but that's the only slightly uplifting part of the letters. All of these women are desperate for help, and it makes me rather sad. - Sarah H. | ||
The people who wrote these letters sound so desperate. They lived in a time where the companionate marriage seemed to burden the women with an emotional and economic dilemma; namely, the lack of intimate relations with their spouse could inhibit or destroy their marriage, but so could the economic and physical burdens that resulted from additional children. When I read these letters, I wondered how many women were pushed to self aborting because of no other remedy.--LisaM | The people who wrote these letters sound so desperate. They lived in a time where the companionate marriage seemed to burden the women with an emotional and economic dilemma; namely, the lack of intimate relations with their spouse could inhibit or destroy their marriage, but so could the economic and physical burdens that resulted from additional children. When I read these letters, I wondered how many women were pushed to self aborting because of no other remedy.--LisaM | ||
