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::<nowiki>*</nowiki>chokes* That's not true. Only condoms and abstinence reduce the transmission of STDs. [[User:AManInBlack|AManInBlack]] 23:50, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
::<nowiki>*</nowiki>chokes* That's not true. Only condoms and abstinence reduce the transmission of STDs. [[User:AManInBlack|AManInBlack]] 23:50, 25 July 2007 (EDT)
:::Errr, I amend my statement; it turns out there were more types of contraception than I remembered off the top of my head. However, ''any'' barrier method, not just condoms, reduces the chances of STD's. Even coitus interuptus reduces the chance, granted not by a large amount. The point I was trying to make was hidden by my apparent misunderstanding of contraception (hrm... guess I could have done with better sex ed, no?): disease prevention should be mentioned in this article. [[User:Jazzman831|Jazzman831]] 00:04, 26 July 2007 (EDT)
:::Errr, I amend my statement; it turns out there were more types of contraception than I remembered off the top of my head. However, ''any'' barrier method, not just condoms, reduces the chances of STD's. Even coitus interuptus reduces the chance, granted not by a large amount. The point I was trying to make was hidden by my apparent misunderstanding of contraception (hrm... guess I could have done with better sex ed, no?): disease prevention should be mentioned in this article. [[User:Jazzman831|Jazzman831]] 00:04, 26 July 2007 (EDT)
==History and social impact==
We should mention something on this. Contraception is the ''key'' development in all thing sexual since it became effective and available. Contraception lead to practical promiscuity and the 'free love' movement, and the rise in acceptability of premarital sex, which in turn helped the acceptability of all public mention and depiction of sex from pornography to racy movie scenes. Contraception regulation resulted in the Griswold case - when the supreme court invented a right to contraception, they set the stage for greater future cases - Griswold was key precident in both Row v Wade and Lawrence V Texas. If Griswold had gone otherwise, it is extremally unlikely the court would later have forced the legalisation of abortion and sodomy. Attempts to prosecute contraceptive education under obscenity laws lead not just to the overturning of Cornstock law, but the weakening of obscenity law in general. Almost every trend in sexual immorality since the 1800's can be traced directly or indirectly to the spreading of contraception. This is why so many states and churches worked so hard to ban it - they could forsee the eventual consequences of making sex safe. - [[User:NewConservative|NewConservative]]