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pessary too, though oddly, I knew that one.
by dnautics 5y ago
pessary too, though oddly, I knew that one.
- SilasX 5y agoSame (male) but only because it came up in the context of reading Wikipedia deep dives that led to court cases blocking their import[1] and the Hippocratic oath, which, oddly enough, prohibits administering them (along with abortion): "Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Earliest_surviving_copy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Earliest_surv... Edit: But even then, I didn't know e.g. what they looked like, or anything about them specifically. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Package_of_Japanese_Pessaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Package_o...