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Same (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
by SilasX 5y ago
Same (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...