Something had to be done to hide pregnancy, to stop pregnancy, to avoid getting pregnant in the first place or to give the child away very quickly. There were the usual expedients: anal sex, oral sex, the medieval speciality of separating out the male and the female orgasms so the male seed and the female seed could not mix, which everyone knew was required for pregnancy. Courting couples were allowed heavy petting and by the time anyone was printing books about such things, which in this case is 1637, there were sometimes healthy outdoor games: boys throwing the girls into the sea off a Dutch
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