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It’s 1890 and I’m a respected Victorian gentleman who’s out for a night of whoring, general debauchery, trampling the poor, etc. What kinds of birth control/protection are available to me as a well-off member of the upper classes?

by /u/Normans1066 in /r/AskHistorians

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