On: Why people don't want to have children any more

[dingaling911]

Most kids were born because there was no birth control.

There is birth control.

So...

[throwaway-blaze → dingaling911]

The Ancient Egyptians had condoms.

[lovich → throwaway-blaze]

They had a few examples of condoms, they didn’t have mass produced relatively cheap ones, or the more effective chemical based contraceptives

[Isamu → lovich]

Anything before latex would be a based on an animal intestine eg rather the same as a sausage casing, except maybe tanned to make it durable. Not inexpensive, not very disposable. Not in widespread use.

[onlypassingthru → Isamu]

And, uh, not very sexy?

"Babe, hang on while I go chop off some pig intestine. Brb"

[dingaling911 → throwaway-blaze]

I highly doubt in a family situation ANYONE was regularly using condoms.