Things wot I learned from "Boardwalk Empire" this week:

Oct 26, 2010 14:38

#1 Apparently dousing your chooch with a Lysol mixture after sex constituted a birth control method in 1920. I'd like to know if that actually worked ( Read more... )

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azn_jack_fiend October 26 2010, 18:47:15 UTC
I would love to start watching!

According to advertising, Lysol douches could do all kinds of amazing things... like break women free from the giant spiderwebs that barred access to husbandly cock... but no I've never heard of them used for birth control.

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specialj67 October 26 2010, 19:23:06 UTC
The Margaret Sanger pamphlet they show in the episode is available online--10 seconds of Googling!--and apparently thoroughly cleaning your lady business after making sweet love on your husband, or in the case of this episode your organized criminal sugar daddy, was thought to prevent the little swimmers from reaching their destination ( ... )

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