At 23:45 7/9/97 -0500, you wrote:
>snip>
>One book in which birth control does play a vital part is The Gate to
>Women's Country, in which the women practice it with most of the men so
>that they can secretly breed a less violent human raise by only having
>babies by the more gentle men who have opted for city life.
Also, of course, Shore of Women (who only reproduce when they entice
a male into their web...)
>
>It seems to me, although I can't think of the titles off hand, that there
>are several novels which simply assume that women learn to control
>fertility pretty much by an act of will.
>
>
>Mike Levy
>
In at least one of Elgin's _Native Tongue_ books, exactly that happens.
The woman involved gets punished for it, as I recall.
Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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