History Main / FantasyContraception

* In the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' women can and do buy magic charms that they can remove if they change their minds. [[SweetPollyOliver Alanna]] got one as soon as her period started. Keladry waited a bit longer, and her mother helped her find a mage who sells them. There's a mention in the Beka Cooper books of a dog having the same mark that makes the charms work carved into her collar as a sort of temporary spaying.

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* In ''Literature/TamLin'', after Janet finds she is pregnant, she picks some roses -- or an herb -- and Tam shows up, furious:
-->''Till up then started young Tam Lin,\\
Says Lady, thou pu's nae mae.\\
Why pu's thou the rose, Janet,\\
Amang the groves sae green,\\
And a' to kill the bonie babe\\
That we gat us between?''
** In some variants, she's advised to do it, and in one, her brother means it to hurt her; TruthInTelevision, many herbal abortificients can kill the woman as well if too much is taken, or the actual process of abortion can have dangerous results due to haemorrhage or infection.
--->''Then out it speaks her brither dear,\\
He meant to do her harm:\\
"There is an herb in Charter wood\\
Will twine you an the bairn."''
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* In ''Literature/AxisOfTime'', in the 21st century, women can receive an implant that can be controlled via a tablet and provides 100% contraception until such time as they choose to deactivate it or it stops working on its own (it has a finite life). Julia Duffy's implant is nearing its life, and she fears having a child, so she initiates the implant's final function, which permanently sterilizes her. When her husband finds out, they have a big fight over it, followed by a divorce. [[spoiler:Then he dies in a plane crash... [[FakingTheDead maybe]]]]. Since then, she becomes a mess, drinking and screwing her way through the war, regretting her decision and blaming herself [[spoiler:for his death]]. She finally gets better when she starts to go steady with Prince Harry.

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* ''Podcast/MetamorCity'' has fertility suppression amulets, incubi burn through them in a month.
* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' has "Rings of Protection From Pregnancy", [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything which are single-use, and are packaged in foil packets]]. Unfortunately most of them use cold magic, which Mack is vulnerable to.

* Paraphrased from about one hundred thousand ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfictions: "[[{{Fanon}} He quickly waved his wand and muttered a Protection Spell...]]"

-->-- Elisabeth Wheatley, Website/TikTok sketch, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/oGb4p0eDyb4?si=hpFryjmw4sKgZyuO "The Romance Genres discuss protection"]]

* In ''Chronicles of a Strange Kingdom'' contraceptive spells had become very common on a HighFantasy planet Delta. This EternalSexualFreedom seems to be a fairly recent development, likely from commoditization of magic in the last few centuries. Plenty of people still stick to old morals. And there are multiple caveats:

* In the ''[[Literature/CircleOfMagic Circle Universe]]'' an herb called droughtwort can be used to induce temporary sterility in men.
* ''Literature/{{City of Bones|1995}}'' by Creator/MarthaWells:

* Jean Auel's ''Literature/ClanOfTheCaveBear'' has the herbal method. Which realistically reduces the chance of pregnancy rather than eliminates it. Only one in three women who takes it doesn't get pregnant eventually and that woman only had miscarriages/stillbirths prior to the herbs.

** There is also mention of girls having to be "good at counting" to avoid pregnancy, which could refer to timing sex to your menstrual cycle--in RealLife, a ''very'' chancy method, but in a place where belief shapes reality, perhaps not as much.
** Pennyroyal is mentioned several times. It is a genuine abortifacient, though not a particularly safe one as it can cause haemorrhaging.

** Creator/TerryPratchett is actually quite proud that he could include a condom factory in Anhk-Morpork because it grounds the city and its culture firmly in reality. You could never get away with that in Middle Earth.
* In Steven Brust's ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'', it is stated that essentially, [[AWizardDidIt some kind of magic exists]] by which women (or at least [[OurElvesAreDifferent Drageran]] ones) can determine exactly when they want to be pregnant. The only illegitimate children come from marriages where one partner is sterile, and the term "bastard" is a lot more insulting for Dragaerans than for humans. This helps enforce the FantasticCasteSystem since while short-term relationships between members of different Houses are not unknown, they almost never produce offspring and are illegal, and when they do they are shunned and houseless.
* In many of Vonda N. [=McIntyre=]'s novels, everyone learns to control their fertility by way of a process similar to {{biofeedback}}. In ''Literature/{{Dreamsnake}}'' (expanded later into "Of Mist and Sand and Grass") this technique is known simply as 'Control' and works by altering blood flow to the generative organs, The treatment that renders healers immune to poisons and diseases also sterilizes them; however, it's stated that if they ''did'' conceive, the baby wouldn't be viable. As a result, they don't take chances and learn "biocontrol" anyway.
* In ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood have developed their Prana-Bindu nerve control to such a degree that they can choose when to get pregnant and what gender of child to conceive. It makes their work of breeding the Kwisatz Haderach possible but doesn't make much room for love. [[spoiler: This actually kickstarts the plot, as Jessica, who had fallen in love with Leto, chose to give him the boy he wanted instead of the girl the Bene Gesserit demanded, meaning the Kwisatz Haderach came a generation early...and out of the Bene Gesserit's control.]]

* Creator/ElizabethMoon's ''Literature/FamiliasRegnant'' series likewise features contraceptive implants, which are standard for women in Familias space. The fact that some of the other factions ''don't'' use them is a plot point twice.

* Creator/GlenCook's ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels mention a kind of amulet, worn on a woman's wrist, that prevents conception and [=STDs=]. This turns out to be notably plot-relevant in a few of the books. On one occasion, the ''lack'' of an amulet is what the viewpoint character notices, because it was very relevant to the situation he and his client were in. [[spoiler:Also relevant to the plot, as her already being pregnant helped set a crime in motion.]] Later in the series, use of amulets allows Singe the ratwoman to suppress her breeding cycle, which is essential for her independence as ratpeople are ''very'' prolific if Nature is allowed to take its course.

* ''Manga/WorldsEndHaremFantasia'': Due to [[SexMagic Macht being explicitly sex-based magic]], Arc avoids unprotected vaginal sex with his harem because the woman is virtually guaranteed to become pregnant as a result (he finds this out with Wenna the hard way). However, Felaris the high elf has tree nuts that seem to be effective in preventing pregnancy, and Arc gives Celine a potion implied to be a contraceptive before infusing her with Macht and taking her virginity.