Use of Contraceptive Methods Down Through The History: An Overview

Ever since the dawn of history, women and men have wanted to be able to decide when and whether to have a child, thus contraceptives were used in one form or another for thousands of years throughout human history and even prehistory. In fact, family planning has always been widely practiced intentionally or unintentionally, even in societies dominated by social, political or religious codes that require people to ‘be fruitful and multiply.’ Although, the concept of family planning emerges in early 8th decade of 20th century (1971) when the world’s gross population surpass 3 billion with accelerating growth rate, but the use of contraception dated back to almost 4000 years. Here in this article authors try their best to collect the literature in the support of use of contraceptive methods and agents throughout the history.