I think Jo Walton's The King's Peace used that fix.
I don't know if it's rare; I've seen people on rasfw complain about the "special contraceptive herbs" running around in the absence of a whole system of herbal medicine. Though I guess I just jumped from "easier childbirth" to "sex without pregnancy". Which also factored into Walton.
Hodgell's Kencyrath... Highborn women can control pregnancy but doesn't do them much good. Not sure about Kendar women, but they don't seem the type to die in childbirth, and they live considerably longer than normal humans, so that might explain their own egalitarianism. Might be less sexually dimorphic than humans, too.
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Date: 2007-02-06 08:12 pm (UTC)I don't know if it's rare; I've seen people on rasfw complain about the "special contraceptive herbs" running around in the absence of a whole system of herbal medicine. Though I guess I just jumped from "easier childbirth" to "sex without pregnancy". Which also factored into Walton.
Hodgell's Kencyrath... Highborn women can control pregnancy but doesn't do them much good. Not sure about Kendar women, but they don't seem the type to die in childbirth, and they live considerably longer than normal humans, so that might explain their own egalitarianism. Might be less sexually dimorphic than humans, too.