This being a Potterverse it wouldn’t be something straightforward like the way a condom insulates against body heat or decreases sensation. It’d be that the semen is magically transported into a nearby container. If you don’t have a proper container prepared it ends up somewhere inconvenient like someone’s pocket, or outer ear, or mouth. Or that both parties must spend a moment beforehand concentrating on a blue sphere, or the smell of vomit, or the sound of breaking celery. Or maybe it just makes a lady’s feet numb.
So some people in some situations skip the contraceptive because they aren’t prepared or don’t want to deal with the complication.
More likely, parents got offended by the thought of that spell getting taught officially, and the (edit)Davises just missed out on the unofficial version?
“Remarkably”, no. But at a school where kids as young as 11 go, it’ll perhaps seem incongruous. And again, we have an example of a couple kids still in highschool conceiving a kid somewhere they got caught at it—if birth control was both easy and well-taught then that’s unlikely to have happened.
I had sex ed at that age. I think it was a remarkably unproductive use of time for most of the people in there. But there was a least one girl who was pregnant the next year, so it’s possible that it prevented further pregnancy.
Sex education does not prevent all pregnancy any more than driver’s education prevents all accidents. Kids both fuck and fuck up.
Perhaps it still has a drawback.
This being a Potterverse it wouldn’t be something straightforward like the way a condom insulates against body heat or decreases sensation. It’d be that the semen is magically transported into a nearby container. If you don’t have a proper container prepared it ends up somewhere inconvenient like someone’s pocket, or outer ear, or mouth. Or that both parties must spend a moment beforehand concentrating on a blue sphere, or the smell of vomit, or the sound of breaking celery. Or maybe it just makes a lady’s feet numb.
So some people in some situations skip the contraceptive because they aren’t prepared or don’t want to deal with the complication.
More likely, parents got offended by the thought of that spell getting taught officially, and the (edit)Davises just missed out on the unofficial version?
Have we heard of magical Britain being remarkably prudish in either MOR or canon?
“Remarkably”, no. But at a school where kids as young as 11 go, it’ll perhaps seem incongruous. And again, we have an example of a couple kids still in highschool conceiving a kid somewhere they got caught at it—if birth control was both easy and well-taught then that’s unlikely to have happened.
I had sex ed at that age. I think it was a remarkably unproductive use of time for most of the people in there. But there was a least one girl who was pregnant the next year, so it’s possible that it prevented further pregnancy.
Sex education does not prevent all pregnancy any more than driver’s education prevents all accidents. Kids both fuck and fuck up.
(Davises.)
Edited.