People in the Elizabethan era didn't like to take baths. The common belief was that a bath can make you sick. In the wintertime, everyone was literally sewn to their long underwear (a flap for the back was kept closed with buttons.) So, wearing a pomander had real benefits. Pomanders kept air smelling sweet. "Discontinuation of sexual intercourse" is Latin because of "disrupted sexual intercourse." What happens is that the man pulls the penis out of the vagina before ejaculation. In general, this means that he "shoots" onto a woman's thigh or abdomen. Although this is an unreliable method, itc is certainly better than not using anything. However, in 2011, fertility specialists at Hull and Princeton published an important research paper. They tested 27 men and found that 37% of men had active sperm before ejaculation. The rest is not. Obviously, some men have a chance to become pregnant for the first time.