# Birth Control

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-control/41633>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 17, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-control/41633 "2000-11-17T18:49:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birth-control/41633/21 "2000-11-19T03:48:06Z")

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**peace** ,Chronos got it right.

He says that humans mostly do it for pleasure, but some of them do it to conciously produce offspring.

He also said that animals, other than humans, do it only for pleasure.

What is contradictory about these statements?

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