
Innovation and MaladjustmentContraceptive Technologies in State-Socialist Poland, 1950s–1970s
Sales of spermicides and female barrier methods in Poland (1967–79), according to public pharmaceutical distribution center CEFARM. The 1970s saw an increase in consumerism and access to consumer goods in Poland, but these did not include contraceptive technologies that dropped dramatically. (Source: Okólski, "Abortion and Contraception in Poland," 268.)