About "being together" -- well, that depends on how you define sex, I guess? I had been assuming that, mostly because of the political situation, neither of them wanted to risk any accidental pregnancy on Aravis's part before they were officially married... but you can get awfully far with just hands and tongues. :-) And now they have no reason to keep being careful.
I tend to assume that while condoms are known in the Narnian world, they are not as reliable as latex ones with built-in spermicides. The rhythm method has a lot of known drawbacks. And while the idea of a perfect herbal contraceptive is nice, I have never heard of one in our world and would feel slightly disingenuous handwaving one into existence in Narnia. Possibly magic could serve as a solution! But I always got the feeling that purposeful spells were frowned upon in Narnia, Archenland, and Calormen alike. So penis-in-vagina sex is always going to carry a certain risk in a way that other types of sex may not... though of course diseases are not as choosy about their transmission vectors as pregnancy, so it's not as if they are perfectly safe either. *wry*
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I tend to assume that while condoms are known in the Narnian world, they are not as reliable as latex ones with built-in spermicides. The rhythm method has a lot of known drawbacks. And while the idea of a perfect herbal contraceptive is nice, I have never heard of one in our world and would feel slightly disingenuous handwaving one into existence in Narnia. Possibly magic could serve as a solution! But I always got the feeling that purposeful spells were frowned upon in Narnia, Archenland, and Calormen alike. So penis-in-vagina sex is always going to carry a certain risk in a way that other types of sex may not... though of course diseases are not as choosy about their transmission vectors as pregnancy, so it's not as if they are perfectly safe either. *wry*