A rural South American wastewater treatment system, perhaps?

[vakkotaur]

It can be amusing at times when people mis-speak (hopefully it just mis-speaking) and you know what was intended to be said. I was told a story a few days ago about a young fellow who was concerned about a roommate doing things in their apartment. The details are not important, but the term "contraseptic" (as a noun) was used in the original telling without any sense of irony or in-joke.

I know what contraceptives are. And that they can be called prophylactics. And what contraception is. But I had not heard of a "contraseptic" before. Then, there likely a good many things I have not yet heard of. So I went to a search engine or two and looked around the web. Nope, no stunning revelation of something I've managed to miss for some time. Just a lot of advice to people using that word, which can all be summed up in two words: don't mate.

Ah, but 'contraseptic' does have that odd appeal of something that feels like it ought to be a word. But it lacks a proper definition. Perhaps you can add to the lexicon: How would you define "contraseptic"?

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

contra = against
septic = an infection, or a method of sewage disposal, or Cockney rhyming slang for American, or a polynomial of degree seven

So you would have to be against infected American mathematicians who have sewage trouble.

[temperlj.livejournal.com]

Being counter to having a septic system.
Oh no, we do everything naturally at the cabin -we have an outhouse and only use water, leaves and squirrels for wiping delicates. You could say we're real Contraseptics"

Or a radical Contra group-
"Dude, we wear jack boots and movement is free we are Contra, Contra SEPTIC!
*throws horns*"

[setsu-p.livejournal.com]

Contraseptic - The last line of defense against the sort of people who use the word 'contraseptic' in place of CONTRACEPTIVE.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Like antiseptic, but more guerrilla.