Why does the girl not get pregnant?

There's a deleted scene in the Special Edition DVD where the lover fires luminescnet balls of green fire into her womb after coitus. The flames don't injure her, but it has the ability of killing off sperm. They then fly off into the night sky to fight off Chuck Norris and his deadly minions. As you might expect, Old Chuck overcomes the forbidden Love with his almight roundouse kicks...

Unfortunately, Marguerite Duras disliked in immensely as she wanted the flame to be pink-purplish, rather than green, so it was excised in the final print.

Happiness is a strawberry sundae...

Why do you think that we keep a record of our menstrual cycle? Because we're just anal like that? LOL

Girls ovulate about two weeks before their period. So, if we pay attention to our cycle and are aware of when we are fertile, pregnancy can be avoided. That was basically the earliest form of birth control; albeit EXTREMELY unreliable in comparison to what we have today of course.

I'm sure they had other means of birth control back then too besides fertility awareness.

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Possibly see was too thin at the time. Sometimes when a female has so little body fat she doesn't readily conceive. Maybe?

Someone suggested she might be barren. However, in the voice-over at the end, she mentions that she went on to marry, have children and get divorced later on. (Then, as a much older man, the "Chinaman" found her again and told her that he never stopped thinking of her.)

So she wasn't barren. They could have used some protection, or maybe she was aware of her menstrual cycle and how to use it. Or --- most likely, they were just lucky.

It's fairly simple. This is based on the memoirs of writer Margurite Duras. She simply did not get pregnant, which is most likely just plain luck. As someone else commented, getting pregnant isn't as easy as many seem to think. Millions of dollars are spent every year on doctors, by seemingly normal, healthy women that just will not conceive. Above all, this is a love story, escapism at it's finest. Funny, but all the times I saw this, it never once occured to me that she might get pregnant, or that it was strange that she didn't. It's not that kind of film, it wasn't made for 'Lifetime' television.

I wondered that too. Doesn't matter because I reckon that had the girl become pregnant, she would have either had an abortion or given the child up for adoption since she thought her affair with the Chinese man was so shameful. And since he may have gotten in trouble with the law for being with the underage girl.

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Condoms have been around for about 400 years and became available to the poor classes in the 19th century. The thin Latex ones that are around today were invented in 1920, so they might have been available to them.