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Old 06-12-2006, 04:16 AM   #1 (permalink)
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The oldest surviving condom in the world has gone on display in an Austrian museum.



The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users' manual, written in Latin.

The manual suggests that users immerse the condom in warm milk prior to its use to avoid diseases.

The antique, found in Lund in Sweden, is made of pig intestine and is one of 250 ancient objects related to sex on display at the Tirolean County Museum in Austria this summer.
Made from pig's intestine, must have hurt a lot for the lady
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Old 06-12-2006, 06:43 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Now that is one innovation that could have changed a lot, had it been marketed well.
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Made from pig's intestine, must have hurt a lot for the lady
I am sure they would have had oils and creams in those days.
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Now that is one innovation that could have changed a lot, had it been marketed well.

I am sure they would have had oils and creams in those days.
Seriously Sir, don't you think that contraception might have been a controversial idea in Medieval Europe. Even today the evangelist have an anti-abortion stance....
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Made from pig's intestine, must have hurt a lot for the lady
It only uses the outer membrane of the intestine, the same thing people use to make sausages.
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LOL, Warm milk? (still laughing)...
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reusable ? I think world went behind in this tech
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Even today the evangelist have an anti-abortion stance....
Just as today, not everyone is an evangelist.
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