condoms!
because i am moving tomorrow this will probably be my last entry for a while. I will be sharing a laptop with my dad, mom, and sister. hooray.
okay... in honor of this last entry (for a while) I have decided to give you a little thing on condoms...
A Brief History of The Condom!
Condoms have been with us much longer than you might have imagined. Condoms are supposedly named after the apocryphal "Dr. Condom" or Conton, who is supposed to have made them for Charles II, out of lamb intestines, which are dried and then well oiled. The male sheath, however, had been around a long time before the time of Charles II.
Before the time of Christ, the chinese made them with oiled silk paper (the first lubricated condom!). It is rumored that Roman soldiers would make condoms from the muscle tissue of their defeated foes. By medieval times, the spread of syphilis increased the use of condoms greatly.
In the 1800s condoms were made from animal intestines that were soaked in an alkaline solution, scraped, disinfected with the vapor of burning brimstone, washed, inflated, dried, cut to approximately seven inches, and fitted with a ribbon on the open end. The Catholic Church wasn't to crazy about this prophylactic profusion and in 1826 Pope Leo XIII condemned their use. Despite the objections of his holiness, condoms were here to stay!
The End!
keep on keepin on
Love and Care,
Framo