The Rijksmuseum of the Netherlands recently exhibited a special exhibit that combines art and the culture of Amsterdam’s red light district: a nearly 200-year-old condom with erotic patterns on it. Condoms from a 19th- century brothel become museum exhibits! The museum said in a statement that the condom, believed to have been made in the 1830s, is made from sheep’s cecum and is about 20 centimeters long. It may have come from a high-end brothel in France. Before the invention of vulcanized rubber in 1839, condoms were mainly made of linen, animal membranes, and even tortoise shells, but their effectiveness in Continue reading
