The is on display at a museum in Austria. It's been dated to 1640 and still has an instruction manual, which says to "soak it in warm milk prior to use in order to prevent diseases."
Very interesting, but I'm not touching the damn thing!
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The is on display at a museum in Austria. It's been dated to 1640 and still has an instruction manual, which says to "soak it in warm milk prior to use in order to prevent diseases."
Very interesting, but I'm not touching the damn thing!
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In risk of sounding immature..
Eeeeeeeeeeeeew!
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
~Oscar Wilde
1640.... eesh.
I'm sure the smell of mingled cooch, cum, body oder and milk must have been lovely.
**edit - When originally used not when found!
^^^ Yeah, that and it was evidently re-usable.
I don't know, I'm pretty impressed. 1640 predates the discovery of microbes, but clearly, people still understood that fluids (not contact) led to diseases. I mean, I wouldn't touch it either... oh, what the hell, yes I would. I want to be able to say that I touched the world's oldest condom. Just like how at the end of the Bodies exhibit they let you touch a plasticized heart, and at first I was like eeeew, but then I thought about it, and I decided that touching a human heart would bring me 1 step closer to badassness. So yeah, this is similar.
Yek has such adorable trivia tonight.![]()
Last edited by teeth_of_the_hydra; 02-07-2007 at 07:58 PM. Reason: broke-ass emoticon





it looks like an umbrella





I like how it has a drawstring... for those smaller peckers.
Look like a woman
Think like a man
Act like a lady
Work like a dog
- My Great Grandmother Bessie's Recipe for Success





yea, ill agree with ms angela... ewwwww. but i am impressed people had the knowledge back then about how to prevent disease and pregnancy.
Love it!
very interesting. i wonder if it was used mainly for prostitutes or if the average married man used it.
Awesome visual, Sirona.I'm sure the smell of mingled cooch, cum, body oder and milk must have been lovely.
<S> Sirona.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.




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Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself...Osho
LOL! Sorry guys! I have a penchant for grossing people out I guess.![]()
::dry heaves::
It's so.. um.. Pretty.




...i think it was found in the oldest surviving wallet of a married man with a wife having the longest perpetual headache on record.
"Peter, did you take Stewie to a strip-club? He smells like sweat and fear." - Lois and Stewie (Family Guy) ... "Through early morning fog I see, Visions of the things to be, The pains that are withheld for me, I realize and I can see..."
Smells like seawater...
People are not ruled by their memories.





Maybe the Bubonic Plague got people thinking.
Hmm. Not as impressive as the ancient Romans harvesting a very effective birth control plant into extinction. Randy people.
^^^ What plant was that?
The ancient Egyptians used to stick crocodile turds up their cooter for birth control. And Sumerians used lemon halves for diaphragms, and Assyrians made IUD's out of beeswax.
Yet Jerry Falwell would have you believe that birth control was invented in the 1960's by scary witches...
Silphium. It is a member of the Fennel family. I believe that it caused abortions or worked like a Morning after pill.
Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!
Fennel does that too.
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