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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Terri Majewski <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:50:51 -0400
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For those interested in the history of condoms, check out the book THE
FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone, 1977,
Harper Colophon Books.
 
p. 266 notes that "Condoms first appeared in the late seventeenth century,
but did not become common until the early eighteenth. Even then they were
hard to find outside of London, and were apparently reserved largely --
though probably not entirely -- for extra-marital affairs as protection
against venereal disease."
 
There's more interesting stuff, which I didn't have time to type in.

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