Condom curiosities
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Sometime's Pravda's English translations make for odd reading:
Ancient historian chronicles testify of using condoms at that time. Legendary Minos, the czar of Crete living in 3000s A.C. was the first known person to invent condom. He had a pressing need of this.
The czar had a serious problem: his faithlessness angered his wife Pasifaya and she bewitched him. When he was making love with a woman, the sperm he ejaculated turned into serpents and scorpions. They attacked the woman and killed her.
The czar started being run out of women. However, he found the way out of the situation by placing the goat"s urinary bladder into the vagina of his next mistress. This innovation was of success - the woman stayed alive while Pasifaya had no idea that her husband had committed adultery. From that time czar Minos started regular using bladders as contraceptive devices. ...
Modern generation is lucky to have wide choice of condoms, there are condoms with "moustaches", corrugated, aromatized, of different sizes, colors and tastes.
In some countries condoms of New Zealand lamb intestine are still popular, despite the fact that they do not protect from viruses.
* Not really, but an Earl of Condom did help spread their use.