There ’s a lot we already know about condoms : their ability to prevent venereal infection and pregnancy ; their various styles , colors , and grain ; their uncanny ability to disclose at the bad moments .
But there ’s a raft wedon’tknow . Like how condoms evolved , how many are given out to prodigious jock , whether Magnums are really all they ’re cracked up to be … prepare to be amazed .
Female condoms can be inserted a full eight hours before sex
… although why you ’d be compelled to do so is beyond us .
Condoms used to be cost-prohibitive – and reusable
As early as the 1600s , animal - based safe were available to the public … for a toll . One condom could easilycost a US prostitute three calendar month ' pay . So , prophylactic got recycle . A lot . And up until around 1844 , when Charles Goodyear ( of tyre renown ) and Thomas Hancock began to aggregated - produce arctic safe on the cheap .
Condoms average a shelf life of four years
IF they ’re kept coolheaded and dry – not folded up in your wallet and wad into your jean ' back pocket .
There are tons of alternate uses for condoms
Condoms offer amyriad of other natural selection hackslike carrying H2O , start a ardour or protecting tinder , building sling slam and functioning as rubber gloves . But they ’re also being used forwaterproofing roofs and rebuilding roadstead , acne medication anddrug - smuggling .
Condoms make sex like 10,000 times safer
Planned Parenthoodclaims this estimate is attributed to a safety ’s power to forbid HIV – a factoid comes from a 1992 sketch called " Effectiveness of Latex rubber as a roadblock to Human Immunodeficiency Virus - Sized Particles Under Conditions of Simulated Use . "
Durex invented latex
No fooling . A hundred years ago the business was known asThe London Rubber Company , and invented latex in 1920 .
NEVER double-bag body parts
place two condom on does not , I repeat DOES NOT , offer any additional protection whatsoever . And , in fact , double - wrapping ups your opportunity of having the safe break .
Olympians go for the (sexual) gold
Sixteen yr ago at the Sydney Summer Olympics , 6,582 male athletes were armed with 70,000 condoms . When the competitors ran out , an emergency order was issued for 20,000 more . Fast - forward to 2014 , when athletes in the Sochi Olympics weredistributed 100,000 condoms … roughly the eq of 35 CONDOMS EACH . adept lord .
Once upon a time, condoms only came through Rx
Yup , once upon a prison term you needed a prescription drug to get your bridge player on some India rubber , making them even more awkward to buy . And also , all-fired near impossible if you were a char . Luckily for everyone slang around with flappers and ring political boss at the peak of ban , safety became useable byvending machine in 1928 . That was thanks to the first international condom manufacturer , Fromms Act out of Germany .
But now there’s Trojan Dash
Trojan just unveiled an easy , virtual way to never run out of rubber again with Amazon Dash . Just park theWiFi - connected buttonon your nightstand , and when you start running low on rubbers push the comfortable release ( free shipping with Amazon Prime ! ) . well-chosen Future , team !
Condoms don’t affect pleasure… for women
Women are equally as likely to orgasm with a rubber as without , according to research by Debby Hebernick , PhD , a research scientist at Indiana University and author ofBecause It Feels practiced .
The Nazis took over condom production during WWII
Julius Fromm work up a condom empire by 1931 in Germany , producing more than 50 million condoms for international use . Fromm – Jewish by birth – felt Germany ’s go up anti - Semitism and moved to London in 1938 , and the Nazis took over his business . Fromm always hoped to return to Germany and regain dominance of his enterprise ; however hedied in London three 24-hour interval after the last of World War II .
And the first TV show to air a condom commercial ever goes to…
Herman ’s Head . genuine life story .
Before (um, and after) the condom boom, pregnancy-prevention methods were totally crazy
Women have triedall kinds of wacky pregnancy - bar methods , including but of grade not limited to : drink atomic number 80 or lead , soaking sponges in Citrus limon juice before inserting them into the vagina , wear weasel egg on their stage , shooting Coca - Cola into a cleaning lady ’s crotch and even enclose alligator Irish bull into the vagina . prissy work , everybody !
Magnums are actually a total farce
Sorry to burst your bubble , chap , but Magnums are a sweetened marketing maneuver and ( very ) little more . While they ’re sized to accommodate a cinch of 5.3 in or more , they in reality willfit most penis sizes … include the very , very average . This specialty branding of Trojan belies a intersection that is the same length as regular condoms , and the same circumference at its groundwork . It essentially just occurred to advertizer that guys would be pumped to bribe anything for their johnsons mark " magnum " .
Condoms used to cover just the tip
Glans condomsused to be all the rage , and often made from animal bits . Pre-15th - century - China , little small-arm of oiled silk were put over the end of the phallus . Meanwhile , Guy in Japan feature cap made of tortoise shell for the tip of their dong .
Condom quality control is electric
To test for cakehole and tears , factories send electric current through condoms
… and involves test “models”
fabrication line condoms destined for actual - existence use can undergo the electrical energy test ; but there areother trial conduct on samplesto check on overall strength , likeliness of tearing , and the like . For these , sampling condoms are subject to airburst , water , and even unroll onto dildos and ( in the case of female condoms ) galosh vagina .
There are so many ways to set records with condoms!
earthly concern - record - associate safe bestsinclude : longest bungee cord made of condoms , the most amount of time sucking a condom into one ’s nose , and most safety packet stack on head .
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