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While the wearing of penile sheaths made from a diversity of substances--linen, gourds, tortoiseshell, leather, silk, oiled paper-- has been known in numerous societies from distant antiquity, it is less certain that these were employed either as a protection against sexually transmitted disease or for contraceptive purposes, rather than for magical or decorative purposes or modesty. It was the Italian anatomist GABRIELLO FALLOPIO (1523-62) who, in a posthumously published work De morbo gallico (on the French disease, i.e. syphilis), recommended as a protection against venereal disease a linen sheath of which he claimed to be the inventor. The means of fitting it--over the glans but under the foreskin, or inserted into the urethra--sound neither comfortable nor particularly practicable. A little later, Hercules Saxonia described a larger linen sheath, soaked in a chemical or herbal preparation. which covered the entire penis.
The invention of the sheep-gut sheath has been persistently attributed to a certain DR. CONDOM, Cundum or even Quondam, an almost certainly apocryphal figure, during the reign of Charles II. Archaeological evidence, however, suggests that far from being a product of the licentious Restoration era, gut condoms were already available over twenty years earlier during the height of the English Civil War. These prototype condoms (baudruche, french letters, capotes anglaises, etc), both animal and vegetable, were primarily employed as prophylactics against venereal disease, although there is some literary evidence that their dual purpose as contraceptives was also recognized.
idk bout the name but i know they used to use sheep and animal intestines... =]
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