18th century condom
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I remember hearing a joke about this
Apparently the Welsh were the first people to discover you could use sheep intestines as a condom, then an Irish man revolutionized the idea by taking it out of the sheep first
Maybe I’m just missing scale but that thing looks huge 😂
Oops I dropped this magnum sheep’s intestine. For my magnum dong.
This is the Hunterian Museum in London, right (assuming it’s your picture)?
I remember learning this in high school and thinking how weird and gross. A few years back I started making sausages with hog intestines. It’s absolutely a natural fit and obvious.
Shrinkflation hit us hard
gonna need a banana for scale
And even back then people would [blow them up like balloons]
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(Mild NSFW I guess?)
Ol Willie willerby was packing heat
“Sorry love. The ol’ sheep’s bladder has slipped off inside you again. Mind fetching it for me? What’s that? Just leave it off? Oohh you’re a naughty bird eh?…”
As a 18th century sex work historian (finally I’m useful!) animal intestines or bladders were the most ‘comfortable’ of the condoms available at the time. Other condoms were made out of linen and all had to be tied at the base to avoid slipping off. There were many traders of condoms in the 1700s in London, a Mrs Phillips of Half Moon Street and Mrs A. M. Windsor in Covent Garden. Other methods for preventing STI transmission and/or pregnancy inclued douching with either ice cold water or lemon juice.
Rinse, repeat.
in days of old when knights were bold and condoms had not been invented. we tied our socks around our cocks and children were prevented.
Question is: Is it used?
Condom for what, a mule?
“Up in them guts” takes on new meaning.
I had to use sheepskin because a girlfriend was allergic to latex.
Man, they must have been really hung back then.
It did not, in fact, protect against sexually transmitted diseases
A banana would certainly be appropriate for scale in this instance.
Banana for scale. It looks like you could fit a whole arm in this.
Thank you, now i saw it. I remember reading about this condom some years ago and ive been thinking about it since then “if they made a condom out of a sheeps intestine, did they take the intestine out of the sheep before?”
Was the cilium inside or outside…. For grip?
Think of the marketing
“Cilium for clasping”
Don’t let her slip away
Buy King Charles
Give it a rinse, hang it over the bed head for next time. Great…
how does this work? what part of the sheep intestine has a dome?
Whoever’s shlong was that big puts us all to shame
Either we are super zoomed in, or people had MONSTER pp’s back then
I thought it was a kite
Soiled
No Banana For Scale?
Wow dongs have really shrunk over the years. Devolution is real folks.
I would just lay on the bed and throw it up in the air see if I can catch it with the willy
I am more concerned about the random rib cage in the background
Dw this thing will give you an std instead
Either the condom is huge, or the plaque is small.
You can still buy sheep intestine condoms. They are soft and comfortable. When this was new (not totally dried out), you would not notice it there at all.
I know people were much more manly back then. But DAMN,
# “Did you see the size of that cock?”
(Becky from Clerks 2)
Hang on baby, let me strap on my dick gut sleeve….
They still make these. You can buy them at your local cvs or Walmart or wherever. They are called lambskin which is made from sheep intestines.
They are good for avoiding pregnancy but not for avoiding STIs
What is this a condom for ANTS?!
Weren’t condoms made to be reusable back then, or am I mistaken?
HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY, wimpy wimpy wimpy
Funnily enough not from New Zealand 🧐
Only sailors wear condoms!
Is it for an elephant?
Basically analsex
Yep it’s know world wide for million of years
Need banana for scale. 🍌
Damn penis size been on a big decline since the 1800s