BS: A new CONDOM thread!!

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 11:35 PM

frogprince (& 999) -

"Collectors" books on esoteric articles imply that the most common Japanese (or more generally "Oriental") tortoise shell devices were not used as condoms, as the term is generally used, but were instead devices to exaggerate the size of the male equipment. Most such devices were/are open at both ends, thus providing no "separation of fluids" in use.

A bit like stuffing a stocking or two in the codpiece ... ... ...

Most of the antique catalogs don't mention similar items suitable for use as "condoms," although that might be just due to "forbidden subject" bias.

Some of the popularly collected ones were quite elaborate, with precious metal and jewel inlays, so of course if you really need a little "decoration" (I won't say "enhancement") I suppose they might be a worthwhile investment (or perhaps a suitable craft object for home construction).

John

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 09:39 PM

From 999's link: "the Japanese had leather and tortoiseshell sheaths". Man oh man, I want some tortois shell ones; those sound like they would be really great!
Why would anyone, in any era or any culture, think of trying to have sex with their salami encased in tortois shell?

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 08:01 PM

"Surely if you use a threaded condom you get a good screw"

And, hopefully not cross threaded.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Amos
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 01:26 PM

This strikes me as a very roundabout way of calling me a wanker, John!! LOL!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Michael
Date: 28 Feb 10 - 01:22 PM

Surely if you use a threaded condom you get a good screw.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:37 PM

Rarther than threaded condoms, has velcro been ruled out...though they might stick to the pubies? Well, anyway, why not just buy the right size to keep 'em on?

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:35 PM

Threaded condoms may be a good way of keeping them on...I will have to think that one out...is there a patent on that idea?

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:13 PM

Amos -

Lots of perfectly useful words have scantily documentable etiologies, and of course shyness about discussion of this one may have additionally obscured its origins.

Receptiveness to good guesses might, of course, be different for those accustomed to mostly solitary practices vs those with more regular shared activities.(?)

☺

John

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:09 PM

Ah - Romanes eunt domus!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 02:59 PM

History of the condom.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 02:46 PM

John:

Your hypothesis, while apparently consistent, is not based on any etymological connection I can think of. As far as I know the etymology of the word "condom" is unknown...

"condom
1706, traditionally named for a British physician during reign of Charles II, but there is no evidence for that. Also spelled condam, quondam, which suggests it may be from It. guantone, from guanto "a glove." A word not used openly in the U.S. and not advertised in mass media until November 1986 speech by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop on AIDS prevention."

A

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 02:24 PM

... has no relation ...?

Doesn't use of a condom sort of imply "something together with?"

It would seem a bit of overkill to use one when doing much of anything "alone,"

unless one has a very bad skin condition

or a serious aversion to hand washing -

or something ... .

John

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Amos
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 01:52 PM

Bonzo:

The word "condominium" has no relation, except letters, to the word condom. It comes from the Latin prefic "con-" (jointly or together with) and "domus". home. In other words having a home with others, which describes the structure of one building with many homes in it we call a condo.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 12:23 PM

And how on earth did the USAians call a collection of individual home units along with the land upon which they sit - a condominium??

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Feb 10 - 04:52 AM

Undoubtedly the museum next door to the exhibition so ably described by Amos should feature the devices described (with some illustrations) in a book I've seen (and may still have if I ever get unpacked) detailing the history of the modern B.O.B., with illustrations of some predecessor devices and mechanisms and some of their advertisements and descriptions.

John

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 10:30 PM

Yes, and you have to include and English Letter with it.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 07:49 PM

A town in France? Can I send them a French letter?

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 07:32 PM

Condom is a town in France.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 06:02 PM

How did I miss this until now? Must go back and read.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 05:42 PM

"...they were known as Johnnies, and that how I still refer to them. Condoms is a rediculous word."

Johnnies??? That's one MORE euphemism using some male name to avoid saying 'naughty' words. I pity anyone named Johnnie, Peter, Willie or Dick.

Condom as least has the virtue of not being cutely ambiguous. It's not a bit ridiculous.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:32 PM

"A new CONDOM thread!!"

And exactly what was wrong with the old condom?

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:30 PM

I simply cannot condom...condone...this and hereby condom...condemn it.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM

Whe I was at school they were known as Johnnies, and that how I still refer to them. Condoms is a rediculous word.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Amos
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 01:08 PM

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: February 4, 2010

Exhibition Review | 'Rubbers: The Life, History & Struggle of the Condom'

Unrolled, Unbridled and Unabashed

In the 18th century Casanova referred to them as "English frock coats" and made prodigious use of the "little preventive bag invented by the English to save the fair sex from anxiety." In 1709 the English literary journal The Tatler alluded to their supposed invention by an eponymous doctor of "eminent Quality"; the success of his "Engine" eventually "made it an Immodesty to name his Name."


But there was never a Dr. Condom as far as we can tell, and no one really knows who first created condoms (or named them), since bladders, animal membranes, sheaths and salve-coated cloths have been used for similar purposes since the beginning of recorded history.

Spend some time at the fascinating new exhibition at the Museum of Sex, "Rubbers: The Life, History & Struggle of the Condom," and their origins hardly matter: their history is what is extraordinary. These commonplace objects — widely used and rarely spoken of, often seen but infrequently displayed — are icons of far more than the phallus.

The museum's curator, Sarah Forbes, has gathered condom boxes and vending machines, horrific photos of disease and collections of birth-control devices, American military videos and a dress made out of dyed condoms, television commercials and artworks, creating a modest exhibition that elevates the status of the condom. And, not incidentally, the show explicitly encourages its use — particularly, as one major section reminds us, to prevent the spread of H.I.V. and AIDS.

It is no wonder that the company that makes Trojan condoms became a sponsor of the exhibition, though the extent of its presence here is limited, including a display of contemporary equipment used in making condoms (metallic phallic molds that are dipped into liquid latex, for example) and a video of laboratory tests showing their resiliency. (Condoms are attached to valves and inflated, becoming enormous balloons well before they finally burst.)

The evolution of the condom is too briefly told, but it includes Charles Goodyear's discovery of a treatment for rubber that retained its flexibility; a photograph of a well-preserved reusable rubber sheath from mid-20th-century London is here. In Germany, we learn, condoms are colloquially referred to as Fromms because that was the name of the Jewish manufacturer who, before the Nazis came to power, sold 50 million condoms a year. (His condoms were also, interestingly, packaged with slips of paper that could be discreetly handed to a pharmacist, ordering another supply.) But Julius Fromm had to flee to London and lost the factory.

It is partly because condoms graphically suggest the sex act that they have so often been known through their covers: a collection of boxes and containers here range from antique exoticism (picturing desert camels) to whimsical contemporaneity (portraits of candidates from the last presidential election). A New York pharmacy case has wooden doors that would have decorously concealed the contents until the customer was prepared to survey the various Sheik condoms for sale. Condoms have also accumulated nicknames that are covers of sorts, hiding their identity while provocatively suggesting it. (A wall displays a roster of aliases, including, most mildly, "copper hat," "love sock," "frogskin," "night cap.")

Condoms have encouraged sophomoric humor (a historical etching of Casanova shows him blowing into a condom and inflating it for the amused delectation of his lady admirers) and avant-gardish flirtatiousness (as in Randy Polumbo's artworks on display, which include a ribbed dirigible and a solar-powered flying machine that inflates and deflates attached condoms). ... (From the New York Times)

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 14 Jul 08 - 01:51 PM

If there's one word used by wankers it's issues.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 14 Jul 08 - 10:47 AM

There was a leaf for a personal organiser with three condoms in the pockets
FILOFUX.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 09:25 PM

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5187d31dea

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 09:08 PM

How would one get a spray on condom off?

http://condomunity.com/60-incredible-patents-you-dont-want-to-miss/

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 09:05 PM

For the Texan Mudcatters

http://www.condomdepot.com/product/detail.cfm/nid/231/pid/3301

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 09:03 PM

One for the fairer sex?

http://www.snorestud.com/Present/condomwallet.htm

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 09:00 PM

Impact of Condom Wallet on Sexual Behavior of Police Officers in Ghana.

Asiamah G; International Conference on AIDS (15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand).
Int Conf AIDS. 2004 Jul 11-16; 15: abstract no. ThPeC7467.

Ghana Police, Accra, Ghana

Issues: In 1999, condom use among Police Officers in Ghana was low. Only 50% of officers who had casual sex used condoms. Description: Armed with this information, an intervention to promote and distribute condoms in the police was started. This included a novelty - Condom Wallet. A Police officer on operational duty is provided with a Condom Wallet filled with condoms. The Wallet is worn on his belt as part of his official uniform, and he is given instructions on how condoms are used, and replacement of used condoms. The Condom Wallet is not intended to promote promiscuity, but to serve as a life jacket against HIV, ready to be used in the event of one 'falling in to water' by accident, as most casual sexual encounters tend to be. The slogan is: 'Condom Wallet, your Life Jacket'! Lessons learnt: Surveys conducted in the year 2000, showed significant increase in condom use as 65% of police officers who had casual sex used condoms. The rate of condom use continued to increase every year, and in 2003, surveys showed that all police officers (100%) who had casual sex used condoms. Again, barriers to condoms are broken as condoms have become more easily available, and both police officers and their spouses discuss condoms freely. The condom wallet has generated a lot of interest and fun on condoms among police officers, which has led to very significant increase in condom use in the police. What is even more interesting is that police wives do not have problems with policemen carrying condoms to operational duties. Recommendation: The simple Condom Wallet technology, has led to a universal condom use by police officers in casual sex. All barriers to condoms among police officers in Ghana have been broken. It is against this background that, the Condom Wallet is highly recommended for use by other Uniformed Personnel on operational duties.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 08:58 PM

Be safe in more than one way.


http://www.condom-wallet.breflective.com/reflectivesexycondomwallet_reflective-3M-scotchlite.php

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 08:52 PM

OMAHA, NE—Donald Muller, a 33-year-old Omaha near-virgin, may never find out if the Ramses Extra Sensitive condom in his wallet is still good, it was reported Monday. "I really hope it hasn't deteriorated in the past three years," Muller said of the birth-control device, which was first inserted into his wallet in March 1996, prior to a St. Patrick's Day party that "didn't pan out." "I don't really have any particularly strong leads right now, but it'd be nice to know I was prepared just in case anything came up." Muller, who bought the condom in 1993 as part of a box of 12, said he hopes to strike up a conversation Sunday with a woman who uses the same laundromat as him.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 08:50 PM

http://www.walletmouth.com/2008/02/valentines-da-1.html

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 08:47 PM

A gift idea?

http://www.condomania.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CS-WALLET

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 08:19 PM

It was a new condom yesterday
It's an old condom now...

(Take off from Jethro Tull's "New Day Yesterday")

B~

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 01:56 PM

Johnny in his pocket, brylcream in his hair
Swearin', drinkin', Albert doesn't care


What is all this condom nonsence? THEY'RE JOHNNIES.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 01:49 PM

They are always Johnnies to me, as in that wonderful line in Ashley Hutchings' song about Albert Finney - "Johnny in his pocket and brylcream in his hair"!!

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 01:24 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jul 08 - 08:35 AM

For your next visit to Portland, Maine:

Condom Sense

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: MarkS
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 11:15 PM

Generic Joke

Condoms are being discontinued from sale to (insert your favorite ethnic or national group here)

Couldn't be made long enough.

There's just no end to those pricks.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 11:54 AM

Rubber Rainbow

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 11:53 AM

Somewhere over the

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 11:53 AM

CondoMINTS. Oh! Yer suppose to suck them, not chew them? I thought they were kinda rubbery.

Ya can't stop progress, eh.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 11:33 AM

This surpasses, by far, the original thread. I feel we have all become radically more mature as we have "hung out" (so to speak and as it were) here at Mudcat for the last decade or more. Alas, contemplating what this might mean for the erection, er, election in the USA this year?! All the hotel rooms at the conventions will have complimentary bowls of little minty blue condomints.

Is this progress? Yes, I think it is!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 09:15 AM

female condoms

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jul 08 - 06:07 AM

Here's the longer version of Dave's joke at 10:04PM...

A Scottish soldier in full dress marches into a pharmacy to speak to the chemist.The Scot opens his sporran and pulls out a neatly folded cotton bandanna, unfolds it to reveal a smaller silk square, which he also unfolds to reveal a condom.The condom has a number of patches on it. The chemist holds it up, and eyes it critically. "How much to repair it?" the Scot asks the pharmacist. "Six pence," says the pharmacist. "How much for a new one?" asks the Scot.? "Ten pence," says the pharmacist. The Scot folds the condom into the silk square and the cotton bandanna, places it in his sporran and marches out the door of the pharmacy, kilt swinging. A moment or two later the pharmacist hears a great shout go up, followed by an even greater shout. The Scot walks back into the pharmacy, and again speaks to the pharmacist. "The regiment has taken a vote," says the Scot. "We'll have a new one."

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Bee
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 11:29 PM

No wonder those tampons were so damn uncomfortable!

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 10:12 PM

Well, when I worked for Playtex some years back, there was a gadget used for testing tampons called a "syngyna"-which is pretty much what you might think it is. Inside a large glass tube was stretched a thin, tubular latex membrane, which was also what you might think it was.
    One of our older male lab techs went into a local drugstore, and ordered a gross of condoms. The clerk, a sweet young thing, was a bit flustered by this, but nevertheless asked "plain or reservoir tipped?"
Our gallant tech replied (in a rather rich West Virginia accent),"Oh, it don't make no never mind--I cut the ends off anyway. " I think the clerk eventually recovered.

Subject: RE: BS: A new CONDOM thread!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 10:02 PM

Way back when my brother worked for the Vocational Rehab division for the State of Illinois they would find jobs for folks who had finished rehab and were returning to the job market. They could force those who didn't want to return to work to choose a job or the division would give them one that they really couldn't fill: one was skull grinder and the other condom tester. The first was just what it says and the second involved putting randomly chosen condoms on air jets -- and not at all what you think!