Anon wrote:

Just to look at it, you wouldn’t think it involved a BBC story.

Boobs, Buttocks, Clergy?

glatt wrote:

It looks like all the naughty bits are pixelated.  Which seem a bit odd, considering it's a condom that's proudly holding its intended shape instead of being crumpled up like OJ's leather glove.  We can see it looks like a dick, so why the pixeled naughty bits that are just a drawing?

Hmm.  There is a fair chance that's my fault but you never know
I did wonder about the shape.... but I was too amused not to share :D

Still 200 years was a long time ago, and that's some real handiwork.  It makes me wonder if the item was a little expensive and was intended to be washed out and re-used.  When I was in college, a fellow student purchased a 3 pack of sheep skin or  sheep gut or whatever they were natural condoms.  He gave me one, and I opened it up just to examine it.  It wasn't stretchy at all.  I didn't see any advantage over a regular one.

I found this story on Morning Brew todayPlace to be: The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdamhttps://cdn.sanity.io/images/bl383u0v/production/6c12beb9e1d77ed29d6e2d8ab325281a760312ca-1240x992.png?w=1240&q=80&auto=format" style="max-width:100%;">Kelly Schenk/RijksmuseumIt’s a big world out there. In this section, we’ll teleport you to an interesting location—and hopefully give you travel ideas in the process.Attention, fellas: You know that condom you’ve had in your wallet since high school? Well, if you hold on to it for another two centuries, it might wind up in a museum.This week at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a nearly 200-year-old unused condom was put on display as part of the “Safe Sex?” exhibition. It focuses on 19th-century prostitution and includes prints, drawings, and photographs, but the sheath de résistance is the nearly eight-inch prophylactic believed to have been a gift for patrons of a brothel in France.

• It’s made from a sheep’s appendix and, you won’t believe this, did little to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Other makeshift condoms from the era before vulcanized rubber were fashioned from linen and even turtle shells.
• There’s an erotic etching on it as well, featuring a partially dressed nun pointing at three equally disrobed clergymen and the phrase, “Voila, mon choix,” which means, “There, that’s my choice.”

That NSFW drawing is a form of social commentary. Per the museum, it’s a “parody of both celibacy and the Judgement of Paris from Greek mythology,” the latter being the mythological story of a Trojan prince named Paris who had to decide which of three goddesses was the fairest.This condom expires in November: Because that’s when it will no longer be on display at the museum.—DL
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