Condom with Latin Instructions

This is an old but unused condom from 1813, with two ribbons and a translucent body. It looks very different from the condoms we are familiar with today. A paper package with handwritten text in Latin on the side provides basic instructions to its purchaser. Our story will introduce the armor of early 19th-century gentlemen as they fought in the pleasure house, and their sex lives, desires and appeals, worries and complaints. In sharp contrast, the humble condom also brought misery to some poor people…