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How Condoms Work

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The History of Condoms

Charles Goodyear came up with vulcanization in 1839. Frederick Killian is more famously known for creating a process of making condoms directly from latex. He would take these glass molds that were you could argue phallic in nature. And he would dip it directly into latex. So again imagine this is what I imagine it basically probably looked like a the nipple of a baby bottle.

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