In 16th-century Italy, Gabriele Falloppio authored the earliest uncontested description of condom use. De Morbo Gallico ("The French Disease", referring to syphilis) was published in 1564, two years after Falloppio's death.

2024年9月16日 · It’s not entirely clear when, exactly, the condom was invented because as medical historian Vern Burrough pointed out in 1981, “its history is lost in the myths of antiquity.”

2023年7月30日 · Charles Goodyear invented the modern condom we know today. To make latex condoms, Charles Goodyear used vulcanization, a process that turns rubber into flexible shapes. The American scientist and manufacturing engineer who self-taught himself created vulcanized rubber. On June 15, 1844, the United States Patent Office issued him patent number 3633.

2022年7月13日 · While scholars argue about the murky origins of the word “condom” — first documented in print in English as “condum” around 1706 — nobody disputes that it is the oldest and most widely adopted birth control device. The earliest known condoms, made from animal intestines, were thick and reusable.

2017年6月8日 · As the medical historian Vern Bullough writes, the condom’s early history is “lost in the myths of antiquity.” Animal-intestine condoms have existed since “at least medieval times,” Bullough writes. Other scholars assert that the condom dates …

Charles Goodyear, the inventor, utilized vulcanization, the process of transforming rubber into malleable structures, to produce latex condoms. The greater use of condoms all over the world in the 20 th and 21 st centuries has been related to HIV.

2022年3月1日 · Condoms emerged as a crude animal product, then transformed into a frequently elitist and expensive commodity before eventually finding their place in the mass market as the cheap and disposable item we’re familiar with today. But what exactly were the condom’s origins?

2023年4月1日 · Unlike today's latex or polyurethane, the early condoms were made of oiled silk paper, linen sheaths, leather, or very thin hollow horn. 200 C.E. Cave paintings dating back to the year 200 C.E. depict external condom use, the earliest known visual evidence of their use.

2024年5月25日 · In ancient Greece and Rome, condoms crafted from animal intestines, linen, and leather were used to prevent pregnancy and disease. One of the earliest written mentions is in the legend of King Minos of Crete from the 2nd century AD.

2014年11月19日 · Condoms have been with us for thousands of years, but the original condoms probably weren’t all that good for safe sex. Though tortoiseshell, animal intestine and linen have all been used to make them, it was Charles Goodyear’s discovery of vulcanised rubber in 1839 that brought condoms to the masses.