Tudor Origins of the Condom

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

What were condoms like in Tudor times? Before you were able to pop to the supermarket to pick some up, where did people buy them?

Joining Kate today is historian Dr. Kate Stephenson, to explore what the earliest evidence of condoms is, just how effective they were, and to smash some of the myths surrounding their history.

This episode was edited by Tom Delargy, the producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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