How Condoms Changed Society

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Condoms and birth control, have really changed society throughout the years? Did you know the first condoms date back to Egyptian times, it is also the oldest form of birth control recorded. The condoms were starting to be discovered in the year of 1855. Gregory Pincus and John Rock first conducted the first human trial on 50 women in Massachusetts in 1954.
Other parts of the world also used condoms. In Japan some of the condoms were made of leather and others were made of tortoise shells. In the 15th century Italians demonstrated the use of condoms by making them public.These condoms were not made of tortoise shells like they were in Japan , they were made of linen. In the 16th century an Italian physician Gabriele Fallopio recommended that

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