What is the origin of the word "condom"?
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The first design for the condom was created in the mid 1500s by Gabriel Fallopius (also famous for a well known part of the woman's anatomy). He designed a medicated sheath to go over the tip of the penis and under the foreskin and held on by a ribbon. He later designed a longer one for circumcised men.\n\nThe devices were used mainly to prevent the spread of venereal diseases, syphilis in particular.\n\nIn the 1600s England's King Charles II requested his physician, the Earl of Condom, to devise something to protect him from syphilis. His answer was an oiled sheath made from sheep intestine. It was often reused without cleaning and as a result did little to prevent the disease it was intended to protect against.\n\nThe modern rubber was invented in 1870. It was a thick vulcanized rubber condom that was designed to be cleaned and reused. The modern latex condom was later developed in the 1930s.
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This originated in the early 1980s. It is generally regarded as an American expression. This item from the New York newspaper the Syracuse Herald-American, Feb. 1982, which is the earliest version in print that I can find, puts that in some doubt. It's in a piece by Jerry Buck, writing out of Los Angeles, about actress Lauren Tewes
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They invented condoms.\n\nIn all seriousness, they're most famous for the "Trojan Horse" story.  They bravely held off the Greeks for ten years, keeping them from overtaking the city.  Then the Greeks pretended to give up and go home, leaving behind a wooden horse...\n\nRead the rest at the link below:
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If it is used by country people, it is shotgun shells.\n\nWe don't say shells when we are talking about condoms, we just come right out and say, I am going to buy some condoms.  "I need a box of condoms.  Thank you for the box of condoms.  May I have another box of condoms.  No Lifestyles, or Romantic Moments thank you."\n\nThe quote up above is a parody by me of "The Andy Griffith Show".  It is the part where they dress Ernest T. Bass up as a real gentleman and Andy and Barney takes him over to Miss. Wileys' party to meet a girl.  He meets Romenia and tries to hard to win his love for her.  It is a good epidsode.  This was the first epidsode he met Romenia.\n\nBut yeah, shells where I come from are shotgun shells, not condoms.
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Condoms make sex safer when used properly but they are not 100 percent safe. Safety factors to check on when buying and using condoms are,\n- Expiry date of the condom - do not use one which has expired.\n- Storage - condoms should be kept away from the heat (for example, from car glove compartments, direct sunlight), and pressure (for example, sitting on a wallet containing condoms).\n- Making sure that sharp objects do not tear a condom during use.\n- Making sure that the air is expelled from the teat of the condom while wearing, so as to prevent it from bursting during intercourse.\n\nThe only was to stay HIV/AIDS free is to follow "The A, B, C of HIV prevention",\nA= Abstinence\nB= Being faithful to one single partner and\nC= Consistent and correct use of condoms.\n\nStay Safe.
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According to Merriam-Webster Online, the origin of the word "city" comes from: "Middle English citie large or small town, from Old French cité, from Medieval Latin civitat-, civitas, from Latin, citizenship, state, city of Rome, from civis citizen"\n\nSo, "civis" is the first word in that chain, referring to a citizen of Rome.
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Read the package which came with the condom.
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If you're asking when the word "gay" came to be associated with homosexuals, particularly males, it emerged from Britain in the late 19th century as a sort of "codeword" for being able to identify each other.\n\nThose were in the days when we didn't have a strong identity in the culture and wouldn't say that "fruit" is a bigoted word to use in connection with homosexual people.
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its an acronym to help remember the best ways to prevent AIDS\n\nA - abstinance\nB - be faithful \nC - condoms
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Check out this article\nhttp://www.teenwire.com/infocus/1998/if-19981201p022.php\n\nto the right of the article on the same page it says related links, the second one down says "animation: how to use a condom" \nit should help clear things up a bit.
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This phrase, in which French refers to "bad language", is employed when the speaker feels compelled to use an obscenity despite having listeners who might be offended.  It's a late 19th century euphemism which first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1895.\n\nIt is thought that the term French is employed in this sense as it already had a history of association with things considered vulgar.  As far back as the early 16th century, French pox and the French disease were synonyms for genital herpes, and French-sick was another term for syphillis.  The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] also equates the adjective French with "spiciness", as in French letter for "condom", French kiss (1923) and French (i. e. "sexually explicit")
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Wearing a condom I think that makes sense.
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Actually, Ms. Dental Hygienist, "rubber dams" are almost always made out of latex.\n\nI'm wondering if you thought that condoms were made out of rubber as well, since they are often called "rubbers".
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It's slang from the UK & Ireland, a made up phrase to avoid cursing when surprised or annoyed.\n\nIt's also a slang term for a sexual position.
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The term you're thinking about it 'goolies'. I really don't know where it comes from, but it refers to the testes, rather than the penis
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Maybe, but doing it with a condom on is like trying to pick up silverware with welders gloves on. It's just better without.
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Because of its source:\n\nMiddle English abbreviaten, from Late Latin abbrevire, abbrevit-  : ad-, ad- + brevire, to shorten (from brevis, short. See mregh-u- in Indo-European Roots).