Who discovered Condoms and Why?
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An Egyptian drawing of a condom being worn has been found to be 3,000 years old. It is unknown, however, if the Egyptian pictured wearing the device intended to use it for contraception, or for ritual purposes.\n\nIn 16th century Italy, Gabrielle Fallopius authored the first-known published description of condom use for disease prevention. He recommended soaking cloth sheaths in a chemical solution and allowing them to dry prior to use.\n\nThe oldest condoms found (rather than just pictures or descriptions) are from 1640, discovered in Dudley Castle in England. They were made of animal intestine, and it is believed they were used for STD prevention.\n\nIn 19th century Japan, both leather condoms and condoms made of tortoise shells or horns were available.\n\nThe rubber vulcanization process was patented by Charles Goodyear in 1844, and the first rubber condom was produced in 1855. These early rubber condoms were 1-2mm thick and had seams down the sides. Although they were reusable, these early rubber condoms were also expensive.\n\nDistribution of condoms in the United States was limited by passage of the Comstock Law in 1873. This law prohibited transport through the postal service of any instructional material or devices intended to prevent pregnancy. Condoms were available by prescription, although legally they were only supposed to be prescribed to prevent disease rather than pregnancy. The Comstock Law remained in force until it was largely overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1936.\n\nIn 1912, a German named Julius Fromm developed a new manufacturing technique for condoms: dipping glass molds into the raw rubber solution. This enabled the production of thinner condoms with no seams. Fromm's Act was the first branded line of condoms, and Fromms is still a popular line of condoms in Germany today. By the 1930s, the manufacturing process had improved to produce single-use condoms almost as thin and inexpensive as those currently available.\n\nCondoms were not made available to U.S. soldiers in World War I, and a significant number of returning soldiers carried sexually transmitted infections. During World War II, however, condoms were heavily promoted to soldiers, with one film exhorting "Don't forget — put it on before you put it in."  In part because condoms were readily available, soldiers found a number of non-sexual uses for the devices:\n\nTying a non-lubricated condom around the muzzle of the rifle barrel in order to prevent barrel fouling by keeping out detritus\nBecause long-distance bombers often did not have toilet facilities, condoms could be used to hold urine. It was common practice to throw the filled condoms from the plane whilst at altitude over enemy territory.\n\nThe OSS used condoms for a plethora of applications, from storing corrosive fuel additives and wire garrotes (with the T-handles removed) to holding the acid component of a self-destructing film canister, to finding use in improvised explosives.\nNavy SEALS have used doubled condoms, sealed with neoprene cement, to protect non-electric firing assemblies for underwater demolitions - leading to the term "Dual Waterproof Firing Assemblies."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom
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chuck norris does not use condoms because there is no protection against chuck norris. \n\nchuck norris has counted to infinity twice. and can divide by zero.\n\none day chuck norris walked down the street with a full erection. there were no survivors.\n\nchuck norris only masturbates to pictures of chuck norris.
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Check out this other answer I found on condoms, or this site which is where the answer was pirated from\nhttp://www.pluscondoms.com/history.htm
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Durex Avanti were a Godsend for me & the other half.\n\nYou can get them anwhere that sells Durex, but they do cost a few quid more.\n\nLike your chap, my other half is always happy to use condoms - but it wasn't great for either of us, he said it took away all sensation for him.\n\nAvanti are made of a different type of latex, it comes up to body temperature really quickly, and is thinner and stretchier than other types.  I can't feel it on him at all, and he's a100 times happier with it.
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condom? Durex-featherlite
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As someone stated, any sexual activity is risky. Even with the use of condoms, AIDS is still a possibility. Read this quote "They argue that condoms should not be promoted as a way to fight AIDS because the virus that causes AIDS is small enough to pass through latex condoms..."
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1)  Openly having sex in the streets\n2) Allowing male professors to have teenage/child lovers  (This did happen in ancient Greece)\n3) nude societies\n\n\nCan't think of anything else, sorry.
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Vulcanized rubber was invented in 1843, so it came first. Look up Charles Goodyear.
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*Pondering awhile* The official date for the beginning of the AIDS epidemic is marked as June 18, 1981, when the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five gay men in Los Angeles. Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not gay. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome.\nThree of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are as follows:\n   1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n   2. HIV found in tissue samples from an American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.\n   3. HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.\nTwo species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is less easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are of primate origin. The origin of HIV-1 is the Central Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes). The origin of HIV-2 has been established to be the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon.\n\nOne currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS was discussed in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article by freelance journalist Tom Curtis. He put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertantly caused in the late 1950's in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Although subsequently retracted due to libel issues surrounding its claims, the Rolling Stone article encouraged another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to travel to Africa for 7 years of research into this subject. Hooper's research resulted in his publishing a 1999 book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared using chimpanzee kidney tissue was the route through which SIV mutated into HIV and started the human AIDS epidemic, some time between 1957 to 1959.\nFor quite a bit more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Origin_of_HIV.2FAIDS
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I don't think they are completly effective in preventing HIV or anything else, but HIV is transmitted through body fluids and condoms help prevent body fluids from being transferred during sex. Sometimes the condoms can leak or break though, which is why they are not totally safe.
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they weren't "invented" so much as they were discovered.  here's the answer i think you are looking for, though.\n\nAmong the important early researchers in X-rays were Professor Ivan Pului, Sir William Crookes, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Eugen Goldstein, Heinrich Hertz, Philipp Lenard, Hermann von Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Charles Glover Barkla, Max von Laue, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.\n\n \nEX: water cooled X-ray tube: Physicist Johann Hittorf (1824 - 1914) observed tubes with energy rays extending from a negative electrode. These rays produced a fluorescence when they hit the glass walls of the tubes. In 1876 the effect was named "cathode rays" by Eugen Goldstein. Later, English physicist William Crookes investigated the effects of energy discharges on rare gases, and constructed what is called the Crookes tube. It is a glass vacuum cylinder, containing electrodes for discharges of a high voltage electric current. He found, when he placed unexposed photographic plates near the tube, that some of them were flawed by shadows, though he did not investigate this effect.
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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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This is a pet topic of mine...\n\nThe origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a promiscuous flight attendant to a suspect vaccine program being blamed. So what it the truth? Just where did AIDS come from?\n\nThe first 'officially recognized' cases of "AIDS" occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (the real origin was later recognized to be Africa and a lot earlier than 1980). A number of gay men in New York and San Francisco suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment. At this time, AIDS did not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The discovery of HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS was made soon after. While some were initially resistant to the connection (and indeed remain so today), there is now clear evidence to prove that HIV does cause AIDS. So, in order to find the source of AIDS, it is necessary to look for the origin of HIV, and find out How, When and Where HIV first began to cause disease in humans.\n\nOne theory of the origin of AIDS is that it developed in the Belgian Congo from contaminated vaccines used in the world's first mass immunization for polio. There are a number of reasons why this theory is plausible enough to be worthy of further investigation.\n\n1. The location coincides dramatically. The earliest known cases of AIDS occurred in central Africa, in the same regions where Koprowski's polio vaccine was given to over a million people in 1957-1960.\n\n2. The timing coincides. There is no documented case of HIV infection or AIDS before 1959. Centuries of the slave trade and European exploitation of Africa exposed Africans and others to all other diseases then known; it is implausible that HIV could have been present and spreading in Africa without being recognized.\n\n3. Polio vaccines are grown (cultured) on monkey kidneys which could have been contaminated by SIVs. Polio vaccines could not be screened for SIV contamination before 1985.\n\n4. Another monkey virus, SV-40, is known to have been passed to humans through polio vaccines. A specific pool of Koprowski's vaccine was later shown to have been contaminated by an unknown virus.\n\n5. In order for a virus to infect a different species, it is helpful to reduce the resistance of the new host's immune system. Koprowski's polio vaccine was given to many children less than one month old, before their immune systems were fully developed. Indeed, in one trial, infants were given 15 times the standard dose in order to ensure effective immunization.\n\nIf this theory is correct, it has serious ethical, health and policy implications. In particular, it points to the danger of interspecies transfer of material through vaccinations, organ transplants, etc., which could lead to new variants of AIDS as well as other new diseases. As well, studying the theory may lead to insights about responding to AIDS and preventing new diseases.\n\nHowever, there has been no sustained attempt to test the theory. This could be done, for example, by testing stocks of polio vaccine for the presence of SIV. An offer to undertake tests was made as early as 1991; only in 2000 were some samples tested, and then only US-made vaccine. Another possibility would be to test stored blood samples in Africa from before 1950. If HIV is found, this would undermine the theory.\n\nAlthough the theory has not been properly examined, many people seem to believe it has been refuted. Hilary Koprowski published a letter in Science in 1992 attacking the theory. In 1993, Rolling Stone, which had published a widely publicized article by Tom Curtis about the theory, published an "update", interpreted by Science as a
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There don't seem to be a noteable person who discovered rubber in history. Visit this website to read more http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber_2.htm\n\nIt was something like Fire! Who knows who created fire! By cavemen.\n\nHere is an excerpt from an article: \nANCIENT RUBBER \n\n\nUntil recently modern thinkers believed rubber originated in 19th century Europe. According to a Tech Talk article published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday, July 14, 1999, Professor Dorothy Hosler, Assistant Professor Sandra Burkett and an undergraduate named Michael Tarkanian learned that the Mayan people in ancient Mesoamerica made and used rubber as long ago as 1600 BCE. \n\n\nThe ancient Mayan people used latex to make rubber balls, hollow human figures, and as bindings used to secure axe heads to their handles and other functions. Latex is the sap of various plants, most notably the rubber tree. When it is exposed to the air it hardens into a springy mass. The Mayans learned to mix the rubber sap with the juice from morning glory vines so that it became more durable and elastic, and didn't get quite as brittle. Both the rubber tree and the morning glory were important plants to the Mayan people- the latter being a hallucinogen as well as a healing herb. They two plants tended to grow close together. Combining their juices, a black substance about the texture of a gum-type pencil eraser was formed. \n\n\nThe rubber balls were about the size of a beach ball and weighed over 15 pounds (7 kilograms). These were used in an important ritual game called Tlachtlic. The game was a cross between football and basketball, but had religious significance as recorded in the Popul Vuh, a Mayan religious document. Spanish invaders in the sixteenth century reported that the game also involved gambling for various possessions including land and slaves. It is believed that the game ended in a human sacrifice at least some of the time. Versions of the game were played in the middle American region ranging from southern Arizona to northern South America. Native peoples in the region still make rubber in the same way. \n\nRead more here: http://lala.essortment.com/historyofrubbe_rcml.htm
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a condom is placed on your penis to catch sperm when you have sex.  it prevents the woman from getting pregnant, and for either person to transmit a disease to the other.
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condoms aren't just about hiv/aids + stability... they're more about making sure neither of you end up in a messy situation, namely, early/unexpected pregnancy. u really want the hassle of a kid right now?
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Read the package which came with the condom.