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A thin sheath worn during sex to help prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
means A thin protective sheath worn during sex to prevent pregnancy and the spread of infection.
from The word's true source is genuinely murky — no one knows for certain. A long-popular folk tale credits a Dr. Condom or Earl of Condom supplying sheaths to a king, but historians have never found this person; it's almost certainly invented. More plausible theories point to the Latin 'condus' (a vessel or receptacle) or the French town name Condom, but none is confirmed. The word simply appears in English in the early 1700s with its modern meaning already attached, origin unrecorded.
- origin
- Named maybe after a mythical Dr. Condom, probably fake
- ancient version
- Egyptians used linen sheaths 3,000 years ago
- failure rate
- 2 percent perfect use, 13 percent typical use
- size myth
- One size fits nearly all, statistically speaking