History and Condom machines

[humphrey_clarke]

For centuries London has acted as the great corrupter. Agents of history, untainted by the risqué values of this great metropolis have arrived through its gates and left with a collection of moral vices and, no doubt, a corresponding quantity of venereal diseases. The young Benjamin Franklin left the shores of America in 1724 to buy a printing

Comments

[matttt]

Think in advance next time: use mail order.

[stubbleupdate]

mail order women? or condoms? or does your postman carry contraceptives as a matter of course?

[matttt]

I've never seen my postman. :-S For all I know, the letters could arrive all by themselves.

[joeslavko]

Stop bleating and just think yourself lucky you don’t live in Benjamin Franklin’s time, then. In the 18th century, condoms were homemade devices, manufactured from sheep intestines. You therefore had to buy the sheep first, which probably put quite a dampener on sexual spontaneity. And imagine how big the vending machines must have been to safely accommodate a pack of three rams, a “ribbed” ewe, and a strawberry flavoured, “glow in the dark” lamb.

Joe.

[pheowulf]

Londinium is an impure Roman monstrosity the Saxon must be free of!

[the_elyan]

Instructions on condom vending machine:

"Please insert money, push lever firmly, and pull back drawer"

to which was added:

"If this is sex, it sounds extremely boring"