Learn about how the threat of disease made condoms mainstream.

To learn more, check out:

AIDS and Its Metaphors, by Susan Sontag

Brief History of Syphilis, by M Tampa, I Sarbu, C Matei, V Benea, and SR Georgescu in the Journal of Medicine and Life

Syphilis – Its Early History and Treatment Until Penicillin, and the Debate on its Origins, by John Frith in the Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health

The Humble Little Condom: A History, by Aine Collier