Katharine Trendacosta's posts
We Made Victorian Condoms and It Was Much Grosser Than We Expected
Way back in September, our very own Esther Inglis-Arkell found a recipe for condoms from 1844. It was only two paragraphs long, so we thought, how hard can it be? Really hard, it turns out. Also gross and potentially dangerous. Here’s the recipe: Take the caecum of the sheep; soak it first in water, turn…
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Diane Kelly and Katharine Trendacosta
