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While these are often interesting in their own right or as trivia, they tend to interrupt her narrative, breaking her sometimes tenuous train of thought. Note cards that she could not work into her narrative she presents in shadowed boxes as sidebars.

Ms Collier presents apparently everything that could be dredged from libraries on the subject, but, as another reviewer points out, without providing her references. Thoroughly researched yet presented in a witty, enjoyable style, The Humble Little Condom is both an entertaining read and an educational, impeccably researched popular history. Not for the first time in history has the little device been vilified as a promoter of dirty, illicit sex and lauded as a life-saving device. AIDS has brought the condom full circle.During the Great Depression, while other businesses went bankrupt, condom manufacturers found themselves doing a booming trade throughout the 1930s, one of Wall Street’s few successes.When women had few choices in the world of commerce, a significant number found a legitimate and profitable business niche producing and selling sheaths.Clergymen of the Middle Ages left records of birth control methods that "worked.".The author includes many fascinating historical details, such as: This unique history provides an intriguing glimpse into human sexual habits, customs, beliefs, and attitudes surrounding a prophylactic device that goes back to at least the ancient Egyptians.

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