200-year-old condom featuring erotic art goes on display in Amsterdam museum

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Netherlands’ nationalist depository has a caller entity connected show that merges creation with Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District: a astir 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art.

The Rijksmuseum said successful a connection that the playful prophylactic, believed to beryllium made astir 1830 from a sheep’s appendix, “depicts some the playful and the superior broadside of intersexual health.”

It is portion of an accumulation called “Safe Sex?” astir 19th-century enactment enactment that opened connected Tuesday.

The condom, perchance a souvenir from a brothel, is decorated with an erotic representation of a nun and 3 clergymen.

The operation “This is my choice” is written on the sheath successful French. According to the museum, this is simply a notation to the Pierre-Auguste Renoir coating “The Judgment of Paris,” which depicts the Trojan prince Paris judging a quality contention betwixt 3 goddesses.

The condom is connected show until the extremity of November.