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 period 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.
A condom featuring an erotic creation print, believed to person been made from a sheep's appendix astir 1830, is seen connected show wrong the Netherlands' Rijksmuseum, successful Amsterdam.
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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.
"Acquiring the condom has enabled america to absorption connected 19th-century sexuality and prostitution, a taxable that is underrepresented successful our collection. It embodies some the lighter and darker sides of intersexual health, successful an epoch erstwhile the quest for sensual pleasance was fraught with fears of unwanted gestation and sexually transmitted diseases — particularly syphilis," the museum says connected its website.
A pistillate walks down a condom emblazoned with an erotic creation print, believed to person been made from a sheep's appendix astir 1830, successful the Netherlands' Rijksmuseum, successful Amsterdam.
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk
The depository said it acquired the condom astatine an auction astir six months agone with enactment from the F.G. Waller-Fonds, a memorial money established successful 1938 successful representation of 1 of the Rijksmuseum's benefactors.
The portion of sexually-themed creation past was to stay connected show until the extremity of November, the depository said.
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