"Despois o de Tarifa... Despois Óscar Puente [o ministro español de Transportes]. Agora tres ou catro minutos da Galiza e xa pasamos aos lumes de Portugal. Seguinte peza, lumes por Europa adiante. E c...

Rijksmuseum exhibition includes contraceptive featuring erotic etching of a nun and three clergymen A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection. The condom, which was probably made of a sheep’s appendix circa 1830, is thought to have come from an upmarket brothel in France, most likely in Paris. It features an erotic etching depicting a partially undressed nun pointing at the erect genitals of three clergymen, as well as the phrase Voila, mon choix (“There, that’s my choice”). Continue reading...