Feb 6, 2010
In Germany, we learn, condoms are colloquially referred to as Fromms because that was the name of the Jewish manufacturer who, before the Nazis came to power, sold 50 million condoms a year. (His condoms were also, interestingly, packaged with slips of paper that could be discreetly handed to a pharmacist, ordering another supply.) But Julius Fromm had to flee to London and lost the factory.Exhibition Review - ‘Rubbers - The Life, History and Struggle of the Condom’ - The Condom Unrolled at the Museum of Sex - NYTimes.com
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