{"id":7613,"date":"2013-01-06T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2013-01-06T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T14:00:16","slug":"the-history-of-the-american-condom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-history-of-the-american-condom\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of The American Condom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/010513_2044_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Andreas outlined the history of condoms in America \u2013 and in the process illustrated basic economic principles such as the consequences of prohibition and protectionism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Until the 1850s condoms were made from animal intestines and imported from Europe \u2013 making them too expensive for Americans. This changed when rubber condoms came along.<\/li>\n<li>Around 1873 the import and sale of condoms was banned. This led to a thriving domestic black market that jump-started the American condom industry.<\/li>\n<li>The condom ban would begin to end during World War One when sexually transmitted disease became a real security threat. Condoms were given unofficial approval and were sold in government-run canteens.<\/li>\n<li>The soldiers that returned from the war were now familiar with condom usage leading to their widespread adoption.<\/li>\n<li>Even then it took until 1971 for all anti-condom laws to be taken off the books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history of the condom, one man&#8217;s doomed efforts to ban them, and how Trojan condoms got their start over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/history\/2013\/01\/porn_protectionism_and_the_black_market_origins_of_the_american_condom_industry.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/history\/2013\/01\/porn_protectionism_and_the_black_market_origins_of_the_american_condom_industry.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Andreas outlined the history of condoms in America \u2013 and in the process illustrated basic economic principles such as the consequences of prohibition and protectionism: Until the 1850s condoms were made from animal intestines and imported from Europe \u2013 making them too expensive for Americans. This changed when rubber condoms came along. Around 1873 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/010513_2044_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}