Condoms Condoms have had a very colorful and sometimes controversial history, especially in North America. Condoms, in varying forms, and other means of birth control have been around for centuries. Early contraceptives were made from materials on hand ranging from animal dung, horns, animal intestines, to seaweed. But they did not come neatly packaged in paper or foils. That only really began in the late 1830s with the invention of vulcanized rubber and the massive impact it had on the... Continue reading