Today on ErosBlog: a 1966 magazine article on condoms. Chiefly it's about the primarily anticompetitive reasons why condoms were then mostly for sale only via drug stores and not by mail order, but there are disquisitions into (probably spurious) condom history and literary discussions of French ticklers and penis modification:
https://www.erosblog.com/2025/04/19/report-on-rubber-goods/
#Condoms #FrenchTicklers #Prophylactics #History #Vintage #BirthControl #Porn #VintagePorn
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 22: Looking at the fight against #AIDS / #HIV after the recent good news on #prophylactics.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/11/good-news.html
I repeat: hypochlorous acid is a miracle. HOCl solution can apparently be nebulized and inhaled as a prophylactic (CW: animal testing)
"In this report, we establish through independent laboratories that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is rapidly inactivated by exposure to HOCl, as is poliovirus – a far more difficult virus to inactivate and often the gold standard for virucidal assessment. Inhalation of a microaerosolized fog of that same virucidal HOCl solution by rodents using the US EPA’s acute 4-hour inhalation toxicity protocol later provided observational, physiological, gross pathological, and histopathological evidence that showed pulmonary exposure of 52ppm HOCl to respiratory epithelium did not result in any difference when compared to control animals. Also reported are the chemical and antimicrobial characterizations of the HOCl microaerosols reportedly used as SARS-CoV-2 prophylaxis within the United States and elsewhere during the pandemic lockdown."
This also implies that you could stick it in a humidifier and disinfect the air of a space that someone infectious may have recently left, in addition to (or as an alternative to, if unavailable) air filtration
#SARSCoV2 #covid #covid19 #prophylactic #prophylactics #prophylaxis #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver
New article! Guy Gelter offers a summary of #publichealth practices for #prendustrial #Europe, with a focus on rural #mining communities. Public #prophylactics included: nutrition, settlement #zoning, ventilation, protective wear, and piety.
https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medicina_nei_secoli/article/view/2895/2601
Broad-Spectrum #COVID-19 #Therapeutics and #Prophylactics
An interesting presentation by Yunlong Richard Cao @yunlong_cao talking about their development of broadly #neutralizing #antibodies based on prediction of #viral #evolution ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxpJM4gqwec ). 🧵1/
The one page web view is available here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1744885112410374531.html
And everybody needs to read EJACULATE RESPONSIBLY by Gabrielle Blair. She makes an astounding, excellent case for why men are responsible for all unwanted pregnancies -- and could therefore prevent the need for a great many abortions, if they really wanted to. Before you argue with me on that point, go read that book and ponder it for a few months! ♥️
#abortion
#healthcare
#EjaculateResponsibly
#SexualIntercourse
#pregnancy
#prophylactics
