Dutch museum reveals Victorian-era condom adorned with erotic artwork of a naughty nun and clergymen

The Hague, Netherlands — The Netherlands’ nationwide museum has a brand new object on show that merges artwork with Amsterdam’s notorious Pink Gentle District: an almost 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic artwork.

The Rijksmuseum stated in an announcement that the playful prophylactic, believed to be made round 1830 from a sheep’s appendix, “depicts each the playful and the intense facet of sexual well being.”

It’s a part of an exhibition referred to as “Secure Intercourse?” about Nineteenth century intercourse work that opened on Tuesday.

The condom, probably a memento from a brothel, is adorned with an erotic picture of a nun and three clergymen.

The phrase “That is my selection” is written alongside the sheath in French. In response to the museum, it is a reference to the Pierre-Auguste Renoir portray “The Judgment of Paris,” which depicts the Trojan prince Paris judging a magnificence contest between three goddesses.

“Buying the condom has enabled us to give attention to Nineteenth-century sexuality and prostitution, a topic that’s underrepresented in our assortment. It embodies each the lighter and darker sides of sexual well being, in an period when the search for sensual pleasure was fraught with fears of undesirable being pregnant and sexually transmitted illnesses — particularly syphilis,” the museum says on its web site.

The museum stated it acquired the condom at an public sale about six months in the past with assist from the F.G. Waller-Fonds, a memorial fund established in 1938 in reminiscence of one of many Rijksmuseum’s benefactors.

The piece of sexually-themed artwork historical past was to stay on show till the tip of November, the museum stated.