Safer sex now and then.
That longstanding aid to non-procreative sex, the condom, may have come into its golden age in the time of the AIDS epidemic. Di Tibbits sheds some light on the condom's dark past, and looks at the history of other methods of safer sex.
Monash University Department of Microbiology, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, VIC.
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