Condoms #4
Four:
Alicia started her company, Fancy Free on a whim—a business to occupy her time and keep her old school friends busy. Many of Sloan’s residents considered Fancy Free a strange business, and some were plain shocked, but Alicia didn’t believe in following conventions. Condoms were something she knew about. She’d researched them enough, heck, she’d even used a few in her time. Condoms were her passion, and so condoms were what her company produced. On her death, she left her precious company to her god-daughter Alice Beasley.
A snippet from Alicia’s collection of condom notes:
Practitioners of German folk medicine considered lavender, parsley, and marjoram potent contraceptives. People thought teas brewed from the seeds of fruitless trees had contraceptive qualities and that women who drank the tea would be childless too. Popular opinion held that willow bark tea acted as a contraceptive and made women sterile. Seeds from wildflowers like Queen Anne’s lace—which really is a potent contraceptive—were also popular oral contraceptives. The odor of camphor taken via the nostrils was thought to castrate men. Camphor is actually a natural aphrodisiac.
Source: Humble Little Condom by Aine Collier
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