The history of Soviet condoms. Soviet condoms when and how condoms appeared in the USSR
So, friends, today there will be a long promised review of Soviet condoms - in the posts I have already mentioned that they were a thing of a very low-quality, as well as scarce, but some readers did not agree with it. To test it, I took out two types of the most Soviet condoms - I bought the first model of 1973 at the auction, and the second, late eighties, I was sent to me readers.
To condoms, as in general, to sex, there was a very ambiguous attitude, and all this led to sad consequences in modern times - I will tell about it in detail in the afterbirth to my review. And this is a very important topic, since the current level of incidence of HIV in Russia (the third in the world) - there is nothing more than the next reaction of this Soviet system.
Where did the number two come from?
Condoms in the USSR massively began to be made in about the 1930s - after the promoted "sexual freedom" of the 1920s in the country began the growth of venereal diseases, and the authorities began to think about how to prevent their distribution. In the thirties, Soviet condoms were produced at the factory "Red Rubber"which is now in Kiev and called Kievrezina OJSC, and later began to be made on Bakovesky rubber plantWhat was opened in 1936.
However, the emergence of Soviet condoms on the growth of venereal diseases in general did not affect anyone - the absolute majority of poorly educated population condoms were perceived as incomprehensible and unnecessary wonder, and were used only in rare cases. In addition, all Soviet years condoms were a very scarce product, and their "tactical and technical characteristics" left much to be desired.
Where, in fact, the name went "Product number two"? One of the Verry says that allegedly on a certain classifier of the product number one was a gas mask, the product number two - a condom, a product number three - erase, and the product number four is galosh. However, this is nothing more than the city legend, everything is much simpler - at first, condoms were produced in three sizes. Number one - was too small, and it was considered "Nomomilfo". The number two was average and, accordingly, the most chassis. The number three was gigantic - and for this reason also locked on the shelves.
In general, in the end, only the second size remained on sale (the rest did not take it), and the inscription "Rubber product. Number two" began to read as one sentence, which is why the legend has been born about a certain "classifier".
« Product number two "1973 years of release.
And now let's see what was the most "product number two", which was produced at that very Bakovsky factory and with which many Soviet citizens were familiar with. The model in my review - released in August 1973 and is a dual pack of condoms, each of which cost two kopecks. Condoms were sold precisely in such a double package, worthy of clear pennies - a Soviet man gave two attempts.
Open pack. For 45 years, the condom is expected to dry - by the way, the paper packaging contributed to a large extent. Even during the shelf life of the "Product number two" condoms often lost their protective properties - due to the fact that the paper package was supported (for example, in the pocket of the outerwear), the air fell inside, and the condom lost its protective properties.
At one of the forums, I somehow have read a dushchitelnaya story about how, during the scandal in one of the families, the father admitted to his son that he had a fruit of this is such a breaking condom in time. There was a drama in the comments)
Despite the fragility of 45-year-old rubber, something closer to the base remained something that retained the initial plastic properties and makes it possible to estimate the real qualities of the Soviet condom. Compared with modern products, the rubber of the Soviet condom was very thick. According to such a favorite fan of the USSR of the Soviet GOST, the thickness of the walls of the Soviet condom should have been at least 0.09 millimeters, while modern condoms have no more thickness 0.05 millimeters.
That is, Soviet condoms were twice as thicker. "In working condition" the remains of the Soviet condom of 1973 look like this - I think the naked eye is noticeable that the rubber is very thick, "armor-piercing".
If you compare the Soviet Pleaska with modern rubber products - then in its properties, it resembles the attacks or medical gloves - the rubber is only a little thinner and about the same stretch. By the way, the Soviet condom was sold in the sinking Talc. I think, not least such low operational qualities of the Soviet condom served that he was unpopular - the use of such things should have delivered a lot of suffering in the process of sex and men, and women.
By the way, I also met the story that in the sixties and seventies somewhere in the outback of the RSFSR, such condoms were used a multipoint - for which they were erased and dried on clothespins, but I do not want to think that everything was so bad and would take this story To the category of urban legends.
Soviet condom of the end of the eighties.
Let's still take a look at the Soviet condom of the production of the eighties. There is no accurate release date on a pack - it is indicated only that the condom is suitable until 1990. Taking into account the fact that the shelf life of condoms is usually 3-5 years - then this model was released no later than 1985 and not earlier than 1988, just at the time of restructuring.
It is already noticeable here that the sexual revolution gradually began to come to the USSR - first, condoms began to be sold not by modest packages two pieces, but such paper "cartridges" in the top ten products in each. I do not know if it was possible to buy condoms of the piece of pieces, or only "patrontas" is entirely - I got it part of three pieces.
Opening the packaging - the condom has been preserved much better. Of course, it is 15 years younger than the number two products 1973, but it also contributed to the fact that the paper package from the inside is covered with a layer of cellophane - which created hermeticity and prevented air access. The packaging is written "checked by electronics", and it is also indicated that condoms are processed by Latex - on the sixtieth year of Soviet power to manufacturers finally reached that he dried everything in the light of Talc is not the best accompaniment for sex.
The condom itself represents that the elongated ring, which, by the way, noticeably larger the "product number two" from the previous section - whether the fact is that older condoms succuled more, or the Soviet "size number two" was so small - I don't know .
It is possible to evaluate the dimensions of the Lock Soviet "Product number two" here. The old condoms of 1973 in appearance were smaller.
There was still a legend about so to speak "double appointment" of Soviet condoms - allegedly during the war they can be used as a bloodstream harness or a bucket for carrying 2-5 liters of water. I decided to check the last statement and began to fill the condom with water from under the crane - it burst after hitting about 500 milliliters of water. Was it so conceived initially, or a Soviet condom has lost its properties in 30 years - decide to decide)
Afterword.
I must say that the condoms in the condoms were very ambiguous - almost never condoms did not bother themselves (it was believed that only "walking"), and indeed the topic of sex was a taboo - it was believed that there were no sex in the USSR for young people There was no enlightenment on this topic, and in the Handling Soviet films never showed bed scenes, there were no hints of them. In the movie the couple first paced between the birks, reading the poems of the young Tajik poets Oh, and then immediately left the maternity hospital, holding a bundle with a cheerful and smiling three-month-old kid.
With all this, the reality was very different from the television, and the level of STDs in the USSR was very high - the queues in the leather SPECIES were huge. At the same time, no one lifted the problem, there were no sexual education in schools (there was not even the most basic), it was all considered a "forbidden topic" and was given to a self-shot.
Personally, I believe that therefore, therefore, one of them is the highest on the planet (the third, to be accurate) the level of disease of the HIV population. It even comes to the spread of "HIV-dissident" is when people believe that no HIV exists. The African tribes believe that HIV is all fictions and sorcerers from the neighboring tribe, and in Russia many believe that HIV is all fictions and the Naval of the State Department because of the ocean. And in the first, and in the second case it turns around a terrible epidemic ...
All this is a trace reaction of 70 years old, in which sex themes were taboo, condoms were low-quality, and the purchase of a woman's prevention tools was considered something "gallop". But according to modern television, they do not talk about it - they say only about that we live in the world's best world, there is no HIV, and all together we are moving towards the bright future ...
So it goes.
Do you remember Soviet condoms? Have you used in those times?
In the USSR, the release of condoms was established in the 50s, and before that they were imported from other countries. They were called the product number 2 and produced at the same factory, where gas masks were made, which called the product number 1. The room spoke of the thickness of the rubber used in the product.
Initially, condoms called the product number 4, because the rubber was thinner. Such condoms were unreliable, often rushed and therefore decided to use thicker rubber. 
Condoms were sold in pharmacies, but were a product scarce. The "gum" was spared very quickly, some even bought them in large parties. 
Someone bought condoms of the future for themselves, their others resell at a higher price that did not repel customers. 
First, only the factory in Bakovka was engaged in the release of contraceptives, but later their release began at the Kyiv Plant "Red Rubber". During the reign of Khrushchev, three different sizes of condoms appeared, and therefore men had to inform the pharmacist with their size. 
Condoms, usually yellow or gray, wrapped in paper packaging. They had a specific smell of rubber, and so that condoms would not stick them slightly sprinkled with Talc. 
In the late 80s, new packages appeared, on which they began to write "checked by electronics". There are legends that the Soviet condom could withstand the bucket of water.
Condom (Condition) is a rubber barrier type contraception. Protects against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The rubber contraceptive of our days is a thin and durable case that a man puts on its erected dick. A modern condom is manufactured most often from latex, less often from polyurethane ().
But it was not always so.
The very first condom
The legend states that the very first condom was invented and used by the King Minos (3000 BC). His wife Pacifia accepted because of the abundance of married betrayers and lowered for him to curse, because of whom the sperm of Tsar Minos turned into poisonous snakes and killed his mistresses. He decided to use the goat bladder to protect the bladder, and - oh, miracle! - It worked. No one else suffered, and the wife remained in a happy ignorance.
King Minos, traveled, was not configured to spread about his invention. And the people of ancient Crete never learned about this means of protection.
Contraception from 2000 years BC to middle ages
Ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and ancient Rome were famous for their love for debauchery and sexual joy. However, the ancient China with Japan did not lag behind.
The fact that the Egyptians began to continue to protect themselves from venereal diseases. The role of the first barrier began to perform linen fabric. They sewed a bag with ties at the ends so as not to fly. From pregnancy did not save (here it was the interrupted sexual act or, but some barrier against infections still created.
The Chinese, as the most inventive, decided to use the intestine of the lambs and covers from the cleaved silk paper as a contraceptive. Guts were more reliable (but certainly nasty) means, because Wood on the whole penis. But paper covers put on only a member head.
The Japanese, as applied to samurai, used more solid arguments as protection. For example, covers from the turtle shell or animal horns. I do not know how much it was possible to name the act of love with such a situation.
By the way, at the end of the 15th century, Dutch merchants brought condoms from thin skin from China. These products have been put on the whole penis.
Condoms of the Renaissance
Columbus Christopher team - who pushed people to create reliable contraception. In 1494, they brought syphilis from Haiti Island to Europe. In 1495, the wave of syphilis covered France, Germany, Switzerland, and by early 1497, England and Scotland replenished this list. Two years later, Hungary and Russia joined. In 1498 - India, and in 1505 - China. Wine everything was nonsense and loving people.
In 1954, the Italian doctor Gabriel Fallopy published a treatise on the subject of syphilis ("French Disease"), in which there was a description of an improved linen condom. The linen bag was soaked in a special chemical solution, after which they gave dry in the shade. This solution was nothing more than spermicides (today spermicidated condoms were widespread). The bag was mounted on a penis with strings and sat pretty reliable. The means of protection was tested for 1100 men - and none has become infected.
It made an impetus to the extensive spread of the confounders.
Origin and writing the word by Kond (Condom)
Charles II court doctor (king of England, 1630-1685), Colonel of the Royal Army and part-time Count Konton (Condom, Condum, Condon, CONONON - These are variations of his surname) began to use for the production of intestine and urinary animal bubbles. BC These funds were to imply protection, a decent king, they were as comfortable and hygienic as possible (how much the products from the internal were allowed). Count Konta was purified and exposed to special processing, after which he made caps and lubricated with oil.
Of course, other influential aristocrats also wanted to acquire such protection. So in the 17th century and the production of condoms arose. Burned in England, it quickly spread throughout Europe.
Of course, these condoms were unreliable and often rushed. The instability of the material was marked.
In the 18th century, the spread of condoms grew in geometric progression. They were sold in theaters, pharmacies, bars, hairdressers, in the markets - both in Russia and throughout Europe.
In America, the first mention of condoms is found in 1800.
Of course, these contraceptives were expensive, and only very secured people could afford themselves. For example, the price of one condom was equal to the monthly earnings of simple workers.
The first rubber condom
In the 19th century, information on barrier contraceptives began to actively promote the masses. Distributed treatises and leaflets with instructions on how to make condoms on their own.
The present breakthrough in the history of condoms was the invention of the process of hot vulcanization of rubber in 1843, C. Gudier (USA) and in 1843 T. Hancock (England). They both patented their inventions.
1844 marks the mass production of rubber contraceptives. Initially, these products were reusable. After each intercourse, their soaps, lowered into a special solution, closed into the box and hidden in the bedside table. It was forbidden to talk about them. To date, there are also options.
Production of the first rubber condoms in Russia
The "comarage of the Russian-American Rubber Manufactory", founded in St. Petersburg in 1859, is one of the first rubber factories using new technology. Later, he was renamed the "Rubber Manufactory" Triangle "and had his best research center.
This plant also released the protectors to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. With this could not argue even the church.
Fight against condoms
In the 19th century, a fierce struggle against the use of Kondoms began. The ban on condoms was introduced in the north of the United States and was supported by the Comstock law. In the 30 states, laws on the prohibition of production and sales of rubber contraceptives were adopted. Europe did not lag.
Fighting contraception was based on moral ideologies. However, the use of condoms was not prohibited in order to protect genital infections.
Despite all the obvious and implicit methods of struggle, Kondomy continued to be sold and used.
First latex condom
In 1919, the first latex contraceptive was invented. His difference was that he did not groin rubber, was more subtle, but nevertheless durable. In the 1930s, special attention began to pay special attention to the quality of condoms in production. But here the first lubricated condom appeared only in 1957.
In the period from 1939 to 1980, active propaganda began and the spread of contraceptives. Requirements for product quality are increasingly tightened. All sorts of tests were carried out on the strength and convenience of the product.
With the discovery of AIDS in the early 1980s, it was found that only a condom could prevent infection with this disease.
Since the 1990s, the Konda began to be sold everywhere - in pharmacies, at gas stations, in stores, in hotels - and buy them no longer accounted for labor.
History of condoms in the USSR
There was sex in the USSR or was not, but the Kondomy were unequivocally, but it was not easy to get them.
In 1930s, the first factory for the production of contraceptives was built. These products did not differ in any beautiful packaging design or ease of use. They were packaged in paper envelopes, had an unpleasant smell. The color of these vesicles was either gray or dirty yellow. There were two condom in the convective. In order to avoid sticking, they were sprinkled with Talc.
Soviet condoms were called "Rubber Product number 2". At number one was a gas mask. The figure depended on the thickness of rubber, the thinner - the less the number.
By the way, the thickness of the walls of the Soviet condom on GOST was 0.09 mm
Rubber products were delivered to the pharmacy, from where they sweat. The most enterprising comrades bought elastic bands wholesale and then resell with a high markup, but even with such a defold, the preski flashed with a bang.
First, the manufacture of kondes was engaged in one plant in the car. Later also joined the "Red Rubber" in Kiev. With Khrushchev, rubber products of three sizes appeared.
In the 1980s, in addition to changing the design, the inscription "checked by electronics" appeared on the packaging.
Price of Kondomov in the USSR:
- 1953 - Packaging price (2 pcs.) 43 kopecks
- 1961 (monetary reform) - price 4 kopecks for packaging (2 pcs.)
What are condoms in different countries of the world?
Each country is distinguished by its mentality. He gives rise to the habits and features of people. Giving things to cool names is one of these features.
The Soviet Union was a chaste country. Therefore, one of the Soviet participants also stated Leningrad-Boston from July 17, 1986 during the teleteption: "We have no sex. And we categorically against this. " After that, it began to walk through the expanses of a variety of media overlaid and pulled out of the context of the phrase: "There is no sex in the USSR".
However, it was about sex advertising, and the answer of this woman concerned exactly the advertisement of sex on television, which we really were not. And another woman, so that it became more clear, added: "We have sex, we have no ads." In addition, the phrase about sex was when the transfer was mounted cut. Not without the participation of Vladimir Pozner, who conducted a teleconference from Leningrad and, as today it is clearly visible, who did not favor the Soviet Union. For initially the words of the first woman who surveyed sounded like this: "We have no sex. We have love. "
About love was pure truth. The feminine rule: "In the bed with a man only after the wedding" had a place and clearly worked. Yes, and men preferred to marry virgins, rather than girls who had already known men's affection. There were no "trial marriages" and in risen. And marriages for the calculation was units. Young people in the USSR married and married, and the truth, in love.
Of course, the above rule had frequent exclusions. Yes, and many men were by no means against lie down with women and taste with them bodily love. But they were not hurry to marry such ladies, and they did not want much. And in order to protect yourself from unwanted pregnancy, a condom was applied ...
About this product of Soviet times there is a mass of non-pieces. They are filled with the Internet and some print media. It looks very similar to the authors of these nonplets - People are young and not making the Soviet Union. And also the inventors of different signs, which are now among the "journalists" the darkness of the darkness. (The word "journalists" is taken in quotes on purpose, because the authors have no relation to the journalistic profession.)
The first is the first
Condoms in the Soviet Union, as well as all, were a big deficit. And as soon as the party of condoms got into the pharmacy, she was blocked by the MiG to enterprising people, which then also instantly resold the "rubberry" of Schitrogoga.
Full crap. Condoms in the USSR have never been a deficit. On the contrary, they were lying in pharmacies, not demand. Insofar as:
- this product was not popular in the country's men's population;
- the quality of the rubber, from which the Soviet condoms were manufactured was such that almost removed all the pleasant sensations during the reciprocating movements of the body concluded in this dense rubber bag;
- during ejaculation, due to being a peak of pleasure, men experienced discomfort and even painful sensations, because there was nowhere to do with a male seed due to the lack of a spermaster (pipochki);
- the unpleasant sensation brought and the talc, which were raised condoms, so as not to stick together;
- Men, especially young, was ashamed and embarrassing them to buy them, and a woman acquire a condom was very shameful, because it could easily consider the girl of easy behavior.
And about the implementation of the condoms of "Schitrogoga". The condom cost two kopecks. Long years. Prices for goods and products grew, and a condom as it cost two kopecks, it continued to cost ...
Unprecedented second
Pipices on condoms had tiny holes, in order not to decrease the navigation.
Another lie. There were no pipices from Soviet condoms. Therefore, there was no holes in non-existent pipiles.
Fisilicians Third
The word "condom" was forbidden, so condoms were written: "Product No. 2". The product number 1 was a gas mask.
Not true. The word "condom" was printed on paper packaging-convert. The product number two called it buyers, shy to pronounce loudly, and even publicly the word "condom".
Why "number two"? Because once on condoms was affixed from the first to the third. And Size No. 2, designed for the venation of the item with an average length of 18 cm and a diameter of about 5, 5 cm, was the most move. After all, the USSR was a chaste country, remember?
Personal retreat
I remember when I first had to buy condoms. It seems to be in the seventh grade. By the time I have already come out, in addition, I put on a hat, a raincoat (I would have black glasses, it would be put on them), raised the collar and, having tugged the arrogance, went to the pharmacy. The people were a bit. When my turn came up, I carelessly said:
I have a number two product. Twenty pieces.
As I remember how a seller's girl looked at me. At first, her eyes broke out surprise and curiosity, then launched her cheeks and neck. She quickly jumped into my hands paper envelopes with condoms, which I also hid in my pocket as lightning. Probably, on the part of these our actions were similar to the transmission of secret data with one spy to another. Calculating the purchase, I deliberately went out of the pharmacy, feeling like a back and the back of me naturally harness the views of pharmacy visitors.
I returned home the winner. Rather, not home, and on the apartment to a friend, with which we threw coins to whom to go to the pharmacy for condoms. It fell, as you see, I. And then we filled the condoms with water (the product rubber was very strong and incomparable with rubber balloons), tied up and became from the balcony to dump them under the legs passersby. Condoms Gulko exploded, holing with water men and women. Men were inadequately swear, women were scruffusing. In short, it was very fun ...
Yes, citizens. Sex in the USSR was closed theme. And now it became open. Condoms of different, with pipchets, ugnes, bursts, balls, rings; Ultrathin, flavored and other - a premil set. There are also sex shops with a commodity intended to meet partner and partners and self-satisfaction. In short, anything for sex in his concealed and sophisticated forms.
Now there is sex in our country. Yes, life did not become better from this. Rather, on the contrary ...
I wanted exactly today to remember the subjects that our parents once did not take advantage of our parents - about condoms.
Everyone knows that in the Union they called the "Rubber Product number two". But not at the appropriate opinion that "in the USSR, different types of rubber differ in density, this density was distinguished by numbers No. 1, No. 2, etc., and the same numbers were assigned to products depending on which rubber they are made." They say, "Rubber Product No. 1" is a gas mask; "Rubber Product No. 2" - a condom; "Rubber Product No. 3" - eraser; "Rubber Product No. 4" - Galoshi.
These are all the bikes. In fact, the whole thing in shyness (the USSR was a very chaste country). Just in the pharmacies were shy to write on the price tags "Condom. Size number 2. Price 2 kopecks ", here and wrote" Rubber Product. №2. Price 2 kopecks. " - Hence and went.
And why is the size of №2? Also everything is very simple. Initially, the sizes of condoms were three: No. 1 - small, No. 2 - Middle, No. 3 - large. And since the small size of the demand did not have (who from men not under torture admits that he is small?), They gradually disappeared from the sale. The big size of the condom was also uneconomical (and the "economy should be economical", remember?), On one condom No. 3, a little more rubber was left "that on the scale of the whole country ...", and therefore they also stopped producing them. Here is the average size number 2 and became the only one, especially since he approached for almost any man: was calculated by 54 mm. In width and 180 mm. In length, and this approximately corresponds to the European HXL size - above average.
That year when I was born, my less successful peers-spermatozoa was driven into white condoms without silicone lubricant and semobriver for 2 kopecks. thing from such individual paper converters
Soviet condoms were sold solely in pharmacies and pharmacy stalls, and bought men. This is because the lady that would take the courage to ask in a pharmacy with such products, could immediately equate easy behavior to women. Recall that even their name was like curses: the word that occurred from "Kond".
The procedure for purchasing condoms resembled the scene from the spy novel. Buyer near the counter, looking around on the parties so that no one eavested, quietly and vibrately uttered the cherished word "condom" almost in the pharmacy ear. Pharmacist was sort of face, and also looking around, whisper clarified the necessary quantity. Then the condoms quickly wrapped in a napkin and imperceptibly on the counter were pushed by the buyer.
However, in life there was anything that served as the basis for jokes. For example, a young man comes into a pharmacy, it becomes a queue, and when it comes to the counter and, showing a finger on a pack of condoms, shyly pronounces a quiet voice: "Give, please, it is." Pharmacist loudly, on the entire pharmacy: "Young man, if you mean condoms, then say that you need condoms. Mary Bath, Jun as a pack of condoms. And you take your condoms and do not fool me the next time a head! ". A person looks in line and shouts loudly to her: "Comrades, did you hear everything? Yes, I'm a tra * I am going! "
These were the most simple condoms, still without lubrication, but already with a semober at the end, for the same 2 kopecks. And they sometimes rushed at the most inopportune moment. I remember ... okay, I will not.
What else to remember? In the period when sex maturity had already arrived, but there were no sex acts, some boys dragged condoms to school, in order to demonstratively, allegedly accidentally, show that they had already met the sacrament of sex.
There were great demand for condoms from tourists, geologists and fishermen - they kept cigarettes, matches, salt and sugar in them, because more hermetic containers would not come up with. And if you put a condom in a sock or sleeve of a shirt, it was possible to wear water in it (approximately liter and a half).
Condoms sometimes used as balloons, but not because they cost cheaper balls of real, but for joke.
They said that in Afghans on the barrels, condoms were put on condoms without lubricant to prevent ingestion of dirt and dust.
And another fixing ring of the condom was ideally suited as a torn passion in cassette tape recorders.
About condoms, discharged from the roofs of houses under the legs passers-by, with water typed in them, I remember, perhaps I will not ....
When I myself achieved the age of puberty and the girls who have reached his sexual maturity began to be reciprocated, then I tried to drive my spermatzoids in such condoms of bodily color with a semober, with lubricant and in foil packaging, at a price of 10 kopecks. a piece. They were still the inscription "checked by electronics", and the condoms of Indian were considered the most steep.
But, I admit honestly, more often we did without them - the pretty were usually used for random and one-time connections. And you know, everything cost: when I passed later by the orphanage, then the children like me did not pull their slender hands through the kindergarten bars and did not shout out complaints: "Dad, dad ...", and visits to the vendisispean, it was somehow managed.
