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    Episode 4: The Sickness of Naples. Syphilis and the Invention of the Modern Condom

    Episode 4: The Sickness of Naples. Syphilis and the Invention of the Modern Condom

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    Episode 4: The Sickness of Naples. Syphilis and the Invention of the Modern Condom

    FromDirty Sexy History

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    28 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 16, 2021
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    Podcast episode

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    Did Columbus bring syphilis back to Europe from the New World? Almost certainly. In this episode, Jess talks about how Columbus caused the deaths of 120 million people worldwide from disease alone, leading to the invention of the modern condom in the 16th century.

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    Released:
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    Going beyond the sanitized and idealized to the dirty reality of human history with Jessica Cale. There's more to history than what you learned in high school, and we're going to skip to the good stuff together.