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April 15, 2005

Why are condoms traditionally referred to as French letters?

I've never known the answer to the question "Why are condoms traditionally referred to as French letters?"
For the same reason the French refer to them as the English overcoat. Unsurprisingly, syphilis has long been called "la maladie anglaise" by the French. The phrase was imported by the English as, untranslated, it seemed obvious whose concubines infected English gentlemen.
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Posted on April 15, 2005 11:13 AM by Penis 22.
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