The Condomerie - The condom shop in Amsterdam and a weird story from my Uncle
The Condomerie, a shop that specialises in .. you guessed it.. condoms! It not anything new really, there are condom shops all over the world, I remember when the first one opened in Singapore in the late 1990s. As high school kids we all thought it was hilarious.. I admit I still do or I wouldn't have taken these pictures.
Now unfortunately the shop was closed when we encountered it, but it had a fun window display which reminded me of a story my Uncle once told me years ago.. so back in the 1950s when my uncle was a teenager, one of his Aunts who lived nearby in the same village had a rather odd practice. The war was still fresh in recent memory (especially in the Netherlands which was still rebuilding) so frugality was a virtue not a vice.
Anyway, nothing went to waste and everything was re-used.. Including my Uncle's Aunt's condoms. In fact, she would wash the condoms her and her husband had used and then would hang them on the washing line outside to dry! In the 1950s! Out in the garden for the whole neighbourhood to see!
Of course I don't think she owned a range of condoms this diverse or unique.. but it's eerily similar that they are hanging from a clothes line in the display!
The shop provides many products .. including measuring tape and size guides and books to help you figure out the perfect size and fit.. lets face it .. there's nothing more embarrassing than putting on a condom that is too big ... 😳
The tape says "meten = weten" on it which means "measuring is knowing" which sadly doesn't ryhme like it does in dutch so they say 'measure for pleasure' in english instead.
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Oh, this is wild! I've never seen, nor heard of, such a place!
Its a funny place, but also a good place, there should be more of them. In the UK people are often too embarrassed to buy condoms and some don't even know how to use them! So really I think we need shops like this here in the UK. Even if just to educate!