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![Viveka Portman’s latest novel, The Widow Of Red Lion Row, her heroine has to become a condom manufacturer in 19th century London. In researching for her book Viveka found out many interesting things about the history of the condom…
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We are all so used to Regency romance that glitters and glosses over the less savoury aspects of the human condition, and that’s fine because it’s fantasy, right? But… if you’re anything like me, you might have a niggling curiosity about those things left unspoken, things like consent, birth control, and venereal disease – most of which are conspicuously absent in most historical romances. Not so in my latest novel The Widow of Red Lion Row.
Mrs Margaret Forsythe finds herself fallen from her place in society, and in a desperate attempt to survive commences an unusual enterprise, condom making.
‘Condoms?’ I hear you ask. ‘Aren’t they a modern invention?’ Not at all. The link between sex and pregnancy, and sex and disease, is as ancient as time, and let’s not forget – humans are an inventive lot...](https://www.romance.com.au/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)