Frank Bongiorno is the author of the newly released book The Sex Lives of Australians: A History. Here he reveals ten Australians who made sexual history.
Eric Ansell
The
London-born Eric Ansell was an employee of Dunlop in Melbourne before striking
out on his own as a producer of condoms in a small rented house in the
inner-Melbourne suburb of Richmond. It was an astute decision: Ansell became
one of Australia’s great manufacturing success stories and is now a major
international company.