“Over the past 100 years, thousands of posters and advertisements have been created to warn or educate the public about STDs. Looking though today’s eyes, many older ones seem scandalous and politically inappropriate. Others are preachy, naive, sexy, scary, and everything in between.”
Oh happy day, The San Francisco City Clinic has posted a ton of historic STD posters in support of its “100 Years of Sex” initiative.
Here are some of our favorites (or, you know, ones that make us cringe the most):
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Check out the entire collection here.
(via @TracyClarkFlory, who says this poster is her favorite, but admits this one “is pretty great too.”)
4 responses
Why drag dinosaurs into this? Poor guys have suffered enough. These are pretty great, thanks!
On a related note, it’s interesting to see how contraceptives and psychiatric drugs were marketed to female physicians, back in the day – keeping up appearances A Big Deal:
http://amovablearchives.blogspot.com/2009/05/from-collections-drugs.html
Pretty cool, but have to question age since condom one includes AIDS.
hehe Condom-man is from Sydney
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