The person running Caviglia’s Cabinet of Curiosity writes: Just to add my two cents, this doesn’t seem particularly sexist to me. Yes, it focuses on women as carriers of disease, but men were at their most valuable during the war, and they needed to be at top physical health from a national security standpoint. And this doesn’t seem to be saying anything really wrong about all women just that, “Prostitutes often have VD. If you have sex with prostitutes and other women you don’t know, you may just get VD. Please don’t get VD guys. Really.” Of course, I could be saying something really unelightened, in which cause… whoops.
Whenever I come across these campaign posters warning against VD from WWII on the net it strikes me that at the core of it it is more about Christian morality than preventing sickness as one knew already then that condoms protected not only against pregnancies but also against diseases.
The posters should have told the guys to use condoms, not keep away from sex all together if preventing VD was the main object of the campaigns. It would have been easier for the guys to follow the advice too. It is easy to turn to prostitutes during war, it could be your last chance of fornication, soldiers die in wars – Ted
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