Visual Culture and Health Posters

Title:: If You've Had Two Sex Partners

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Description:

"If You've Had Two Sex Partners" and "AIDS: Get the Facts" represent a common didactic and informative approach to AIDS educational posters that does not use images to supplement text. Their respective content and approach, however, are dramatically different. This poster from the Texas AIDSLINE makes reference to a metaphor taken from Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in the mid-1980s. Koop and other public health educators suggested that in terms of the epidemiology of AIDS, having sex with someone was like having sex with all of their previous partners. At a moment when the dangers of promiscuous sex were being emphasized, this metaphor had the power to even invoke fear of serial monogamy.

NOTE: Slide of original poster image is slightly blurry.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (688,400 Bytes)

Date Supplied:

ca. 1986

Creator:

Texas Department of Health

Source:

Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.

This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).

URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

IHM Order Number: A031689

Publisher:

Texas Department of Health

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Texas Department of Health.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: HIV; Public Health

Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:: HIV/AIDS Transmission

Exhibit Category:

HIV/AIDS

Relation:

AIDS: Get the Facts [ca. 1986]

Unique Identifier:

VCBBFV

Document Type:

Posters

Slides (photographs)

Language:

English

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-08-13

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