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:
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- 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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