Back in the twenty-four hour period , venereal disease was the bane of the bored and corneous soldier , and military propaganda posters recur to sensationalist tactics to make privates scared of their privates . Mother Jones has collect some of these spectacularly flaky placard .
The idea of inexorable military men forbid their troops from consort with in question orifices may be titter - worthy , but VDs could enfeeble armies . SaysMother Jones :
US Army medical records dating back to the Revolutionary War show significant soldier losses due to genital disease . In a two - year period during the Civil War , the Union Army documented 100,000 case of gonorrhoea . During World War I , the Army lose 7 million person - days and set down more than 10,000 gentleman’s gentleman because they were ailing from STDs . Once Penicillin kicked in in the mid-1940s , such infections were treatable . But as a matter of interior security , the military jump distributing condoms and aggressively market condom to the troops in the early 20th century
you’re able to get hold more of these at Mother Jones’website . The clause also links to another collection ofanti - VD army posters . One anecdote notes that Stan Lee cut his teeth illustrate anti - VD propaganda posters in the Korean War . Sexcelsior !
British , 1944
plan and reproduced by 912th Engineer Air Force Headquarters Co. , Orlando , Florida
The American Social Hygiene Association
Cyril Jones , quaternary Medical Corps Division , Australia .
Staff Sgt . Peterson , Goodfellow Field Venereal Disease Control Series 2 , No . 1
c. 1940 , National Library of Medicine , History of Medicine Collection
H. Dewitt Welsh [ viahere ]
MedicinemilitaryScienceSTDsworld state of war i
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