Title:

Safe Sex Is Hot Sex

Creator:

Red Hot Organization
Meisel, Steven

Date:

[ca. 1990]

Description:

Developed by the Red Hot Organization, a leading international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through popular culture, the poster to the right anticipates a specific audience, featuring images of homosexual men in an intimate pose. Recognizing that traditional health education methods were frequently ineffective, the creators of this poster use the combination of visual and textual messages to normalize and eroticize safe sex. The carefully positioned subjects in the photographs are provocative and instructional--the educational goal is to influence individuals to adopt specific behaviors. The voyeuristic presentation works in conjunction with the message: sex can be enjoyable and safe for homosexual men.

Publisher:

Red Hot Organization

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

Rights:

A Red Hot Production c1991 King Cole, Inc., Photo: Steven Meisel

Genre:

Posters
Slides (photographs)

Subject:

HIV and Public Health

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. A031721

Legacy ID:

VCBBFZ

NLM ID:

101584655X78

Profiles Collection:

Visual Culture and Health Posters

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X78

Story Section:

HIV/AIDS