Title:

If You've Had Two Sex Partners

Creator:

The Texas Department of Health

Date:

[ca. 1986]

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.

Publisher:

The Texas Department of Health

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Texas Department of Health.

Genre:

Posters
Slides (photographs)

Subject:

HIV and Public Health

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

AIDS: Get the Facts, 1986

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. A031689

Legacy ID:

VCBBFV

NLM ID:

101584655X74

Profiles Collection:

Visual Culture and Health Posters

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X74

Story Section:

HIV/AIDS