WWII STD Poster, She May Look Clean - BUT

She May Look Clean - But: Pick-ups, Good Time Girls, Prostitutes Spread Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Poster warned that even the perfect girl-next-door could not be trusted. In contrast to the cigarette-smoking, heavily made-up women in posters warning against exposure to prostitutes, this poster features an apparently average and conservatively dressed woman who might also pose a threat. Featured in the poster is the warning to all servicemen that - She May Look Clean- But pick-ups, good-time girls and prostitutes - could be possible carriers of infection. The underlying caption uses the persistent tactic of appealing to the soldier's sense of patriotism in urging them to protect themselves for the sake of the country: suggesting that, You can't beat the Axis if you get VD

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Communicable Contagious Gonorrhea Infection Infectious Inspired Prevention Sexually Syphilis Syphilitic Transmissible Transmitted Venereal

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