Self-Control & Sex Temptation

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Self-Control & Sex Temptation

Description

This poster warns audiences that engaging in premarital sex results in venereal disease. It is part of the "Keeping Fit" poster series.

"Men who fail to develop self-control sometimes yield to sex temptation to indulge in sexual intercourse with immoral girls and become infected with a venereal (sex) disease. The chief venereal diseases are syphilis (pox) and gonorrhea (clap)."

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American Social Health Association Records (1905-2005), University of Minnesota, Social Welfare History Archives, http://purl.umn.edu/62513.

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self control and vd 1919.jpg

Citation

YMCA and USPHS, “Self-Control & Sex Temptation,” Venereal Disease Visual History Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://vdarchive.newmedialab.cuny.edu/items/show/375.

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