In honor of Valentine's day...

...some vintage posters raising awareness about the other VD: venereal disease.

(Click on them to go to the original site). A few more highlights below the fold...

And this one, which is better appreciated at larger size so you can read the print:

There are 20 posters in all, plus this syphilis comic book from 1965:

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Very appropriate considering Penicillin was discovered on Feb. 14th.

heh heh heh.

At first I read the title of that last one as "Johnny Gets the Wood".

Whatdya want at 5 AM after having been up for two days straight?