There is No Must about Sexual Intercourse - Avoid Prostitutes - And You'll Avoid Venereal Disease
A dark strip poster with a blue female silhouette, hand on hip, against a red glow and the lines 'There is no must about sexual intercourse - Avoid Prostitutes - and you'll avoid venereal disease'. The tell is the single prescribed remedy (avoidance) tied to a disease threat, with the red-lit silhouette standing for the source of infection.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Printer's imprint only: Fosh & Cross Ltd. (issuer not visible on the image; NARA lists country as England)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; British wartime print, hosted by owner decision
Printer's imprint only: Fosh & Cross Ltd. (issuer not visible on the image; NARA lists country as England). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-88.
Text on the object
THERE IS NO must ABOUT SEXUAL INTERCOURSE Avoid Prostitutes AND YOU'LL AVOID VENEREAL DISEASE
