No Prostitute Is Safe: Beware of Venereal Disease
A long banner in blue-to-red gradient carries 'No prostitute is safe' and 'Beware of venereal disease' beside a stylised woman in a white dress holding a clutch bag. The tell for fear appeal is the blanket claim in the headline paired with a single prescribed remedy, avoidance; the poster gives no infection rates.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Artist J. Berry (signed, 1942); issuer not stated (print code '4058/P.M.E.M/5000')
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, War and the military
- 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; hosted by owner decision
Artist J. Berry (signed, 1942), National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-301.
Text on the object
NO Prostitute IS SAFE BEWARE OF VENEREAL DISEASE J. Berry 1942 4058/P.M.E.M/5000
