UWS High School Fights V.D. with Vintage Sign

Photo by Sam Park

Free love lives! This sign was spotted at Brandeis High School on the Upper West Side (just before their prom which is taking place tonight). It's like a little history lesson on how things were in the carefree '60s, when that stinging feeling as you urinated was no cause for concern. No mention of abstinence or condoms, just a friendly reminder that if you're going to have sex, you might wanna keep it clean. Men: wash thoroughly before and after (with soap and water) because the ladies probably already have a V.D. and don't even know it! Time to stock up on douche and go to the doctor, tramps. Then it's straight back to studying up on the USSR.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on June 5, 2009 3:45 PM

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NannyState

"OMG, I left my sanitary Belt on the radiator again."

Qraymond

They had one of these signs in the Boys Club down on 10th Street and Avenue A back in the late 80's. Even though I was 11 I had already seen plenty of people die from AIDS.

It's amazing how backwards some people still are on this basic health issue.

Mr Mel

It's like the lectures we got in the service in the 50s complete with a sawed off broomstick as a prop.

Nyctini11

Well a lot of good this did! If only they'd had anti-bacterial soap back then, we may have nipped the whole aids epidemic in the bud...NOT

Trilby16

Some words have become disconnected from their true meaning, over time. Douche is one. Scumbag is another. Also suck.

r1b2

This posting is especially helpful for all the NYers who just think of douche as the asshole who shoved into you on the F train.

valeriob

I'm too busy fighting scurvy

Dead Himmler

and bed bugs

morevino

and dingle berries.

smitty

I took a grad school test at a high school in East Brooklyn somewhere and the entire high school was like this. They had academic award posters up but they ended in like 1983. It was depressing and a little twilight-zoney.