UWS High School Fights V.D. with Vintage Sign

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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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"Time to stock up on douche and go to the doctor, tramps."

ahaah!! i just spilled hot tea on my urinary opening. thanks jen!

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.

I'm too busy fighting scurvy

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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