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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.

The Post reports a woman is suing her husband for $25 million, claiming that the sexual transmitted diseases she has now are the result of his indiscretions. Stephanie Lerner says after being infected with "several severe incurable strains of the human papilloma virus," she's had a number of operations and now is in constant pain She says her venture capitalist husband Mark first give her trichomoniasis in 1996 (he admitted to cheating then); when she learned about her HPV in 2005, he apparently "admitted to her and their marriage counselor that he'd continued having unprotected sex with hookers in Asia, as well as with a mistress in New York." He also allegedly said, "I wish you would just die already" when she was ill. The two are reportedly in the middle of a divorce.

Time to break out the subway condoms! The Health Department reported yesterday that "more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with Herpes Simplex Virus-2, the virus that causes genital herpes." For contrast, the national average for genital herpes infection is 19%.