U. S. War Department Quotes
She May Look Clean --But pick-ups, good-time girls and prostitutes Spread Syphilis and Gonorrhea You can't beat the Axis if you get VD
There were no easy cures for these venereal diseases then. The War Department (What it was called in those days.) used patriotism to encourage celibacy.
War Department, Defense Department, WWII Poster Directed at Servicemen, 1941
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Each day of WWII, 18,000 American servicemen were incapacitated by Venereal Disease --- more than by battle wounds on most days. This prevention poster appeared in Army bases throughout the world from 1942-1944. The “Three” were Hitler, Hirohito, and a skeletal “woman of the evening”. This was a shocking poster for many servicemen (and civilians) as the WWII attitudes were such that for the vast majority of Americans, nothing would be worse than Hitler and Hirohito.
Kenyans were dying in droves from AIDS and the abstinence programs had not stemmed the spread of AIDS.
He was referring to Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University, a Catholic school whose health plans did not cover birth control pills. The Heath advisory committees had concluded that birth control pills were a critical element of women’s health. Congress was debating a rule that would exempt religions from having to provide birth control as a part of their health insurance if it was against their beliefs. However, universities, hospitals, museums and civil activities run by churches were not exempt, Ms Fluke testified before Congress that her birth control pills cost her much money out of pocket. Many conservatives throughout the country opposed the requirement, some on religious conscience grounds and others like Limbaugh who opposed because they opposed birth control itself. So Limbaugh concluded that since with insurance paying for birth control for women, the women were getting paid to have sex. Therefore Ms. Fluke was a prostitute and a slut. There was a national outrage over Limbaugh’s statements and many conservatives, especially those running for office were put in an awkward position. They realized the inappropriate logic and use of language and the meanness that Limbaugh exhibited, but with few exceptions they were afraid that if they opposed him publicly, Limbaugh would retaliate on the airways and he was the major Republican spokesman at the time. Although not a politician, he was in many ways the leader of the party. However, this time his mean, twisted, venomous, attack had gone too far. It was not a politician he had attacked this time; just an innocent young student. A number of his sponsors dropped him.
This was a new idea for most Americans at the time. A century later, there were still a few politicians who did not accept this idea.
