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Condoms as Safer Sex

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Smart sportswear for the active man, 1986

To more effectively reach an audience having sex, safer-sex campaigns needed to overcome the image of condoms as unsexy. Here, the Health Education Resource Organization slyly presented the condom as a smart fashion accessory for smart, trendy men.

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    Health Education Resource Organization
  • Type:
    Poster
Color photograph of three condoms one red, another yellow, and the right one is green, above text.
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    Smart sportswear for the active man.

    Introducing the latest in evening wear for the man-on-the-go: Condoms.

    Available in a wide variety of styles, colors, textures…even flavors. At finer drugstores, pharmacies and creative outlets everywhere. One size fits all. Condoms also stop AIDS.

    So don’t be caught dead wearing anything less.

    Use condoms.
    There’s living proof they stop AIDS.

    HERO Health Education Resource Organization

    945-AIDS Baltimore Metro

    251-1162 DC Metro

    1-800-638-6252 Elsewhere in MD.

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