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Title: Poster of penis as a serpent [descriptive]
Alternative Title: Protégez-vous
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987/2002
Publication Information: France
Aides (Association)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: AIDS Posters Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Date on back of poster, 2002, reflects when the vendor received the copy later acquired by the UCLA Library.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item FR081.
Graphic depiction of a penis with a forked tongue as a symbolic representation of "the serpent." Poster suggests the succumbing to the temptation of (unprotected?) sex poses a potentially fatal risk of contracting AIDS.
Penis as a serpent
Type: image
Identifier: FR081
ark:/21198/zz0002k2vp
Language: French
Subject: AIDS (Disease)--Risk factors
Penis
Temptation
Sex
Death
Snakes
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control
Source: AIDS Posters Collection

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