"How to Get Syphilis," a psychedelic educational filmstrip from 1974

Oh, that’s pretty much as horrible as my one, and they were real.

On the other hand the educational filmstrip is pretty good. They picked a particular disease, so they don’t have to generalise, and they picked a nasty one. They tell us Mary Sue has syphilis. They don’t say how she got it, and they don’t accuse or blame. The boyfriend get it too, and is an equal part of the story. Even the disease is presented as something that is just doing what it does. Maybe Mister Rodgers could do it better, but I don’t think I could.

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