Yes, that *is* Donald Duck upset that he doesn’t have a prophylactic. Never mind he’s a duck (and the woman is SLEEPING)— this is an anti-VD campaign poster from WWII.

Before penicillin took off in the mid-1940s, STDs were a bigger deal because they were much harder to treat. There were campaigns in both world wars warning of the dangers of VD, and syphilis in particular.

(Picture by Cyril Jones, 4th Medical Corps Division, Australia)

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