"If You've Had Two Sex Partners" and "AIDS: Get the Facts" represent a common didactic and informative approach to AIDS educational posters that does not use images to supplement text. Their respective content and approach, however, are dramatically different. This poster from the Texas AIDSLINE makes reference to a metaphor taken from Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in the mid-1980s. Koop and other public health educators suggested that in terms of the epidemiology of AIDS, having sex with someone was like having sex with all of their previous partners. At a moment when the dangers of promiscuous sex were being emphasized, this metaphor had the power to even invoke fear of serial monogamy.http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/VC/B/B/F/V/
Among hundreds of images that demonstrate the effects to prevent HIV-AIDS, respectively in the topic “Safe sex”, this poster stands out and attracts me much due to its special and attractive method of presenting the main ideas. Essentially, having no pictures enclosed does not mean that you lose the crucial parts to exhibit your points. In my opinion, this poster even says a thousand words better than the usual ones.
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