# Disturbing AIDS awareness posters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438 "2005-07-27T17:43:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/1 "2005-07-27T17:43:21Z")
A French AIDS awareness group has come up with an poster campaign that might put you off sex for good. WARNING: not entirely work-safe. But more than that, they’re creepy. [http://ad-rag.com/c21f2ae51eaa935028ebca4f05930f15/2005/apriljpgs/aideshomme.jpg](http://ad-rag.com/c21f2ae51eaa935028ebca4f05930f15/2005/apriljpgs/aideshomme.jpg) [http://ad-rag.com/c21f2ae51eaa935028ebca4f05930f15/2005/apriljpgs/aides.jpg](http://ad-rag.com/c21f2ae51eaa935028ebca4f05930f15/2005/apriljpgs/aides.jpg) But will they work? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/2 "2005-07-27T17:49:03Z")
I’m at least a little unclear on the point that they’re trying to make… is it “people with AIDS are disgusting arachnids?” ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/3 "2005-07-27T17:49:11Z")
:eek: Just :eek: ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/4 "2005-07-27T17:55:30Z")
Well, that’ll teach you not to answer an internet ad, “young, hot, Scorpion looking for fun in the bedroom”… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/5 "2005-07-27T17:56:44Z")
Well, I’ve fucked my last giant scorpion. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/6 "2005-07-27T17:58:47Z")
Someone, somewhere, is masturbating to these pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/7 "2005-07-27T18:01:15Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > Someone, somewhere, is masturbating to these pictures. Somewhere? I’m right here! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/8 "2005-07-27T18:02:23Z")
Yikes. I had no idea that spiders would do that! Now I have a whole new reason to fear and loathe them! ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/9 "2005-07-27T18:04:03Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > Someone, somewhere, is masturbating to these pictures. :o ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/10 "2005-07-27T18:05:49Z")
:eek: :eek: :eek: What the hell? Besides being disturbing images and ones which I don’t think should be put in a public place,\* the implication is that people with AIDS are disgusting monsters. I think AIDS awareness is better served by campaigns showing that anyone – even attractive, “good” people – can have/get AIDS. I’d like to know what these posters are trying to accomplish. \*I have a friend who is extrememly arachnophobic; God knows he’d probably have a hysterical fit if he saw those posters. And _won’t somebody please think of the children???_ ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/11 "2005-07-27T18:16:35Z")
Right I’m emailing them to our Junior dean, who is also a microbiologist. he will love them. Every year, on the Wednesday night of the first week of term he give the “STD lecture” to the new first med students. At this he spends the first 30 mins showing humourous condom and Sex ed adverts from around the world, and the last 30mins showing close-up slides of people with STDs (as horrible as you imagine). The new babydocs are then plied with vodka by the Biological Society (medicine society), given free condoms and encouraged to break the ice with their classmates. It’s traditional. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/12 "2005-07-27T18:19:05Z")
It’s an evil bedroom, it’s a bug bedroom! ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/13 "2005-07-27T18:23:53Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > :eek: :eek: :eek: What the hell? Besides being disturbing images and ones which I don’t think should be put in a public place,\* the implication is that people with AIDS are disgusting monsters. See, that didn’t even occur to me. Looking at those posters, I thought they were showing that AIDS _ **itself** _ is disgusting, horrible and dangerous (NOT the sexual partners). ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/14 "2005-07-27T18:24:05Z")
What, no mosquitos? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/15 "2005-07-27T18:31:32Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > See, that didn’t even occur to me. Looking at those posters, I thought they were showing that AIDS _ **itself** _ is disgusting, horrible and dangerous (NOT the sexual partners). Hm. Yes, that’s probably what they were trying to communicate (at least, I hope so), but I think they could’ve done job of it. Or maybe I just have different ideas of what an AIDS awareness campaign should focus on. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/16 "2005-07-27T18:37:21Z")
Sleep with a giant scorpion, and you’ve slept with every other giant scorpion? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/17 "2005-07-27T18:42:55Z")
Did nobody else catch that? That is a female spider!!! Wow, lesbian, arachnid sex. Does it get hotter than that? ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/18 "2005-07-27T18:49:14Z")
Atleast we now know that Peter Parker’s story was bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/19 "2005-07-27T18:53:24Z")
> [@mr bus guy](#): > > Did nobody else catch that? That is a female spider!!! > > Wow, lesbian, arachnid sex. > > Does it get hotter than that? :eek: How can you tell?! Oh, and might I say and am more than a bit miffed that the men-lovin’ crowd gets themselves a nice hunk of naked man-flesh that, to me at least, seems like it is nice, where as those of us who adore the female of the species get nothin’. Not fair. I mean, give us an ass, a nipple, _something_! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/20 "2005-07-27T18:55:23Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > A French AIDS awareness group has come up with an poster campaign that might put you off sex for good. I’d be curious which organization it is. Didn’t see these posters until now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438.md?page=2)