# 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:** 2
**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, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/21 "2005-07-27T18:59:19Z")
Ok. I noticed the name was right on the pictures. It’s indeed a very well know organization. By the way, I checked out [their site](http://www.aides.org/) that displays on the first page their “sumer prevention campaign” adds that use the exact opposite tactic : pictures of a handsome man/woman with the slogan “AIDS is beautiful” ---
**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, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/22 "2005-07-27T19:06:09Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > 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. I wanna go to your school! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/23 "2005-07-27T19:31:10Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Well, that’ll teach you not to answer an internet ad, “young, hot, Scorpion looking for fun in the bedroom”… Look, I thought he was into astrology, and the Personnels guy made a typo. Once he showed up at my door, what was I supposed to do? I figured, go on the date, after dinner, make some excuses and get out of there. But he turned out to be really nice, and I had a bit too much wine, and… ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/24 "2005-07-27T19:40:15Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Well, that’ll teach you not to answer an internet ad, “young, hot, Scorpion looking for fun in the bedroom”… Dear Penthouse, I never thought that I’d be writing… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/25 "2005-07-27T20:32:18Z")
Use your STINGER, BABY!!! ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/26 "2005-07-27T20:39:46Z")
Regarding the second image, am I the only one to think “Well, that’s not really a very effective image, because you can’t get or give AIDS that way anyway!” (OK, well, nearly can’t.) > [@](#): > > The likelihood of either a man or a woman becoming infected with HIV as a consequence of receiving oral sex is extremely low. From: [http://www.avert.org/faq1.htm#q2](http://www.avert.org/faq1.htm#q2) (Some possibly NSFW language, depending on how strict your boss is) There’s also THIS little fact they seem to be ignoring: [http://www.avert.org/faq1.htm#q16](http://www.avert.org/faq1.htm#q16) > [@](#): > > HIV is a Human Immunodeficiency Virus. It only affects humans. Maybe I’m just too literal-minded. Oh, and I also would have liked to see a little more skin on this one. Man-ass just doesn’t quite do it for me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; what a man and his scorpion do in the privacy of their own home is none of my concern! ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/27 "2005-07-27T21:20:15Z")
The only shocking thing I find in those ads is that the guy really needs to wash the bottom of his feet better…or am I missing something here? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/28 "2005-07-27T21:38:04Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > I think AIDS awareness is better served by campaigns showing that anyone – even attractive, “good” people – can have/get AIDS. So, what, a hot nun and a giant spider? ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/29 "2005-07-27T21:38:11Z")
Is that what they mean by **bug** gery? ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/30 "2005-07-28T10:32:04Z")
[QUOTE=bouv. Not fair. I mean, give us an ass, a nipple, _something_![/QUOTE] Oh, I don’t know. I’m more of a chelicerae man, myself. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/31 "2005-07-28T10:51:53Z")
I thought the first picture was very hot. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/32 "2005-07-28T11:11:18Z")
“To be completely honest, _everyone_ gets flies in their vagina at least once in their lifetime and for many people, it’s just a fact of life. Now, though, you no longer need suffer the pain and embarrasment of vaginal flies and other inconvenient genital insects, thanks to our giant cunnilingus spider - stimulates as it de-infests” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/33 "2005-07-28T11:13:41Z")
That’s one limber scorpion… it’s legs are wrapped around a guy who’s lying on its back… either that or they’ve got the stinger on backwards… ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/34 "2005-07-28T11:25:06Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > By the way, I checked out [their site](http://www.aides.org/) that displays on the first page their “sumer prevention campaign” adds that use the exact opposite tactic " Talk about being behind the times. What next? Bonking in Babylon is bad for you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/35 "2005-07-28T11:44:21Z")
> [@Phnord Prephect](#): > > Regarding the second image, am I the only one to think “Well, that’s not really a very effective image, because you can’t get or give AIDS that way anyway!” Exactly what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/36 "2005-07-28T12:33:40Z")
Ridiculous. You want to stop idiot teenagers from dangerous sex? Show a dying guy, or a mother of a son who died of aids. A guy having sex with a scorpion is just fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/37 "2005-07-28T13:26:00Z")
> [@zuma](#): > > Ridiculous. > > You want to stop idiot teenagers from dangerous sex? Show a dying guy, or a mother of a son who died of aids. funny, getting beat around the ears with a rolling pin worked just fine for me. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/38 "2005-07-28T13:38:51Z")
So I guess I can see the point of the scorpion one - it seems to be saying, “have sex without a condom and you could get stung.” It could almost even be effective. But the spider? The hell? I don’t get it. That one sends too many entirely wrong messages. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/39 "2005-07-28T14:19:55Z")
[sniff] Little Miss Muffet done got all growed up… ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438/40 "2005-07-28T15:56:47Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > The only shocking thing I find in those ads is that the guy really needs to wash the bottom of his feet better…or am I missing something here? It looks dark because it’s turned away from the main light source, i.e. the window. I think. I think the pictures are kind of hot. More interesting than typical tentacle porn, anyway. (Not that I watch that stuff…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disturbing-aids-awareness-posters/314438.md?page=3)