Sexual health posters from the 1940s reveal how warnings against STDs focused on prostitutes, pinning them as dangerous disease carriers and advising soldiers to resist temptation.

Dozens of campaigns portrayed these women as wily temptresses, referring to them as 'good time girls', 'pick-ups', 'procurable women' and 'victory girls'.

Others mimicked the style of war propaganda, calling on men to 'fight syphilis and gonorrhea' and using images of dutiful soldiers to encourage them to get tested. (source from dailymail.co.uk)