About this Vintage Print Ad
A black-and-white public awareness advertisement from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company discussing the spread of venereal disease, specifically syphilis and gonorrhea, among teenagers and young adults. The ad emphasizes that VD is serious, often hidden, and requires immediate treatment by a physician. It lists four facts about transmission, symptoms, treatment, and confidentiality, and urges parents and the informed public to support efforts to stop the spread.
- Brand: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
- Product: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company public health awareness message on venereal disease
- Tagline: The disease no one likes to talk about.
- Publication: Life Magazine
- Year: 1964
Objects in the advertisement: quotation marks, text
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