Your tax dollars at work.

[elfs]

I have to agree with many of the commentors regarding a new HIV awareness poster that the government paid for. The poster isn't anti-AIDS; it's anti-sex. The message of the poster is that sex is fun for a while until you get sick and die a lingering death. The poster is terrible because the stick figurines imply monogamy; if we're to identify with the unchanging male character, we must identify with the equally unchanging female character. The message here is that monogamy is death.

And really, doesn't the top half of the poster contain new things you'd really like to try before you die anyway?

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[memegarden.livejournal.com]

I remember a more effective ad, in a magazine; it was a two-page photo spread of a bunch of young people of both sexes side by side in a bed, with the caption, "When you sleep with someone, you sleep with everyone they've ever slept with". It was attention-getting, and then pause-giving.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's me, but what I got from it was that no matter what you do, if you drink from your toilet you'll get sick and die!

Did I read something wrong?

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[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[lovingboth]

Weird. I don't see any other message.

[gromm.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's okay. Because this isn't actually a new anti-AIDS poster paid for by the government. It's this month's cover story for "Morons on Parade Magazine". Which, coincidentally, will feature the bureaucrats behind every Ad Council ad ever done.

Not surprisingly, if you feed kids bullshit propaganda that is easily disproven, they will call you on your bullshit and do exactly what you're trying to get them not to do. Perhaps facts would be helpful in its stead?

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

It definitely looks as if the designer over-simplified. One man, one woman, and it's the man who dies after a series of athletic variations.

Hold on, is that a threesome in there? Nope, it's just the way the silhoutte looks at first sight.

Thing is, you couldn't get away with using colour variations to indicate different people, but somehow you need to do that more than this advert does.

And you could read it as a variation on the vagina dentata meme.

[bbw-seska.livejournal.com]

That is one of the most retarded ads I've ever seen, rofl.
The top part looks good, don't get me wrong, lots of fun stuff to try and reproduce with whichever partners anyone might ever want.

Then the shifting to toilet dunking and death is just confusing.

So if I read this poster right, performing Kama Sutra-esqu variations of positions will kill me!

SHIT!
Even the missionary position will kill me according to this poster.

Masturbation it is then...

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[bbw-seska.livejournal.com]

My favorite Dutch anti-aids / STD ad is one which is simple and effective overhere.
Free condoms are distributed at youth centers, health centers, big dance parties, record shops, etc, etc, etc.
They are packed in little cardboard boxes with printed text:
"Don't let an old STD fuck up your new experience"
(translated roughly there).
(ZOMG, yes, our government uses the word fuck!)

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, that's what I get out of it. Can we get a refund?

[kenshardik]

So as long as I don't do too many positions... I won't get AIDS! Thanks, tax dollars!

[mo-hair.livejournal.com]

uhm, actually i was fine with the poster. i don't think it was the best aids awareness ad ever, but i was clear on the message. certainly there would have been a better way to convey multiple partners (changing partner colour? changing the woman's hairstyle?) but for some reason my brain just made the assumption that multiple partners were implied.

as a youth sex educator i am well aware there is common perception among many who have grown up in the post aids generation that aids is a manageable illness. i'm all for ways to remind young people (who will love the "shock value" of the positions) that you want to avoid hiv at least as badly as you want to avoid diabetes. yes, i've heard youth compare being hiv positive to having diabetes.

meh, i give the poster a B. perhaps i'll ask the kids in my class what they think this weekend.

[hydrolagus.livejournal.com]

It suggest mental illness/depression to me more than HIV. They're both having fun with lots of sex, then he's all alone, isolated, slumping, throwing up (pills/alcohol), then in a hospital bed, then dead (clearly suicide). The alone part strikes me as more jarring than the dead part.

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