Why history is so much fun

 Supercrack, this is for you.  I know you're all stuck by yourself in the horribleness that is the snowy American Midwest, so here is something to cheer you up, WWII safe sex propaganda: 

The best part about this propaganda is how attractive some of them make the women look.  And you have to question the effectiveness because given the choice between being laid up in clinic getting shots after having a good time or getting shot at in the trenches because you behaved yourself... well, maybe I'm just pessimistic about the male species.

This one is probably my favorite, because everyone knows venereal disease is worse than Hitler and Hirohito:

And this one:

I'm dying to know where they got their statistics.


Then of course, there are the ads for the women back home:

How did that baby boom happen?

Oh wait, it must have been because apparently sperm donation was a big thing for all those widows who lost their husbands in the war (somehow the thought of losing my husband does not inspire me toward voluntary single-motherhood):

 And let us not forget how important it is to be all gussied up on your way to get knocked up at the sperm bank:

This one is way better though, make sure you read the little cartoon conversation between the women:

Someday I'm going to frame this and hang it in my guest bathroom (whenever I get a guest bathroom...).