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September 12, 2003
Early social marketing

sample poster One final resource as I catch up after Chicago. This one is from MeFi...it's the University of Minnesota's database of American Social Hygiene Posters circa 1910-1970.

I'm not really up on my social marketing history, but these are certainly examples of this field. The one shown here from 1918 (click the image for a larger version) is particularly interesting. The caption reads "Is your mind diseased?" and the (blindfolded) man's brain is illustrated with images of naked women and men and women in apparently "compromising" positions.

A hundred years later, and we have Queer Eye for the Straight Guy on network television. Civilization gone to hell in a handbasket!

BTW, according to this quiz, Kyan is my "type" (he is my fave for sure :).

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