Safe Sex!
1987
Artist
Keith Haring
DIMENSIONS
29 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. (74.9 x 69.2 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.5705
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Health and Safety, HIV/AIDS, STDs
This cartoon-style poster by Keith Haring features a joyful anthropomorphic penis holding a condom beneath the bold red headline “SAFE SEX!” While the concept of safe sex practices predated AIDS in conversations about pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, Callen and Berkowitz coined the phrase in 1983 as both a term and a practice related to AIDS prevention.
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