Ettie Rout: New Zealand's Safer Sex Pioneer
Ettie Rout fought a battle for safer sex in the First World War — and won.She gave New Zealand the best sexual health system when its army adopted...
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Ettie Rout fought a battle for safer sex in the First World War — and won.
She gave New Zealand the best sexual health system when its army adopted her prophylactic kit and made every soldier going on leave take one — while she was banned from the pages of the newspapers so New Zealanders wouldn't find out. In Paris, having transformed Madame Yvonne's into a safer sex brothel, she met soldiers at the railway station and convinced them to go there if they chose to have sex.
Armed with a wicked sense of humour, an intolerance of hypocrisy and boundless energy, Ettie Rout proved the case for safer sex decades before the term was coined — and the soldiers loved her for it.
This book celebrates an unlikely heroine of the First World War who is now internationally recognised for waging a successful public health crusade. A woman way ahead of her time.
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publication:2015
- Publisher:Penguin Books New Zealand
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- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0143573241
- ISBN13:9780143573241
- kindle Asin:B07P6T6154
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