This official British Ministry of health poster from 1943, would have been seen by American troops posted in barracks near Basra, Mosul, or Kirkuk.
Reginald Mount designed the stylized orchid on the skull to represent the evils of flesh, according to the "Weapons on the Wall" exhibit at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.
The little GI booklet warned that venereal disease was rampant in Iraq, even though streetwalkers were few, and helpfully pointed out that prostitutes were confined to their own section in most Iraqi walled cities. (One of the relevant pages is below.)
Below, a vintage poster from government archives suggests that sex without protection aids the enemy.
Even World War II cartoons spread the theme of dangerous women. View Private Snafu in "Booby Trap", set in 1944 Iraq.
Posters still survive from a Warner Brothers' B-list desert war thriller of the time, called "Adventure in Iraq"
Cover of the U of Chicago Press facsimile edition- released last summer with the frontispiece illustration from Mom's old pocket pamphlet displayed on its cover.
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