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Thank you FDR..

The American Social Hygiene Association fought hard to prohibit condom use in the early part of this century. Social hygienists believed that anyone who risked getting "venereal" diseases should suffer the consequences, including American "dough boys"—U.S. soldiers who fought in World War I. The American Expeditionary Forces, as our army was called, were the only armed forces in Europe during the war who were denied the use of condoms. It is not surprising that our troops had the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections of all; 70 percent of our "boys" were just unable to "just say 'no'." The Secretary of the Navy was only one of many military leaders who believed that condom use was immoral and "un Christian." It was a young Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, when his boss was away from the office, ordered the distribution of condoms to sailors.

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