Volume 20, Number 2 · February 22, 1973
Veni, Vici, VD
By W.H. Auden
The Dark Fields of Venus: From a Doctor's Logbook
by Basile Yanovsky MD
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 240 pp., $7.95
In general, I disapprove of modern permissiveness in writing about sexual matters, but I realize that, even twenty years ago, this book could probably not have been published. Nobody could call it pleasant reading but, in my opinion, it should be required reading, especially for young people. A wall slogan in one clinic announces: 'VD strikes one person every two minutes.' It is the duty of everyone to be as well informed about venereal disease as possible. At present, ignorance and misconceptions are all too common.
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