Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer
Author: Tolerton, Jane
ISBN: 9780143573241
Publisher: Penguin NZ
Year first published: 26 Aug 2015
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Jane Tolerton's Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneerhonours anirreverent, heroic figureof the New Zealand World War One story. Asafe-sexcampaigner ahead of her time.
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.
Also available as an eBook
ISBN: 9780143573241
Publisher: Penguin NZ
Year first published: 26 Aug 2015
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Jane Tolerton's Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneerhonours anirreverent, heroic figureof the New Zealand World War One story. Asafe-sexcampaigner ahead of her time.
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.
Also available as an eBook
