Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer

Download or read book Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer written by Jane Tolerton and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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