Eugène Brieux’s play ‘Les Avaries’ endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel ‘Damaged Goods’, the story became the backbone of countless sex hygiene films, in which a young couple’s happiness is overshadowed by the specter of disease.
Eugène Brieux’s play ‘Les Avaries’ endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel ‘Damaged Goods’, the story became the backbone of countless sex hygiene films, in which a young couple’s happiness is overshadowed by the specter of disease.
