Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer

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 a...