Spider-Man Fought the Villain of Misleading Sex Education
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Planned Parenthood teamed up with Marvel to publish a one-off comic in which Spider-Man defends America’s youth from misleading sex education. In the comic, Spider-Man stumbles upon a scheme by a slimy demon from the planet Intellectia to indoctrinate the nation’s youth with inaccurate sex-ed, creating a plague of unintentional pregnancies.
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The Spiderman comic wasn’t the first time Planned Parenthood had used comic books to discuss birth control: Rose Holz, the Associate Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and author of The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World (2012) pointed to a comic called Escape from Fear, which Planned Parenthood published in 1956 and then reprinted in 1962. While the Spider-Man comic is focused on unmarried teens, Escape from Fear follows the story of a desperate married couple that can’t bear the financial burden of having any more kids.
