April 13th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Spiderman On Planet Parenthood
So, I was mucking out the Augean stables that are my email inbox. And there, from 2007 (!), I found an email from reader “S” linking me to a most amazing thing: a 1976 Spiderman comic offering some very basic sex education in concert with Planned Parenthood.
Years late, but I’ll say it anyway: Thanks, S!
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Ol’ Spidey was always pretty hip and on your side. That line about a doctor being able to cure your VD with a few shots brought a tear to my eye. Ah the good old days, when everyone acted as though that were so…
Otherwise, good solid advice.
Dr. Whiplash, AIDS was hitting the news for the first time about when I started growing pubic hair, so I missed the whole brief era when “VD means you need some shots.” I’ve seen the cultural artifacts from that time, though; it looks like people had a lot of fun.
Yes, I remember that my first introduction to the concept of bisexuality at the ripe old age of 11 was a news report talking about how bisexuals were bringing aids from homosexuals to the rest of the population. Everybody was looking for a scapegoat… I think the comedown from the 70s was pretty harsh.
Re: “…looks like people had a lot of fun.”
That line reminded me of an incident from that era which I hadn’t thought of in a long time. A pair of lusty females, with which I was merely acquainted with (and who roomed with each other), once informed me that they had just finished having sex with a gentleman (or “dude”, as we were called back then…), that one of the girls had brought back to her apartment from a bar. The guy was drunk and stoned on something at the same time, and had passed out on their couch as soon as he got inside. They were fascinated with his long hair, which they thought was very sexy, and mainly because of that, they wanted to experience sex with him. When they failed to bring him back to consciousness, they they stuck a vacuum cleaner hose (back before safety concerns over just such uses meant a reduction in the size of the hose end), over his limp noodle and then tied it off with a shoelace when it became well engorged with blood due to the vacuum. Satisfied with the state of his erection, they both then took turns mounting him, as he lay there unconscious. They were giggling about the whole adventure like a pair of schoolgirls.
A couple of days later, he died on the same couch after regurgitating, and being once again too high to remain conscious, drowned from his own vomit. I assume no sex was involved at this time. The girls barely knew the guy, so they weren’t too upset about it, but those fun times did have a down side…
Wonderful common sense advice for its time. Last week a DA in Wisconsin threatened to prosecute teachers for doing the same in a state mandated sex ed course.
Sad how we seem to have regressed. First Google hit:
http://www.life....html