Let's revisit last year's delightful internet discourse over whether foreplay is, canonically, a tool in Batman's utility belt. (From 2021)
.” Everyone had a hot take, and a take about how un-hot the whole thing was. But it also brought up broader issues about superhero sexuality. Over the years there have been scores of hero, and villain, romances. Clark Kent loves Lois Lane; Black Widow’s soothing voice brings Hulk back to his Bruce Banner self. Wanda and Vision. Diana Prince and Steve Trevor. But these relationships are relatively chaste, even in movies and more adult-oriented TV shows.
Obviously, there are reasons for this. One, most superhero comics stories are still aimed at kids and young adults, so super overt graphic sexuality would be problematic. Two, for decades, the all but forbade it. Ever since the 1950s, following the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s, which argued that comics were harmful to children, the CCA’s code kept a lot of sex out of the medium. This continued in some form or another until the last two publishers pulled out of the CCA in 2011.
But those are comics. For decades Hollywood has been moving comics heroes to screens big and small, where they are at least somewhat more free to do what they want. Ant-Man wouldn’t be able to say that Steve Rogers had “—and that was in 1992. Since then, the era of grimdark, edgy comic-book adaptations has made it possible for heroes to do a lot they couldn't before. They get bloody, they swear, but they generally don’t copulate.
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