Superhero Breast Exams

by Violet Blue on December 14, 2011

There is just so much goodness here. Four superhero breast exam PSAs feature Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Storm and She Hulk performing self-exams in the fight against breast cancer. Sexy, geeky, smart…

Mozambique Fashion Week’s breast cancer campaign is a collaboration with the office of first lady Maria da Luz Dai Guebuza. The MFW website states:

Alongside the fashion shows, the Mozambique Fashion Week promotes this project which focuses on publishing and disseminating information about this disease that has victimized many women in order to achieve an improvement in prevention and also in the provision of alternative breast cancer treatment in Mozambique.

To that end, advertising firm DDB Maputo was commissioned to create the superheroine-themed self-screening images. Illustrated by Maísa Chaves, the work is most likely not officially licensed by Marvel or DC Comics, who own the characters depicted. (…read more, comicsalliance.com)

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{ 5 comments }

1 Harold January 12, 2012 at 9:20 pm

Hey, if we’re going with unlicensed sources, why not go with Robot Chicken’s character Negative Wonder Woman. Her costume already reveals her breasts, which you need to do anyway because material can interfere with a proper test.

2 Justin December 15, 2011 at 1:01 am

You missed what he said, “testicular exam”.

Well, I guess breasts are easier to show encased in leather/vinyl/pvc/whatever those suits are actually made out of, external male genitals aren’t Usually depicted has hanging down, rather kept safely couched in case of action sequences.

So possible of course, but it would garner a Much higher rating!

But who’s going to be strong enough to give Clark Kent a prostate exam? Possibly only one of his fellow Kryoptonians, and most of them are related to him!

3 Omaha Sternberg December 14, 2011 at 8:51 pm

I also don’t see a single male superhero doing a breast exam, despite the fact that men can get breast cancer to. But of course, that may not be the point. :(

4 Violet Blue December 14, 2011 at 8:23 pm

Elf – OMG YES! Especially if it’s Robert Downey Jr. as Stark… :D

5 Elf M. Sternberg December 14, 2011 at 7:47 pm

Nice, but I’d be more impressed with an equally sexed-up testicular exam set featuring Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, Donald Blake, and Nightcrawler (for the Furries, don’cha know).

And then we can do the prostate self-exam set with Clark Kent, Bruce Banner, and Peter Parker.

If you can’t imagine that, why is it okay to do such fondling illustrations about superheroines?

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