LONDON, Ont. — Health officials in this southwestern Ontario city hope a new video game, launched Thursday, will get teenagers learning about sex through the eyes of a superhero.
The online game by the Middlesex London Health Unit gets a player to choose a character and answer true-or-false questions about sexual activity.
Players can either be a man wearing a condom on his head named Captain Condom; a virgin named Wonder Vag; a boy named Willy the Kid who believes size doesn't matter or Power Pap, a sexually active gal.
Each character will have to fight the game's super villain, the Sperminator, a muscular man wearing a red wrestling mask with penis arms, by correctly answering a number of questions. If they get an answer wrong, they'll get shot by sperm.
If a question is answered correctly, the character will be able to block the sperm with a condom.
The game also has links to health clinics, videos, contraceptive information, and posters. It will be promoted at some public schools across the region.
The game can be played at
www.getitonlondon.com and is recommended for young people aged 15 to 24.