But, oddly enough, some conservatives—fiscal conservatives—embraced oral contraception and other forms of birth control in the 1960s. As people grew more aware of the dangers of the degrading environment, peak oil, and diminished food supplies, a population-control movement emerged. While it was couched as an altruistic attempt to alleviate strain on limited resources and improve life on earth, campaigns largely targeted the non-white developing world.

That’s how beloved children’s character Donald Duck ended up schilling contraception on the big screen in 1968. The film “Family Planning,” another of the several Disney-produced sex-education animations, focuses on a nuclear family of an unspecified non-white ethnic group who faces disaster if too many children are born. The way these babies are made—sex—is not mentioned, and the wife is so demure, she refuses to speak out loud, instead whispering her questions in her husband’s ear.

As surprising as it may seem in the era of “anti-contraception conservatives,” the financial backers of this pro-birth control film were, in fact, business-minded Republicans—Standard Oil-fortune heir John D. Rockefeller III and his Population Council. Rockefeller’s father had also been a big proponent of eugenics in the original American Social Hygiene Association. In the late ’60s and ’70s, “Family Planning” was translated into 25 languages and distributed throughout Asia and Central and South America to urge population control in developing countries.

Sexual pleasure and communication between partners is explicit in 1974’s “Would You Kiss a Naked Man?”, wherein two young, inexperienced heterosexual lovers get naked and talk about their desires—the first time a sex-ed film meant for teenagers showed full-frontal male nudity. Today, this film is considered obscene and is impossible to show in a public setting. “‘Would You Kiss a Naked Man?’ is great, actually,” Goodman says. “In it, two people who obviously are attracted to each other but haven’t been with anybody work through how and what they communicate with each other.”

Even more peculiar is 1976’s celebration of male masturbation, “Masturbatory Story.” “Some of the ’70s films should have never been made,” Goodman says. “‘Masturbatory Story’ shows this 30-year-old guy in a bathtub while a country song about masturbation plays. I was like, ‘This could not have been shown anywhere!’, but then I looked at the leader on the film, and it said the ‘Los Angeles School System.’”