Edited sentence: " Their interpretation is seconded by Burt Ward, who, in his autobiographical Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights agrees that the characters could be interpreted as lovers, while the show's double entendres and lavish camp help make the case persuasive.Denny O'Neil separated the two heroes in 1969 by sending Dick Grayson to college, and female characters were eventually brought in as more "proper foils" to the main hero.Despite Wertham and "The Code," the theme of ambiguous sexuality continued to be played upon by both the studios and the readers until the late sixties, when changing public morality necessitated an official split between Batman and any suggestion of sexuality with his young friend.Despite the studio's efforts, popular culture and a number of artists continue to play off the homosexual connotation of their relationship.He accused the studio of introducing a homosexual subtext, based on, among other things, the bare legs in Robin's costume and their happy domesticity, a single man living with an attractive young man in a posh mansion.In 1954, the book Seduction of the Innocent by psychologist Fredric Wertham used Batman and Robin, among several examples, as evidence that the comic book medium corrupted the morals of the young.In summer of 2005, painter Mark Chamberlain displayed a number of watercolors depicting both Batman and Robin in suggestive poses.The outcry particularly affected Batman comics for a number of years; the characters of Bat-Girl and Batwoman were introduced to "prove" that Batman and Robin were not gay, and the stories took on a campier, lighter feel.The studio threatened both the artist and the galleries with legal action if they did not cease selling the works, and also demanded that all remaining art as well as any profits be handed over as well.This is despite the fact that the TV series was an attempt at a tamer version of Batman which tried to be less violent than the comic series — one of Wertham's arguments against comics.Wertham became aware of this alternative reading through his conversations with fans of Batman in the fifties, who brought the comic book to his attention as an example of the idealization of a "homosexual lifestyle.Wertham succeeded in raising a public outcry, eventually leading to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority