History of The Nerd Part I #3: The Creator of Wonder Woman – A Portrait of a Bondage Fetishist
She is an ambassador to the world of men. She is a hero to all and a representative of her entire gender. She is often seen giving grain to poor African children. No, she is not Angelina Jolie. She is Wonder Woman. Angelina only thinks she’s Wonder Woman. With all the talk about Beyonce wanting to lasso the role of the Amazon goddess, (which will happen over my cold, dead, and sexually-violated body and it’s not because she’s black, it’s cause she sucks) I thought it would be the prefect time to look back at the smut-coated past of the character’s origin. Hint, hint, there is a lot of kinky sex involved.
In 1941, Elmer’s Pet Rabbit was released marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, aviator Charles Lindberg testified before the U.S. Congress and recommended that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler, and Dr. William Moulton Marston, under the pseudonym Charles Moulton, began writing comics. William Moulton Marston was, even by the standards of today, a renaissance man of the highest degree. He was a psychologist that possessed a law degree, a Ph.D, and even later became the inventor of the Polygraph or “Lie Detector”. Why was someone of his stature interested in writing funny books, a medium that was considered to be suited only for children and people of low mental capacity? Well, he believed that if children read comic books, then why not use comics as a delivery system for something constructive. The constructive message he wanted to preach, however, was women’s superiority. Oh, and how to properly tie a girl up and spank her ass. Some would call him a pervert. Christians of today want to take his personal right to marry away. I would call him a hero and an inspiration.
Marston was into some pretty kinky sex. He was married to Elizabeth Holloway and had a live-in lover and assistant, Olive Byrne – and he wasn’t even Mormon. They cohabitated in a polyamorous relationship that, I believe, must have led to some pretty sick-awesome orgies. To spice it up even more they were also into domination and submissive role-play. In Marston’s first book, Emotions of Normal People, he reported on a study he conducted with Olive Byrne in a chapter titled “Love”. There was a sorority ritual at Jackson College called the “Baby Party” where freshmen girls were forced to dress in baby costumes and were tied up, blindfolded and “prodded” with sticks. When the girls resisted they would be wrestled with. This, of course, would be forever known as “The Hottest Scientific Study Ever!”
All of the odd parts of Marston’s life would come together to form the actual foundation of Wonder Woman’s character. Marston’s view of women being angels without faults sent down from on high (and that men are violent, antisocial, murdering beasts) would convince him to make Diana Prince an Amazon. His invention, the Polygraph, would become her golden lasso. His relationship with Elizabeth and Olive would cause him to cobble their respective personalities together to make Diana’s. Oh and his obsession with bondage would have Wonder Woman bent over and paddled over and over and over again. Not to put too fine a point on it, but in those early days her ass was as red and swollen as a Washington Apple and continued to be so for the better part of the 40s.
The bondage issue did not go over the heads of the people of the 1940s. If anyone took a glance into some of those early issues, they
