… that Paul posted about a few days ago.
Well, there’s more about William Moulton Marston. Much more. Like his polyamorous marriage, his theories of feminist psychology, his invention of the lie-detector test, and his ideas about the psycho-social benefits of erotic bondage.
Though Marston had described female nature as submissive, in his other writings and interviews he referred to submission to women as a noble and potentially world-saving practice, leading ideally to the establishment of a matriarchy, and did not shy away from the sexual implications of this:
“The only hope for peace is to teach people who are full of pep and unbound force to enjoy being bound … Only when the control of self by others is more pleasant than the unbound assertion of self in human relationships can we hope for a stable, peaceful human society. … Giving to others, being controlled by them, submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element.”
About male readers, he later wrote: “Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to, and they’ll be proud to become her willing slaves”
You kinky motherfucker.
So, um, he’s completely right. You got a problem with that?
Sounds .. pretty much dead on. Then again, I thought drow were hot when I was 14. Sign me up.
@ 1. Nope. I’m pro.
God, I wish I were half as awesome as that guy was.
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Lie detectors are pretty much bullshit, however:
“After his death, Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until Olive’s death in the late 1980s; Elizabeth died in 1993, aged 100.” – Wikipedia
That’s pretty notable too, especially considering the time period all three lived, worked and loved in.
Seriously, knowing all this stuff, I love Wonder Woman so much more now.
Those early psycho… practitioners were so experimental… Seems like for a long time all you had to do was hang out a shingle and commit experimental incest on your time off.