WARNING – ADULT CONCEPTS
Wonder Woman is a superheroine who goes by the name Diana, Princess of the Amazons, and has been taught to be an unstoppable warrior. Diana flees her guarded island paradise when an American pilot, Steve Trevor, crashes on the shores and tells her of a tremendous struggle raging outside. Wonder Woman is a powerfully sexual character, despite the fact that she was portrayed as a feminist symbol in the 1940s.
We can only speculate – no pun intended! – on the reasons for this infinite link between female sexuality and war. Wonder Woman isn’t alone in her role as a seductive but fearless female fighter. From feline killers to sensuous goddesses to feisty spelunkers, the femme fatale has been envisioned and cherished by cultures all over the world throughout history.
“Wonder woman” in Sumerian mythology
The first kings of human history ruled over the south of modern-day Iraq approximately 3000 BC, protected by Ishtar, a great goddess of war and love commonly connected with lions, in the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in Mesopotamia. Ishtar would identify the kings’ foes and accompany them to battle.
She was reported to fight like an enraged lioness, protecting her young – the Sumerian people in this case.Ishtar’s holy responsibility, like Wonder Woman’s, was to protect the Earth.
She has the potential to be seductive. The Kings of Uruk claimed to be Ishtar’s lovers, who would enter her bed and “plow the celestial vulva,” according to royal hymns of the time. Receiving sexual and military favors from a goddess helped the king’s political goal, legitimized his reign, and elevated him to the status of a national hero. This part is played by an American pilot in the Wonder Woman film. Scholars couldn’t prove what was really going on in those temples, but references to heavenly lovemaking may also be discovered among ancient Palestinians and Babylonians.
Sekhmet’s cat girls
What’s more enticing than a strong woman?
Of course, taming her or trying to tame her.
Sekhmet was the name of the most terrifying goddess in ancient Egypt. She, like Ishtar, had two personalities: savage beast and caring friend. Sekhmet was frequently shown as a terrifying lioness who slaughtered the Pharaoh’s adversaries. She did, however, occasionally morph into a cute cat named Bastet.
The feline is still a symbol of female sexuality today. Another comic book character, Catwoman, was born just a few months before Wonder Woman and is the most recent incarnation of a feline woman. Catwoman has always been hypersexual, thanks to her curves and bondage fetish, yet some critics lament that her sexuality, rather than her cleverness, has become her most valuable asset these days.
Amazons, The Fantasies of Lone Seafarers
The ancient Greeks had warrior women with sexual natures as well.
Their Amazon myth depicts a Mediterranean nation in which women battled and ruled, while males were restricted to household responsibilities. The Amazons’ capital, Themiscyra, and its queen, Hippolyta, are both mentioned in Marston’s Wonder Woman comic. He enriched his ancient Amazonian setting with features from the Aegean Sea’s mythology of the women of Lemnos, adopting the isolated island concept as Wonder Woman’s home. According to legend, the women of Lemnos rose up and slaughtered all of the island’s men, young and old. The ladies were overjoyed when sailors unexpectedly landed on a nearby beach, despite their mandated sexual abstinence. They went after the Argonauts, a group of gorgeous and well-known mythological heroes that included Hercules and Theseus, and forced them into extended orgiastic encounters.
Another popular male dream is the sex-deprived yet unattached woman, which provides fictional fulfillment of sexual settings that may be impossible to achieve in real life. Lara Croft appeared in the late twentieth century to modernize the idea of the Amazons and the ladies of Lemnos. Croft, an English archeologist-adventurer who first appeared as a character in the Tomb Raider computer game in the 1990s, was the quintessential virtual-reality dream girl: she is a martial arts adept, a firearms specialist, and extremely intelligent. Furthermore, she consistently leaves the boys wanting more. Croft, who was reincarnated on the big screen in 2001 by actress Angelina Jolie, was known for giving her male rivals the cold shoulder. Croft’s feminist credentials were bolstered in subsequent sequels starring Alicia Vikander.
Isn’t it the ultimate fantasy to have a woman with a weapon?
The old link between femininity, sexual desire, and the military appears to be alive and well today, both on and off screen. Everything from Wonder Woman to soldiers-turned-amateur models to the advent of a new sub-genre of lady warriors in Asian movies and, of course, American arms catalogs supports the old masculine ideal of connecting lovely faces with weaponry. Attempts in pop culture to portray the heroine as a feminist fail to counter thousands of years of worldwide sexual desire.
But at least its a box office hit.
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