The Not So Secret Kinky Life of Wonder Woman Article [UPDATED 10/09/12]

Trouble Magazine recently asked me to write a short article about Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston who wrote comic books under the pen name of Charles Moulton until his death from cancer in 1947 at the age of 54. Turns out that the exceptionally gifted Moulton (he was a psychologist, lawyer and educational consultant amongst other occupations!) channeled some of his secret sexual predilections into his Wonder Woman stories—the main one being S&M and  B&D. For those of you who don't know what these acronyms stand for, read the upcoming quote from a letter to his publisher for a clue...

This, my dear friend, is the one truly great contribution of my Wonder Woman strip to moral education of the young. 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 the submitting to other people cannot possibly be enjoyable without a strong erotic element.

... and then trot over to the online version of Trouble Magazine (September 2012 edition) and read the entire article for yourself.

UPDATE: Great news! This article has been covered on the US-based Comics Beat Blog, as well as on WebComicsGuide. Thank you kindly for the coverage.

[PLEASE NOTE that from October this link will change and you'll have to find it in the articles listing. We'll update the link on this blog post at that time.]

PHOTO CREDIT: Harry Rekas (creative director), Gerard O'Connor (photographer) and Mark Wasiak (stylist). See the Trouble Magazine article for more pics.