Paradise Island was residence to a population of all-female Amazon warriors the early comic imagery is full of homoerotic subtext with Amazons tying each other up with tight ropes and chains. In his early issues of Wonder Woman, Marston was never covert in including fight tactics, torture techniques, and games involving binding, tying up, and spanking.
In fact, it wasn’t until 2010 that the American Psychological Association de-pathologized BDSM, fetishism, and crossdressing in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
Marston’s radical ideas and pioneering theories drew a lot of criticism at a time when alternative sexualities and sexual practices were pathologized in psychology. Marston heavily theorized on Domination and Submission under his DISC theory the model advocated for dramatic forms of BDSM and also for polyamorous relationships and homosexuality. Wonder Woman was brought to life by Professor William Marston, a Harvard-trained psychologist, who introduced the character for the first time in 1942 for All-Star Comics. Although heavily mainstreamed and popularized today, the history of the character’s origins remains purposefully archived. Wonder Woman is an Amazon with special abilities who was born and raised on Paradise Island. The comic book’s origin story is inspired by a race of warrior women called Amazonsin the archives of Greek mythology. The popular Amazon princess of the DC Comics, Wonder Woman, has quite an interesting origin story that, unfortunately, has been subjected to erasure and invisibility owing to its non-normative roots.
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