...the idea that a Tarzan raised by apes would naturally be sexually attracted to apes and as he reached puberty he'd try to have sex with the female apes, so he had the brilliant idea to have Aquaman be raised by dolphins and fall in love with one.

Clearly, Peter David believes sexuality is a learned trait.

Again, it's the fanzine mentality that has consumed the superhero genre. We want to be taken seriously as art and literature --- but we also want to make jokes about whether the Thing has a rocky wee-wee.

No answers. Of course. Because lesbians are coooool, right? But male homosexuals are just gross.


* "Why do you think they call it 'Paradise'?"

There's a lovely moment in Disney's THE JUNGLE BOOK (the most un-Kipling version ever), where Mowgli -- a boy raised by wolves -- sees a human girl for the first time as she gathers water outside the man-village.  Lame song aside, something in Mowgli awakens and he realizes an attraction to this girl -- a "this is what I've been looking for all along" moment. 

In Peter David's version, Mowgli would push her aside and hump her dog.

Which is how it should be, isn't it?

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Personally this question never occurred to me. I've been re-reading the trade version of George's WW run recently and I never once wondered about this. They're not real people. Diana was formed from clay. It has a pantheon of Gods in it. If we can accept these things and that Diana can fly without a real-world explanation, we can accept an island of women without further explanation or elaboration. Especially considering it's just an extension of a strand of pre-existing mythology.

If there were, say, 3000 Amazons, statistically there would be something between 30 and 300 lesbians, roughly speaking. The hangup for many readers seemed to be that they should all be lesbians. As if, as Tom French notes, sexuality is learned. Personally, I have never been much for "acquired tastes" of any kind.