Gay Prison Farms of "A Princess of Mars"

A naked chained Dejah Thoris drawn by Darren Geers, one of the many talented artists at Deviantart. This image is less than half the size of the original - I urge you to hie youreself hence to his Deviantart page and check out plenty of other excellent fantasy and gaming art in his gallery there.
So, I was reading "A Princess of Mars" again because I'm psyched at the prospect of seeing "John Carter" in about a week, when I ran across this curious passage, describing a farm on Mars:

These brothers, with their wives and children, occupied three similar houses on this farm. They did no work themselves, being government officers in charge. The labor was performed by convicts, prisoners of war, delinquent debtors and confirmed bachelors who were too poor to pay the high celibate tax which all red-Martian governments impose.

You can find the quote here.

"Confirmed bachelor" in case you did not know, is an old-timey code word for "gay." So, apparently, the red Martians, the dominant Martian race that Dejah Thoris belongs to, charges crushingly high taxes on anyone who wishes not to procreate, and that includes gays. So they have to work at what are essentially prison farms along with convicts and prisoners of war.

Somehow, I do not think this particular passage is going to make it into the Disney adaptation of "Princess of Mars." Along with all the Martians running around nekkid, of course. Perhaps some future adaptation by a bolder group will. But in the meantime ... bwah hahahahahahahahaha!

The Search for the Real Dejah Thoris

Is this the REAL Dejah Thoris? We certainly think so!

As I've pointed out in a previous post, Disney Studios will be releasing John Carter of Mars, the second movie based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom novels to be released since Burroughs first started writing them back in 19 fricking 12! That's right, when the Disney movie comes out it will be only the second film to be made based on Burroughs story is 100 fricking years!

As I also pointed out in my previous post, Burroughs had his Martian characters running around pretty much stark naked in his novels. And the recently released trailer indicates that, as you might assume, Disney is gonna sidestep that whole nudity thing and in fact avoid the sexy clothing altogether.

Well I don't think a single blog post is enough to do justice to Disney's overdressed Princess of Mars vs. all the great naked Princess of Mars imagery that others have created, so I've started a new department in Bondagerotica called The Search for the Real Dejah Thoris, in which I demonstrate all the different ways Dejah Thoris has been portrayed over the years.

I start with four articles covering Disney's John Carter of Mars movie, Asylum Studio's Princess of Mars movie, then go to Marvel's Warlord of Mars comics from the 1970s, and also include Dynamite Entertainment's excellent Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris comics. And there will of course be more further down the line.

Bondage fans will find Dynamite Entertainment's entry particularly of interest, they have a LOT of images of hot, sexy, naked Dejah Thoris in chains, as seen in the illustration that accompanies this article. Check 'em all out, though, Marvel had some chained Dejah Thoris goodness too.