# Did you know the guy who invented the lie detector also created Wonder Woman?...... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2001, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914 "2001-08-18T17:19:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/1 "2001-08-18T17:19:42Z")
…and her Golden Lariot that forced people to tell the truth? I always thought that was pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/2 "2001-08-18T17:28:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KidCharlemagne \* > \*\*…and her Golden Lariot that forced people to tell the truth? I always thought that was pretty cool. \*\* He was super freaky. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/3 "2001-08-18T18:52:40Z")
Actually, I did. A guy named William Poundstone wrote a series of books called **Big Secrets**. In one of them he said how to beat a lie detector test, and he gave some background. I thought it was interesting reading. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/4 "2001-08-18T23:47:51Z")
Dr. William Moulton Marston also invented the systolic blood pressure test. ---
**Author:** ![Infectious\_Lass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Infectious\_Lass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infectious_Lass)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/5 "2001-08-19T00:00:29Z")
Marston was a very interesting guy. He was a male feminist (very unusual for his day of course) who created Wonder Woman in order to demonstrate that women were the superior sex (very very unusual for his day) He lived in a menage a’ trois iirc, with his wife and his mistress and that misstress was apparantly who WW was modelled after (though I’m not 100% certain on that) He was also very into bondage, and that is where the Magic Lasso comes from. I am told that in golden age WW comics there are very many suggestive scenes with ‘girl roping contests’ and what have you. I believe it got Dr. Wertham all outraged and stuff… So after Marston died they brought in Robert Kanigher to write the comic and he was more known for his big manly testosterone filled war comics and so he made WW a bubble headed ninny who just wanted to marry Steve Trevor…and well that’s a whole different story… In short, Marston was cool! Kinky but cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/6 "2001-08-19T03:09:59Z")
No, that was a fact that I did not know was true. Thank you for informing me. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-the-guy-who-invented-the-lie-detector-also-created-wonder-woman/76914/7 "2001-08-19T05:10:09Z")
Marston’s “research” involving tied-up coeds was pretty intersting, too.