Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

Or, why Superman is destined to remain a virgin: for any woman doing the horizontal mambo with him, "le petit mort" would become "le grand mort."

On a less facetious note, this little essay shows why the rationalistic, scientific attitude is so fatal to the enjoyment of comic books.

Comments

[dsquared]

Surely he has sex with Supergirl? Or Wonder Woman? Or I dunno, one of those other birds in chainmail bikinis (by the way, is there any situation in which you would want to wear chainmail, but not have it covering your entire body?)

[dsquared]

Oh I see from that link that Supergirl is his cousin. On the other hand, he was brought up in rural Montana, so this is hardly an objection.

[Julian Elson]

dsquared, I suspect that there is much fanfiction speculation on this subject, much of it probably quite graphic, but I doubt there is any official DC position. I'm not an expert on these things, though.

As for chainmail, it can be used as a transitional armor when armorers can make plate armor, but aren't good enough at it yet to make well-articulated joins. For example, an armorer might make greaves and thigh-guard thingies out of solid plate, but the knees might be made out of chainmail, because that's a point of articulation. So yes, there are situations where you want to wear chainmail, but don't want it to cover your entire body. They're just not relevant to the particular pattern of armoring you see on certain comic-book women.