Freudian Fridays: 8 Sexualized Vehicles
Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which looks at how vehicles become, er, vehicles for sexual symbolism.
Trains, planes, automobiles and many other modes of transportation used by man come to symbolize our dominance over the passive wilderness, our ability to penetrate and traverse the fertile land. If we’re as strong and potent as we should be (as the alpha-males that we all want to be, that is) we should be able to get where we’re going in the fastest, most powerful and impressive way that exists. This is why sexually insecure men, we’re told, drive fancy cars. Though that anecdotal example is well-known, countless other cases of this symbolic equation exist elsewhere, which is why Listicles has compiled these 8 Sexualized Vehicles.
North By Northwest’s train sex [spoilers ahead]
Family Guy’s Peter Griffin drives a long, hard car (straight into an oncoming truck)
Will’s parents’ brand new Porsche in DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand”
John Wayne tames the wild west with his trusty quadruped companion
Brokeback Mountain’s Ennis and Jack flee homophobia into the sexually liberating wilderness on their strapping horses
Short, chubby Hugo Drax’s big space station and laser gun in Moonraker
Dr. Evil flees Austin Powers in a rocket shaped like a…
Crash landing in the frigid waters of the Hudson, it’s a long, hard, fiery…
More examples of sexy modes of locomotion? Let us know below.
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