The basic idea of sacrifice is that of a gift given to
maintain a good relationship; and food is a common form of sacrifice, well
known in the West from the Cain and Abel tale.
In the 2005 version of King Kong we see skeletons
of previous “Kong brides”, but no evidence they were eaten, so we must assume
they died from other causes such as panic or starvation; but there is no need
to continue along that line, the script clearly says they were brides (Dohm,
2007).
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According to the Oxford Dictionary, a bride is “a woman on her wedding
day”, wedding is “marriage ceremony” and the meaning of marriage in most places
and times, and certainly at the time of the first King Kong film, implies
sexual access (Bell,
1997). In other words, the girls become Kong’s wives and the problem here is
that sexual intercourse is impossible because Kong’s phallus is assumed to
exceed the capacity of his human brides.
This uncomfortable but valid topic has been around
since the film was first shown (Gottesman & Geduld, 1976). Several
interesting answers have been proposed, perhaps the most unexpected one is that
in the film we do not see Kong’s penis because Kong is a female (David Gerrold
in Haber, 2005, p. 217). A second option is that they sexual relationships
would not be penetrative and a third one, that his penis is unusually small,
but a simple calculation shows that this is not necessary: the erect penis of
real gorillas is about 4 cm
long.
At 7,5 m
Kong is about 4 times taller than an normal gorilla, so we could expect a 4x4= 16 cm phallus, that is, a
common human size; coupling is possible in the two positions known from
gorillas, rear and face to face. I find this value more acceptable than the 60 cm calculated in Gottesman
and Geduld (1976). Furthermore, gorilla and human penises are similar in shape
and have a glans, unlike chimpanzees and bonobos (for details about sex organ
evolution in primates, see Parker and Jaffe, 2008).
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