'Bower of Bliss' by Madeline Kuzak at Dungeon, Detroit

Bower of Bliss is an enchanted setting in the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. In her book Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia theorizes that Spenser’s bower of bliss represents a feminine space of sexual domination: a shady, womb-like enclosed area where the hero is seduced away from his quest and kept in a state of “languid indolence and passivity” by a sorceress who erotically drains his energy. [1]
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1. Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (New Haven: Yale University, 1990), 187-88.