Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

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Chicks adore a guy who is comfortable enough with his masculinity to go swinging from tree to tree while clad in little more than a loincloth, sharply defined pectoral muscles, and an impeccable tan. Back in the innocent days of the Great American Depression, the term jungle love had not yet picked up divisive racial connotations but was guilelessly applied to those affectionate ties that bind a man, his monkey, and his maiden, as exemplified in Tarzan and His Mate (1934). Tarzan is a man of spectacular physique who has been raised to adulthood by the wild beasts of the African jungle. His lady, Jane, is a fair-skinned scion of the leisure class. Their domesticated tree-house bliss is interrupted when an ivory-hunting expedition invades their turf and causes imbalances and resentments that can only be righted and restored after the natural super male Tarzan strips to skivvies and grapples rampaging reptiles and mammals, the most deadly of which is, of course, the civilized weasel.