How the Bond Movies Fail Femmes

The Trouble with Bond, Pt. 2

There’s something about the adrenaline rush that increases Bond’s libido. After a near fatal run-in with one of his many nemeses, he is usually ready for a lay. It might be similar to the way testosterone levels increase after workouts. Also, we know that people can form intense emotional, psychological, and sexual connections from shared trauma. While eye-roll inducing, it has well-established psychological basis.

Bond can’t help but ogle at any and every woman in his path, especially in the Connery and Moore years, which probably speaks to reflections of pervasive culture than anything. Dalton is perhaps the most focused of them all, having more intensity and grit that his predecessors. The womanizing is definitely toned done in the Brosnan years, though it is still evident even up until Craig’s Quantum of Solace.

It cannot be easy, however, because many women he’s slept with end up dead for associating with him or during the course of the mission.

One can imagine that Bond is in fact desperately lonely. We do not get an inkling about his origins until GoldenEye, which is expounded upon in Skyfall. His parents died when he was barely a teen. Bond may search not only for the physical connection but an emotional, nurturing one. Is his relationship with women an…