Casino Royale Chapter 23)Ĭould you even imagine EON trying to tackle a dark sub-text like that. (' And now he knew that she was profoundly, excitingly sensual, but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape. The virile heroes emasculation, only restored after long hospital treatment and the chance to pseudo-rape a reluctant heroine, is not a subject the current producers/ scriptwriters could even begin to tackle. Putting it into a Bond film is never ever going to happen. A lot is alluded to as blabbermouth testifies, and many readers miss the implications. That it appeared in a novelette ( Casino Royale is too short to be considered a novel) at the time it did, is a credit to Flemings abilities as an author.
This torture was an expression of Ian's idea of the ultimate punishment.
The Flemings were into S&M in a big way and fluctuated with the dominant/slave routine.
