If I may add this without fear of lowering the tone again , Craig's cries (in the movie version) of pain do have an orgasmic tone (I was going to say ring) to them... Pleasure from pain, that kind of thing.
Really? You feel CraigBond is enjoying the torture on a sexual level?
Like I said, I think these things are what we read into it. I guess it all falls on our individual interpretation.
Personally, I don't think CraigBond is enjoying the pain. Or rather, I'd prefer to think he isn't.
Just as, I suppose, my original point: however likely it might be that Bond did indeed have homosexual experiences as an English public school boy boarding in the 1930s, we'd rather not think he has, beacuse he is Bond, our hero, and we are all, the few ladies here excepted, real men, flesh and blood hetrosexuals with healthy appetities for the female form, aren't we?
But that goes back to your point about individual interpretation and my very point about a continuation writer hinting at Bond's teenage homosexuality for us to interpret how we feel.
Enid Blyton wrote that Noddy slept with Big Ears in the 1950s. It is only recently that we have interpreted that in anyway other than as an act of slumber.
I thank you.