James Bond: Lesbian whisperer

Ian Fleming: Pussy Galore was a lesbian...
and Bond cured her of course...

In a letter to be auctioned this month, the 007 author writes that Goldfinger’s lesbian love interest only needed ‘the right man’



A letter in which Ian Fleming asserts that his lesbian Bond girl Pussy Galore “only needed the right man to come along … to cure her psycho-pathological malady” will be sold at auction later this month.

The letter, which is also included in the just-published collection of Fleming’s James Bond letters, The Man With the Golden Typewriter, was written in response to a Dr Gibson. Gibson had written to Fleming that while he enjoyed Goldfinger, “although not a psycho-pathologist, I think it is slightly naughty of you to change a criminal Lesbian into a clinging honey-bun (to be bottled by Bond) in the last chapter”.

Goldfinger ends as Bond looks into Pussy’s “deep blue-violet eyes that were no longer hard … He bent and kissed them lightly. He said, ‘They told me you only liked women’. She said, ‘I never met a man before.’” Bond promises her “a course of TLC”, before she looks up at his “passionate, rather cruel mouth” and it comes “ruthlessly down on hers”.

In his June 1959 letter to Gibson, Fleming writes that Galore “only needed the right man to come along and perform the laying on of hands in order to cure her psycho-pathological malady”.

Gibson was, Fleming’s nephew Fergus Fleming notes in the book, one of the Bond creator’s “most diligent motoring correspondents”, and the letter also thanks him for his “kind invitation” for Bond to join the Aston Martin Owners’ Club, adding: “Since neither Bond nor his biographer are owners of an Aston Martin, I can do no more than pass your invitation on to head of Admin at the Secret Service from whose transport pool the DB III was drawn.”

Fleming adds that he has “in mind a story with motor racing as its background”, following Gibson’s suggestion that he try writing about Formula One because “nobody has yet written a good novel on the subject”.

“I will try and get round to it in due course and shall not be surprised if I then receive a sheaf of acid complaints from experts such as yourself,” he tells Gibson.

The author would go on to write a treatment for a television episode, Murder on Wheels, which features a Grand Prix in Nürburgring in Germany. The show was never made, but the story was worked into in Anthony Horowitz’s recently published official 007 novel, Trigger Mortis.

The letter will be auctioned by Bonhams on 11 November for an estimated price betweem £3,000 and £4,000.

As with many of Ian Fleming's creations, the Bond girl's name is a double entendre—in this case with respect to pussy, which is both another word for a housecat and a slang term for vulva and vagina, while galore means an abundant or plentiful supply of something.

The name "Pussy Galore" is intended to make viewers laugh. The humor is largely driven by how the name is such an obvious, crude reference to sex.

Remember the movie came out in 1964, when audiences were much less de-sensitized to sex and to shock-humor than they are today. Also note that the most recent Bond films seem to have done away with the obvious-sex-reference names for Bond Girls -- probably because that stuff just isn't funny to enough people anymore, and might even be considered offensive by many.

In the Austin Powers movies she became, Alotta Fagina.

Plenty O'Tool

Honey Rider

Chew Mee

Holly Goodhead.

Xenia Onatopp

Octopussy

What a conceited fool he was if he really believed that any lesbian, either real or fictional would instantly change her sexual orientation if she met the right man.

Mind you, his best known character was a bully and a woman hater, played to perfection by real life woman hitter Sean Connery.

Syl wrote:What a conceited fool he was if he really believed that any lesbian, either real or fictional would instantly change her sexual orientation if she met the right man.

Mind you, his best known character was a bully and a woman hater, played to perfection by real life woman hitter Sean Connery.

You don't like Sean Connery?

Go by the halfway mark and you will get a surprise.

I reckon I was about 15 when I seen this film, I remember the violin scene.

I laffed.

Syl wrote:What a conceited fool he was if he really believed that any lesbian, either real or fictional would instantly change her sexual orientation if she met the right man.

Mind you, his best known character was a bully and a woman hater, played to perfection by real life woman hitter Sean Connery.

I used to like him til he said there's nothing wrong with women getting a slap! Nasty man.

Major wrote:Go by the halfway mark and you will get a surprise.

I reckon I was about 15 when I seen this film, I remember the violin scene.

I laffed.

Lol what a prat he was, and still is

Good to see ya Magz.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:What a conceited fool he was if he really believed that any lesbian, either real or fictional would instantly change her sexual orientation if she met the right man.

Mind you, his best known character was a bully and a woman hater, played to perfection by real life woman hitter Sean Connery.

You don't like Sean Connery?

I don't like any man who thinks it's normal to slap his wife around.

Syl wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

You don't like Sean Connery?

I don't like any man who thinks it's normal to slap his wife around.

I agree - but this may surprise you.

More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals

About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men, contradicting the widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised, a new report claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence

Ziz wrote:

Syl wrote:

I don't like any man who thinks it's normal to slap his wife around.

I agree - but this may surprise you.

More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals

About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men, contradicting the widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised, a new report claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence

It doesn't surprise me Ziz, we have had discussions about this in the past.
I think it's probably an old fashioned view that only women suffer domestic violence. Women obviously get abused more and they probably suffer more damaging injuries, but I doubt anyone would argue that women can never be the aggressor.

I bet he'd like to forget that picture Syl.

Syl wrote:

Ziz wrote:

I agree - but this may surprise you.

More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals

About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men, contradicting the widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised, a new report claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence

It doesn't surprise me Ziz, we have had discussions about this in the past.
I think it's probably an old fashioned view that only women suffer domestic violence. Women obviously get abused more and they probably suffer more damaging injuries, but I doubt anyone would argue that women can never be the aggressor.

I must say I was surprised - but then I don't live in Manchester.

Ziz wrote:

Syl wrote:

It doesn't surprise me Ziz, we have had discussions about this in the past.
I think it's probably an old fashioned view that only women suffer domestic violence. Women obviously get abused more and they probably suffer more damaging injuries, but I doubt anyone would argue that women can never be the aggressor.

I must say I was surprised - but then I don't live in Manchester.

We women are pretty tough up here.

nicko wrote:I bet he'd like to forget that picture Syl.

Lol....I post that pic whenever he is talked about on forums.
I like to think in my own small way I am getting him back for slapping women around.

Syl wrote:

Ziz wrote:

I must say I was surprised - but then I don't live in Manchester.

We women are pretty tough up here.

Down there from me - but yes, I can only imagine.

Ziz wrote:

Syl wrote:

We women are pretty tough up here.

Down there from me - but yes, I can only imagine.

I still think of you in Lowestoft for some odd reason.

Syl wrote:

Ziz wrote:

Down there from me - but yes, I can only imagine.

I still think of you in Lowestoft for some odd reason.

I have that effect on women.

Lol....it's odd how little snippets of conversation that one has had on forums can stick in your mind...and you have no idea why.

Major wrote:Good to see ya Magz.

Hiya Major

magica wrote:

Major wrote:Good to see ya Magz.

Hiya Major

Hiya Mags....Hiya John boy.

Hey John Boy