The Posters for Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball -- And No Time to Die

I was looking at posters for the 1960s Sean Connery Bond movies the other day , and I noticed this:

The posters for:

Dr. No
From Russia With Love and
Thunderball

...all have Connery's Bond SURROUNDED by women...four women per poster in each case, I think.

The Goldfinger poster has somewhere between one to two women (Pussy Galore and the Golden Pained Girl , I think), but it is with the other three posters that the 1962-1965 message seems to be:

"James Bond: its all about how many women he has sex with. The spying is incidental."

No. Really. LOOK at the posters. They were selling hot women. They were selling sex. Casual sex. And in a big way.

Now: look at the poster for No Time To Die. The poster is selling : Daniel Craig. Just James Bond. Just the MAN. No "chicks" at all.

The discussions and debates have all covered this ground, I suppose. James Bond in the 21st Century is NOT a sexist pig (hah.) He settles down. He's a one-man woman (and the woman is rather a mousy little thing.) He might even become a "family man."

These are the times we live in. This is the movie that the Bond producers and director and writer(and definitely, star) WANTED to make.

So casual sex and the objectification of women is OVER, right?

Hardly. Its just gone from James Bond movies. Because that's Hollywood today.

Playboy magazine(which very much promoted those Bond movies with pictorials of "Bond Girls") is pretty much gone too.

Sex and hotties made be gone from Bond , and Playboy may be a relic(remember when it was important enough that movie stars like Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando would do interviews for it? ) but...sex found its way to survive.

And lots of women are QUITE willing to objectify themselves. Try "Only Fans." Try internet porn.

Or try ...real life? Not too long ago, a very young man who is related to me pulled out his cell phone and kept "swiping" photo after photo of provocative young women in provocative poses wearing very little clothing , and said "and these girls go to my school." (I was dubious, but...maybe.)

So there you have it. James Bond movies may have BEGUN as sexual fantasy material(see those Connery posters!) but no more.

The sex and hot women just moved to other vehicles.

PS. It wasn't just the women back then either. Sean Connery was a former body builder, and Playboy and other magazines made sure to include beefcake shots of him in swimming trunks. HE was a sexual fantasy , too. At least Daniel Craig has kept up the shirtless tradition.