So fast, Mr Bond! 007 is quickest seducer on film

HE HAS recently been accused of being the world’s wokest licensed killer. And now, research on James Bond’s past romantic antics reveals just how much the screen’s greatest seducer has been tamed.

A study of all 24 films prior to the current No Time To Die has discovered that the agent often seduced women quicker than a martini is shaken, not stirred.

The testosterone-fuelled agent takes about 2.3 meetings with a woman to seduce her, according to statistics from a research paper by Dr Richard Zegers of Utrecht University.

More than 27.8 per cent of Bond’s targets succumb on first acquaintance and, among these, the number of sentences uttered between initial chat-up and bedroom is typically between seven and eight.

Across all 24 films, however, Bond takes a little longer – needing about 37 sentences per seduction.

But there is not a single hint in any film that MI6’s finest agent has ever practised safe sex.

In a letter to the academic publication Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (TMID), Dr Zegers writes that the Bond speed-ofseduction statistics did not make it into the final version of his 2018 paper. That study was completed while the latest Bond film was still in production.

But he says the data concurs with a paper that was recently published in TMID showing that Bond’s relationships were ‘brief, with little time for a healthy exchange of sexual history’.

Critics have pointed out that

Bond’s latest adventure, No Time To Die, shows 007, played by Daniel Craig, giving up charming female colleagues into bed in favour of ‘woke’ professional handshakes and camaraderie.

In an interview before the release of the new film, actor Daniel Craig admitted his character had ‘got to adapt’ and that ‘a lot of what went on in the earlier movies is sort of questionable now’.