5 Sleaziest Seductions In James Bond Films

2. Bond Enters A Sex Trade Victim's Shower Totally Unannounced (After She Tells Him About It) - Skyfall

Bond is busy following an assassin when he first sees the striking Severine in another building's hotel room. Bond ends up killing the assassin, but not before Severine sees him across the way. A token in the assassin's case leads him to a casino in Macau, where he sees her again. This time, they're not in separate skyscrapers and can have a little chat. During the conversation, Bond notices a tattoo on her wrist and recognizes it as a symbol of the Macau sex trade. "You belonged to one of the houses. What were you? 12? 13?" he asks. Bond infers that her devilish employer Silva helped her get out of it, and that she might have even thought she was in love with him. She doesn't deny it, and seems reluctant to bring Bond to her boss/boyfriend. Ultimately, she doesn't help Bond directly, but tells him where her ship is and what time they are leaving. She is disheartened upon leaving to realize that he is not coming. But that changes later when Bond enters into the shower she is using and embraces her. She doesn't mind, and a few flirty words are exchanged before they start going at it. Severine seems up to speed with Bond's slight flirtations (whereas other Bond girls might seem more innocent), and she doesn't seem to question his waiting to show himself until she is showering (?). Despite her implied sexual maturity, has Bond just forgotten that she was a victim of the sex trade? And when she was 12? 13? This makes her a victim of child abuse. Child abuse victims, especially ones that suffered abuse on a frequent basis (like Severine would have) can suffer from a variety of physiological disorders. Child abuse can lead to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (and the complex form thereof), anxiety, lower self-esteem, drug dependence, dissociative identity disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a susceptibility to victimisation in adulthood. The willingness to stay victimised might explain why Severine is with Silva in the first place (he ends up shooting her in a game). We don't know if Severine was dealing with the aforementioned conditions, as the story doesn't tell us. Truly, victims of sexual abuse have overcome, but with Bond not knowing, was it right for Bond to completely disregard Severine's sexual past and the effects it might have/have had on her psychologically? The fact her past is mentioned once and never again makes me wonder why the film-makers even put it in there at all. Had Severine not been a victim of abuse, this sort of sexual scene would be fine. She would have just been a woman in a bad place, and if she wants to choose who she sleeps with, including the handsome agent coming to kill her fiendish, insane boyfriend, then that's fine. But Bond's quasi-predatory shower-entrance, in light of her sexual past and possible physiological state, just seems wrong.