Writer Christopher Hudson provides readers of London's Daily Mail with a fascinating and insightful look at a side of James Bond creator Ian Fleming that the mainstream media has tactfully ignored over the years. In a lenghty piece, Hudson examines what Fleming scholars have long known: the master novelist had a complicated love life characterized by high profile affairs and kinky sex that included his preoccupation with flagellation (whipping). The article goes into detail about Fleming's long decades long affair with Ann Rothermere, a married woman who enthusiastically carried on her love life with Fleming virtually under the nose of her husband. Fleming would eventually (and reluctantly) marry her, leading to a domestic situation that seems straight out of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as the couple engaged in psychological head games that ran the gamut from inflicting physical harm on each other to torrid lovemaking (which also resulted in bruises!). Whether you consider Fleming a total cad or an admirable playboy depends on your point of view, but there is little doubt where the main ingredients of James Bond were given birth. To read click here