Why Daniel Craig is the James Bond women want one night with

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Tracey Cox reveals why old-style Bond wouldn't cut it with today's women
In the new movies the women are Bond's equals, just as smart and savvy
007's hard exterior has endearing cracks that women find so irresistible

Published: 02:55 EST, 26 October 2015 | Updated: 09:41 EST, 26 October 2015

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So there you are, minding your own business, driving along in your speedboat, when a man parachutes from a plane and lands, uninvited, in the back of your boat.

'The name's Bond. James Bond,' he says silkily, ice-blue eyes giving you an appreciative once-over in your bikini.

Do you A. rip off his clothes and make mad, passionate love or B. threaten to call the water police pronto?

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Daniel Craig gets to grips with Italian actress Caterina Murino in Casino Royale

Daniel Craig's muscular and masculine demeanor is a far cry from previous Bonds like Roger Moore

If you've got even one drop of a Bond girl in you (and doesn't every red-blooded female?) the answer is not just 'A' but a Dear-God-yes 'A'.

Bond, the world's most famous Lothario, is back on October 26 and women everywhere are eagerly anticipating being shaken and stirred.

But what lies at the heart of Bond's success with women? And is he still as appealing 23 movies in as he was when Dr No launched the sexy special agent on the world?

The first and most compelling reason women worldwide love Bond: he's always in control of any situation.

Craig's Bond is more respectful of his women and doesn't just use them for 'recreation' as Seann Connery did

Bond's able to predict the baddies every move, knows how to ski down a mountain without a pair of skis, exactly the right moment to dive on top of the girl to save her (split seconds before the bomb explodes), and the exact moment a bullet is about to come through a wall.

Bond is the ultimate fixer. He's physically fit and not scared to take risks. (Ever seen a Bond drive anything other than lightening fast?).

He's protective, he's masculine, he's got bucket loads of charisma - and that's just the obvious stuff.

Bond has survived as the ultimate hero for many women because he's been cunningly transformed from a super-smooth, old-school seducer (the uber-alpha Connery Bond) to a modern, edgier breed of Bond (the tough but female friendly Daniel Craig).

And it's a good job, too, because the old-style Bond simply wouldn't cut it with today's women.

There's a line in the one of the early Ian Fleming books when Bond (played by Sean Connery onscreen) states ' Women are for recreation'.

In recent years Bond's physique has become more of a spectacle, instead of his gadgets or his gun

Naomi Harris and Daniel Craig flirt outrageously in Sam Mendes' Skyfall, but they don't end up in the bedroom

In the old Bond films, the women were there purely as window dressing.

In the new Bond movies (Craig onwards) they're his equals - just as smart, savvy and capable of playing him at his own game.

Craig's 007 respects women. He wouldn't dare treat them the way an old Bond would - and wouldn't get away with it if he tried.

It takes more than a raised eyebrow or corny chat up line to sweep the new style Bond girls off their feet and into the bedroom.

Whereas Old Bond was one-dimensional; new Bond has intriguing layers.

There's a hard exterior but a hint of vulnerability that has changed James from being a character to a real human being.

Daniel Craig dives to dodge a bullet in Skyfall, showing off a more gritty and exciting side to the British spy

He's no longer a superhero: we see him injured and bleeding. We even know - shock horror! - what's going on inside his head.

We know Bond has a traumatic, tragic past, a tortured soul. He's an orphan!

This new vulnerability makes us not only want to have our wicked way, we want to take away his pain and fix him.

If that's not enough to get the hormone-inducing female rescue antenna on full alert, what is?

Another often over-looked, appealing Bond trait - despite being a womanizer, Bond has always had good relationships with women - he likes them.

His relationship with M is central to most of the Bond plots: she's the reason he accepts dangerous assignments, he wants to please her.

M is the mother figure (the clue's in the name) and she's someone Bond both respects and adores.

Other Bond women die but the last scene of Skyfall (spoiler alert) when M (Judi Dench) lies dying in Bond's arms, has to be the biggest tear-jerker of all.

Before Craig Pierce Brosnan was as 007, but instead of chiseled abs and a tight tank top he wore a suit and tie

There has never been an explicit sex scene in a Bond flm, his bedroom antics are always left up to the viewer's imagination

But enough of James' feminine qualities: everyone knows the main reason women fancy the pants off Bond is because we'd like to sleep with him.

Ironically, 23 movies and 39 (officially licensed) James Bond novels on, we're still none the wiser as to what James Bond would actually be like in bed.

He's got the license to kill but does he have the license to thrill?

No-one could ever call the Bond films pornographic and the 'sex scenes' tend to follow the same format.

The old Bond would grab the girl, she'd push him away, there would be a bit of a scuffle, then he'd kiss her, she'd melt, say 'Oh James!' and the camera would fade out when the real action began.

Clearly, he's one hell of a kisser but as to his other bedroom techniques, that's very much left up to our imagination: we see the surrender but not the seduction.

Roger Moore strikes a deadly pose in Live and Let Die, complete with bow tie, ruffled shirt and slicked back hair

Assuming Bond's sex style is in keeping with his character, this what I imagine it would be like to be in bed with James Bond (now there's a sentence!):

There are two perfectly mixed martinis by the bed.

After a bit of Bond-style kissing, James flicks a switch to transform the room into a romantic sex den.

This is much more than dimmed lights and sexy music; tasteful, erotic images are projected onto the wall and an interesting looking 'gadget' (compliments of Q) magically appears from a secret compartment by the bed.

James instinctively knows exactly what I want (no need for guidance with a man who's so good at reading body language he can tell if someone's about to attack by a micro-twitch of a finger).

His technique is masterful: after all, he's slept with women from all over the world, of every nationality (he's got to have picked up a thing or two, right?).

Naturally, he's the one in charge….or is he?

Cinema's most infamous lothario has been bedding women since the early Sixties but his style has certainly changed

The old Bond would have been, but in Skyfall, new-style Bond offers Moneypenny (the young, sexy version) a cut-throat razor and lets her shave him.

They're inches away (are they going to kiss?), his hands hover over the buttons of her top (is he really going to undo them?)….but no.

Tracey Cox tells us why women prefer the new more masculine Bond

Nothing actually happens and nothing is seen, but the sexual tension beats the living daylights out of other sexy films that leave nothing to the imagination. (What's not seen really is sexier than what is.)

So let's throw in a bit of teasing because new Bond is clearly quite the tease, then follow it up with a manly main performance with at least five position changes, all of which require massive strength and various bits of furniture, none of them the bed.

There's a post-coital cigarette (or E-lite, if we're sticking to the modern theme) and pillow talk, kicked off - of course - by James delivering a fantastically witty one-liner.

That's the other knicker-dropping thing about Bond: he's funny.

One-liners are a staple of all the Bond movies (some clever, some cringe-worthy) with 007 charming everyone from old ladies to agents out to kill him.

All the Bond's are brilliant at banter and fantastic flirts (remember the train journey with Eva Green in Casino Royal?).

The finale of my bed scene would be Bond, casually getting up from the bed to stand by the window – starkers - pensively gazing out (recalling other poignant Bond girl sex scenario moments) allowing me a front-row view of his muscular shoulders, back and buttocks.

Bond is both handsome and confident of his looks and body.

There's not an ounce of insecurity or a moment when a Bond questions why so many women fall at his feet.

He's good looking and he knows it, though while the old Bond (Connery) teetered on the edge of arrogance, Craig's Bond isn't cocky at all, apart from (ahem) in the ways you'd quite like him to be.

For the bottom bit alone, he scores 10/10.

As my 80-year-old mother put it when I told her I was analysing the appeal of James Bond: 'It's quite obvious dear, he knows what to do with women.'