No time to die

[cranefly]

For the record, it would be really hard to swing a weighted rope between chair legs so it would impact Bond's bum like that.  I think the cfs will back me up on this as we all trained in chain whip and so have had to perform similar feats of coordination.  In the book, it was some sort of levered stick if memory serves.  That makes more sense.

I think it was a slender board with a nail driven through it.  I read this in my teens, and was rather horrified to think that Bond's scrotum or perineum was being perforated like that.  I remember being somewhat relieved, though not entirely convinced, when a doctor later tells Bond that he didn't suffer any permanent damage.

My mom and I were reading the series at about the same time.  I think I asked her for a clarification of what was being done to Bond in that scene, because the damage seemed irreparable.

I think I also asked my mom about the Japanese fighters who could withdraw their testicles into their body and take terrific blows to the groin without injury.  That was another Bond book.

Yeah, when watching that scene with the weighted rope, I remembered that it was a stick with nail in the book, and wondered why they changed it.