Jacqueline Bisset was once known as the thinking man’s sex symbol. Now, as she prepares to turn 70, it seems Jacqueline has lost none of her spark.
The British actress spoke how older women are still interested in sex, even after their looks have faded, saying the problem is, men are often oblivious to their desire. Bisset, who stars as the ageing and long-suffering wife of a cheating financier in her last film Welcome To New York, also revealed how she could never sleep with someone ‘who didn’t smell right’.
A man’s smell is particularly important to her when it comes to choosing a partner. ‘For me, smell is intoxicating,’ she said. It’s an animal thing and very, very dangerous. Voice is another one that pulls a woman back along with how he desires her. Bisset, once hailed by Newsweek as ‘the most beautiful film actress of all time’, has never married but had four long-term relationships and admits to having numerous experiences. She admits though that each long term relationship was very monogamous. When I date I have slept with different men but once in a relationship I respect that.
She said ‘I think there are men who can handle quite a few women at once, and do. I hear of people who've had three families. It seems amazing that they have time. Lots of men encourage people to be like that. They hang around and go to bars and stuff and there’s no respect for women there. I don’t even know if these guys like women.
I am very open about having free sex and love to be whisked away and made love to on a whim by a new stranger but there has to be respect. Bisset says 'Older women are still horny we want to connect. But the men don't want to sleep with those women is the problem. Such behavior is presumably not so common among older women people think but that's just a matter of courage' Bisset thinks. After all, the female sex drive doesn't diminish with fertility. In her latest film, Welcome To New York.
The movie is inspired by the downfall of disgraced former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. Working on the movie raised a lot of questions for her, she says. She speaks of the potential benefits and drawbacks of porn, of why lesbian couples might or might not work as prostitutes, of the moment at which sex could become transactional for a disillusioned spouse ("I think it's not until money changes hands that someone becomes a whore, I have had my fun times in my life but having lots of sex does not make one a whore").
Bisset may have dealt with a generation of men eyeballing her but she feels sexual etiquette is now evolving at a pace that is hard to process. "If we were in a different society, maybe one man would have 100 women, or his best friend would sleep with his wife. In other places they have God knows what combinations." Bisset's own history – four long-term partners, two children – has fed in to her work, she says, both directly (as in Welcome to New York) and cumulatively. "I think most women have been through some sort of agony with this stuff. It can destroy your life completely.
I think where there's a great deal of love a lot of excuses are made. Because it's so rare to love somebody. Love is hard. I have had one truly great love but many great lovers. They are different things" So how does she cope? She smiles with a polished tolerance. "I try really hard not to react. You have a choice: either you make it into a big deal or you hope it was said without viciousness. Life doesn't work if you react all the time. I believe in good behavior. I have to take responsibility for myself. And I know my heart is clean."
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