Jacqueline Bisset Is Speaking Hard Truths Yet Again

The last time we heard from Jacqueline Bisset, she was delivering perhaps the most enigmatic acceptance speech in the history of The Golden Globes. Now she's taking men to task for not wanting to bang older women.

In an interview with The Guardian (link below) to promote her latest film, Welcome to New York, Jacqueline ran the gamut of topics from male sexuality to the importance of a man smelling good (which is odd considering she spent so much time in close quarters with Gerard Depardieu while filming this one).

"I could never sleep with someone who didn't smell right," she says. "For me, smell is intoxicating. It's an animal thing and very, very dangerous." What's the ideal odour? "I can't possibly sum it up. Not like perfume, but clean, for sure – I'm not into smelly armpits."

In the film, she plays a character based on the wife of disgraced financier and lothario Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In regard to that case, she sees a clear dichotomy at play in the battle of the sexes saying, "Older women continue to want sex, they're horny, they want to connect. But the men don't want to sleep with those women."

She then goes off on a tangent that's hard to summarize and even harder to understand.

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"). 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."

You know what though, Bisset can say whatever she likes because her wet t-shirt in 1977's The Deep was such a formative part of my sexual awakening that I'm willing to give her benefit of the doubt.

Via The Guardian