Keep your boyfriend wanting more, but still have fun. Girls should make the rules and guys can still have a good time following them
The 75 year-old – who is famous for writing sexually charged novels – claimed that saying ‘no’ is a form of female empowerment.
‘Empower yourself,’ she advised her young readers.
‘Keep your boyfriend wanting more, but still have fun. Girls should make the rules and guys can still have a good time following them.’
Her new book, Confessions of a Wild Child, is a prequel to her popular Santangelo series adapted for a younger audience.
The main character, who is a young version of Lucky Santangelo - the star of many of her explicit adult novels, only ‘almost’ has sex in the latest book.
Jackie said: ‘I wrote it for young adults, so I only allude to sex.’
‘A lot of girls are going to identify with that, doing “almost”,’ she said. ‘“Almost” rules!’
You can’t walk round looking like a hooker and expect to be treated like an intelligent woman
As well as warning against one-night stands, the author also said teenage girls should dress more conservatively.
‘You have to be strong and confident,’ she said, adding: 'I always say to women: Girls can do anything. And they can. But they have to watch it. They have to be proud of themselves, confident of themselves.
'They can’t walk round looking like a hooker and expect to be treated like an intelligent woman.’
The best-selling writer has made no secret of her own active love life, previously quoted as saying she lives ‘like an affluent bachelor.’
Yet the ‘bonkbuster’ novelist is a firm believer in monogamy, and remained faithful during her past long-term relationships.
Jackie has been married twice: first to Wallace Austin, who she had a daughter with but divorced when she was 26. Next she married Oscar Lerman, who she had two daughters with and remained married to until his death from cancer in 1992.
She later she became engaged to a friend of her husband’s, Frank Calcagnini, but he also died of cancer.