London - Having notched up 500 million sales of her “bonkbusters”, Jackie Collins is well aware how sex can sell.
But the novelist branded the erotic fiction found in bookshops now “disgusting” and “ridiculous”.
The best-selling Fifty Shades Of Grey – dubbed “mummy porn” for its scenes of bondage and popularity with women in early middge-age – proved a hit with celebrities such as Victoria Beckham and Amanda Holden.
But Collins was less than impressed. “It’s great [author EL James] has got people reading but I hate the phrase ‘mummy porn’. It’s kind of disgusting, ridiculous,” she said.
“And what kind of a woman wants to depend on handcuffs and spanking to get her rocks off?”
Her own female characters “kick a***; they don’t get their a***s kicked”. said twice-married Collins, 76.
Role-play, not bondage, was the key to keeping passion alive, she told Australia’s Marie Claire magazine.
“Just go off with your husband, wear a blonde wig, pretend to be somebody else,” she added. “You’ll have a fantastic night.” - Daily Mail