The Banning of Connie Chatterley
And the triumph of the fallen woman
A woman’s a lovely thing when ‘er ‘s deep ter fuck, and cunt’s good.
Reading that sentence, is it any surprise that D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned by the United States in 1929?
That ban remained in effect until 1959. It has a similar history in Britain and has also been banned in Canada, Australia, Japan, and India.
Among its many alleged offenses, Lawrence’s free use of “cunt” and “fuck” throughout the novel was considered amongst its most irredeemable transgressions.
By contemporary standards, with our porn and obscenity saturated world, these days this erotic classic seems almost quaint.
And yet, it is a revolutionary novel. For me, it was particularly so.
Now that is some sexy book!
She was her sensual self, naked and unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory.
I didn’t read Lady Chatterley’s Lover until I was somewhere in my mid-thirties. Nonetheless, when I did read it for the first time, I devoured it. I was incredibly turned on.My ex-husband reaped the benefits.
People often think that I read a lot of erotica. Perhaps because I often write about sex…
