5 Sex Lessons From Lady Chatterley’s Lover That Will Make You A Better Lover
A century later, the world still gasps and groans at this classic tale of seduction.
If you enjoy a good bodice ripper, you can thank D.H. Lawrence and his risqué (at the time) sex romp of a novel — Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
It’s a book you probably only read in high school if you stole it from your library and hid it in a carved-out bible. (Not a personal reference…maybe.) But not so long ago, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was considered literary porn.
Today, Mrs. Chatterley is just another bored housewife having an affair with the hired help. Snooze.
Not so in 1928. Readers hyperventilated when they read Lawrence’s steamy sex scenes and banned the novel in five countries. Lawrence had done the unthinkable. He used four-letter obscenities and (gasp!) described anal sex — an illegal act in the 1920s. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was so scandalous that Sen. Reed Smoot (R-Utah) lambasted Lawrence as “a man with a diseased mind and a soul so black that he would even obscure the darkness of hell.” Damn. Now, that’s a scathing book review.
Modern book critics are far gentler. They often laud Lady Chatterley’s Lover as the first novel to portray desire from the female vantage…
