Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Lady Chatterly, by Laurentian Hero Lawrence
In Lady Chatterly, he atones his anger and rage against Frieda and her sexuality. He decides that this book is going to be entirely about allowing Frieda her pleasure. In the previous book, he hadn't wanted her to have another lover in the future or to ever have sexual happiness. But in this book, he was offering her everything. It's a very, very strange book. We think of him as a sadist, but he was completely masochistic. The circumstances around the book make it much more complicated as a book than you would otherwise see. If you didn't know anything about this dying, impotent man and his unfaithful wife, who was
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