Lady Chatterley's Lover Sex Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #7

"She'd just wait. If I kept back for half an hour, she'd keep back longer. And when I'd come and really finished, then she'd start on her own account, and I had to stop inside her till she brought herself off, wriggling and shouting, she'd clutch with herself down there, an' then she'd come off, fair in ecstasy." (14.100)

Here, Mellors is complaining that his wife, like 70% or so of women, never orgasmed from intercourse. It's totally her problem, though. Not his. Nope.

Quote #8

It cost her an effort to let him have his way and his will of her. She had to be a passive, consenting thing, like a slave, a physical slave. Yet the passion licked round her, consuming, and when the sensual flame of it pressed through her bowels and breast, she really thought she was dying: yet a poignant, marvellous death. (16.293)

The night before Connie leaves for Europe, she and Mellors have sex all night long. Boy, do they. They do all sorts of things that Lawrence won't even describe—or at least Mellors does them to Connie. Connie just lies there and thinks about England, while orgasms magically happen to her.

Quote #9

"It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a natural and vital thing. They won't have it, and they'll kill you before they'll let you have it." (17.86)

All Duncan Forbes wants to do is have sex, and they won't let him—whoever "they" is. Society? Culture? Men? Women? Probably all of the above.