How is human sexuality treated in the work of Lawrence? - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

In the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D. H. Lawrence, the author took a different view of the relationship between the two sexes than was generally discussed before in novels. The themes, descriptions and words he used were highly controversial at the time it was written, causing its first publications to be in Italy in 1928 even though the author was English. It was not published until the 1960’s in England, and even then amongst great controversy due to the reputation of being a sordid book that had grown up around it. However, Lawrence himself did not see the book in such a light. He saw it as a critique of society and the way in which human intellectual and sexual relationships had evolved and become disconnected from each other in a very unnatural way over the years. In this essay, I will attempt to show his analysis of such things in the time he was living and how his views are brought out through the characters with the novel.
At the time of his writing, sexu...