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The Witching Hour

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"I’ve had this book on my TBR list forever…today I just opened the book to the first page, and just fell into the story. After one sentence….

I love books like that. 900 some pages to go…"
Apr 17, 2026 07:32PM

 
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Book cover for Lady Chatterley's Lover
A woman could take a man without really giving herself away. Certainly she could take him without giving herself into his power. Rather she could use this sex thing to have power over him. For she only had to hold herself back in sexual ...more
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…how a woman could use sex as a tool…from a man’s perspective. Although i understand that Lawrence is trying to say that women can separate themselves from the act of sex, as a woman I have to disagree that it’s possible to not give some part of you away during such an intimate moment, it’s almost impossible not to. Just the very act of mechanical sex for a woman still involves opening herself to such an intrusion so that even if she didn’t want to give anything of herself away, it is impossible to not just lose something in the process. The dissociative act of trying to withhold oneself from the process, is not just a closing of a door, rather a cleaving of the heart; so, in that way something very much is given up.
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What is the "connexion" Lawrence is referring to? Emotional intimacy? Physical touch? Whatever it is, it is missing from Constance's life and she is manipulating her encounters to obtain it. I absolut…
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