The little death

Current book: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Pages read: 3 - 15

Twelve whole pages, ladies and gentlemen! I'm a marvel, aren't I?

Well, in the twelve pages, we meet Connie Chatterley, married to Lord Clifford Chatterley, a young WWI veteran paralyzed from the waist down as a result of his service. After his discharge from the army, he inherited his title and estate following his father's untimely death. Connie (Constance, really) married Clifford before he joined the army because he was a man she could talk to. She had had a long-term boyfriend prior to marriage, and, Lawrence makes quite clear, had slept with that boyfriend and was quite experienced with sex. That's all so far.

It's not often that you get a candid discussion of female orgasm in the first twelve pages of a book. And even if you do, it's not usually cited as a method by which a woman can garner power over a male, and it's very definitely never mentioned as something that makes a man into a tool for a woman's pleasure. So that was interesting.

No idea where we're going. Will read more pages tomorrow.