How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Lascivious! well, why not—? I can't see I do a woman any more harm by sleeping with her than by dancing with her...or even talking to her about the weather. It's just an interchange of sensations instead of ideas, so why not?" (4.22)
Clifford's friend Charles May claims that having sex with a woman is just like talking to her. Only with more bodily fluids and a greater risk of pregnancy.
Quote #5
"I don't over-eat myself and I don't over-f*** myself." (4.29)
Charles May makes this attitude sound reasonable. Sex and eating are both natural desires, and most people can control themselves. But May is one of Clifford's friends, so something must be wrong with his opinion.
Quote #6
"That thrust of the buttocks, surely it was a little ridiculous. If you were a woman, and a part in all the business, surely that thrusting of the man's buttocks was supremely ridiculous. Surely the man was intensely ridiculous in this posture and this act!" (10.201)
There's no denying that sex can look ridiculous if you're not doing it—they don't call it the beast with two backs for nothing.Connie hasn't quite given up her modern distaste for bodies, but Mellors is just about to change her mind on that.