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male, in a negative or sundering magnetism, but which, also
draws male and female together in a long and infinitely
varied approach towards the critical act of coition. Sex
without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex,
in .human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite
a man. That is to say, the act of coition is the essential
clue to sex. 11 (FTU 17)
Sex only interested Lawrence in terms of fulfilment, in the
"consummating act of coition." But, would a puritan advocate sex
for sex, sex for pleasure? We never find in Lawrence any idea of
sex as an end for the procreation of the species. The real nature
of his sexuality, a neurotic sexuality, a perverse sexuality
as we have seen in his novels had to be sublimated through
his literary art. One can see how incomplete is his definition
of sex when one thinks about Freud's views. Freud says that a
definition always leads to difficulties, and instead of "sex" he
prefers to try to define "sexual". So, in Freud’s views, sensu
latOj the term "sexual" means: "Everything connected with the
difference between the two sexes." And sensu stricto:
"Everything
which is directed to the union of the genital organs and
the performance of the sexual act."(GIP 312) Freud warns that
the first definition "is perhaps the only way of hitting the mark**
(GIP 312) because the study of sexuality which interests science
must not exclude the so-called degenerations, like skoptophilia,
fetichism, sadism, masochism, anality, and all the inversions,
and all the frustrations and disfunctions.
In the next chapter we will confirm that Lawrence glorifies
the act of coition in Ladv Chatterley’s Lover, and attributes a
mystical importance to the fulfilment in the final consummation
of the orgasm. For in Fantasia he has already pointed out this