RESEARCH – Get back with your feelings by slowly discovering others… In the age of dating apps, some want to re-enchant relationships.
Let’s remember and bring back the images. In Lady Chatterley’s lover, English writer D.H. Lawrence tells the story of the erotic awakening of two lonely beings who are complete opposites but fall madly in love thanks to the gift of sensuality. She, imprisoned in a gilded prison, becomes the nurse of her sick husband, he, the village guard, mineral and silent. But before physical pleasure, how much time is spent discovering yourself, breaking down barriers, exploring the other person’s body? “Both of their bodies were smoking in the pouring rain. In each hand he gathered the woman’s beautiful heavy ass and pressed it against him in the rain, in a feverish and throbbing immobility. Suddenly he overthrew him, falling with him in the middle of the road, into the silent roar of the water.’ An anthem of slowness and exploration, this story, which was considered scandalous upon its release (1928), strangely resonates with the contemporary sentiments of those disillusioned with direct sex…
Source: Le Figaro
