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Related: About this forumD.H. Lawrence Righteously Rages Against Misogyny in Newly Discovered Essay
Lawrence wrote the piece some time in late 1923 or early 1924 in response to an essay published in Adelphi, a literary magazine Murry edited. That essay, which ran under the byline "JHR," was a viciously misogynistic treatise called "The Ugliness of Women." Its author argued that "in every woman born there is a seed of terrible, unmentionable evil: evil such as man a simple creature for all his passions and lusts could never dream of in the most horrible of nightmares, could never conceive in imagination."
Continued JHR, "No doubt, the evil growth is derived from Eve, who certainly did or thought something wicked beyond words."
Murry invited readers to respond to JHR, and Lawrence a regular contributor to Adelphi did so.
Lawrence argued that JHR was projecting, basically:
The hideousness he sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual...Even the most 'beautiful' woman is still a human creature. If he approached her as such, as a being instead of as a piece of lurid meat, he would have no horrors afterwards.
Meat-lust! The revolutionary idea that women are human! Advice about how to approach the opposite sex that would still work today! Point to D.H.
Continued JHR, "No doubt, the evil growth is derived from Eve, who certainly did or thought something wicked beyond words."
Murry invited readers to respond to JHR, and Lawrence a regular contributor to Adelphi did so.
Lawrence argued that JHR was projecting, basically:
The hideousness he sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual...Even the most 'beautiful' woman is still a human creature. If he approached her as such, as a being instead of as a piece of lurid meat, he would have no horrors afterwards.
Meat-lust! The revolutionary idea that women are human! Advice about how to approach the opposite sex that would still work today! Point to D.H.
http://jezebel.com/d-h-lawrence-righteously-rages-against-misogyny-in-new-472510692
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D.H. Lawrence Righteously Rages Against Misogyny in Newly Discovered Essay (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Apr 2013
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D.H. Lawrence would be considered "sex negative" these days amongst certain circles.
geek tragedy
Apr 2013
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)1. D.H. Lawrence would be considered "sex negative" these days amongst certain circles.
Which is all kinds of ironic.
ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)2. Such a scamp
Exploring sexuality through a socio-political lens.
Edit; the term 'meat lust' is also ironic....
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)3. I have read all of D. H. Lawrence's books and have quite liked them.
I am glad to hear this. I think I would like to read his biography.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)4. DU Rec