Sex!

Enticing topic title ay ;)
I'm looking for novels that deal with sexual relationships or sexual affairs, a bit similar to Lady Chatterley's. I'm not looking for trashy literature by any means. Can anyone recommend some great reads that deal with this theme, please?

I hope you don't get thrown off the forum, Adagio, with that title; I guess I was curious enough to click on it, to see what it was all about. I would say read Ibsen's "Ghosts". In it's day, it was quite shocking. Others of Lawrence's books deal with sex pretty blantantly; "Women in Love" and "Sons and Lovers" come to mind. I thought they were more sexually/sensually just as charged as LCL. Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" deals a lot with sexual awakening, too.

Madame Bovary.

At first, I thought this would regard Madonna's book, Sex! :lol:
As Janine said, anything by D.H. Lawrence sounds like something for you to research, including some of his short stories. Otherwise: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, maybe Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

How about Lolita?

For something a little more, erm, extreme, you might check out Roth's "Sabbath's Theater" which very much features sexual affairs to the fore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath's_Theater


Updike's "Couples" is another that springs to mind though it's not one of his better efforts

David Glover's Elle. Or, how about Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel?

Anna Karenina

A. S. Byatt's 'Angels and Insects'.

Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles would be well worth a look.

Chaucer's The Miller's Tale and The Merchant's Tale could offer an interesting medieval view of sex for you.

They might not be novels, but you could also look at John Donne's love poetry. Something like The Flea or The Ecstasy are very beautiful.

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Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles would be well worth a look.

Chaucer's The Miller's Tale and The Merchant's Tale could offer an interesting medieval view of sex for you.

They might not be novels, but you could also look at John Donne's love poetry. Something like The Flea or The Ecstasy are very beautiful.

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Oooh, yes, some of Donne's poetry do have sexual overtones. Took me a while to figure out The Flea when I first read it.:blush:

Portnoy's Complaint. by Philip Roth

Anything written by Anais Nin or Henry Miller

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Oooh, yes, some of Donne's poetry do have sexual overtones. Took me a while to figure out The Flea when I first read it.:blush:

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Agreed on that. Try also 'To his Mistress, Going to Bed', which alternates between tenderness and crude eroticism... But then Donne is a marvel.

Lolita
To His Coy Mistress (poem :) )