Beware women who tell you they’ve come to see your newborn chicks. That’s the lesson gamekeeper Oliver Mellors should have heeded before the arrival of Her Ladyship in ’s adaptation of D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.Holding one of the tiny creatures in her hands is all the impetus she needs to grab the unsuspecting guy, hoist her skirt up, and with the same frantic desperation as a man consuming his last meal on Death Row. Those poor chicks. Please, someone, cover their eyes.It’s one of many sex scenes in the latest dramatization of the novel that caused a scandal when it was published – privately – in in 1928. Explicit sex, four letter words, an upper-class woman and a working-class man and, shock, horror, women enjoying sex – what was the world coming to!
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