The Gospel of Sex in the Poetry of D. H. Lawrence

People blamed D.H. Lawrence for his attitude on sex. The harm done to his reputation is not because of Lawrence's dirty treatment of sex, but because of the people who misunderstood him or understood him imperfectly, in his pronouncement on sex. Lawrence is always honest in sex by virtue of his primary concern with the perilous problems of today, the problem of personal relationships. He believed in sex as “a creative flow” and the only primary element to make an individual a “whole”. Also he is of the view that one has to be in touch with “blood consciousness” in order to achieve the wholeness of an individual. Lawrence's identification of the flesh with the blood thus becomes his famous theory of “Blood Religion”. As the blood contains the elemental forces of divine creation, Lawrence takes it as residing in the flesh, the Father. It is from this clue that he comes to see the blood as the substance of the deepest consciousness. Blood consciousness, according to Lawrence, is the seat of all the awareness of the body, “the life of sensations and emotions” feeling “real hunger, real thirst, real joy … real grief”. So what Lawrence's gospel of sex proclaims is to bring about pure sexual relationships in the living life in which the blood-consciousness reconciles itself with the mind consciousness. From this point of view, the article tends to reveal the complete truth of sex according to D.H. Lawrence.