The jury's verdict on Lady Chatterley's Lover is a triumph of common sense - and the more pleasing because it was unexpected. We shall never know, of course, precisely what the jury thought. They could acquit on either of two grounds - that the book was simply not obscene, or that, even if it was, its literary and other merits nevertheless justified its publication as being for the public good. These charges were too exaggerated to survive a reading of the book.
Physical love plays an important part in the book.
The theme of physical love calls for detailed description of sexual acts. These are what make the book controversial. But their purpose is an honest one. It is to show the redeeming power of that love and the importance of tenderness. D. H. Lawrence emphasises that where harshness or brutality exist a couple cannot come to a full and harmonious relationship together.