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D.H. Lawrence was candidly against physical repression. He believed that one should acknowledge one’s desires, even if that meant exploring darker, non-conformist forms of passion, like infidelity.

In the long run, she says ‘Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me?’ And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.
Quotation from D.H. Lawrence, on Women

My advice is this: Settle! That’s right. Don’t worry about passion or intense connection… Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go… Settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year.
Quotation from Lori Gottleib, Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough (The Atlantic)

The ‘Whom have you ever loved?’ quotation in today’s comic is taken from D.H. Lawrence’s The Captain’s Doll. (Literature.org)