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D.H. Lawrence was deeply concerned with sex. He was abused as 'sex-maniac' by some and hailed as a liberator by others. He opposed all restraints on the sexual life- religious, moral or merely social- in so far as they were based on fear. He strongly believes that the proper norm of the human sexual relationship was the marriage for life. He opposed both the romantic idealization of sex and its opposite pole of sniggering lewdness. It was his conviction that sexual desire would be neither repressed nor sublimated because it would no longer be a base passion. He wished to rid mankind of the shame complex which leads many people to associate sex activity with indecency. He reacted against the misanthropy which seeks to make the body the prisoner of the mind. He deplored the modern dualism - the setting up of barriers between mind and body or between brain and blood. Lawrence was influenced by Freud's psychology and his psychology of man-woman relationship, more specifically his psychology of sexual relations. This paper tries to focus on the relationships between man and woman in different novels written by Lawrence. For the purpose of illustrations Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover may be taken into consideration.