Look at the misconception of Hephaestus, created вЂshriveled of foot’ and cast out of Olympus by their mom. He could be hitched down in to the Aphrodite that is goddess she’s unfaithful to him as a result of their disability, which unmans him in her own eyes, in which he is cuckolded and scorned. This trope is duplicated, much later, in D H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, where Lady Chatterley satisfies by by herself using the virile gamekeeper because her spouse is just a вЂcripple’.
This scenario, the place where a man that is disabled judged to possess lost intimate energy as a result of their disability and their intimate partner has carte blanche to look for solace somewhere else, happens to be referred to as вЂChatterley Syndrome’.