Lust Susan Minot Analysis

In Lust, Susan Minot believes sex should be based on love because sex is an intimate act of passion between two people. It cannot be purely physical. If connectivity is being sought and there is no heart in the action, having sex is just meaningless and people will feel empty when they are doing that. Lust captures the sense of futility of a person who frequently has sex without love. In the writer’s generation, adolescent girls like the narrator have already lost their virginity before they have truly understood what is love. Then, they are lost and cannot detach themselves from lust. Though they don’t really enjoy the intimacy. In fact, it is still valid to say that girls in the 21st century have the same behavior as the narrator in the story. Many girls are mentally immature when they have their first sex. And there are several reasons for girls to do that. The disregard of adults is one of these important reasons. In the passage, the narrator said,” My parents had no idea. Parents never really know what’s going on, especially when you are away at school most of the time.” This reveals that the parents of the narrator don’t take much care about her. Knowing that their daughter has a lot of boyfriends, they do not give …show more content…
It includes respects, understandings, acceptances and sacrifices. If we really love someone, we will put his or her preference over our own’s. And sex is only an activity between lovers. This activity makes lovers happy through intimacy. The only difference between sex and other activities between lovers is that sex includes a physical need of human – sexual desire. If the narrator had solid understandings on love and sex, she would not have had those terrible sex with boys. She could prevent from “curling up like shrimp”. And this is what Susan Minot wants to tell, teenagers should understand what is love and think clearly and deeply before having sex. Or else, “bad love” is produced and ruins our