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Sharon Olds 'Sex Without Love'

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The puns this poem portrays also adds a meaning to the word “love”, a meaning that Sharon Olds was trying to get noticed. Critic, Brian Sutton also pointed out these puns, “The poem also begins and ends with sexual puns. When the poem begins "How do they do it, the ones who make love / without love?" the question has to do not only with the separation of sexual intimacy from emotional commitment, but also with sexual methods” (Sutton 1). Society has love sculpted out as one type of thing, and it never bothers to change the idea. Love to many is filled with red hearts and flowers, but that is not always the case. Love has many twist and turns that might end up in lust and disgust. Sharon Olds uses them to show that “Sex Without love” is exactly

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