Sex without love
... For example, Olds describes making love as “Beautiful as dancers.” (Sharon Olds, Line #2) In this line, she questions how one can do such a beautiful act with a person whom one is not in love with. Olds also describes sex as “gliding over each other like ice skaters over the ice.”(Sharon Olds, Line #3,4) She is referring to sex as a performance. ... When two people truly are in love, there is no need for any special show or performance. ... The simile “light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin” (Sharon Olds, Line #11,12,13) can also be used to perceive the same image of a hot, sweaty, and passionate love making scene.