Lust Essay

A Self Portrait

We have all had those feelings, the feelings of lust and love, when you experience that first kiss, or the split second after the words “I love you” spill out of your mouth. After reading “Lust” I could see the many similarities between me and the narrator. I too have been overcome with that feeling of lust as it overtook my mind. I relate to the feelings of rejection by my peers as if I was in the narrator’s shoes struggling to be accepted by her peers.
My first experience with sex was exactly like the adventures of the young woman’s in “Lust,” there was no romantic moment as we embraced. I remember as we fell to the floor just fear and nervousness overtook my body. When I was reading over “Lust” I could only think how I too muttered the words “you wouldn’t dream of saying that maybe you weren’t really ready in the first place” (309). It wasn’t love that overcame my heart after that experience but merely lust. I felt as though...