Loveless Sex

"Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds says exactly what it means. The title of the poem definitely gives way into the poem and its message. The first line and a half says "How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?" Immediately, the poem questions having sex without love. As the poem progresses, the idea of sex without love becomes more of an idea of detachment. In Donald Hall's "Safe Sex" the title leads the reader to the conception that the poem will be about literal safe sex as is in from babies and diseases. However, the poem actually encourages loveless sex to protect oneself from getting hurt and suffering whereas "Sex without Love" merely questions the subject.