Safe Sex

Between Safe Sex and Sex Without Love, I feel that Safe Sex is much more detached than Sex Without Love. In Sex Without Love, Olds presents the lovers in a romantic way, calling htme "dancing gliding over each other like ice skaters." Contrastingly, Donald Hall talks about the lovers in terms of their reactions to their love, as one grows "insensible skin." Lastly, Hall ends his poem with "apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond's edge." As the person is face down, there is no emotional attachment between the two people as they can't look at each other in the eyes, back turned to the emotional possibilities.