POST 6: Compare/contrast a modern song with about eroticism with Metamorphoses and "The Wife of Bath's Tale"

If I had to choose a modern song about eroticism to compare to Ovid's Metamorphoses and "The Wife of Bath's Tale." it would be Salt-N_PePa's  song titled “Let’s Talk About Sex”After all, even the Bible tells us it’s good to procreate! Why not talk about it so everyone can do it better? Or as the Wife of Bath says, “They were made then upon a creature... and for procreation as well.”(29) The wife of bath is one woman who is very open and loud about her sexuality.The Wife is very explicit about wanting to have it often, and about trolling the world in search of its next source (in the form of potential husbands). For the wife of bath the most important reasons for marriage are money and sex, the Wife often links money to sex. For example, she calls her husband's genitals his "nether purse" and muses on the price her "queynte," or vagina, could fetch on the open market. When she says "Thus, i boast of one thing for myself: in the end i had the better in every way, by cunning, or by force, or by some type of device...And most chiefly at night they had ill fortune; then i would scold and grant him no pleasure..."(31)Sex is also linked to power for the Wife; by withholding it she can gain material rewards from her husbands, and by accusing them of cheating on her or causing them to suspect her of cheating, she gains the upper hand in her relationships. She is eager for sex and keen to make the audience aware of her sexual energy and capacity. Just like a line in the song states:
 "She use what she got to get whatever she don't got
Fellas drool like fools, but then again they're only human

The chick was a hit because her body was boomin'

Gold, pearls, rubies, crazy diamonds

Nothin' she ever wore was ever common

Her dates heads of state, men of taste"

This song also relates back to Metamorphoses because all too often, the uncontrolled sexual desire of Ovid's characters (usually, but not always gods) can make them pursue partners aggressively, often through rape.It paints men and women as individual creatures who have little desire of joining with the opposite sex. The male gods like Apollo for instance are impelled by Cupid's power to chase certain female characters like Daphne. Of course, the female characters are not interested and choose to evade capture so that they may continue with their individual desires.