Critique for "Lust"

I really like the fact that this story reads like a how-to guide. I think it has kind of a neat affect and is reminiscent of reading stories geared toward young girls when I was a child. I think the dark tone brings about a sense of regret to the reader. This is kind of the narrator's way of looking back on everything and saying, "If only I had known then what I know now." It is clear that the narrator depended on the emotional relief that men gave her through intimacy. Therefore, this story really gets into social pressures to have sex as an adolescent or teenager. It really gives the reader the feeling that the narrator realizes how absurd it is in retrospect, but that it was almost inevitable-- she was destined to make those mistakes.