Life's Pleasures Quote by Suzanne Fields

Fields frames the modern sexual marketplace with the blunt economics of a drive-thru: quick, available, engineered for appetite, and quietly unsatisfying. The line works because it borrows the moral consensus we already have about “fast food” - it’s convenient, it’s everywhere, it’s kind of embarrassing, and it leaves you hungry again - then ports that entire cultural script onto “fast sex.” In one move, she makes a personal choice feel like a consumer habit, and a consumer habit feel like a spiritual problem.

The intent isn’t clinical sex-ed; it’s cultural scolding with a practical twist. “Cheap” isn’t only about money. It’s about lowered standards, flattened meaning, and the way speed itself becomes the product. Fast food is designed to eliminate friction: no waiting, no rituals, no conversation, no vulnerability. Fields implies the same assembly-line logic has seeped into intimacy: bodies treated as takeout containers for impulse, not as sites of mutual care.

The subtext is also generational and gendered. Coming from a columnist known for social conservatism, the “soul” language signals a value system where sex is supposed to be tethered to commitment, or at least to consequence. She’s not merely condemning pleasure; she’s warning that convenience culture can colonize the most intimate parts of life, training people to expect gratification without investment. The metaphor lands because it taps a familiar regret: the moment after the craving passes, when you realize you didn’t really eat - you just consumed.