Pathos of "Suzy Creamcheese"

The pathos the poem come from the tone and the descriptions of the events that took place throughout the text. In the first two stanzas, there was an exposition of the game of sex during this change, where the amount of sex occurring in that sort of casual, rebel-like manner would have surprised the audience and would have brought out emotions of disgust, inquisitiveness, or other emotions. The "idol worship" of the penis started to give way to admiring the female physique, particularly the breasts and the vulva, and admiring how much power they had in terms of letting the women get what they want and allowing them pleasure--here the tone is not so much objectifying as it is compelling, and allows the reader to feel that some sort of good did indeed come from throwing away centuries of sexual decorum. However, the poem starts to get more serious when the speaker expresses how she was "throwing [herself] away" to have sex and feel this newfound power and pleasure, which ironically makes her more controlled, as demonstrated by her explaining how men (the "professor") would come and objectify her and other women. The last stanza takes a dark turn, where the speaker mentions how when women get pregnant, the man who got the woman pregnant is an "Abortion Doc" who will kill and dispose of the body to shirk off the responsibility. This is meant to make the audience feel horrified and disgusted, which is meant to remind them how terrible things did happen during the Sexual Revolution amidst all the "free love." This roller coaster of emotion is meant to immerse the audience into experiencing how it was like back then, where feelings of all types around sex made this movement such an important point for change in our culture.