On the Road Sex Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

Along about three in the afternoon, after an apple pie and ice cream in a roadside stand, a woman stopped for me in a little coupe. I had a twinge of hard joy as I ran after the car. But she was a middle-aged woman, actually the mother of sons my age, and wanted somebody to help her drive to Iowa. (I.2.2)

Sal’s first thought when he sees any woman is sex.

Quote #5

There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon - they were coming home from high school - but I had no time now for thoughts like that and promised myself a ball in Denver...So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines. (I.3.7)

Sal and Dean are both attracted to very young girls.

Quote #6

I went into a chili joint and the waitress was Mexican and beautiful. I ate, and then I wrote her a little love note on the back of the bill. The chili joint was deserted; everybody was somewhere else, drinking. I told her to turn the bill over. She read it and laughed. It was a little poem about how I wanted her to come and see the night with me.

"I’d love to, Chiquito, but I have a date with my boy friend."

"Can’t you shake him?"

"No, no, I don’t," she said sadly, and I loved the way she said it. (I.5.1-I.5.4)

Sal finds something to love in every girl he meets.