Sex runs throughout Eat, Pray, Love. In the course of the book, Elizabeth Gilbert describes her hedonistic youth, beginning in early adolescence. She always falls in love too quickly and in too needy a fashion. Therefore, as part of her year-long quest for autonomy, Liz pledges herself to celibacy. In Rome, she longs to be kissed but also fears being kissed and bringing back the passions. A girl friend gets so tired of listening to her that she offers to kiss her to get it over with. In India, celibacy is simpler because she lives in a spiritual milieu, keeping constantly occupied with physical labor and learning to empty her mind in order to meditate.
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