Exquisite Desire -Religion, the Erotic, and the song of songs

God bless the feisty ancient woman who felt this fierce passion and excitement and somehow saw to it that it got preserved in the Bible. Without any introduction of characters or context we glimpse a bald declaration of sexual want as the book’s opening…. Why is the biblical book jumping right in, devoting wants, and what of those wants persist today for readers of the Bible?