A prominent theme in the stories for today is lust.  I say lust rather than love because many of the stories are about cheating on a wife or husband, having sex out of marriage, and even violating the sacrament of holy orders to have sex.  I also feel that these stories attach a bad stigma to sex.  In one story, a man lies about being deaf and blind to have sex with nuns.  He then realizes how horny they are themselves, even more than he is.  All they want to do is have sex.  Another story is about a woman who cheats on her husband and hides him.  Then he tells her about some other woman who has done the same thing.  It is a very ironic situation, and the woman's plan backfires on her.  The husband finds out, but they work it out.  Another very weird story involves  a wife, a gay husband, and their lover.  They both cheat on each other and eventually decide to have sex with the same man.

In other stories we have read sex is also pretty prominent, but I think many of those other stories also center around love.  I do not take "love" from the Decameron, just plain sex.  An example of just sex in another story we have read is in the Odyssey.  Odysseus has sex with Calypso a lot.  She is a wild and lustful creature.  When Odyssey has sex with her, its not out of love.  He still loves his wife Penelope at home and will always be true to her and choose her above all.  Calypso just seduced him continuously.