In “The Choice of Valentines,” Nashe uses vivid descriptions and imagery to engage the male reader. While the poem’s plot and language make it very erotic and pleasing to his contemporary intended audience, he also uses humor to poke fun at the narrator and his inability to please Francis in the end. Nashe humorously addresses the insecurities of male sexuality, such as fear about one’s ability to satisfy a woman, and he combines this wit with explicitly erotic imagery and dialogue. I am curious as to how contemporary male readers would have received this poem as it is both seduces the reader and also forces him to face his sexual insecurities in face of a woman who is more sexually competent than he.