Love for all

I talked a little bit about love when we studied The House of Bernarda Alba and Hedda Gabler but I think its important here too. I wanted to explore: How is love portrayed? How does love guide the plays differently? In Alba Adela has this bright idea that love will save her. That her love for Pepe will bring about a wonderful end if only she can run away with it. In a way I see this similar to Lysistrata because the women see there bodies as tools for love, which we could say that when Adela was giving herself to Pepe she felt loved, and so to be deprived from love would result in desperation of the men in Lysistrata. It also caused desperation in the women of the Alba household in the same way. And so it shows a perfect example of how love and abstaining from sex can cause radical measures to be taken. More so in Lysistrata love was viewed as a mutual agreement, that men could take and rape their wives but would perfer a mutual idea. In Hedda Gabler, the talk of love is as a tool to manipulate and gain the usage of another as Hedda did/tried to do, but it is most seen to be successfull when the women of Lysistrata receive their happy ending. I noticed that all these plays were very sexually oriented. Does IB have a reason for that? Hedda Gabler discussed the threesome, Alba related humans and animal wildness, and then of course there was Lysistrata which is pretty self-explanatory of how it was related to sex. But I was just curious if the sex related themes were important to Ib or what> I just found it interesting...