1st or 3rd Person?

[Juniper]

But then if you decide to write 2nd person, you sometimes feel a bit controlling and presumptuous, don't you?

Though I guess there are reasons to use it, I find it really unsettling. I read a story for a class last quarter in 2nd person: "Lust", by Susan Minot. It's about a promiscuous young girl talking about all the guys she's had sex with and how it made her feel, and in 2nd person it was SO creepy. As if such stuff she considered normal, something that anyone might do, and it really got me kind of squirmy and feeling shameful about my own late teens/early 20s and when I'd finished I wanted to take a shower with some strong soap. But yeah, I guess that's the point!

2nd person is, however, the POV of choice for marketing copy.