Do you like gambling?
There's a Fiction Codex entry called "
Gremory Pudding" that can be found on the Rust Coast area in Tarkus. It's basically a very raunchy porn flick with (you guessed it) a lot of pudding involved. Upon opening the codex entry (on the "Fiction" section of your codex. Also, you don't need to read the whole thing, just open it, and the effects should be immediate), Steele either: finds it disgusting, lowering lust by -30; thinks it's some hot stuff, raising lust by +30; is completely unfazed by it, and your lust stays at it was. You can check which change took place (if any) at the very bottom of the codex entry
Also, to answer your second question: autolooting is the default for almost all of the encounters of the game (and pretty much every FenCo game). I said "almost all" because some encounters offer you the choice to pick up stuff the opponent may have dropped when defeated. This is usually only done on boss/rare encounters, however. Just hit the "Drop items" button on your inventary from time to time if you feel your pockets are getting too full and don't care/are too far away to sell stuff to any vendor