I know The Mysteries of Musgrovio is going to have more sex than the original, but I was wondering how explicit Udolpho actually is, and what exactly my innocent Southanger Abbey version of Sherlock is being exposed to. Could you give me a couple of quotes from the most overtly sexual scenes in the original Udolpho?
Mmmm @chriscalledmesweetie it’s shocking enough to get sweet young Sherlock’s pulse elevated!
Interestingly enough in some of Radcliffe other works there’s some pretty heavily implied smuttiness. Heaving bosoms and ripped bodices and the like 👀. Mine is a step between implied and explicit- but shocking enough for a young man fresh from the countryside..
“John was marble in the moon-light, the planes of his chest shadowy and strong, the jagged knot on his shoulder visible even in the darkness; Sherlock’s head was thrown back as kisses were laved upon his neck, his back arched as John’s mouth swept over his chest and stomach before pausing over the dark grove between his legs where Sherlock trembled for John’s touch. Sherlock’s hand explored the soft curve of John’s cheek, his ear, his head; it was as the swelling of a gentle hill against the sharp lines of the elevated peaks of Sherlock’s spread knees.
Sherlock gasped a breath round the meat of his palm as John’s mouth was upon him, his gasps echoed in the shiver of the leaves in the night, only stopped once John’s mouth was upon his own again, claiming his cries as he felt the strong, sure, hand of John around him; around them both, driving him to the heights of the sublimest ecstasy. His body trembled and shook, he was undone, he was entire, he was shattering apart under the body of his lover, he was coalescing and reforming under the moon-light and the cry of the nightingale.”