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Clarissa Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this story?

PG-13

This is a little awkward, Shmoopers. Our beloved author, Sammy Richardson, was well-known for writing titillating scenes that just border on the inappropriate. Clarissa has plenty of almost-sexy-time scenes, but no real sex. Still, there are plenty of allusions and double-entendre. In fact, the whole book revolves around what Lauryn Hill called "that thing." Think of it as the Lord Voldemort of eighteenth-century novels—it is not to be named