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Notes from the Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Notes from the Underground Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this story?

PG-13

While there is some sex with a prostitute, Dostoevsky keeps things pretty implicit or unsaid. He pulls a chapter break any time sex comes around. Also, the sex in notes is followed with morality lectures on how depraved the intercourse was.

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