Cloud 9 Sex Quotes

Harry asks Joshua if he'd like to slip into the barn and have sex. But he also wants to make sure that the sex is consensual and that Joshua isn't doing it because he thinks he has to.

Okaaaaaay. So up until this point, Clive has been a prim and proper British man. But now he's throwing down the old necrophilia pickup line to explain to Mrs. Saunders how badly he wants to have sex with her. Well let's just add that one to all of the sexual taboos Churchill is ticking off her list in this play.

When Edward is left alone with Harry Bagley, he mentions that he and Harry have had a sexual experience together (tick pedophilia off the taboo list, too). One thing that's especially strange about this scene is that it's the young Edward who's pressuring Harry to have a sexual encounter again, and it's Harry who's trying to refuse. Churchill never really stops trying to confuse us when it comes to our sense of sexual appropriateness.

When Harry turns down Edward's sexual request, Edward starts to push the envelope. He threatens to tell his father about Harry if Harry doesn't agree to give him sexual pleasure. He even orders Harry to take out his penis. But Harry still resists, even though the dude is a pedophile. Ugh. So icky.

Sheesh, there are enough missed connections in this play to fill a hundred Craigslist pages. Everyone seems to want someone they can't be with. Ellen wants to have sex with her boss Betty. But Betty isn't interested, and in the end, Ellen ends up falling into a loveless marriage with Harry Bagley (yup, the gay pedophile). Hoo boy. We bet that marriage isn't the happiest.

Harry Bagley wants to have sex with Clive. But when Harry makes his move, Clive is totally stunned. He flips out and tells Harry that he needs to get married right away to protect his reputation. Yeah, 'cause that always works out in real life.

When Lin asks Victoria for sex, Victoria main reaction seems to be curiosity about whether lesbian sex still counts as adultery. In a humorous way, Churchill uses this reaction to make fun of how people tend to get caught up with labels like gay, straight, or adultery instead of actually focusing on the pleasure of sex itself.

Gerry talks about his first sexual encounter with Edward in straightforward terms. The guy simply got on a train, saw a stranger, and had a sexual encounter with him. That's that, and if you're totally scandalized by this, Gerry doesn't really care. It happened, so deal with it.

In the most polite of ways, Victoria decides to invite any random person walking in the park to join her orgy with Edward and Lin. She makes this offer in no uncertain terms by first offering to perform oral sex on the stranger. The thing is that the person walking by turns out to be her husband, Martin. And Martin's not one to say no to a random orgy in the park.

Her whole adult life, Betty always thought that sex was just a duty she performed for her husband, Clive. But now that she's left him, Betty is starting to get more in touch with her own desires. And one of the first things she's realized is that she really likes sex. This is a big moment for Betty, because she's finally learning to lay claim to her own body and her own urges.