Exactly how steamy is this story?
PG
If steaminess referred to either crazy English dialect or tangents about Methodism, well hoo boy. We'd slap this novel with a XXX rating and shove it into a shady-looking black plastic bag.
But that's not how this rating system works. We're talking about sexy sex, and that all happens off-screen in Adam Bede. Sure, Hetty and Arthur do it. But all we see is the grim after-effects: the pregnancy and the baby murder.
We're giving this a PG rather than a family-friendly "G" rating because man, do we not want kids reading about child murder. What a bummer.