7 NSFW Classic Novels You Won’t Believe They Let You Read in School

On a sexiness scale of 1 to Fifty Shades of Grey, you’d think classic novels would be coming in somewhere around a -3. They’re full of misunderstandings and semicolons and the consumption, but sex scenes? Impossible. I’ve read Jane Austen; I know full well that the raunchiest that happens is the yearning. (This is not a complaint, incidentally. Merely an observation. I live for the yearning.) 

But I’m here to tell you that’s not the case. Classic literature can be pretty raunchy. And while some of those wind up getting banned (I guess because sex is a secret or something), others are assigned in class with a test on Tuesday over chapters 3 through 12. These are just a few of those books.