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The Life of Timon of Athens Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this story?

PG-13

There might be a lot of talk of sex in Timon of Athens, but no one is actually doing it. Timon does meet up with two courtesans in the woods, and he instructs them: "be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up" (4.3.142). But Timon's not really interested in the sex part of it all; the courtesans are just tools to infect people with diseases at this point. So it turns out there are a bunch of references to the nasty consequences of sex, but there's not much actual sex happening in Timon of Athens.