new northanger abbey surprisingly (?) porny

[cimorene]

I say that this spring's TV version of Northanger Abbey was surprisingly porny because I was surprised, but I use a (?) because I'm not sure I should be surprised. It isn't an Austen adaptation nowadays without a sex, or almost sex, or making out, or references to sex. There's also the obligatory multiple-girls-in-nightgowns content in pretty much all of them. But, okay, in this movie the nightgowns scene is all wet, and in corsets. On a candlelit bed.

There's also some rather sexy dreams and a strong implication of masturbation: she dreams she's bathing when Tilney appears and tells her not to be ashamed, and offers her his hand and she stands up out of the water naked, before waking up flushed and confused. There's also some rather sexy face-touching when they're at the Abbey. Mmm, sexy face-touching.