Benedict Cumberbatch has finally discussed a topic we've been wondering about for years: what on earth Sherlock would be like in bed.

Speaking to ELLE UK, Cumberbatch deems his character asexual, but only "for a purpose. Not because he doesn't have a sex drive, but because it's suppressed to do his work. Cold showers, looking at a lot of dead bodies… that'll do it for you."

Asked how he would play Sherlock in bed, he hints at some forward planning: "You know I'd get the, I'd probably test the latex, if it involved prophylactics, beforehand." Sexy.

I would be devastating

"I'd do a little experiment to do with durability, length, girth, and um, strength. And um, I would probably take a lot of vitamin supplements to make sure that I could perform, and had had my sleep, and probably not had many cigarettes. Or drink, for that matter. Not that he does drink."

"I would probably watch a lot of porn...[but] I might have to shave, um, areas to fit in with a modern idea of bodily hair."

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By this point there's clearly no stopping Benedict, who has escaped to the world of a sexual Sherlock and doesn't look to be returning any time soon.

"And then I would be devastating. I'd know exactly how to please a woman, I'd know exactly where to put my fingers, where to put my tongue, where to put my – his I should say – his fingers, his tongue. Think about violinists, think about what they can do with their fingers."

Good LORD say it isn't so.

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"I'd know exactly how to get that person into it, and get pleasure out of making that person feel pleasure to the point that I probably wouldn't even have to enter…But when I did it would be explosive."

Well. We're not sure we'll ever be able to view Sherlock again in the same light, but here's how you can cope with this mind-blowing news.

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Catriona Harvey-Jenner Digital Features Editor Cat is Cosmopolitan UK's features editor covering women's issues, health and current affairs.

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