History Main / LieBackAndThinkOfEngland

* Becka Paulson, a character in StephenKing's ''TheTommyknockers'' is actually relieved when her husband starts an affair and doesn't have sex with her anymore. To her, sex was "just as her mother had told her it would be, nasty, brutish, sometimes painful, always humiliating".

* Becka Paulson, a character in StephenKing's ''TheTommyknockers'' is actually relieved when his husband starts an affair and doesn't have sex with her anymore. To her, sex was "just as her mother had told her it would be, nasty, brutish, sometimes painful, always humiliating".

->"I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England."
-->-- '''Lady Alice Hillingdon''', 1912

->"I sat on the bed, and she sat on another bed 30 feet away. Then, dear Ripely, my one true love, lay back and thought of England. And across the room, I lay back and thought of Wales and Scotland. And thereby, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707 union]] was achieved."
-->--''BleakExpectations.''

It should be noted that this absurd phrase is ''highly'' discredited, and is usually used to [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruct]] the idea that women lack sex drives. All the following examples are parodies. If it has ever been said in seriousness, this trope description will have to change. The sentiment it expresses, however, can be found in full on AllWomenArePrudes.

* ''OutThere'': Sherry uses "while I think of my homeland" in reference to hand-shaking, which is a parody even more than is normal. [[http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090807.html]]

* ''[[http://outthere.keenspot.com/d/20090807.html Out There]]'': Sherry uses "while I think of my homeland" in reference to hand-shaking, which is a parody even more than is normal.

*** Its entirely possible that if she ''did'' say it, she wasn't referring to a technique to tolerate sex, but rather ''a lack thereof''.

->"I sat on the bed, and she sat on another bed 30 feet away. Then, dear Ripely, my one true love, lay back and thought of England. And across the room, I lay back and thought of Wales and Scotland. And thereby, union was achieved."

-->--''Bleak Expectations.''

** Granted, she IS enslaved and made to endure a nightly sex ritual so that she might bear a child for her patron and his wife.

* Similarly, in ''TheHandmaidsTale'', the unnamed narrator character mentally advises the newly wedded girls to "lie back and think of England".

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