History PlayingWith / EternalSexualFreedom

** Alice is extremely ''high-class'' and everyone only stays quiet ''in public.'' Actually confronting her would mean severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]] Alternately, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney she's constantly seen paying her servants to keep quiet.]]

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice openly carries on a relationship with [[LesYay another woman,]] and no one blinks.

** In a story that takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, in the BigApplesauce, Alice is facing the possibility of execution [[DisproportionateRetribution for having engaged in premarital sex]].

** The story begins with a depiction of Alice and her wife Christine participating in normal society. However, this was a DreamSequence from Alice, and the story then shows how she and Christine must hide their relationship from everyone for fear of ostracism or worse.

* '''Averted''': ShownTheirWork

* '''Lampshaded''': When Alice marries another woman the couple has their wedding in a Church and it's officiated by a Bishop. The narrator ends the scene by stating "this is so historically accurate!"

** The culture ''talks'' a lot about staying "pure" and religious, but it's mostly lip-service and [[{{Hypocrisy}} everyone just does what they want outside of the actual church.]]
** This part of the past really did lack sexual qualms.

** In ''A Story from the MiddleAges'', Alice is facing the possibility of execution for having engaged in premarital sex.

** Alice, a FishOutOfTemporalWater, visits a very sexually-liberated time and/or place, such as TheSeventies.
** Alice is a prostitute, that being the only way she can earn a living after having been divorced.
** AliceAndBob have a ShotgunWedding, and Bob makes restitution for the bride price Alice's father would have received if Alice was married off as a virgin.

** But soon enough, they forget about it, and the issue is rarely, if ever, mentioned again.
** Alice has an abortion or a ConvenientMiscarriage, or simply has a ShotgunWedding, and life goes on.
** Or, Alice is able to win back the respect of the community somehow.
** Alice brings back the culture of sexual freedom to her time, and no one protests.
** But she is a HighClassCallGirl, and widely respected.
** Alice uses this as a way to be able to pick and choose her marriage partner, in a setting where ArrangedMarriage is the norm.
* '''Parodied''': In ''A Story from the MiddleAges'', Alice is chosen as the first pansexual popess, and celebrates with a ten-day orgy. No one even bats an eye to this.

* '''Exploited''': Alice becomes TheMistress to KingBobTheNth, and increases her status in society.

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

** In this setting, [[FantasyContraception some kind of reliable birth control]] exists, even if it did not exist in RealLife. Therefore, Alice does not have to worry about getting pregnant. (And either there's STDImmunity, or some way of preventing {{=STI=}}s other than abstinence or monogamy, so Alice doesn't have to worry about that, either.)

** Alice is extremely ''high-class'' and everyone only stays quiet ''in public.'' Actually confronting her would mean severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]] Alternately, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney she's constantly paying her servants to keep quiet.]]

** Alternately, Alice is extremely ''high-class'' and everyone only stays quiet ''in public.'' Actually confronting her would mean severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]]

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Justified''': Alice is lower-class, and [[BeneathNotice nobody cares about some random farmer/townswoman as long as she does her job.]]

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Justified''': Alice is lower-class, and [[BeneathNotice nobody cares too much about some random farmer/townswoman as long as she does her job.]]
** Alternately, Alice is extremely ''high-ranking'' and it's clear that everyone only stays quiet about it ''in public.'' Actually confronting her would mean severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]]

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice openly carries on a relationship with another woman, and no one blinks.

** Alternately, Alice is extremely high-ranking and it's clear that everyone only stays quiet about it ''in public.'' Saying disapproving remarks to her face would mean severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]]

** Alternately, Alice is extremely ''high-ranking'' and knows that nobody can publicly disapprove of her without severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]]

** Alternately, Alice is extremely ''high-ranking'' and knows that nobody can publicly disapprove of her without severe [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from her]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem her family.]]

** Alternately, Alice is extremely ''high-ranking'' and knows that nobody can disapprove of her (publicly, at least) without severe retaliation from her or her family.

** The culture talks a big game about keeping oneself "pure" and being religious, but [[{{Hypocrisy}} they just do what they want anyway.]]

* '''Justified''': It's because she's lower-class, and [[BeneathNotice nobody cares too much about some random farmer/townswoman as long as she does her job.]]

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': Alice's marriage to Bob consists of her moving into his home. (i.e. what we today would call "cohabitation," or perhaps "common-law marriage.")

* '''Downplayed''': Alice's marriage to Bob consists of her moving into his home.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice carries on a relationship with another woman, and no one blinks.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Inverted''': In a story that takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, in the BigApplesauce, Alice is facing the possibility of execution [[DisproportionateRetribution for having engaged in premarital sex]].

* '''Subverted''': Alice becomes pregnant as a result of her having had sex outside of marriage, and her community begins to scorn her.

* '''Double Subverted''': But soon enough, they forget about it, and the issue is rarely, if ever, mentioned again.

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* '''Basic Trope''': A work set in the past, or in a very conservative present-day culture, has very liberal attitudes towards sex and sexuality.

* '''Conversed''': ???