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* Naomi Novik\'s \'\'{{Temeraire}}\'\' series is a possible example: in the dragon-riding Napoleonic-era British Aerial Corps, casual sexual relationships are common, and the main character even regularly sleeps with the mother of one of his midshipmen (the nepotism issue is brought up only once, and dismissed quickly). However, the trope\'s possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: some dragons that are necessary to the Corps will only accept female captains, it\'s a life that doesn\'t really lend itself to steady married relationships, especially within the mores of the time - and yet captains need to have children, because their dragons will outlive them, and it\'s easier for a bereaved dragon to accept its former captain\'s son or daughter. Outside the Corps, sexual mores seem to be exactly as they were in the real world during that time period, and characters who aren\'t associated with the Aerial Corps are shocked and appalled to learn how the Corps treats sex and gender. Said mother also scrupulously adheres to the rhythm method; not that she doesn\'t love her daughter, or the Corps might not need more girls, but she\'s the captain of a very important dragon and it was \
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* Naomi Novik\\\'s \\\'\\\'{{Temeraire}}\\\'\\\' series is a possible example: in the dragon-riding Napoleonic-era British Aerial Corps, casual sexual relationships are common, and the main character even regularly sleeps with the mother of one of his midshipmen (the nepotism issue is brought up only once, and dismissed quickly). However, the trope\\\'s possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]]: some dragons that are necessary to the Corps will only accept female captains, it\\\'s a life that doesn\\\'t really lend itself to steady married relationships, especially within the mores of the time - and yet captains need to have children, because their dragons will outlive them, and it\\\'s easier for a bereaved dragon to accept its former captain\\\'s son or daughter. Outside the Corps, sexual mores seem to be exactly as they were in the real world during that time period, and characters who aren\\\'t associated with the Aerial Corps are shocked and appalled to learn how the Corps treats sex and gender. Said mother also scrupulously adheres to the rhythm method; not that she doesn\\\'t love her daughter, or the Corps might not need more girls, but she\\\'s the captain of a very important dragon and it was \\\"damned inconvenient\\\".
** It wasn\\\'t just the unmarried sex that was shocking: very few people outside the Corps even realized that some aviators (who are, undoubtedly, soldiers) were women and most who learned were scandalized by that. Even most officers in the other branches of the military didn\\\'t know this part.
\\\'\\\'Fantasy World\\\'\\\'
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* JacquelineCarey\\\'s \\\'\\\'KushielsDart\\\'\\\'. The main character, Phèdre, is a member of a SacredProstitute order, which is perfectly normal by the slightly-rewritten Christian Bible alluded to in the books. Birth control is never even mentioned, but said character has sex with half the city (and numerous barbarians) without pregnancy becoming an issue.
**This is [[HandWave somewhat explained]] in later books that apparently D\\\'Angeline women don\\\'t become fertile until they perform a rite to Eisheth to open their wombs to seed. Said character never performs this rite out of fear that her children would be \\\"tainted\\\" by her legacy as an anguisette.
\\\'\\\'Fantasy World\\\'\\\'
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* Completely inverted in StationeryVoyagers. Sex is so dangerous [[CrapsackWorld in that universe]], that terrorists have devised ways to [[ImprobableWeaponUser weaponize]] sexual enhancement drugs. Anyone who escapes physical punishments for deviancy of any kind usually becomes a basket case down the road, and self-loathing is a common side effect of premarital sex, even for non-Minshans. Only villains walk away from a one-night\\\'s stand unfazed, and even then only until their KarmaMeter [[LaserGuidedKarma maxes out]].
\\\'\\\'Fantasy World\\\'\\\'
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* Both averted and played straight in \\\'\\\'BlackDogs\\\'\\\'. Two of the main cast are in a lesbian relationship, and [[TheHero Lyra]], who was bought up conservative, is somewhat uncomfortable. Also, one of the partners actually asks thinks to ask Lyra if she\\\'s okay with it. Played straight when one of the lesbians provides Lyra with [[FantasyContraception the fantasy equivalent of the morning-after pill]], to her profound embarrassment.
\\\'\\\'It\\\'s got anthropomorphic dog-men, for pete\\\'s sake. It\\\'s a fantasy world.\\\'\\\'\\\'
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* In the \\\'\\\'{{Torchwood}}\\\'\\\' episode \\\"Captain Jack Harkness\\\", Jack and his 1940s namesake (it\\\'s complicated) fall for each other and end up having a slow dance together and make out. At a busy RAF Officers\\\' Club. In 1941. They get a couple of slightly puzzled looks, but apparently no repercussions.
** Anyone named Captain Jack has a Steve-Jobs-like Reality Distortion Field that makes anything and everything they do either normal or awesome.
*** A number of [[EpilepticTrees theories]] have insisted that the \\\"real\\\" Captain Jack\\\'s pending death is only \\\'\\\'reported\\\'\\\' to be a combat death -- he was really shot in the back by his men for being a poofter the next day.
** Meanwhile, Captain Jack\\\'s \\\'\\\'DoctorWho\\\'\\\' debut, the \\\"Empty Child/Doctor Dances\\\" two-parter, provided a couple nice subversions: first by having Nancy get out of a tight situation by calling a man on his homosexual activities, then dealing with her own shame at the revelation [[spoiler: that Jamie was not her brother, but her out-of-wedlock son.]]
\\\'\\\'Torchwood makes no pretense of being historically accurate...\\\'\\\'
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* Inversion: Pick any slash fiction. Even fandoms like \\\'\\\'StarWars\\\'\\\', \\\'\\\'StarTrek\\\'\\\' and [[DidNotDoTheResearch most glaringly]] \\\'\\\'HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys\\\'\\\' are guilty of the assumption that homosexuality is taboo.
** Not any slash. Harry Potter slash functions under the idea that [[EveryoneIsGay gay is the default setting for most people]] and [[HetIsEw heterosexual pairings are unusual.]] Given that the Wizarding world is generally portrayed as being more prejudiced than our society, it\\\'s rather jarring.
*** It\\\'s likely more a function of Wizarding prejudice being \\\'\\\'different\\\'\\\' rather than worse. Some people may be bigoted towards Muggles and Muggle-borns, others towards half-breeds and non-humans, most of them might not care much for werewolves, but there also doesn\\\'t seem to be any sort of problem with interracial relationships (Dean and Ginny, Cho and Harry, Cho and Cedric) or intergenerational relationships (Tonks and Remus) the way that they would at least raise an eyebrow in Muggle society. It\\\'s also worth noting that nowhere in Dumbledore\\\'s biography does it suggest that he\\\'s gay, implying that wizards may not care about that kind of thing.
*Frequently (and unsurprisingly) also often played straight in fanfics set in, oh, say, the {{Stargate}} universe, in which supposedly the characters are under the authority of the modern US military, notorious for their \\\"Don\\\'t ask, don\\\'t tell,\\\" policy and yet no one thinks anything of Jack and Daniel engaging in an openly acknowledged sexual relationship. Or {{The Sentinel}}, in which the slash fandom has often has the main character, a \\\'\\\'cop\\\'\\\' in a sexual relationship with his male, civilian partner with nary a raised eyebrow. In the mid nineties in Cascade, Washington. It really depends on whether the author is interested in playing the forbidden love card or not, regardless of appropriateness.
\\\'\\\'None of these works are even trying to be historically accurate historical fiction. Harry Potter is a Fantasy World. Stargate is set in an Alternate World. Star Wars is set in some other galaxy completely, Star Trek is set both in the future \\\'\\\'\\\'and\\\'\\\' in an Alternate World, Hercules The Legendary Journeys is set in the Greeceof mythology.\\\'\\\'
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