1 | '''Basic Trope''': A work set in the past, or in a very conservative present-day culture, has very liberal attitudes towards sex and sexuality. |
2 | * '''Straight''': In ''A Story from the MiddleAges'', Alice [[ReallyGetsAround has sex with several different men]], and faces no scorn from other characters for doing so. In RealLife, SlutShaming would have been the ''least'' of her worries. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice openly carries on a lesbian relationship with Christine and no one blinks. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice's marriage to Bob consists of her moving into his home, with little to no [[WeddingAndEngagementTropes pomp and circumstance]]. (i.e. what we today would call "cohabitation," or perhaps "common-law marriage.") |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice is lower-class, and [[BeneathNotice nobody cares about some random farmer/townswoman as long as she does her job.]] |
7 | ** Alice is extremely ''high-class'' and her reputation is the ElephantInTheLivingRoom. While people are seen [[GossipyHens gossiping about it]] behind her back, actually confronting her would mean [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem retaliation from either herself]] or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her family.]] Alternately, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney she's constantly seen paying her servants to keep quiet.]] |
8 | ** The culture ''talks'' a lot about staying "pure" and religious, but it's mostly lip-service and everyone just does what they want outside of the actual church. |
9 | ** This particular time and place in history really did have such attitudes about sex. |
10 | *** perhaps it predates all civilization. (EG: a story about Homo Erectus) |
11 | ** The culture does not worry too much about [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe whose children are whose]]; every man who could even ''potentially'' be a father takes responsibility for the kids, and inheritance is through the mother's lineage, not the father's. |
12 | *** Or, perhaps marriage as we know it doesn't exist, and couples go their separate ways after doing the deed. |
13 | *** Or, maybe there's a way to find out exactly who a given child's father is. |
14 | ** 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.) |
15 | * '''Inverted''': |
16 | ** In ''A Story from America TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture'', Alice is facing the possibility of [[DisproportionateRetribution execution for having engaged in premarital sex]]. |
17 | ** In ''A Story from 1980s America'', the sexual attitudes are depicted as equivalent to Victorian Britain. |
18 | ** Alice lives in the year 3000, and it's a FreeLoveFuture. |
19 | * '''Subverted''': |
20 | ** Alice becomes pregnant as a result of her having had sex outside of marriage, and her community begins to scorn her. |
21 | ** Alice and Bob 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. |
22 | ** The story begins with a depiction of Alice and her wife Christine participating in normal society. However, this was just a DreamSequence from Alice. The story then shows how she and Christine must keep their relationship hidden for fear of ostracism or worse. |
23 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
24 | ** Alice has an abortion or a ConvenientMiscarriage, and regains her standing in the community when people eventually forget about the pregnancy. |
25 | ** The shotgun wedding was actually part of Alice and Bob's plan to get married by choice in a culture where ArrangedMarriage is the norm. |
26 | * '''Parodied''': In ''A Story from the Middle Ages'', Alice is chosen as the first pansexual popess, and celebrates with a ten-day orgy. No one even bats an eye to this. |
27 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Different cultures in the setting have different sexual mores. |
28 | ** The culture had a sexual BlueAndOrangeMorality compared to today. |
29 | * '''Averted''': ShownTheirWork, DeliberateValuesDissonance |
30 | * '''Enforced''': PoliticallyCorrectHistory |
31 | * '''Lampshaded''': When Alice marries Christine, they have their wedding in a Church and it's officiated by a Bishop. The narrator ends the scene by stating "this is so historically accurate!" |
32 | * '''Implied''': Sexual artifacts were found widely distributed throughout archaeological sites. |
33 | * '''Invoked''': The Libertine Towns were founded by malcontents and exiles from more sexually repressive neighbors. |
34 | * '''Exploited''': Alice becomes TheMistress to King Robert, and increases her status in society. |
35 | * '''Defied''': When word gets out that Alice has been sleeping around, her village (or [[HonorRelatedAbuse her family]]) has her burned at the stake. |
36 | * '''Discussed''': "You know Alice, when you traveled back in time I thought for sure you'd get arrested by the inquisition or thrown in prison. But it seems like nobody minds." |
37 | * '''Conversed''': "Isn't it a bit unrealistic that she doesn't face any consequences for sleeping around before marriage? Doesn't the movie take place in, like, the Middle Ages?" |
38 | * '''Deconstructed''': Sure, there may be more sexual freedom in this portrayal of the Middle Ages, but they still lack the effective contraceptives and STI treatments of the modern day. |
39 | * '''Played For Laughs''': When traveling through time Alice is puzzled to always see the same three sleazy buildings adapted to the time period. |
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