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Writers can also err when they show couples enthusiastically partaking in forms of sex more common now than in other time periods. Oral and anal sex and various mild kinks that are now viewed as perfectly acceptable may well have been regarded as completely depraved in the time and place the work is set.<ref>Although this is a particularly unknowable subject, as in many time periods people simply didn't write about sex in anatomical detail, except in porn which is a bad source for what people actually did instead of fantasising about</ref> Though some historians claim anal sex was popular in some cultures as a form of birth control.
Because this is a subtrope of [[Did Not Do the Research]] that applies to ''historical accuracy'': it doesn't apply to fantasy settings, [[Alternate History]] works, [[Free-Love Future|works set in the future]], or works set in the present day. However do note that sexual freedom is something of a [[Cyclic Trope]] -- the 1920s, for instance, were viewed as an era of Free Love all the way up to the 1960s -- although the degree to which the pendulum swings (in either direction) will vary from cycle to cycle.
See [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex]] for the setting most commonly invoked by this trope.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Subverted humorously in a recent{{when}} Carl's Jr./Hardee's TV commercial in which a man in a suit, having apparently time-
== [[Anime]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the second episode of ''[[New Amsterdam]]'', during a flashback set in the early 1940s, John produces a baby apparently outside of wedlock and no one cares. Lily was fired after her employer saw her with a white man and she had to enter the hotel through a service elevator. Her father was very upset with them both, and said they could never make it in the world. The hotel staff react more reasonably than you would expect in real life in the 1940s, but they may not have known John and Lily were together. Lily herself breaks it off, knowing they'll be together in the long run. It turns out this after she gets pregnant, and when they reunite in the black hospital, there are some very pointed looks.
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* ''[[That '70s Show]]'': Some of the show's later plots, while not actually incorrect, were very unlikely to happen, such as Hyde marrying a stripper and continuing to live with the Formans, or Eric and Donna getting caught having sex in the kitchen and suffering no repercussions. In all likelihood, those things wouldn't happen ''now.''
* Averted in the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Out of Time"—the temporally-displaced characters have to be told about modern sexual mores, and each reacts differently.
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