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{{trope}}
{{quote|''You know her by day
''But you don't know Karen by night''
|'''[[Jill Sobule]]''', "Karen by Night"}}
Nina is a [[Hot Librarian|librarian]]. During the day, she wears long skirts, a loose blouse done all the way up to her neck, her hair in a bun and sensible shoes.
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Compare [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A [[Manga|Hentai Manga]] take on this: ''
▲* A [[Manga|Hentai Manga]] take on this: ''[[Were Slut]]'' (unfortunate name [[Completely Different Title|created from whole cloth]] by Eros Comix, the US distributor) is about a shy college student named Kimiko who takes a magic beauty pill to make her attractive enough to win her childhood friend (read: [[Hollywood Homely|she takes off her glasses]]). It works, but, due to the magic pill being past its expiration date, it keeps kicking in whenever she gets aroused. After the first time, though, it also kills all her inhibitions.
** Ditto for the manga/anime ''Sprite: Between Two Worlds'',wherein Manami, a severely repressed and meek college student turns into Nami, an outrageously uninhibited flirt whenever she's put into any situation that is too much for her to handle. The catalyst is her cousin Toru, who convinced Manami to be more confident around him when they were young by convincing her she was really Nami.
* In the [[Ecchi]] manga ''[[My Balls]]'', the main character's primary love interest Minayo is a sweet, kindly young woman who works at a daycare center. When she gets drunk, however, she goes into what the protagonist describes as "full-blown nympho mode". Unfortunately, said protagonist can't have sex for a month or the demon sealed inside his balls (hence the name of the manga) will be released and cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Minayo happens to be an alcoholic, and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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== Comic Books ==
* While it never came up in the comics, writer Mark Waid's character notes for the ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' speculate Susan Storm was like this as a young woman to cope with the stress of having to raise her little brother.
* Aurora was like this in ''[[Alpha Flight]]'''s early years, exaggerated by her [[Split Personality]]. One persona was Jeannie-Marie: strict, stuffy schoolmarm teaching at the same girls' school she was raised in. And then there was ''Aurora'': sultry, adventure-loving, free-spirited partier.
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== Film ==
* The movie ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' is about a seemingly average housewife who's a prostitute in secret. But here this trope is inverted: as she is a housewife, she can actually do this job only ''by day'' instead of by night. (This is where the name of the film comes from.)
* The [[Heroes Want Redheads|red-headed librarian]] from ''[[Tomcats]]'' looks like a plain, uptight young lady. She (and her grandma!) are also into S&M.
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Torchwood]]'' novel ''SkyPoint'' takes this to extremes; a very prim and proper little old lady, who is actually an S&M prostitute.
* Almost every Cairheinan noblewoman in the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' is heavily implied to fit this trope. Though during some festivals they will run around almost nude on the streets, especially during the Feast of Light (during which normal prohibitions against inter-class kissing (and other things) are lifted), leading to a large number of commoners having bragging contests about who made out with the most important noblewoman.
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== Live Action Television ==
* ''[[On the Buses]]'' long-suffering Olive would love to be Naughty By Night, but her miserable husband Arthur would rather sleep. Actually, he'd probably rather do his taxes...
* Effy from ''[[Skins]]'': innocent schoolgirl by day, [[Fille Fatale]] by night.
* Sheila from the US version of ''[[Shameless]]''. By day she's a sweet agoraphobic and germaphobic housewife. But at night she is very very into pegging filthy alcoholic Frank.
== Real Life ==
* Ever hear the phrase "a lady on the streets and a freak in the sheets?"
** In Mexico it is said that the perfect wife is "a saint at church, a lady at the table and a whore in bed"
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*** Boston is supposed to uptight, prudish, and hypocritical, [[Did Not Do the Research|like the rest of America.]] [[Europeans Are Kinky|Paris is European and casual.]] As Marlene Dietrich once put it, "In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it is a fact of life."
*** "Boston Brahmins" were prim, proper, and probably born knowing the Blue Laws, attributed (accurately or not) to their Puritan ancestors. There's also the expression [[Banned in China|"banned in Boston"]], implying something was especially racy. A [[Dead Horse Trope]] now, by and large, thanks in part to a huge influx of Irish and Italian immigrants, two very Catholic ethnicities that absolutely horrified the genteel "real" Bostonians (all those kids - what ''must'' have they been up to?).
** A mangled variation in the Carolyn Mark song
** Another variation is found in [[Ludacris]]' verse in "Yeah!" by [[Usher]] feat. [[Lil Jon]]: "We want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed that say (Yeah! Yeah!)"
** Roman satirist Martial wrote "If you enjoy being a prude so much, be one all day long. but at night, I want you to be my [[High-Class Call Girl|high-priced hooker.]]"
* This was supposedly true for Messalina, Emperor Claudius's wife, who if Suetonius is to be believed, left the palace at night to work as a prostitute.
* According to [http://www.cracked.com/article_18760_6-things-everyone-knows-about-women-that-arent-true.html this] Cracked article, on average women have ''more'' sexual partners than men.
== Theatre ==
* The play ''[[Miss Julie]]'' fits this with regard to personality, but replace "librarian" with "aristocrat".
* Fantine in ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'' is fired from her factory job when she is discovered to have a child, and her fellow workers claim that she is a prostitute. However, she had only ever had one lover, who had abandoned her, and it is only after she is fired that she has to become a prostitute.
* The song "Miss Byrd" from ''[[Closer Than Ever]]'' is about a secretary exulting in how no one who sees her would think that she's anything but "that dull Miss Byrd," yet she has secret trysts with her superintendent.
* Parodied in ''[[The Music Man]]'': The town gossips manage to convince the Professor that [[Hot Librarian|Marian the Librarian]] is Naughty by Night primarily because she reads "racy" books by "[[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]...[[François Rabelais|Rabelais]]...[[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]]" and was kind enough to befriend the town outcast. She's not, but he falls in love with her anyway.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 7'' got this one, cranked up to 20, with [[Hot Librarian]] [[Punny Name|Victorian Principles]].
* Nekoko from ''[[Yume Miru Kusuri]]'' {{spoiler|though this is more of drug effect}}.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', a prim bureaucrat is utterly turned on after hours by Fry's horrifyingly slobby lifestyle.
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