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Someone, usually a child, is wandering in his or her house and walks into two people having sex. (Because nobody ''ever'' has a bedroom with a lock on the door in fiction.) Most of the time it's the parents. This can be a trigger for A) the parents to give [[The Talk|that one discussion we all mention vaguely]], B) the unfortunate soul to be [[Heroic BSOD|Shell Shocked for a while]], C) [[Rule of Funny|be very funny]] or some combination of the three. |
Someone, usually a child, is wandering in his or her house and walks into two people having sex. (Because nobody ''ever'' has a bedroom with a lock on the door in fiction.) Most of the time it's the parents. This can be a trigger for A) the parents to give [[The Talk|that one discussion we all mention vaguely]], B) the unfortunate soul to be [[Heroic BSOD|Shell Shocked for a while]], C) [[Rule of Funny|be very funny]] or some combination of the three. |
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Its psychological term is the ''Primal Scene'', coined by none other than [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. |
Its psychological term is the '''Primal Scene''', coined by none other than [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]. |
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Naturally, media always plays this as a [[Harmful to Minors|traumatic experience]], rather than the person just figuring it is natural, quickly realizing it, or just not understanding why mommy and daddy are playing leap-frog naked ([[Fridge Horror|and then after looking back on it all]], will quickly apply [[Brain Bleach]] to forget about it). |
Naturally, media always plays this as a [[Harmful to Minors|traumatic experience]], rather than the person just figuring it is natural, quickly realizing it, or just not understanding why mommy and daddy are playing leap-frog naked ([[Fridge Horror|and then after looking back on it all]], will quickly apply [[Brain Bleach]] to forget about it). |
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