# What is extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happens in real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 6, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311 "2021-02-06T04:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 162
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3222 "2024-01-26T01:12:40Z")
Ron Jeremy has entered the chat. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3223 "2024-01-26T01:16:25Z")
My libido just left the room. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3224 "2024-01-26T02:00:57Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Foxes never come up in the programs and movies I see… 😉 No _Midsomer Murders_ in your rotation? [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midsomer-murders-what-is-that-nocturnal-animal-bird-cry/](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/midsomer-murders-what-is-that-nocturnal-animal-bird-cry/) ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3225 "2024-01-26T04:43:03Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Has anyone here ever had sex on a table? Or knows someone who did? I can never figure out how this works, logistically. Yes. Riding lawnmower was better. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3226 "2024-01-26T06:36:18Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Has anyone here ever had sex on a table? Yep. But she was just bent over the table. Actually totally on the table? I cant see it. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3227 "2024-01-26T08:47:50Z")
[The movie _Clue_] **Miss Scarlett, looking at a roll of negatives:** No one can get into that position. **Professor Plum, moving towards her:** Sure they can. Let me show you. [/TMC] ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3228 "2024-01-26T13:21:53Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Actually totally on the table? I cant see it. The type of table isn’t specified, but in my case it was a dog groomer’s table. I met a dog groomer at a bar. We got to talking and ended up at her shop. The table raised/lowered hydraulically to facilitate working with different sized dogs. I assumed she’d done it before. She had a great sense of humor and told me afterwards that I was a good boy. I’ll show myself out now. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3229 "2024-01-26T14:42:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > She had a great sense of humor and told me afterwards that I was a good boy. Did she trim the fur around your hoo ha? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3230 "2024-01-26T14:45:19Z")
Nope, nor did she check my anal glands. /hijack ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3231 "2024-01-26T18:06:35Z")
On the counter next to the sink in a posh hotel bathroom. It was part of the suite her boss was using as an office. Lock the doors, get her naked and plop her down on the counter, with her back facing the wall. Drop your pants, have her wrap her legs around your hips, and go at it! It was extra-special because it was her first time. 🙂 (Well, her second or third, actually. I’d lost count.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3232 "2024-01-26T18:10:40Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > Has anyone here ever had sex on a table? > > Yep. But she was just bent over the table. Bent over a couch is nice too! 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3233 "2024-01-26T18:49:10Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > People having neighborhood parties where they’d all go to one person’s backyard and project movies on a blanket at night, or even the side of someone’s house. Uh, I do that quite a bit. I’m actually doing it tonight. Not the whole neighborhood, but a few people do come over. Works really well for Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3234 "2024-01-26T19:04:14Z")
Yeah, we used to do that all the time, also. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3235 "2024-01-26T22:10:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Bent over a couch is nice too! _Takes notes_ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3236 "2024-01-26T23:09:03Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Bent over a couch is nice too! 😀 Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3237 "2024-01-27T11:55:01Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > I picture it on a dining room table. Actually might be an advantage for a guy of the right height. Once read a sex scene where a woman and a centaur had sex, and one of the points was using a dining room table to get the woman to a comfortable height/position for the centaur guy to do the deed. Oddly enough, it wasn’t a romance novel or fan fix. It was part of a series about meta-humans. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3238 "2024-01-27T14:11:10Z")
What did the centaur do with his front legs? Fold them or extend them? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3239 "2024-01-27T14:13:31Z")
Sort of extend them above her heard? The scene wasn’t overly detailed. Honestly I’m not sure how the position works, not be an aficionado of bestiality-adjacent sex. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3240 "2024-01-27T14:17:24Z")
Never been to Mexico eh? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3241 "2024-01-27T15:05:11Z")
Since the thread has taken a southward turn into “what sex acts are extremely common in TV or movies but almost never happen in real life?” I submit sex in the shower. TV shows and movies _ **love** _ depicting couples doin’ it in the shower. I wouldn’t say it ‘almost never’ happens IRL, but in my experience it’s something you try once in a new relationship, when you’re in the adventurous stage, and never again. Seems like a sexy romantic thing, but in reality it’s cramped and awkward, you have to keep switching positions so one person is not getting cold out of the water stream and the other person hogging the warm water all the time, and someone inevitably knocks all the shampoos and stuff off the tray hanging from the shower head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311.md?page=161) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311.md?page=163)