# 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:** 163
**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 27, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3242 "2024-01-27T15:56:54Z")
My experiences differ. ---
**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, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3243 "2024-01-27T16:07:06Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > Never been to Mexico eh? No. And absolutely no desire to go there for any reason. It’s not just because of the alleged donkey sex shows. ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3244 "2024-01-27T16:40:48Z")
> [@Jay\_Z](#): > > My experiences differ. Good for you. But I think it’s at least safe to say that the shower is far from anyone’s _ **favorite** _ place to have sex. ---
**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 27, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3245 "2024-01-27T16:43:42Z")
That happened to me once. I think no distractions during sex has to be a given. Making sure you’re standing and not going to fall is distracting. ---
**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, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3246 "2024-01-27T16:53:04Z")
Also, make sure you know who’s in there before you climb in the shower! > [https://youtu.be/5mEJWwaTcpM](https://youtu.be/5mEJWwaTcpM) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3247 "2024-01-27T17:58:00Z")
> [@solost](#): > > 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. We have a shower built for two. Two shower heads, and a nice bench. Nevertheless, I agree with you. I think we might have _started_ in the shower once or twice (when we were younger) but a bed is really a better place to be comfortable during the main event. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3248 "2024-01-27T19:03:09Z")
I’m reminded of a sitcom gag long ago, of a couple remarking how they’d “christened’ every piece of furniture in their home. The visitors jaws drop when they realize that included the hallway deer antler coat rack ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3249 "2024-01-27T21:39:26Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > > Foxes never come up in the programs and movies I see… 😉 > > No _Midsomer Murders_ in your rotation? That’s how I know what a fox sounds like! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3250 "2024-01-28T01:27:26Z")
Showers are not conducive to lubrication. You need to finish in the bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3251 "2024-01-28T03:50:39Z")
Well, you could get the special lubricant ---
**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 28, 2024, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3252 "2024-01-28T06:38:59Z")
> [@solost](#): > > 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. Corollary to this, I submit: Couples taking a bath together in a standard-sized tub. Not necessarily leading to sex in the tub, but being portrayed as a romantic activity. I’ve tried it a few times, starting when I was a teenager. Two people in a tub is cramped, and any type of movement is difficult. Plus, the water gets cold too quickly. ---
**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 28, 2024, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3253 "2024-01-28T07:50:11Z")
Agreed. Tried it once, and I never will again unless I have one as big as Alotta Fagina’s. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3254 "2024-01-28T08:14:27Z")
> [@solost](#): > > in reality it’s cramped and awkward Yeah, but cleanup afterwards is a cinch. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3255 "2024-01-28T08:29:47Z")
You know that big jacuzzi tub at the casino resort hotel? You both fit but you should probably disinfect thoroughly before naked activities. Just a safety reminder. And that airliner bathroom; it really is too small. Possible, but still awkward. Once but never again. And on an ocean beach; gritty, sandy, salty, thousand of creepy crawly bitey things. Just NO. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3256 "2024-01-28T15:30:40Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Corollary to this, I submit: > > Couples taking a bath together in a standard-sized tub. Not necessarily leading to sex in the tub, but being portrayed as a romantic activity. How about the portrayal of someone who lays down in the bathtub to sleep at night, after all of the beds and sofas are taken? You can’t stretch out, as tubs (usually) aren’t long enough, they’re hard surfaces and the surface robs body heat. I think I’d rather try to sleep on a bare floor or carpet (and I have tried both). ---
**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 28, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3257 "2024-01-28T15:50:20Z")
Yeah, I agree with you on that. There was ONE time that I slept in a tub, and it was because I woke up in bed so sick to my stomach that I couldn’t do _anything_ to stop either end of me from…evacuating. So I laid in a waterless tub and passed out, halfway hoping that I would just die so that I wouldn’t feel this colossally sick anymore. I woke up sometime a day later, feeling weak but better. To this day, I don’t know what caused it. Wasn’t booze. Couldn’t trace it to something I ate. ---
**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 28, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3258 "2024-01-28T16:40:20Z")
I once had a summer job in which full toilet facilities were provided for both the male and female staff, who frequently showered before and after work. One morning after a particularly wild party on site, I walked into the men’s loo to take a whiz and found a colleague fast asleep in the wall-mounted trough urinal. 🤧 How many times he did this before or afterwards, I don’t know. (And no, I didn’t pee on him.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3259 "2024-01-28T21:16:44Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > How about the portrayal of someone who lays down in the bathtub to sleep at night, after all of the beds and sofas are taken? You can’t stretch out, as tubs (usually) aren’t long enough, they’re hard surfaces and the surface robs body heat. Yeah worse that just the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3260 "2024-01-28T21:26:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > How about the portrayal of someone who lays down in the bathtub to sleep at night, after all of the beds and sofas are taken? Or after your date tells you she works in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-extremely-common-in-tv-or-movies-but-almost-never-happens-in-real-life/932311/3261 "2024-01-28T21:42:16Z")
That’s probably just a Norwegian thing. [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=162) [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=164)