It was astonishingly long ago when the phrase “don’t get caught with a dead girl or a live boy in your bed” was invented. Ironically, there were morals clauses everywhere, all powerful censors, and fairly strict social mores at the time, yet all kinds of stuff ran rampant.
It hasn’t been terribly long ago that married couples could not be depicted as sharing the same bed. Dez and Lucy had twin beds on TV. In the movies, before that, if two people were shown in bed together, each had to have at least one foot on the floor. Meanwhile, behind the cameras ...