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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I agree. While browsing library listings I've seen descriptions of Regency romances with plots like "Lady Mary is bored with her life and has decided she wants one night of passion, and she knows just the man for it". This just doesn't make sense in a time where premarital sex and unwed pregnancy were (as you said) a disaster for the woman. Sure, people are human and undoubtedly some of them got carried away and things went farther than they intended, but for a woman to intentionally set out to have premarital sex with no expectation of marriage just isn't realistic for the time period.
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It did happen however, though rarely.
Pride and Prejudice qualifies as a contemporary fictional representation depending what you take "no expectation of marriage" to mean.