History Main / HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday

A character who talks big about his ([[AManIsNotAVirgin or, more rarely, her]]) love life and success with the ladies (or gents), but in fact has little or nothing going on. Can be part of OfCourseImNotAVirgin.

* Parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch where Paul Reiser AsHimself is interviewed on a talk show and is asked how many sexual partners he's had in his life. He answers three dozen, which the host then mishears as three, and proceeds to deconstruct ruthlessly, explaining that all men automatically exaggerate their numbers, so "three might really mean just two, one, or even zero." A group of proud virgins in the audience stand up to congratulate him and [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame immediately make him their rolemodel to his utter dismay]] and [[AManIsNotAVirgin virulent protest.]]

* In the unaired pilot for the TV adaptation of ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'', the main female lead is listing her very lengthy list of academic qualifications, all of which she has achieved at a very young age (she's no older than thirty). The male lead makes a joke along the lines of "how'd you find time to have a life?" The female lead, suddenly very touchy, begins insisting that she had a life, ending with a completely out of the blue and not very convincingly delivered declaration that she "had boyfriends," the implication being that she's lying and is probably still a virgin.

** This is a RunningGag with Gob; he also wants his AccidentalMarriage annulled but can't bring himself to admit that he didn't consummate it.

* Richard Richard from ''{{Bottom}}''.
** And Rik from its SpiritualPredecessor, ''TheYoungOnes''.

* Jay from ''TheInbetweeners'' does this all the time.

* Parodied in a SNL sketch where Paul Reiser AsHimself is interviewed on a talk show and is asked how many sexual partners he's had in his life. He answers three dozen, which the host then mishears as three, and proceeds to deconstruct ruthlessly, explaining that all men automatically exaggerate their numbers, so "three might really mean just two, one, or even zero." A group of proud virgins in the audience stand up to congratulate him and [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame immediately make him their rolemodel to his utter dismay]] and [[AManIsNotAVirgin virulent protest.]]

* RareFemaleExample: Sae in ''HidamariSketch'' constantly insists she has had tons of boyfriends and has all kinds of experience which she supposedly uses as inspiration for her writing.

* [[spoiler: Mini [=McGuinness=]]] from the third generation of ''{{Skins}}''.

* Prince Edmund in the first series of ''{{Blackadder}}''.

* In a ''RedVsBlue'' Valentine's day PSA:

Compare HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday, which is frequently used in a parallel way. Subtrope of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.

->''My name is Olaf Peterson. I am very good in bed.''

* In ''Film/TheStrawberyBlonde'', set at the beginning of the 20th century, Amy strongly implies that she likes to have sex with men, much to Biff's horror. Later, she recoils in fear when Biff takes her seriously and starts kissing her in the park, revealing that she made it all up.

--> I just had sex! And I'll never go back to [[BuffySpeak the not-having-sex ways of the past!]]

--> She put a bag on my head.
--> Still counts!

* In one episode of ''HowIMetYourMother'', we get a flashback to Barney's school days. One of his classmates (probably around twelve years old) brags to Barney that [[BlatantLies he's slept with a hundred girls]]. Barney takes this at face value and retorts that someday, he'll sleep with ''two hundred'' girls. In a rare subversion of this trope, [[TheCasanova he actually does.]] When he calls up the old classmate to gloat, the classmate is quite disturbed and says that Barney needs help.
* Sheldon and Amy from ''TheBigBangTheory'' do this to convince Amy's mother that they are a couple, as she is uninterested in romance or sex [[CharacterizationMarchesOn (at first).]]

--> She had me put a bag on my head.

* {{Supernatural}} has a walking manifestation of this trope and HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday in the form of Dean Winchester.

* Milford in ''ScaryGoRound''. "Listen right, when I was on holiday, I met this girl, and got off with her like a hundred times" [[http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20040906]]

* The plot of ''Anime/LoveLab'' centers on this trope, as main character Riko lies about how she's basically an expert on love matters and is made to 'teach' others on how to be experts as well. Eventually, [[spoiler:the trope is subverted when she admits to having zero experience in love]], but that doesn't happen until the very end of the anime.

** She also bragged about losing her virginity to the gang.

[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* [[http://50-trolls-of-gay.tumblr.com/post/84963358793/kasoukai-harleyteir-kasoukai-reblogging This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post.

* Parodied by ''The Onion'': "[[http://www.theonion.com/video/teen-boys-losing-virginity-earlier-and-earlier-rep,35906/ Teen Boys Losing Virginity Earlier and Earlier, Report Teen Boys]]"

* ''AmericanBeauty''. [[spoiler:The 16-years-old Angela isn't the slut she makes herself out to be - in fact, she's a virgin.]]
* Sherman in the first ''AmericanPie'' film.
* ''TheBreakfastClub''. Brian tries to insist that "[He's] laid loads of times", even playing the GirlfriendInCanada card. He later admits that he's a virgin.

* Rascal in ''MemphisBelle'' constantly teases "Virgil the Virgin" while bragging about his own conquests. The novelization reveals that Rascal himself is in fact a virgin (ironically Virgil is not, having slept with a woman the day before the mission).
* In ''TheDeparted'', TheMole's new marriage is suffering from TheLoinsSleepTonight. When his boss says that women are attracted to married men because "it tells them you've got some money and your dick works," he responds, "Oh, it's working! Ha-ha! Overtime!"