History Main / HotForPreacher

-->"I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. . . . So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better" (1 Cor. 7:32-35, 38).

* In the first ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' book, [[TheCasanova compulsive womaniser]] Jay is first seduced as a teenage boy by the priestess of his local temple.

* On ''Series/KungFu1972'' Caine was the object of this a time or two.
* On ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Father Mulcahy had this happen when he helped one of the nurses study to become a doctor.
* Early episodes of ''Series/{{Soap}}'' had Corinne in love with Father Tim. He eventually left the priesthood to marry her. Then they had a demon baby; after it was exorcised it was [[PutOnABus Put On A Perambulator]].
* Brazilian SoapOpera ''Series/MulheresApaixonadas'' ('Passionate Women') had a subplot where a woman fell in love with a Catholic priest. Eventually she got him to leave the clergy and marry her.
* In ''Series/TheSopranos'', the sexual tension between Carmela Soprano and Father Intintola is a plot point.




* Frequently in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', and in [[AllLoveIsUnrequited both directions]]. Naturally though, [[AbhorrentAdmirer the guys who are interested in Geraldine]] are nothing like [[MrFanservice the guys she's interested in herself]].
* Series/{{Angel}}'s twisted obsession with Drusilla stems from the fact that she is a "saint", as he calls it. She wants nothing more than to become a nun. Guess how that one turned out...
* Samantha in ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' lusted over a SexyPriest in one episode but her interest wasn't reciprocated.

* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/FatherTed'', where Ted believes an attractive female novelist visiting Craggy Island has developed feelings for him. Ted all but rushes through a mass and blows off a visiting group of nuns when she invites him over to her place, only for her to reveal that she's thinking about becoming a nun, and wants to get his advice on vocations.
* In one episode of ''Series/DerryGirls'', Erin, Michelle, Orla, and even [[AmbiguouslyBi James]] (but not Clare) are enamored by handsome young [[SexyPriest Fr. Peter]], who is called upon to verify their claim that they witnessed a statue of Mary weep. (There was no miracle; [[ItMakesSenseInContext the tears were actually dog piss]].)
* A case of TruthInTelevision in ''Series/TheBorgias''- both [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Rodrigo]] and [[SexyPriest Cesare]] experience this, though Cesare's lover in series one leaves him for the convent after [[MurderTheHypotenuse he murders her husband]].

* In ''The Last Don II'', MafiaPrincess Rose Marie has a love affair with her parish priest (played by Creator/JasonIsaacs). It does not end well for him.

* ''{{Series/Amen}}''. Thelma Frye falls in LoveAtFirstSight with the handsome Reverend Gregory and she isn't the only woman to be attracted to him over the show's tenure. Later, her father falls in love with with a female associate pastor.
* Inverted on ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'', when it's the local minister who becomes attracted to Mike while they're trying to find homes for orphans.
* Also inverted on ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', when a minister confesses his love for Vivian after they spend several weeks working together on a project for the church.
* On ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'', the Vicar is pursued by so many of the women in the parish--unsuccessfully, as he is devoted to his wife--that she says that she liked his old ministry better. (He had previously been chaplain at a men's prison.)

* A ''Deadly Women'' segment profiled a nun who murdered a fellow sister, insanely jealous and disapproving of her relationship with the priest, feeling that she was an evil woman who was corrupting him.

* ''Series/{{Loving}}''. Shana for Jim. Ends tragically, of course--he's killed after leaving the priesthood for her, [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy leaving her pregnant with their son]].
** Then on the SpinOff ''The City'', Zoe creates a fake version of this after reading ''Literature/TheThornBirds'', because she wants to discourage the affections of the man she really loves, having just discovered that they might be [[BrotherSisterIncest brother and sister]]. [[note]] It turns out that they aren't. She admits to her ruse and they leap into bed. [[/note]]
* A mild case in ''Series/KimsConvenience'', when a beautiful female pastor called Nina Gomez joins the local church Mr. and Mrs. Kim regularly attend. Mr. Kim takes an instant attraction to her and is very enthusiastic around her (in contrast to the main priest Pastor Choi and church in general), going as far as to let her get things from his store for free. The trope wears off after her debut episode, with the two remaining amicable but Mr. Kim otherwise no longer showing any interest in her.

* In the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek "Sins And Seduction", a man becomes obsessed with the new minister at his church and true to form, begins stalking and terrorizing her.
* An episode of ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' has a handsome priest who is thinking of giving up the priesthood; Mary mistakenly thinks it's because of her.
* An episode of ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' has a local minister being murdered. It turns out he was having affairs with several local women (for added bonus, his secretary was madly in love with him also, though it never went anywhere) and his killer was the angry father of one of them.
* When the titular character of ''Series/{{Fleabag}}'' falls for a NiceGuy for once, he happens to be a Catholic priest.
* ''Series/CityOnAHill'': Jenny develops a mutual attraction to Father Doyle, and they have sex.
* In an episode of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Leroy develops a crush on Sister Astrid, a nun. It's revealed that Leroy is [[AmnesiacLover actually]] [[Literature/SnowWhite Grumpy Dwarf]] and Astrid is a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]] who he had a brief relationship with before their callings pulled them apart. Dwarfs and fairies are both {{One Gender Race}}s who are expected to be {{Celibate Hero}}es and focus exclusively on mining or granting wishes respectively.

* 'Dont Mess With The Missionary Man', a song by Music/{{Eurythmics}}.
* "Goin' Down" by Music/ThePrettyReckless is a song about a 16-year-old girl seducing a priest in a confessional, in an attempt to get into heaven after killing her boyfriend.
* 'Body and Soul' by Music/ToriAmos, where the POV is of the singer seducing a priest.
* The Dutch song "De Nozem en de Non" (The Punk and the Nun) by Cornelis Vreeswijk is the (humorous) story of how the punk and the nun fell in love and are eventually separated by the police for walking on the grass.

* She is my Sin, by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} is told from the perspective of a priest who falls in love with one of his flock.

* In Creator/{{Euripides}}' ''Theatre/{{Hippolytus}}'', the eponymous hero is a devotee of Artemis and has dedicated his virginity to her, when his stepmother Phaedra falls in love with him. All ends in tears.

* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', Tiz Arrior develops a crush on Agnés Oblige, who, as the Wind Vestal, is a major religious figure in the faith of the Crystals.
* Telma appears to feel this way towards Renado in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', though it's PlayedForLaughs (Telma owns a bar, after all).

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': Prince Harry develops a crush on Maria right when she takes her vows.

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* Eventually happens in ''Manga/OnePoundGospel'', with Kosaku falling for Sister Angela.

* [[ChivalrousPervert Cross Marian]] of ''Manga/DGrayMan''. May double as BadassPreacher. There have been numerous references to him being a Priest. In addition to the mangaka, Hoshino Katsura, [[http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/silverfang2/29185537/211901/211901_1000.jpg drawing him in priest robes]] on the covers of one of her fanbooks. However, he is not a stranger to the pleasures of women. One of his hobbies being to visit the red-light districts. We get to know one of his lovers, Anita, who is a prostitute. She seems to have strong feelings for Cross, and we hear that her mother was also in love with him.
* The basis of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': this is the story of a BattleCouple made of a nun named Rosette and a demon named Chrono. In the anime, Rosette is also harrassed by BigBad Aion who even plants ''two'' {{Forceful Kiss}}es on the poor girl.
* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', HugeSchoolgirl Milly is attracted to Wolfwood, the resident BadassPreacher. [[spoiler: In the anime they even spend a night together and do it... right before he's killed.]]
* Spoofed in ''Anime/SailorMoon Super S'' alongside InterspeciesRomance, when Artemis the cat seems to have a crush on a beautiful nun named Sister Maria. [[spoiler: He was mostly fantasizing about cat marriage in a Catolic church... in front of [[NunsAreMikos one where Sister Maria volunteers]]. And then she's captured by a member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad...]]

* Asta from ''Manga/BlackClover'' is infatuated with Sister Lily, wanting to marry her despite her being a nun, a good deal older than him, and having raised him. He refuses to take no for an answer despite however many times she rejects him.

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* ''Simon Birch'': [[spoiler: Reverend Russell slept with Joe's mother, which resulted in Joe.]]
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', where the Captain falls for the nun postulant whom he's hired as his nanny.
* One of the fake trailers at the beginning of ''Film/TropicThunder'' was a parody of OscarBait films that involved two monks being sexually attracted to each other.

* ''The Crime of Father Amaro'', inspired by a Portuguese novel of the same name. With Gael Garcia Bernal as the SexyPriest who has a relationship with the local NaiveEverygirl.
* ''Film/{{Quills}}'' has some {{UST}} between [[Creator/KateWinslet Madeleine]] and the [[Creator/JoaquinPhoenix Abbé du Coulmier]].

* ''Pavilion of Women'', [[TheFilmOfTheBook an adaptation]] of the Creator/PearlSBuck novel of [[Literature/PavilionOfWomen the same name.]] Though there's a romantic attraction between Madame Wu and Father Andre in the book, the film makes it much more explicit and unlike the novel, has the couple act on their feelings for each other.
* The early '70s film ''Pieces of Dreams'' involves an affair between a priest and a divorced social worker.
* Chilean movie ''Bienvenida Casandra'' ("Welcome here, Casandra!") is about the aforementioned Casandra, the local NaiveNewcomer, falling for the young priest of the village she's just arrived.
* ''Film/KeepingTheFaith'' involves a Love Triangle between a Rabbi, a Catholic priest and their childhood friend.
* ''Film/TheNorthAvenueIrregulars'' has housewife Mrs. Gossin inviting Rev. Hill inside for some "personal counseling". She's visibly disappointed when he declines to enter.
* ''Film/ParsonSue'' (1912). After the titular cleric arrives in a small [[TheWestern western]] town, the local young men are suddenly keen to attend church.
* The plot of Ingmar Bergman's 1963 film ''Winter Light'' follows the story of a struggling Lutheran pastor in rural Sweden and his growing frustration with the emotionally unstable young schoolmarm who is infatuated with him. A similar subplot takes place in ''First Reformed'', which is a partial remake of the former.
* ''Film/TheGettingOfWisdom'': During her second year of boarding school, Laura convinces the other girls that she is in a relationship with the school's minister Rev. Shepherd. While some of them fall for it, others are suspicious, believing that the Reverend, who is already married, would never put his reputation on the line by carrying out an affair with a teenage student. Once the truth is revealed, the girls chew out Laura for besmirching his good name by spreading such rumours.

* ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'': [[spoiler: Tabitha slept with Rev. Merrill, which resulted in Johnny.]]
* In ''Literature/TheGodOfSmallThings'', Baby Kochamma fell in love with an [[IrishPriest Irish missionary]] when she was younger.
* Pretty much the plot of ''Literature/TheThornBirds''.
* It used to be ''very'' common in the Victorian era (generally in the form of falling in love with the poor but virtuous and handsome young curate), so much so that it was a convention of novels and plays mocked by Creator/WSGilbert in two separate works: "The Rival Curates" (which eventually got turned into ''Theatre/{{Patience}}'' and featured rival poets instead) and ''Theatre/TheSorceror'' (in which the much older vicar, Dr. Daly, is adored by young Constance).

* Sissy from ''Literature/ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'' once tried to seduce her priest, since she didn't believe in celibacy.
* In the first ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' book, [[TheCasanova compulsive womaniser]] Jay is first seduced as a teenage boy by the priestess of his local temple.
* In ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', Milady is a nun who has seduced a monk and left the convent, only to abandon the monk to marry Athos, only to abandon him to marry Lord de Winter, whom she poisons. She is not a nice lady.
* A medieval ''cantiga'' (monophonic song) from Portugal tells the story of a man who went after an Abbess... to ask her to prepare him for his wedding night.
* An example of Hot For Preacher where the attraction for a Puritan minister is frowned upon for leading not to marriage but to adultery (complete with a bastard child) can be found in ''Literature/TheScarletLetter''.
* Aliena in ''Literature/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'' is in love with Jack, who becomes a monk largely because he thinks she isn't.
* In ''Literature/TheSparrow'', we have Father Emilio Sandoz who is chaste, charming, funny, intelligent, Roman Catholic priest, and [[InformedAbility apparently not bad to look at]]. The Catholic schoolgirls call him ''[[SexyPriest Father What-a-waste]]'', and a main character grows to love him.
* Father Amadi from ''Literature/PurpleHibiscus'' is the main character's first crush. [[PrecociousCrush She's fifteen, and he's at least in his twenties]], but he never leads her on romantically.

* In ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'', Dan Brown has in its backstory a priest and nun who fall in love, but refuse to cast aside their vows of celibacy, but also refuse to let that stop them from reproducing. She artificially inseminates herself with his seed (which is against Church doctrine at time of writing (2014) but isn't a breaking of a vow), becomes pregnant, and is, of course, forced out of the nunhood. [[DoubleStandard He becomes]] UsefulNotes/ThePope.
* In ''In This House of Brede'', Larry Bannerman and Sister Cecily. They're in love, but she loves God more. [[spoiler: He eventually marries her cousin Jean.]]

* In ''The Sinner'', the third Literature/RizzoliAndIsles novel, Dr. Maura Isles discovers that one of the two nuns murdered at a local church recently gave birth and wonders if this trope is being played out, as the priest is ostensibly the only one who could be the father (he isn't). She then plays this trope out herself when a mutual attraction develops and they conduct an affair over the next several books before finally ending when she's forced to admit that as much as he loves her, he isn't willing to leave the priesthood for her.
* In the Creator/RoaldDahl short story "Georgie Porgie", a vicar is wanted by several women in his church who use a garden party to proposition him. [[spoiler: He has issues, and this pushes him over the edge.]]
* The subplot of a ''Creator/DanielleSteel'' novel in which a young postulate and priest fall in love. He hangs himself when they're found out and she's banished from the church.
* In ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'', the Red Knight falls for a nun, and the two have three books of {{UST}} before ultimately [[spoiler:deciding that they're better off as friends.]]
* Discussed in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' novel ''A Feast For Crows''. When [[BrawnHilda Brienne]] first starts traveling with [[GoodShepherd Septon Meribald]], (a wandering priest who travels to some of the poorest and most remote villages in the kingdom to preach and take confession) he relates how, as a young man, he would take advantage of the ignorance and isolation of the girls in some of these villages to get them to sleep with him.
-->Even holy septons can be sinners, and my flesh was as weak as could be. I was young and full of sap, and the girls... a septon can seem as gallant as a prince if he is the only man you know who has ever been more than a mile from your village.
* In ''Literature/TheComfortableCourtesan'', all of Clorinda's female servants are at least somewhat appreciative of the young and handsome Methodist lay preacher Elisha Roberts. Since there's no religious objection to it, there's a happy ending when he marries Seraphine.
* In Émile Zola's book ''La Conquête de Plassans'' (''The Conquest of Plassans''), housewife Marthe's becomes more and more devout over the course of the story, as well as enamoured with her lodger, cleric Abbé Faujas. This is not reciprocated though and, being a Zola novel, ends badly for everybody involved.
* Medicine cats are the spiritual leaders in ''Literature/WarriorCats''. They're barred from taking mates, but almost every one has either feelings for a cat or outright [[ForbiddenLove has an affair]]. Examples include Firepaw's PrecociousCrush on Spottedleaf and Leafpool's relationship with Crowfeather.

* On ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Father Mulcahy had this happen when he helped one of the nurses study to become a doctor.

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'', the sexual tension between Carmela Soprano and Father Intintola is a plot point.

* Assumpta and Father Peter in ''Series/{{Ballykissangel}}''. Parodied in the ''Series/FatherTed'' ChristmasEpisode in a ColdOpen daydream sequence, with Ted in Peter's place.
* On ''Series/KungFu1972'' Caine was the object of this a time or two.

Within the Catholic Church, there are exceptions to the vow of celibacy. [[https://dwightlongenecker.com/about-fr-longenecker/ Father Dwight Longenecker,]] an ordained Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism, is one such exception.

* One measure to try to deter this is that in Roman Catholic Church, it is forbidden for a priest to absolve a sexual sin in the confessional if he was involved in the act in question. So you cannot have sex with a priest and then had said priest-boyfriend absolve you for it.

* In ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'', the Lodoss cults have no objections to their priests/priestesses marrying and raising families. Therefore, you have some examples of this:
** Princess Fianna of Valis falls for Etoh, a cute young priest of Falis and Parn's best friend. They [[spoiler:get married, and become King and Queen of Valis]].
** Neese, a high-ranked priestess of Marpha, is a widow with a daughter named Laylea [[GenerationXerox who is also a priestess]], meaning that her husband swore by the trope in the past.
** After [[spoiler: being released of Karla the Grey Witch's GrandTheftMe]], Laylea herself falls for Parn's BigBrotherMentor Slayn, who returns her feelings; they get HappilyMarried and then have Little Neese, who [[AscendedExtra becomes a main character]] in the second half of the TV series [[spoiler: because she's also the ApocalypseMaiden]].
** Little Neese herself seems to have kind-of a crush on Spark, TheHero.

* In ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'', two different nuns show clear romantic feelings for the lead character, who's a Catholic priest. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass And a]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction frighteningly powerful]] [[FoodChainOfEvil super-]][[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], but that's not important to this trope. It's never treated as any kind of "forbidden fruit" situation, though, because it takes place in a distant future where the Catholic Church no longer requires clerical celibacy.

* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', HugeSchoolgirl Milly is attracted to Wolfwood, the resident BadassPreacher. [[spoiler: In the anime they even [[TheyDo spend a night together and do it]]... right before he's killed.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Leroy develops a crush on Sister Astrid, a nun. It's revealed that Leroy is [[AmnesiacLovers actually]] [[Literature/SnowWhite Grumpy Dwarf]] and Astrid is a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]] who he had a brief relationship with before their callings pulled them apart. Dwarfs and fairies are both {{One Gender Race}}s who are expected to be {{Celibate Hero}}es and focus exclusively on mining or granting wishes respectively.

* In an episode of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Leroy develops a crush on Sister Astrid, a nun. It's revealed that Leroy is actually [[Literature/SnowWhite Grumpy Dwarf]] and Astrid is a fairy who he had a brief relationship with before their callings pulled them apart. Dwarfs and fairies are both {{One Gender Race}}s who are expected to be {{Chaste Hero}}es and focus exclusively on mining or granting wishes respectively.

* In ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'', [[DanBrowned Dan Brown]] has in its backstory a priest and nun who fall in love, but refuse to cast aside their vows of celibacy, but also refuse to let that stop them from reproducing. She artificially inseminates herself with his seed (which is against Church doctrine at time of writing (2014) but isn't a breaking of a vow), becomes pregnant, and is, of course, forced out of the nunhood. [[DoubleStandard He becomes]] UsefulNotes/ThePope.

* ''Series/CallTheMidwife'': Dr Patrick Turner, the widowed doctor who works with Nonnatus House, falls head over heels for the kindest, sweetest, most good-hearted character in the entire cast, and she falls just as desperately in love with him. Unfortunately for them both, that character is devoted nun Sister Bernadette. Her struggle to choose between her vows and the man she loves is a major subplot of the second series. After months of struggle and heartache, she [[EarnYourHappyEnding leaves the convent to be with him]]. Needless to say, when the film version of ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' hits theaters in 1965, Patrick and [[MeaningfulRename Shelagh]] -- now long since HappilyMarried -- lampshade the similarities for all they are worth.
-->'''Patrick''': So much of that film chimed with me.... Did it with you?\\

** Neese, a high-ranked priestess of Marpha, is a WidowWoman with a daughter named Laylea [[GenerationXerox who is also a priestess]], meaning that her husband swore by the trope in the past.