History Main / IntimateHealing

* Literature/AnitaBlake, main ActionGirl of Laurell K. Hamilton's ''Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter'' series uses sexual energy to call various kinds of preternatural power, most often healing power.

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* In ''New FistOfTheNorthStar'', this trope is invoked in a way that makes the entire series not very believable (and some people may put that particular scene in CanonDisContinuity land). Near the end of the series, Kenshiro is trapped by Seiji and put in a barred room. He continually tries to kick his way out of the bars, but it's ineffective. The only way he can get out is to use a technique that requires him to meld his chi with Sarah in order to produce the power needed to shatter the bars. What follows is a scene of them pressed together in a very suggestive manner, as they gather the energy needed. Also mind-boggling because 1) it's Kenshiro, the man who has walked through collapsing skyscrapers, burning buildings, the DESERT, and beat up tens of thousands of mighty men with ease that would probably be outright fatal to master martial artists like {{Batman}}, CaptainAmerica, and Iron Fist in the zero prep time + no weapon but your body confrontations that he would often find himself in. 2) This cage that Kenshiro is in: it's not any supermetal or anything designed before the war, it's not specially designed to absorb extreme shocks or anything, there are no force fields or nano fibers or any of that shit involved. No, it's just made of cast iron.

* This is how Talia al Ghul gives {{Batman}} some much needed antidote after he succumbs to a scorpion bite while duelling her father, under the pretense of giving him one last smooch.

* Alyx is badly wounded after events of ''VideoGame/Half-Life2'' and cure involves Vortigaunt ritual, bonding her and Gordon's life together and some Antlion larval extract. This ultimately succeed.

* Alyx is badly wounded after events of ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life2}}'' and cure involves Vortigaunt ritual, bonding her and Gordon's life together and some Antlion larval extract. This ultimately succeed.

See DeusSexMachina for the offensive magic variety. See also IndirectKiss. May result in FlorenceNightingaleEffect. FingerSuckHealing and IntimatePsychotherapy are SubTropes of Intimate Healing. Compare KissOfLife and MateOrDie. If intimate contact acts as a PowerLimiter, see CooldownHug.

See DeusSexMachina for the offensive magic variety. See also IndirectKiss. May result in FlorenceNightingaleEffect. FingerSuckHealing and IntimatePsychotherapy are {{SubTrope}}s of Intimate Healing. Compare KissOfLife and MateOrDie. If intimate contact acts as a PowerLimiter, see CooldownHug.

* Spoofed in ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'', where the healing arts pretty much consist of touching the patient inapropriately.

* While not exactly intimate, this happened in one part of the miniseries ''The Voyage of the Mimi'', when the eponyomous ship's captain had hypothermia. The captain being an old man, the thought of this is pretty darn {{Squick}}y. At least the crewmembers kept their pants on...

** Seems to be inverte with intimacy making a character sicker. Marcy already had the disease, but it was barely showing when she had sex with Paul. But within an hour of their racy affair, her health deteriorates to a level that it took her friend almost a whole night to reach. [[WildMassGuessing A reasonable theory to explain this]] is that her accelerated heartrate during the tryst pumped the disease through her body much faster then normal, which sped up it's progression.

* Seems to be inverted in CabinFever with intimacy making a character sicker. Marcy already had the disease, but it was barely showing when she had sex with Paul. But within an hour of their racy affair, her health deteriorates to a level that it took her friend almost a whole night to reach. [[WildMassGuessing A reasonable theory to explain this]] is that her accellerated heartrate during the tryst pumped the disease through her body much faster then normal, which sped up it's progression.
** An even more obvious example of this is that sickly welts emerged on her back because Paul had been fondling her there while they made love.

* In ''BrokebackMountain'', Ennis is brought in to share Jack's tent after he's been sleeping outside in the frigid cold. Of course, they sleep fairly normally and clothed for a while before Jack decides to jump him.

* This might apply. In [[http://archive.lfgcomic.com/lfg0167.gif this page]] of LookingForGroup Benny and Pella are required to have a sexy pillow fight in order to do a spell that would get them to a shaman's hut. Then in said shaman's hut they use Pella to channel Richard, whom had been banished, and [[http://archive.lfgcomic.com/lfg0172.gif physically separate him from her]] to get him back. The UnfortunateImplications of Richard's last line in that page are...well....let's say they fuel the Richard/Pella shippers.

* Seems to be inverted in CabinFever. Marcy already had the disease, but it was barely showing when she had sex with Paul. But within an hour of their racy affair, her health deteriorates to a level that it took her friend almost a whole night to reach. [[WildMassGuessing A reasonable theory to explain this]] is that her accellerated heartrate during the tryst pumped the disease through her body much faster then normal, which sped up it's progression.

* In LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}, both Chizuru and Nozomu do this to the resident cute little boy and odd woman magnet after the entire school gets frozen. But, Kanokon being Kanokon, they up the ante by taking every chance to fondle, rub up to and generally molest him, up to and including a (heavily implied) handjob. From both of them. At the same time.
* In {{Otoyomegatari}}, Amira does this with her [[{{Shotacon}} young husband]] during a cold night in a yurt.

* In ''FinalCrisis'', this is how {{Superman}} saves a dying Lois Lane with The Bleed (the lifeblood of TheMultiverse itself).

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-->-- '''Rufus & Chaka Khan, "Tell Me Something Good"'''

See DeusSexMachina for the offensive magic variety. See also IndirectKiss. May result in FlorenceNightingaleEffect. FingerSuckHealing and IntimatePsychotherapy are [[SubTrope Subtropes]] of Intimate Healing. Compare KissOfLife and MateOrDie. If intimate contact acts as a PowerLimiter, see CooldownHug.

** In a later episode Guinevere is shot in the upper thigh with an arrow. Whilst she's unconscious Merlin pulls the arrow out and heals her with a spell that involves placing one hand on her thigh and the other on her forehead. Given that she was rather scantily-clad at the time, and the assortment of moaning, muttering, shivering and sighing from both of them, the scene was giving off signals that the producers probably ''didn't'' intend.

* Rue uses this technique to give water to a dehydrated Mytho in ''PrincessTutu'', in a flashback sequence meant to cement their relationship.