History Main / QuestForSex

* In ''Literature/TheGame'', ([[TookALevelInBadass formerly]]) socially awkward music journalist Neil Strauss does research on the Pick-up Artist Community, meeting several other socially awkward types on this quest. They all end up having copious amounts of sex, but [[AnAesop it ultimately solves nothing because they still have deeper problems to contend with]].

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* Much of the plot of ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'' is driven by Ryuji and Eikichi's efforts to lose their virginities. By the time of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'', Eikichi still hasn't succeeded.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Although Suzu and Matsuri have a genuine romance, part of the reason Suzu wants to [[GenderBender make Matsuri male again]] is because she wants to date and have sex with him as soon as possible. She's considered [[IfItsYouItsOkay hooking up even if they're both girls]], though her interest in his female form is much less sexual.

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* Hilariously, [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Joel's]] childhood cat Minus went missing for two years. He returned home twice as fat and ''every female cat in town'' pregnant. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws2s0eSWANg#t=233 See to believe.]]

This plot trope has been common in recent years as laxity from the MoralGuardians has made sex comedies centered on this premise easier to distribute. Still, expect many examples to eventually feature an {{Aesop}} about sex not being everything at the end, if only because building a character's entire motivation around getting laid often ends up seeming, kind of, you know, [[FlatCharacter shallow]] and [[LoserProtagonist pathetic]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Spoiler]][[FailureIsTheOnlyOption They still haven't succeeded by the end of the series.]][[/labelnote]]]]

* The pornographic ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' fangame, ''A Way Back Home'', involves Morty getting left in another dimension and must become assertive if he wants Rick to return him home. Morty initially assumes that he must stand up for himself, but eventually learns he must have sex with enough women in order to build up his assertiveness. In other words, Rick leaves Morty with a literal quest for sex.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Spoiler]]They still haven't succeeded by the end of the series.[[/labelnote]]]]

* On ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', after finding out that his wife had an affair with their neighbor some 20 years earlier, Carl (Earl's dad) decides to have a "revenge affair." Of course, the only women he interacts with on a regular basis are a bank teller (who flirts with ''all'' her customers, not just Carl), a pharmacist (who slapped him for flirting with her while buying condoms), and a waitress at an all-night diner (who turns out to be Patty the Daytime Hooker, and who can't even accept the chocolates he bought her because some of her clients are allergic to peanuts). He ends up going back to the motel to have a cry with Earl about Kay's affair (and Earl had one about Joy's), [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming then finds it in his heart to forgive Kay]].

* In AphraBehn's play TheRover Belvile, Blunt,Willmore and Frederick are on this quest for sex.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Although Suzu and Matsuri have a genuine romance, part of the reason Suzu wants to [[GenderBender make Matsuri male again]] is because she wants to date and have sex with him as soon as possible. She's even considered [[IfItsYouItsOkay hooking up even if they're both girls]], though her interest in his female form is much less sexual.

* Glen Quagmire of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' lives this quest.

This plot trope has been common in recent years as laxity from the MoralGuardians has made sex comedies centered on this premise easier to distribute. Still, expect many examples to eventually feature an {{Aesop}} about sex not being everything at the end, if only because building a character's entire motivation around getting laid often ends up seeming, kind of, you know, [[FlatCharacter shallow]] and [[ThisLoserIsYou pathetic]].

* The main plot of ''Manga/BGataHKei''... although the one on the quest [[GenderFlip is a girl]]. Her explicit goal is to gain one hundred sex friends before graduating highschool. Now, she's a beautiful girl, so this ''should'' have taken all of ten seconds. But she has [[CannotSpitItOut no ability to communicate her desires]], actually doesn't know very much at all about sex, as well as surprisingly low self-esteem (She's embarrassed to even look at her own body down there), so hilarious misadventures happen instead of {{hentai}}.

The reasons for a man's quest can vary to a fairly wide extent--he might just be out to use SexAsRiteOfPassage. Other times the man isn't a virgin--he just really, really wants it very badly. Sometimes to the point of needing to commit [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery adultery]] in order to get it. Because, let's face it--[[ImAManICantHelpIt he's a dude]]. What's he supposed to do about it?

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', a majority of Steve Smith's storylines is about this, although he usually never succeeds getting laid. [[spoiler: That is, until Season 13's "My Purity Ball and Chain", where he ''finally'' loses his virginity.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', a majority of Steve Smith's storylines is about this, although he usually never succeeds getting laid. [[spoiler: That is, until Season 13's "My Purity Ball and Chain.", where he ''finally'' loses his virginity.]]

* This is the premise of the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series: in the first, Larry, rapidly approaching 40, decides to finally lose his virginity and sets out to [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Wages]], determined to have sex with a woman by the end of the night. He can actually accomplish this very quickly with a sleazy prostitute, but ends up realizing that he wants something more meaningful and spends the rest of the game and the next two trying to find (what he considers) true love. While he does have a meaningful relationship at the end of the third game, it's gone with no explanation by the end of the fifth[[note]]Note that [[UnInstallment there is no LSL4]][[/note]] so he's back on the hunt for the rest of the series.

%%* ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin''.

%%* ''Film/AmericanPie''

* In ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', a recurring character simply (and [[GenderBender more or less]] [[PettingZooPeople accurately]]) called the Chicken Lady wants nothing more than to have sex. However, since the vast majority of the available dating pool is human, [[HilarityEnsues things tend to go spectacularly badly]]. They also have the character with the accurate name of Cabbage Head, who has similar goals. He fails because he's a sexist jerk whom most women can't stand.

* This is the premise of the ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series: in the first, Larry, rapidly approaching 40, decides to finally lose his virginity and sets out to [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas Lost Wages]], determined to have sex with a woman by the end of the night. He ends each of the first three games committed to (what he considers) true love. There's even a whore in the first game, and if Larry uses her, he says outright that it's not enough (though it does remove the time limit). The second game is even subtitled "Looking For Love in Several Wrong Places."

* In ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', a recurring character simply (and [[GenderBender more or less]] [[PettingZooPeople accurately]]) called the Chicken Lady wants nothing more than to have sex. However, since the vast majority of the available dating pool is human, [[HilarityEnsues things tend to go spectacularly badly]]. They also have the character with the accurate name of Cabbage Head, who has similar goals. He fails because he's a sexist jerk that most women can't stand.

* There are several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' where the titular characters come up with plans to score. Said plans always fail. In ''Film/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica'', the two travel cross country to Washington, thinking they're going to get paid to "do" someone's wife.