History Main / SexSignalsDeath

!!'''As a DeathTrope, several if not all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[Film/Scream1996 the first movie]], where this is the very first of the rules posited by GenreSavvy horror geek Randy Meeks for successfully surviving a horror movie. The other two rules cover drinking and doing drugs, and [[TemptingFate saying that you'll be right back]]. He later gets killed in the sequel, and it's revealed that he spent a night with "Creepy Karen" before getting whacked. Not to mention it's hilariously subverted when Sidney bangs the damned ''killer'' and gets to survive the movie! The killer ''does'' die, so in that sense, it's played straight.

** Kyle as well, After he serves his purpose by impregnating Sarah with John and delivering her to the point where she can defend herself from then on (partly because he's already damaged the Terminator so badly himself).

* Speaking of [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]], he's also used this trope... literally. Well, almost. Occurs in ''6 Days a Sacrifice'', part of the VideoGame/ChzoMythos. Janine having sex with Theo was what ended up allowing John Defoe to take full control of her. By the end of it, she got impaled in the chest and literally ''crushed inside a wall''. NEVER have sex when there's obvious signs of someone being partially possessed.

* Invoked in ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' where an AssholeVictim actually sings the song quoted at the top while preparing a rendezvous on a golf course... and is promptly eaten. Slight subversion in that the pair hadn't actually gotten around to the deed (and the woman survived).
* PlayedWith in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.

-->-- '''Randy''', ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''

** Subverted, however, in that her having sex had little to do with the Terminator killing people around her (including ''all'' the officers of the police station she was held in), and that her being the mother of the eventual human resistance commander, but without any children at the time, made sex with ''some'' man a necessity.

* In ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'', it's more like Kinky Sex Signals Death. The female BDSM fanatic is murdered, while the woman who is having monogamous vanilla sex with the protagonist and wants a committed relationship survives.

* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Gilda and Mia sleep with a lot of other people, including each other in the past, then also Guy.

** In ''Film/Scream2022'', Richie taunts Sam with her sexual history but it's Sam who ends up as a survivor.

*** It’s also softly averted with Mindy, who makes out with another girl at the party, only to survivor the movie anyways.

* The various "Rules for dating my teenage daughter" lists (where the rules are stated by an OverprotectiveDad feature several movies which are unacceptable as date material as they may lead to sex. The notable exception is "Movies featuring chainsaws are okay" (by implication, movies showing teenagers having sex being butchered by a lunatic offer useful moral lessons).

!This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16657582810.18232300 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.

* In the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' novels, apparently, after all these years, Kurz Weber ''finally'' manages to get it on with Melissa Mao (after years of SlapSlapKiss). He dies during his very next mission. But it's ultimately averted! Guess who's back after being rescued by the Spetsnaz in the penultimate volume of the novel series??

* In Creator/StephenKing's short story "The Raft", four college students swim out to a raft in the middle of a remote lake. A mysterious oil slick-like creature appears, and devours two of them; the first one touches it, the second steps on a crack on the raft and gets grabbed by his foot. Hours later, the remaining two (a guy and his girlfriend) end up having sex; the girl's hair falls off through the cracks of the raft and the creature absorbs her.

If a character doesn't die but is doomed for having sex, it's DownfallBySex. For a literal application, compare OutWithABang, DeathByChildbirth (yeah, [[{{Anvilicious}} we know...]]), CuriosityKilledTheCast, and TheMurderAfter. For the lite version, see KissOfDeath. MateOrDie is the inverse of this trope. Contrast HerHeartWillGoOn, where the man is doomed, but the woman has ContractualImmortality. Also contrast GladToBeAliveSex, which is ''supposed'' to be the opposite (two lovers have sex after surviving something that threatened to kill them; it's ''possible'' to combine that with this Trope, but only by the cruelest of authors.) In some cases, the doomed man will leave SomeoneToRememberHimBy ([[ButICantBePregnant Hur, hur, hur...]]). Don't even get us started if it's [[BuryYourGays with the same gender]]. Compare CartwrightCurse where death can happen even ''before'' the sex merely for being a love interest. Sometimes a consequence of CantGetAwayWithNuthin. Often takes place at a MakeOutPoint. May also be [[HonorRelatedAbuse committed by the family members of one or both parties involved]], who feel that the act of sex (or acts leading up to the sex) are seen as an affront to FamilyHonor.

* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' is possibly the earliest example ever of this in American cinema. The opening scene of a hotel tryst establishes Marion Crane as sexually active with Sam Loomis, and she famously ends up getting killed in the first half hour. Even the iconic ShowerScene features sexual allegories; during her shower, Marion's expressions start as ecstatic and then turn dreamy, as if she were pleasuring herself, and then the legendary knife stabbings evoke a rape.

** In ''Film/Scream2022'', Richie taunts Sam with her sexual history but it's Sam who ends up as a survivor. It's also implied that Tara and Amber are exes, meaning at least two FinalGirl s have survived despite having had sex with the killer.

[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_during_consensual_sex The Other Wiki also has a say in this]].

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in [[Film/Scream1996 the first movie]], where this is the very first of the rules posited by GenreSavvy horror geek Randy Meeks for successfully surviving a horror movie. The other two rules cover drinking and doing drugs, and [[TemptingFate saying that you'll be right back]]. He later gets killed in the sequel, and it's revealed that he spent a night with "Creepy Karen" before getting whacked. Not to mention it's hilariously subverted when Sidney bangs the damned ''killer'' and gets to survive the movie! The killer ''does'' die, so in that sense its played straight.
** Angelina of ''Film/Scream3'' reveals that she employed the CastingCouch to get the role of Sidney in Stab 3... then she dies seconds later. Damn do the rules strike fast.

** This was also done, exactly the same, with a gay guy, in the earlier movie version (and originally in the book). The police specifically ignore him because they're looking for a man who had sex with and killed a countess, not some makeup wearing homosexual.

* In ''Film/Tormented2009'', a schoolboy who killed himself because of bullying comes back from the dead to take fatal revenge on the bullies. One of them decides to go to the cemetery and dig up the killer's body, but is sidetracked by having sex with his girlfriend while his car is parked there, which turns out to have been a very bad idea because the killer drags him out of the car and castrates him by repeatedly stomping on his genitals, leaving him to bleed to death. ''Ouch.''

* Subverted in ''Film/TheGodfather Part II'', where Senator Geary, who hates Michael Corleone's crime-racket, is made to believe that he accidentally killed a prostitute during "weird sex-games" at Fredo Corleone's brothel; after this, the senator is indebted to Michael for covering up the incident, but is also ''blackmailed'' by him. One shot afterwards heavily suggests that Al Neri was responsible for the actual killing.

** Sarah Connor's roommate is murdered by the Terminator after a late night date with her boyfriend.

* In ''Film/RipperLetterFromHell'', Marissa has anonymous sex with a masked stranger at a party, and then becomes the Ripper's first victim as she tries to leave.

* ''Film/{{Contracted}}'': In a prolonged and horrific fashion. Samantha catches an STD due to being rape by BJ, which slowly transforms her into a zombie (he's an immune carrier of the virus). [[spoiler:At the end, she's entirely gone, attacking her mother and then being shot to death by the police.]]

* ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain'': The satellite containing ThePlague happens to crash near two teenagers that were [[AutoErotica planning to have sex on a car on the wild]]. They bring the satellite to town where it's opened, and they both end up being some of the first victims of eponymus Andromeda contagion.

** In the season 2 finale, Jim Neary is in the midst of boning his secretary over his desk when Jimmy Darmody and Richard Harrow barge in unannounced. They shoo the secretary out, make Neary sit down at his desk and type a note at gunpoint in which he "confesses" to being coerced by Eli Thompson into falsifying voting records, then Harrow shoots him in the mouth and makes it look like a suicide.

* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Elle and Sylar entertain a brief sociopath/psychopath romance and immediately have sex when they realize that the second eclipse was blocking their powers. Once they regained their powers however, he murders her after they fail to murder Bennet and he realizes that their relationship had no possibility of being sustainable.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Played for laughs in "Ship Happens'' on the S.S. Sea Dodge which is a fitness cruise for fat women sinks as soon as the crew's [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy "after-hours activities"]] begin. Al, Peg, Marcy, a fat woman named Kay and Creator/GilbertGottfried wind up [[LostAtSea stranded at sea]] and [[TakeOurWordForIt everybody else on the ship]] [[KilledOffscreen drowned]].

* The ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' HalloweenEpisode "I Know What You Did Last Autumn" is a SlasherMovie pastiche in which a MonsterClown who previously took photos shaming promiscuous colleges students has progressed to killing them. [[spoiler: Except he hasn't; the new clown is killing everyone involved in the shaming of one particular student, and the fact it initally appears to fit the pattern just shows their hypocricy.]]
* MiniSeries and book example: in ''Series/PorterhouseBlue'' a middle-aged bedder, who senses a college's only research graduate student's secret obsession for her, sneaks in his room in the middle of the night and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale rapes him]]. However, moments into the act they both explode because, while sneaking in, she lit the gas without knowing the chimney was blocked. (For reasons too complicated to explain, the blockage consists of ''gas-filled condoms'', so the explosion is pretty spectacular.)

** After long, twisted sexual relationship with the demon Ruby, Sam learns in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E22LuciferRising Lucifer Rising]]" [[spoiler:she was manipulating him the whole time to resurrect Lucifer]]. He holds her in place as Dean skewers her with her own knife.

* In ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', on the second episode ("Day One") there's a sex gas alien that inhabits a young woman's body and has sex with men to remain alive via orgasmic energy, but this in turn kills the man, thus her victims literally died by sex.

* "White Pearl, Black Oceans", a song by power metal group Music/SonataArctica. A reclusive lighthouse keeper heads into town one night, meets a woman, and later sleeps with her. On his way home, her husband beats him so badly that he's unable to make it back to in time to light his lamp. [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Naturally]], a ship crashes that very night, everyone on board dies, and the lighthouse keeper is so ridden with guilt that he [[DrivenToSuicide throws himself from his tower]].

* Most Death by Sex tropes originate about from the fact that Scripture prescribes capital punishment for many forms of sex: Adultery, homosexuality, bestiality. Many experts now believe that this was the Jewish way of increasing their population-numbers through increased births, in comparison to other nations that allowed and encouraged other kinds of sex. When Christianity also adopted these laws among other cultures, the moral became woven into stories ever since, as AnAesop theme that "God Is Watching" and that He punishes those who choose to violate his law; this is also symbolic for the idea that such types of sex are essentially "killing" the persons in an extended sense (i.e their descendants, society, etc).

*** The reason for this being that in Bible times non-widowed non-virgins had virtually no chance of being married after being deflowered, (unless already betrothed) so [[FairForItsDay marrying her rapist/lover was the only way she could get married and have some status in society]]. Getting married was woman's only option in those days unless she wanted to be an outcast.

* ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'': Pandu, the King of Hastinapura, goes on a hunting expedition, and kills a stag that was mating with a doe. The stag and doe turn out to be the sage Kindama and his wife who wanted privacy. The dying Kindama curses Pandu that he will die should he have sex with anyone. The despondent king abdicates in favour of his blind brother and retires to the forest with his two queens, Kunti and Madri. Pandu practices celibacy while he requests his wives to invoke the demigods and have children with them. Thus the five Pandavas are born. After several years, Pandu is overcome with lust one day upon seeing Madri return from bathing, and is unable to restrain himself. He dies due to the curse and the grief stricken Madri commits suicide, while Kunti is forced to live in order to raise her five young sons.
** Long ago, there was a king named Sudasa who ruled over Ayodhya. Due to a series of unfortunate events, Sudasa is cursed by his preceptor Vashistha to become Rakshasa (a cannibal demon) for twelve years. Sudasa lives in a jungle, and one day, he encounters a sage having an intimate moment with his wife. Impelled by cannibalistic desires, Sudasa devours the sage, and consequently, the Rakshasa is cursed by his wife that he will die if he tries to have sex. After twelve years, Sudasa returns to his original human form, but is unable to have children. He requests his queen, Madayanti, to approach Vashistha and have a son with him. The son, Asmaka eventually becomes the next king and continues the dynasty.

** Thriae Queens look like this trope but are an inversion, since they require human consorts to fertilize their eggs. Generally speaking, they only take "prime specimens." Since their lot is to wind up as the honored concubines of a sexy [[BeePeople Bee Lady]], living in luxury while consuming a FantasticDrug that leaves them in a blissful state, many thriae have no problem recruiting. Some take concubines from slaves offered up in exchange for the queen's prophecies. When the concubines are no longer able to perform their duties, they are painlessly euthanized (like a pet), consumed, and replaced. So it's death by sex because age prevents the men from having sex.

* ''TabletopGame/AllFleshMustBeEaten'': Invoked deliberately in the scenario "PHADE to Black". Four years ago, a mad teenager used an obscure voodoo ritual to raise his AIDS-infected, drug-overdosed girlfriend back from the dead, screwed her and then destroyed her the next morning when he came back to his senses. However the virus in her body had mutated into a new zombie STD and the promiscuous lad began spreading it far and wide when he moved to a huge state university not long after. He and many hundreds of thousands died in a shocking wave of PHADE deaths... and then the real horror of the disease revealed itself, as the dead rose up again as semi-intelligent, blood-drinking zombies.

* Averted in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. While Nale regularily sleeps with Sabine (a succubus), he uses potions to protect himself from her touch-based LevelDrain powers.

* Iason Mink's and subsequently Riki's deaths in ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'' are a direct result of the former's refusal to let the latter be in order to continue having forbidden sex.

** In ''Film/Scream2022'', Richie taunts Sam with her sexual history but it's Sam who ends up as a survivor. It's also implied that Tara and Amber are exes, meaning at least two FinalGirls have survived despite having had sex with the killer.
*** Liv does fit the trope however, she wants to have sex with her boyfriend and hd previously slept with Vince (who also gets killed) and Liv gets a BoomHeadshot.