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* In one of his books on jokes, Creator/IsaacAsimov tells a joke about this. Once a very beautiful female student comes to a professor and offers him sex in exchange for an A in his discipline. The professor is momentarily tempted, but refuses and advises her to study. She doesn't and gets an F. Some time later, the professor tells the story to his friend, another professor of the same college, and it turns out that the friend had exactly the same experience with the girl-- with the same outcome. The friends' curiosity is piqued; they check the girl's marks and find out that she has F marks across the board--with one exception: an A in Ethics.
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SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' We like to keep things safe for work around here, and we don't want any part of any [[YouWannaGetSued legal accusations or libel suits]].
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SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' We like to keep things safe for work around here, and we don't want any part of any [[YouWannaGetSued legal accusations or libel suits]].
suits]]. Do not confuse with the web series ''WebVideo/ExtraCredits''.
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* In the ''SidneySheldon'' novel ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', it is revealed that Honey Taft spent most of high school, college, and medical school seducing her various professors in order to get good grades. Sure enough, as it becomes painfully obvious that she's nowhere near as qualified for her residency position as her high grades would indicate and her supervisors look to removing her from the program, she turns her charms on them as well.
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* A subplot in an episode of ''Seres/TouchedByAnAngel'', when a high school student accuses her teacher of this. After denying it outright, the teacher finally confesses to a friend, but still places the blame on the student for having made advances to him.
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* A subplot in an episode of ''Seres/TouchedByAnAngel'', when a high school student accuses her teacher of this. this, spurred by him giving her a mediocre grade instead of the "A" he had promised. After denying it outright, the teacher finally confesses to a friend, but still places has the nerve to place the blame on the student for having made advances to him.him and attempts to take the moral high ground claiming that he simply couldn't bring himself to give her a good grade when she didn't deserve it.
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* On ''Series/StrongMedicine'', after a classmate of Dr. Lu Delgado's son tests positive for an STD, she tearfully admits that her teacher demanded sexual favors from her in exchange for good grades. She's revealed to be lying when the teacher reveals that he doesn't have the STD in question or any STD, for that matter (he's a swinger, and as such, takes scrupulous means to stay healthy).
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* Done of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', when Blanche is taking college courses as required for her job. When she's struggling with the class and asks her teacher for help, he suggests this. She's disgusted and angry and even more so when the dean can't do anything, as it's her word against his. She gets her revenge by studying like crazy and making sure that she passes with flying colors.
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* Done of in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', when Blanche is taking college courses as required for her job. When she's struggling with the class and asks her teacher for help, he suggests this. She's disgusted and angry and even more so when the dean can't do anything, as it's her word against his. She gets her revenge by studying like crazy and making sure to ensure that she passes with flying colors.
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* Referenced, but averted in one ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2545#comic one strip]], a young woman in a low-cut dress goes to her professor and asks if there's ''anything'' she can do to improve her grade... only for her world-weary professor to explain that he's SeenItAll in 50 years of practicing sexual deviancy in his marriage, so there's nothing she can possibly offer to do for him that would interest him.
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* Referenced, but averted in one ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2545#comic one strip]], a young woman in a low-cut dress goes to her professor and asks if there's ''anything'' she can do to improve her grade... only for her world-weary professor to explain that he's SeenItAll in 50 years of practicing sexual deviancy in his marriage, marriage ([[ComicSutra waffle irons are involved]]), so there's nothing she can possibly offer to do for him that would interest him.
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* In a Gary Gulman bit, he talks about roleplaying one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. He gets way too involved in his "firm but fair" professor character and admonishes his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated attempts to insinuate that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he no longer wants to have sex, he wants her to pass the class.
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* In a Gary Gulman bit, he talks about roleplaying role-playing one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. He gets way too involved in his "firm but fair" professor character and admonishes starts chiding his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated attempts to insinuate insinuations that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he no longer wants to have he's lost all interest in having sex, he wants and is instead pressing her to study so she'll pass the class.
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* This is implied, in "The Hook-Up Reverberation" episode of ''Series/theBigBangTheory'', where Penny casually admits her high school PE coach turned out to have a close personal interest in her which amounted to an unwise teacher-pupil crush. She took the young Penny to see a [[{{Lampshading}} Melissa Etheridge]] gig, and Penny played along with the idea to ensure she got A-grades. Penny does not disclose [[SextraCredit how far she had to go to get those A's]] but casually says "it all worked out just fine".
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* This is implied, in "The Hook-Up Reverberation" episode of ''Series/theBigBangTheory'', ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', where Penny casually admits her high school PE coach turned out to have a close personal interest in her which amounted to an unwise teacher-pupil crush. She took the young Penny to see a [[{{Lampshading}} Melissa Etheridge]] gig, and Penny played along with the idea to ensure she got A-grades. Penny does not disclose [[SextraCredit how far she had to go to get those A's]] but casually says "it all worked out just fine".
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* This is implied, in "The Hook-Up Reverberation" episode of ''Series/theBigBangTheory'', where Penny casually admits her high school PE coach turned out to have a close personal interest in her which amounted to an unwise teacher-pupil crush. She took the young Penny to see a [[{{Lampshading}} Melissa Etheridge]] gig, and Penny played along with the idea to ensure she got A-grades. Penny does not disclose [[SextraCredit how far she had to go to get those A's]] but casually says "it all worked out just fine".
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* In the graphic novel for ''Mad Love'', Batman's account of young Harleen Quinzel's academic career strongly implies that she was sleeping with her professors to get higher marks in her psychology classes.
* Subverted in the mainstream ''HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young Harleen Quinzel is indicated to have had considerable psychological talent already, and rather than sleeping with a crooked professor suspiciously similar to the one shown in ''Mad Love'', is indicated to have blackmailed him for extra credit and eventually an internship at Arkham using a recording she made of a conversation with him in which she led him into saying some potentially incriminating things.
* Subverted in the mainstream ''HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young Harleen Quinzel is indicated to have had considerable psychological talent already, and rather than sleeping with a crooked professor suspiciously similar to the one shown in ''Mad Love'', is indicated to have blackmailed him for extra credit and eventually an internship at Arkham using a recording she made of a conversation with him in which she led him into saying some potentially incriminating things.
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-->''He's giving you the blues''
-->''You want to graduate but not in his bed''
-->''Here's what you gotta do...''
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* An episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' plays with this when Echo is hired by a college professor to play the role of a student who is failing his class and decides to visit him at home for some private tutoring; subverted because she's not actually one of his regular students, and his fantasy turns out to be having a student he can ''tutor'' (to appreciate Chaucer), not someone to sleep with him.
** If it's the episode "Belle Chose" then the fantasy certainly appears to be this trope, given the frequent references to ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' in their discussion. Mind you being stabbed in the neck with a pencil kinda acted as a mood killer, so we never got to see what the full fantasy was.
** If it's the episode "Belle Chose" then the fantasy certainly appears to be this trope, given the frequent references to ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' in their discussion. Mind you being stabbed in the neck with a pencil kinda acted as a mood killer, so we never got to see what the full fantasy was.
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* An episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' plays with this when Echo is hired by a college professor to play the role of a student who is failing his class and decides to visit him at home for some private tutoring; subverted because she's not actually one of his regular students, and his fantasy turns out "private tutoring". It's an {{invoked| trope}} variant, in that he's gone to be having a student he can ''tutor'' (to appreciate Chaucer), not someone to sleep with him.
** If it'sthe episode "Belle Chose" then the fantasy certainly appears Dollhouse to be get a "[[QuestionableConsent willing]]" ringer for this trope, given the frequent references to ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' purpose. It doesn't work out well for him, though, as Echo changes personalities in their discussion. Mind you being stabbed mid-date and stabs him in the neck with a pencil kinda acted as a mood killer, so we never got to see what the full fantasy was.pencil.
** If it's
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* In ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Sam takes a class and does this, except while he ends up sleeping with the teacher, he does ''not'' ask for better grades. She just gives them to him anyway. As he tells Diane when he confronts him, even ''he'' feels dirty about it.
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* Subverted in the first episode of ''Magical Twilight'' in which Irene trades sex with the headmaster of the Witches' Academy for a passing grade on her finals; [[ILied but he doesn't hold up his end of the deal, and still gives her a failing grade]].
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** If it's the episode "Belle Chose" then the fantasy certainly appears to be this trope, given the frequent references to ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' in their discussion. Mind you being stabbed in the neck with a pencil kinda acted as a mood killer, so we never got to see what the full fantasy was.
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* Averted in ''The Eiger Sanction'' when a pretty blonde student implies she'll sleep with RetiredBadass art lecturer Dr Hemlock, who unfortunately for her is played by Creator/ClintEastwood.
-->'''Student:''' If there was anything I could do to get a better grade. I mean, I'd be willing to do anything. ''[Hemlock turns to look at her]'' [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Anything at all, really.]]
-->'''Hemlock:''' Are you...busy this evening?
-->'''Student:''' ''[smiles]'' No!
-->'''Hemlock:''' Do you live alone?
-->'''Student:''' Well my roommate's gone for the week...
-->'''Hemlock:''' Good. Then go on home, [[BaitAndSwitchComment break out the books and study your little ass off]]. That's the best way to maintain a "B" average.
-->''[The student walks off in a snit, giving the audience a MaleGaze look at her rear]''
-->'''Hemlock:''' ''[smirks]'' Don't study it all off.
-->'''Student:''' If there was anything I could do to get a better grade. I mean, I'd be willing to do anything. ''[Hemlock turns to look at her]'' [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Anything at all, really.]]
-->'''Hemlock:''' Are you...busy this evening?
-->'''Student:''' ''[smiles]'' No!
-->'''Hemlock:''' Do you live alone?
-->'''Student:''' Well my roommate's gone for the week...
-->'''Hemlock:''' Good. Then go on home, [[BaitAndSwitchComment break out the books and study your little ass off]]. That's the best way to maintain a "B" average.
-->''[The student walks off in a snit, giving the audience a MaleGaze look at her rear]''
-->'''Hemlock:''' ''[smirks]'' Don't study it all off.
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* In a Gary Gullman bit, he talks about roleplaying one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. He gets way too involved in his "firm but fair" professor character and admonishes his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated attempt attempts to insinuate that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he no longer wants to have sex, he wants her to pass the class.
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* In a Gary Gullman bit, he talks about roleplaying one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. He gets way too involved in his "firm but fair" professor character and admonishes his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated attempt to insinuate that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he no longer wants to have sex, he wants her to pass the class.
* In a Gary Gullman bit, he talks about roleplaying one of these scenarios with his girlfriend in the bedroom. He gets way too involved in his "firm but fair" professor character and admonishes his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated attempt to insinuate that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he no longer wants to have sex, he wants her to pass the class.
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* Done of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', when Blanche is taking college courses as required for her job. When she's struggling with the class and asks her teacher for help, he suggests this. She's disgusted and angry and even more so when the dean can't do anything, as it's her word against his. She gets her revenge by studying like crazy and making sure that she passes with flying colors.
* A subplot in an episode of ''Seres/TouchedByAnAngel'', when a high school student accuses her teacher of this. After denying it outright, the teacher finally confesses to a friend, but still places the blame on the student for having made advances to him.
* A ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' storyline had a college professor being falsely accused of this by a student who'd been manipulated into believing that his genuine attempts at helping her were in fact sleazy advances.
* A subplot in an episode of ''Seres/TouchedByAnAngel'', when a high school student accuses her teacher of this. After denying it outright, the teacher finally confesses to a friend, but still places the blame on the student for having made advances to him.
* A ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' storyline had a college professor being falsely accused of this by a student who'd been manipulated into believing that his genuine attempts at helping her were in fact sleazy advances.
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* In the graphic novel for ''Mad Love'', Batman's account of young Harlene Quinzel's academic career strongly implies that she was sleeping with her professors to get higher marks in her psychology classes.
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* Subverted in the mainstream ''HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young Harlene Quinzel is indicated to have had considerable psychological talent already, and rather than sleeping with a crooked professor suspiciously similar to the one shown in ''Mad Love'', is indicated to have blackmailed him for extra credit and eventually an internship at Arkham using a recording she made of a conversation with him in which she led him into saying some potentially incriminating things.
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* Subverted in the mainstream ''HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young
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* Subverted in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' when Sal attempts to invoke this with a teacher's assistant; [[WhatAnIdiot she neglected to ask him for a better grade]] before sleeping with him (and she hit on him in an "I need to blow off some steam" way rather than an "I'll do anything" way), and he doesn't have the clout to give her one anyway.
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* Defied by the shy and nerdy CovertPervert VillainProtagonist Kevin Dornwinkle in the schlocky movie ''The Invisible Maniac'': though he's indeed using his invisibility serum [[PowerPerversionPotential to spy on the buxom cheerleaders in the showers]], and visibly aroused when one of his nubile young students gives him the "I'll do ''anything'' for an A" routine, he brushes her off and tells her to study more. It's the female ''Principal'' (who ReallyGetsAround) at that school who's into making these trades, blackmailing one of the handsome young boys into having sex with her by telling him he's failing badly, but that if he satisfies her "needs" she can see to it that he passes.
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* Defied by the shy and nerdy CovertPervert VillainProtagonist Kevin Dornwinkle in the schlocky movie ''The Invisible Maniac'': ''Film/TheInvisibleManiac'': though he's indeed using his invisibility serum [[PowerPerversionPotential to spy on the buxom cheerleaders in the showers]], and visibly aroused when one of his nubile young students gives him the "I'll do ''anything'' for an A" routine, he brushes her off and tells her to study more. It's the female ''Principal'' (who ReallyGetsAround) at that school who's into making these trades, blackmailing one of the handsome young boys into having sex with her by telling him he's failing badly, but that if he satisfies her "needs" she can see to it that he passes.
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SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. '''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' We like to keep things safe for work around here, and we don't want any part of any [[YouWannaGetSued legal accusations or libel suits]].
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SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. '''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' We like to keep things safe for work around here, and we don't want any part of any [[YouWannaGetSued legal accusations or libel suits]].
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A student is failing in class, or for whatever reason wants a better grade, but doesn't want to study and work harder for it. Sometimes it's the crooked teacher or professor who offers the better grades for sex, but it's usually the student proposing sex for grades, often with some version of the old stock phrase: "I'll do ''anything'' to get an A!" If they can come to an agreement and the student in question drops his pants (or her skirt) for the grade, the teacher or professor will help the student cheat on tests, bias all grades given for answers to subjective questions in the student's favor, or (most commonly since this requires the least effort) just alter the student's performance records.
There's some TruthInTelevision here, although as with many dramatic plots derived from RealLife, the frequency of sex-for-grades scandals in high schools and colleges is usually rather over-hyped. Schools (even poor ones that [[FailedASpotCheck don't screen their employees properly]]) and the law tend to punish such abuses of one's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_of_trust Position of Trust]] very severely, since it's often a form of SexualExtortion, particularly when the teacher or professor is the one making the "[[AnOfferYouCantRefuse offer]]" to a failing student with no other way to pass (e.g. "[[ShameIfSomethingHappened I would really hate to see you fail this course...]]"). Even when the student is the one offering sex for grades, however, the instructor is supposed to know better and will shoulder the majority of the blame in the eyes of the law if he (or she) gives in to temptation. Hence, any instructor crooked enough to exchange grades for sex tends not to last very long.
While overlap is possible, this trope almost ''never'' involves any TeacherStudentRomance, since few will contend that SexEqualsLove in such a blatantly mercenary and unethical exchange as this. While it may also be related to TheOldestProfession, this is also rare: few students plan on making a career out of this sort of thing, though if they got away with this in school, they're likely to carry their old habits into the workplace, seeking easy raises and promotions from philandering bosses.
SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. '''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' We like to keep things safe for work around here, and we don't want any part of any [[YouWannaGetSued legal accusations or libel suits]].
!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime]]
* Subverted in the first episode of ''Magical Twilight'' in which Irene trades sex with the headmaster of the Witches' Academy for a passing grade on her finals; [[ILied but he doesn't hold up his end of the deal, and still gives her a failing grade]].
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* In the graphic novel for ''Mad Love'', Batman's account of young Harlene Quinzel's academic career strongly implies that she was sleeping with her professors to get higher marks in her psychology classes.
* Subverted in the mainstream ''HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young Harlene Quinzel is indicated to have had considerable psychological talent already, and rather than sleeping with a crooked professor suspiciously similar to the one shown in ''Mad Love'', is indicated to have blackmailed him for extra credit and eventually an internship at Arkham using a recording she made of a conversation with him in which she led him into saying some potentially incriminating things.
[[AC: Literature]]
* Zeb tells a story early in ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' about a female student who was somehow flunking a course specifically rigged to let {{Dumb Jock}}s pass. The student made one of these offers to her male professor, but he didn't understand the offer and simply told her where to find a tutor. This turns out to be a minor PlotPoint when they learn the "Black Hats" are completely genderless, and said professor was an undercover agent for them.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' featuring the class president elections, Blossom's opponent turns out to have one of these deals going with a teacher. When called out for this, the teacher claims not to be aware that he's one of her students, but when reminded that she gave him an A in her class, replies "He earned it."
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'': In "Trends With Benefits" a media studies lecturer is indicated to be sleeping with several of his students. At least one of his students says that she is taking the class because wearing a short skirt and sitting in the front row is a guaranteed way to good marks.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' plays with this when Echo is hired by a college professor to play the role of a student who is failing his class and decides to visit him at home for some private tutoring; subverted because she's not actually one of his regular students, and his fantasy turns out to be having a student he can ''tutor'' (to appreciate Chaucer), not someone to sleep with him.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney sleeps with Marshall's law professor in hopes of raising the class's grades. He eventually dislocates a hip and winds up in the hospital, earning everyone in class... a B+.
** Subverted in the notorious "Let's Go to the Mall" scene from "Slap Bet" which starts off with Robin telling her professor that she'll do ''anything'' to get her grades up; [[spoiler: but instead of sex, she offers to sing him a song]].
* Kelly Bundy of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', being the archetypal DumbBlonde (who ReallyGetsAround) and desperate to graduate high school, has been known to do this on a few occasions among her other SexForServices deals.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Medium}}'' features a former teacher who lost his job over a [[FalseRapeAccusation sexual assault charge]] because he ''refused'' to sleep with a student for grades.
* In one episode of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', Finch is working as a college professor and introducing himself to the students he's going to be teaching. A very attractive female student sits in the front row giving him sultry looks. When Finch explains that all grades will be final and warns students not to seek out any private conferences with him in hopes of getting any grade increases, however, this student immediately packs up her things and walks out in a huff.
* One episode of ''Series/StepByStep'' has Dana and Karen attend the same poetry class. The teacher seems oddly fond of Karen’s awful poetry until he threatens to fail her if she doesn’t have sex with him. The girls devise a plan to catch him saying it on video, and manage to pull it off despite several complications. When Dana tells him he’s caught, he tells Karen her poetry is awful.
[[AC:Movies]]
* Defied by the shy and nerdy CovertPervert VillainProtagonist Kevin Dornwinkle in the schlocky movie ''The Invisible Maniac'': though he's indeed using his invisibility serum [[PowerPerversionPotential to spy on the buxom cheerleaders in the showers]], and visibly aroused when one of his nubile young students gives him the "I'll do ''anything'' for an A" routine, he brushes her off and tells her to study more. It's the female ''Principal'' (who ReallyGetsAround) at that school who's into making these trades, blackmailing one of the handsome young boys into having sex with her by telling him he's failing badly, but that if he satisfies her "needs" she can see to it that he passes.
[[AC: Music]]
* In ''Music/{{ACDC}}'''s "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" the [[ProfessionalKiller narrator]] offers to [[DeadlyEuphemism take care]] of a high school principal in order to preempt him from [[SexualExtortion extorting]] a graduation-for-sex deal from one of the narrator's potential clients.
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the ''University'' expansion pack [[VideoGamePerversityPotential has this as an option]] for players.
[[AC: WebComics]]
* In ''Webcomic/BetterDays'', exploited by one of the interns competing with Lucy for a radio newscaster position: she made one of these deals with one of her professors, and then exposed it to get him fired. This is among several dirty tricks the intern pulled of which Lucy tells her boss as evidence of her rival's treachery and duplicity.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' when Sal attempts to invoke this with a teacher's assistant; [[WhatAnIdiot she neglected to ask him for a better grade]] before sleeping with him, and he doesn't have the clout to give her one anyway.
* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'''s sister site ''Not Always Learning'' has a [[http://notalwayslearning.com/ill-do-anything-to-pass/30621 Rage Comic]] that averts this.
* Referenced, but averted in one ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2545#comic one strip]], a young woman in a low-cut dress goes to her professor and asks if there's ''anything'' she can do to improve her grade... only for her world-weary professor to explain that he's SeenItAll in 50 years of practicing sexual deviancy in his marriage, so there's nothing she can possibly offer to do for him that would interest him.
There's some TruthInTelevision here, although as with many dramatic plots derived from RealLife, the frequency of sex-for-grades scandals in high schools and colleges is usually rather over-hyped. Schools (even poor ones that [[FailedASpotCheck don't screen their employees properly]]) and the law tend to punish such abuses of one's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position_of_trust Position of Trust]] very severely, since it's often a form of SexualExtortion, particularly when the teacher or professor is the one making the "[[AnOfferYouCantRefuse offer]]" to a failing student with no other way to pass (e.g. "[[ShameIfSomethingHappened I would really hate to see you fail this course...]]"). Even when the student is the one offering sex for grades, however, the instructor is supposed to know better and will shoulder the majority of the blame in the eyes of the law if he (or she) gives in to temptation. Hence, any instructor crooked enough to exchange grades for sex tends not to last very long.
While overlap is possible, this trope almost ''never'' involves any TeacherStudentRomance, since few will contend that SexEqualsLove in such a blatantly mercenary and unethical exchange as this. While it may also be related to TheOldestProfession, this is also rare: few students plan on making a career out of this sort of thing, though if they got away with this in school, they're likely to carry their old habits into the workplace, seeking easy raises and promotions from philandering bosses.
SubTrope of UnequalPairing and SexForServices; in this case, the "service" is specifically better grades for a student. '''NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' We like to keep things safe for work around here, and we don't want any part of any [[YouWannaGetSued legal accusations or libel suits]].
!!Examples:
[[AC:Anime]]
* Subverted in the first episode of ''Magical Twilight'' in which Irene trades sex with the headmaster of the Witches' Academy for a passing grade on her finals; [[ILied but he doesn't hold up his end of the deal, and still gives her a failing grade]].
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* In the graphic novel for ''Mad Love'', Batman's account of young Harlene Quinzel's academic career strongly implies that she was sleeping with her professors to get higher marks in her psychology classes.
* Subverted in the mainstream ''HarleyQuinn'' comics, on the other hand: the loopy young Harlene Quinzel is indicated to have had considerable psychological talent already, and rather than sleeping with a crooked professor suspiciously similar to the one shown in ''Mad Love'', is indicated to have blackmailed him for extra credit and eventually an internship at Arkham using a recording she made of a conversation with him in which she led him into saying some potentially incriminating things.
[[AC: Literature]]
* Zeb tells a story early in ''Literature/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' about a female student who was somehow flunking a course specifically rigged to let {{Dumb Jock}}s pass. The student made one of these offers to her male professor, but he didn't understand the offer and simply told her where to find a tutor. This turns out to be a minor PlotPoint when they learn the "Black Hats" are completely genderless, and said professor was an undercover agent for them.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' featuring the class president elections, Blossom's opponent turns out to have one of these deals going with a teacher. When called out for this, the teacher claims not to be aware that he's one of her students, but when reminded that she gave him an A in her class, replies "He earned it."
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'': In "Trends With Benefits" a media studies lecturer is indicated to be sleeping with several of his students. At least one of his students says that she is taking the class because wearing a short skirt and sitting in the front row is a guaranteed way to good marks.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' plays with this when Echo is hired by a college professor to play the role of a student who is failing his class and decides to visit him at home for some private tutoring; subverted because she's not actually one of his regular students, and his fantasy turns out to be having a student he can ''tutor'' (to appreciate Chaucer), not someone to sleep with him.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney sleeps with Marshall's law professor in hopes of raising the class's grades. He eventually dislocates a hip and winds up in the hospital, earning everyone in class... a B+.
** Subverted in the notorious "Let's Go to the Mall" scene from "Slap Bet" which starts off with Robin telling her professor that she'll do ''anything'' to get her grades up; [[spoiler: but instead of sex, she offers to sing him a song]].
* Kelly Bundy of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', being the archetypal DumbBlonde (who ReallyGetsAround) and desperate to graduate high school, has been known to do this on a few occasions among her other SexForServices deals.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Medium}}'' features a former teacher who lost his job over a [[FalseRapeAccusation sexual assault charge]] because he ''refused'' to sleep with a student for grades.
* In one episode of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', Finch is working as a college professor and introducing himself to the students he's going to be teaching. A very attractive female student sits in the front row giving him sultry looks. When Finch explains that all grades will be final and warns students not to seek out any private conferences with him in hopes of getting any grade increases, however, this student immediately packs up her things and walks out in a huff.
* One episode of ''Series/StepByStep'' has Dana and Karen attend the same poetry class. The teacher seems oddly fond of Karen’s awful poetry until he threatens to fail her if she doesn’t have sex with him. The girls devise a plan to catch him saying it on video, and manage to pull it off despite several complications. When Dana tells him he’s caught, he tells Karen her poetry is awful.
[[AC:Movies]]
* Defied by the shy and nerdy CovertPervert VillainProtagonist Kevin Dornwinkle in the schlocky movie ''The Invisible Maniac'': though he's indeed using his invisibility serum [[PowerPerversionPotential to spy on the buxom cheerleaders in the showers]], and visibly aroused when one of his nubile young students gives him the "I'll do ''anything'' for an A" routine, he brushes her off and tells her to study more. It's the female ''Principal'' (who ReallyGetsAround) at that school who's into making these trades, blackmailing one of the handsome young boys into having sex with her by telling him he's failing badly, but that if he satisfies her "needs" she can see to it that he passes.
[[AC: Music]]
* In ''Music/{{ACDC}}'''s "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" the [[ProfessionalKiller narrator]] offers to [[DeadlyEuphemism take care]] of a high school principal in order to preempt him from [[SexualExtortion extorting]] a graduation-for-sex deal from one of the narrator's potential clients.
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the ''University'' expansion pack [[VideoGamePerversityPotential has this as an option]] for players.
[[AC: WebComics]]
* In ''Webcomic/BetterDays'', exploited by one of the interns competing with Lucy for a radio newscaster position: she made one of these deals with one of her professors, and then exposed it to get him fired. This is among several dirty tricks the intern pulled of which Lucy tells her boss as evidence of her rival's treachery and duplicity.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' when Sal attempts to invoke this with a teacher's assistant; [[WhatAnIdiot she neglected to ask him for a better grade]] before sleeping with him, and he doesn't have the clout to give her one anyway.
* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'''s sister site ''Not Always Learning'' has a [[http://notalwayslearning.com/ill-do-anything-to-pass/30621 Rage Comic]] that averts this.
* Referenced, but averted in one ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2545#comic one strip]], a young woman in a low-cut dress goes to her professor and asks if there's ''anything'' she can do to improve her grade... only for her world-weary professor to explain that he's SeenItAll in 50 years of practicing sexual deviancy in his marriage, so there's nothing she can possibly offer to do for him that would interest him.
