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* Subverted in the mainstream ''ComicBook/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. (Of course, in both cases, it meant her grades and diploma and grades weren't as legitimate as they seemed. The mainstream comics also revealed in a long-concealed video recovered from Arkham Asylum of her first "therapy" session with the Joker, she started flirting with him the moment they were alone with each other because she was planning to seduce him all along and only got the job in the first place in order to get into contact with him.)

* ''Film/TheThinning''. Students who fail a standardised test are culled, so a teacher promises a pass to a female student who sleeps with him. Then he fails her anyway [[EvilTeacher so she'll be killed]] and so won't tell anyone what he did.

[[caption-width-right:294:She did have to ''earn'' that grade... but not by any legitimate means.]]

* Subverted again in ''ComicBook/Harleen''. Harley was sleeping with one of her professors because she happens to be into older men, she got her grades legitimately but people assumed this when the affair was exposed. As one character points out this trope doesn't actually work. Between multiple professors, peer review and outside marking the only way Harley could have got her qualifications is if she earned them legitimately.

* In the Horacio Altuna story ''Cat'' published in ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'', its VillainProtagonist, a nymphomaniac sociopath, at one point seduces one of her professors to bump up her grades. They're later caught, but she threatens the dean with making sure that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her wealthy father's handsome donations to the school will dry up]] and [[KarmaHoudini gets off scott-free]].

* 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.

* In one of his books on jokes, Creator/IsaacAsimov tells a joke about this. Once a very beautiful female student comes to a male 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.

* 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.

* 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 extremely inadvisable 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 [[DidTheyOrDidntThey how far she had to go to get those A's]] but casually says "it all worked out just fine".

* Subverted in ''Series/You2018'' when Beck is going to lose her TA position after rejecting a pass from her advisor. At Joe's suggestion she locates other victims and records an incriminating conversation with the professor. This helps cement her relationship with Joe [[spoiler: who is an obsessive stalker who has targeted her and murdered her boyfriend. Oops.]]

* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Alma Murder" is a graduate student who specializes in this. [[WhoMurderedTheAsshole One suspect]] describes her as "[[AssholeVictim giving tramps a bad name]]."

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* A limeric from an old issue of ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' describes a case of unusual priorities for the student: here, sex and/or TeacherStudentRomance is the main purpose, while passing grade would be a pleasant bonus.
-->''A susceptible senior at Vassar\\
Is knitting an antimacassar\\
To induce her professor\\
To love and caress her\\
And possibly even to pass her.''

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* Subverted again in ''ComicBook/Harleen. Harley was sleeping with one of her professors because she happens to be into older men, she got her grades legitimately but people assumed this when the affair was exposed. As one character points out this trope doesn't actually work. Between multiple professors, peer review and outside marking the only way Harley could have got her qualifications is if she earned them legitimately.

* Subverted in ''Film/TheEigerSanction'' when a pretty blonde student implies she'll sleep with RetiredBadass art lecturer Dr Hemlock, who unfortunately for her is played by Creator/ClintEastwood.

* A subplot in an episode of ''Seres/TouchedByAnAngel'', when a high school student accuses her teacher of this, spurred by his 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 has the effrontery to lay the blame on the student for having made advances on him and attempts to take the moral high ground by claiming that he simply couldn't bring himself to give her a good grade when she didn't deserve it.

* Subverted in ''YOU'' (2018) when Beck is going to lose her TA position after rejecting a pass from her advisor. At Joe's suggestion she locates other victims and records an incriminating conversation with the professor. This helps cement her relationship with Joe [[spoiler: who is an obsessive stalker who has targeted her and murdered her boyfriend. Oops.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', the ''University'' expansion pack [[VideoGamePerversityPotential has this as an option]] for players.

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 does the deed 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.

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[[caption-width-right:350:She did have to ''earn'' that grade... but not by any legitimate means.]]

* A limeric from an old issue of ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' describes a case of unusual priorities for the student: here, sex is the main purpose, while passing grade would be a pleasant bonus.

* 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.

* In the Horacio Altuna story ''Cat'' published in ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'', its VillainProtagonist, a nymphomaniac sociopath, at one point seduces one of her professors to bump up her grades. They're later caught, but she threatens the dean with making sure that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her wealthy father's handsome donations to the school will dry up]] and gets off scott-free.

* In the Horacio Altuna story ''Cat'' published in ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'', its VillainProtagonist, a nymphomaniac sociopath, at one point seduces one of her professors to bump up her grades. They're later caught, but she threatens the dean with making sure that her wealthy father's handsome donations to the school will dry up and gets off scott-free.

* Subverted in the mainstream ''ComicBook/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. But in both cases, it meant she wasn't as good a psychologist as her diploma said... which likely contributed to her falling for J.

* 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. Unfortunately, [[WhatAnIdiot she has sex with him]] ''[[WhatAnIdiot instead of taking the test]]''. As he points out, he can't exactly give her a passing grade on a test ''she didn't take''.

* In a Gary Gulman bit, he talks about 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 starts chiding his girlfriend for her poor grades despite her repeated insinuations that she'll "do anything" to improve them. By the end, he's lost all interest in having sex, and is instead pressing her to study so she'll pass the class.

* 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 ([[ComicSutra involving waffle irons, among other things]]), so there's nothing she can possibly offer to do for him that would interest him.

** 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]].

* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Not out of extra credit, but Victoria attempts to seduce Mr. Jefferson in order to guarantee a spot in a photography contest for a scholarship. His reaction is firm "no", and he chastises her for saying she could threaten him with the accusation. [[spoiler: She ''does'' get picked for the competition, but it's out of genuine ability. This is also given a very disturbing twist when it turns out Jefferson is a depraved sadist who wants to go after the girls ''himself'' without any offering.]]