History Main / SexyDiscretionShot

'''Wanda:''' Yes, dear?\\

[[caption-width-right:299:[[Series/StarTrekVoyager "This isn't about the gun! This is about sex!"]][[note]]Interestingly, as originally written this was not meant to be a sexy discretion shot. The characters were going to hug; UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode changed the final panel [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything to the holstered gun instead.]][[/note]]]]

* Pictured above is a page from ''ComicBook/NickFury: Agent of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}'', by Creator/JimSteranko. The last panel of the page showed Fury and the Contessa in a torrid embrace, leaving it very obvious what was going to happen. UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode told Marvel that this was unacceptable, and demanded the page be changed before the comic could be printed. Roy Thomas, the editor, didn't have time to get Steranko (or a replacement artist) to draw a new final panel, so he hastily pasted in a photostat of Fury's discarded holster from the first panel, hoping it would create nice BookEnds for the scene. Thomas somehow completely missed [[FreudWasRight the visual innuendo of a holster with a gun in it]], and evidently so did the Code, as the comic was approved for printing. Thomas only realized what he'd done when he received a phone call from Steranko, laughing his ass off and thanking him for making the sequence even ''sexier.'' Oddly, another mandated change was to the panel with the telephone; the original page showed that the pair [[CuttingTheElectronicLeash left the phone off the hook so as not to be disturbed.]] Thomas had to change the image to the phone ringing but not being answered, which was considered... less sexy? He's still baffled by that one.

* A parody of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in ''Literature/IAmAmericaAndSoCanYou'' includes the rule, "If a scene includes a train entering a tunnel, the tunnel shall not be portrayed as enjoying it."

* In ''VideoGame/StarControl 2'' you can seduce Captain Talana. The screen goes black, but you can still read their sexy dialog: "Cowabunga!"

* Similar to GTA, ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' also allows the player to get some action off-screen while pressing the displayed buttons. Subverted in ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII III]]''. While you're boinking Aphrodite offscreen, her handmaidens are doing foreplay ''onscreen''. Played straight when, upon completion, you get to see the two handmaidens preparing to have sex on the floor as the camera returns to Kratos.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'', a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] teaches a class on how to "influence" people. We don't see her "lecture", just the male characters' reactions.
** The Succubus has a skill called Dazzling Stage, wherein she puts on a strip show for her targets. About 2-3 frames before her cape dissolves enough to expose her entire body, a [[WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties "technical difficulties"]] screen appears long enough that when it disappears, the dance is already over and her outfit is back on her.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' games from ''VideoGame/Persona3'' onward, when the main character is alone with a romanced love interest, the screen will fade out with some sort of statement about 'spending a long time together' or 'sharing an intimate moment'.
** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has a particularly blatant example with [[spoiler: Naoto]] on her Christmas date. She gives you one of a pair of watches that have a simple tracking mechanism. Shortly after, the screen fades to black and there's only one message. [[spoiler:"Distance < 1m."]]
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', if you're dating someone, you get the option to invite them back to your room, which causes a fade to black and little hearts to fly out from Joker's portrait.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'' does this when you've bought everything your romantic interest wants. The one with the "good" (more psychotically obsessed with order) option girl is particularly amusing as you catch her increasingly out of breath lecture on military tactics. One will never react to the phrase "pincher movement" the same again.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** In the denouement of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', a romantic evening between [[spoiler:Naked Snake and EVA]] ends with the camera panning over to the fireplace before cutting to [[spoiler:Snake]] waking up, bare-chested. If the player manages to make it all the way to the waterfall cave without [[spoiler:extracting the TrackingDevice from Snake's leg]], you'll be treated to a rather amusing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9FO-USlA7Y lampshade]] of this trope. [[RightThroughHisPants But with his pants on]]...
** And in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', a cutscene shows Naomi and Otacon dancing around some awkward flirting, near-kisses, and UST before (at her request) he shows her to a private bunk on the plane (presumably, so she wouldn't have to bunk with the lads). She vanishes within, and he loiters outside it for a minute or so before she reaches out and yanks him inside. End cutscene.
** If Big Boss successfully manages to reach maximum [[DatingSim affection]] with Paz or [[GayOption Kaz]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', and chooses to have sex with them, we see his partner hop inside his cardboard box with him, which then starts jostling suggestively as little hearts appear above it.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. The night before the final battle, if Cloud has obtained enough love points [[ChildhoodFriendRomance with Tifa]], he tries confessing his love to her. When he is unable to find the words Tifa suggests expressing how he feels without words. Cue fade to black. With Cloud and Tifa laying on each other the next morning.

* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' gives us the kiss for different-sex couples and some lines implying that more is about to happen, but nothing more than that. The same-sex couples fade to black before the kiss even happens. If you manage to romance both Dawn Star and Silk Fox, they will [[AThreeSomeIsHot both be happy to share a tent with you]], but it still fades to black before you kiss either.
* The PC title ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' loves this trope, as it is by nature, a tongue-in-cheek sex comedy. Most noteworthy is the use of it in Larry 7 when nudist Drew Baringmore shouts that Larry [[MyEyesAreUpHere look her in the eyes]] seconds before the wandering camera gets a chance to reach too far down below her chest. And averted in Larry 7 if you look for the easter eggs. If Larry is wearing earplugs, he will fail to hear Drew's request to look at her eyes and the camera will continue wandering down. If you get 100% completion, you're also treated to a second or two of Larry and Captain Thygh doing the nasty.

* Used in ''VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' with a {{lampshade|Hanging}} from the narrator about giving the characters some privacy.
* In ''VideoGame/DefenderOfTheCrown'', when the player rescues a DamselInDistress they are treated to a cutscene that shows the two of them having a late-night rendezvous where the female drops her clothes to the floor (although she's seen from behind so no actual nudity is shown). The game then cuts to a shot from outside the window where the silhouettes of the two lovers embrace before the screen fades to black.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is normally not shy about its sex scenes, but when Morrigan does her DeusSexMachina towards the end of the game, she climbs atop the man in question then blows out the candle by the bed.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', the love scenes generally involve this. Given a call back in the third game in a specific bit of banter.
--->'''Varric:''' I usually describe a fireplace by this point...
* ''[[VideoGame/DragonsLair Dargon's Lair 3D]]'': Used as the end final shot of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZoFGLLPmOw the special edition ending.]] Daphne gets zapped in her rear end by Mordroc, which causes her to clench her teeth and bite Dirk as they're [[SmoochOfVictory making out.]] But they quickly brush it aside and resume offscreen, where the last sound the audience hears is Daphne giggling before she suddenly gasps, "Oh!"
* In ''VideoGame/DemonGaze'', the night before you go get the Demon Slayer, your main character goes to Fran's room in which she confesses her feeling for you. Then the game fades to black and returns to the next morning where she is seen in her underwear. Implying that you have slept together.

* ''VideoGame/Haven2020'' makes it abundantly clear that Kay and Yu are a sexually active couple, but opts to not depict anything explicit. Any cutscene that leads into them doing the deed simply ends before it gets too raunchy.

** In VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', the player can choose to sleep with his girlfriends. If he does so, the camera shows the outside of the house while you hear the sounds of love. Amusingly, Rockstar was actually planning to allow the player to control the sex scenes but wisely changed the game to prevent it. When a man later discovered them, it spawned the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_coffee Hot Coffee mod controversy.]]

** This is itself averted in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''. If you sleep with Niko's girlfriend you get the Sexy Discretion Shot. If you hire a prostitute and swing the camera around you can see ''exactly what's she's doing.''
* Averted as well in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', where in one of the missions John stumbles upon Abraham Reyes railing a peasant girl on a table.

* The PSP game, ''Literature/SwordArtOnline Infinity Moment'' and its UpdatedRerelease on PS Vita, ''Hollow Fragment'' has a sidequest in which you had to fix your marriage with Asuna. After the sidequest, there is an event in which Kirito and Asuna are going for a second honeymoon. In the end, Asuna will ask you to sleep with her for the night. After a fade to black and a rather suggestive line from Asuna, the game cuts from next day, and you are greeted to a CG of Asuna naked with a ModestyBedsheet. It's pretty clear what has happened.

* ''Webcomic/DragonBallReboot'': [[https://www.deviantart.com/ginereboot/art/125-DBReboot-Spin-Off-ENGLISH-1000241782 Page 125]] of the spin-off contains a scene where following a SlapSlapKiss moment between Bardock and Gine, the two have a SuggestiveCollision that sees a flustered Bardock pinning an equally flustered Gine to the floor as the two lovingly stare into each other's eyes, then lean their faces close together. The next panel cuts to the outside of Gine's home at night as the lights are turned off. This is followed by a TimeSkip showing Gine pregnant with a second son as she is HappilyMarried with Bardock while they raise their son Raditz together.

%%* Double Subverted in ''Picasso Trigger'' during the hot tub sex scene between Hope Marie Carlton and Bruce Penhall. {{N|otSafeForWork}}SFW

* Stu, O.T. and the girls in the Corvette [[ModestyBedSheet get between the sheets]] in ''Spring Break''.{{NSFW}}

* In the Edith Wharton short story "Summer", TheProtagonist and her soon-to-be lover kiss at the town festival. The reader is promptly treated to a long paragraph offering an elaborate description of fireworks going off.

* ''Film/Nightfall2000'': While Illyra and Metron are out in the wilderness, he invites her to lay her head on his chest as a pillow. She does, and asks him if his behaviour was acceptable for a Watcher. He admits that it isn't, and they kiss, rolling over so that Metron is on top of Illyra.