History Main / ThePornoMancer

* In ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', it's easier to count the number of women who appear and ''haven't'' been banged by Geralt. In particular, Geralt ends up sleeping with nearly every named sorceress in the books at one point or another, and quite a few normal women besides. During the course of the main saga, however, he only sleeps with a few women, but by the time of [[VideoGame/TheWitcher the video games]] he's back to sleeping with nearly every woman he meets. In fact, at one point in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' this exchange happens:

'''Tony Stark:''' That is an excellent question. Yes and no--March and I had a scheduling conflict, but fortunately the Christmas cover was twins.

* In ''Franchis/TheWitcher'', it's easier to count the number of women who appear and ''haven't'' been banged by Geralt. In particular, Geralt ends up sleeping with nearly every named sorceress in the books at one point or another, and quite a few normal women besides. During the course of the main saga, however, he only sleeps with a few women, but by the time of [[Videogame/TheWitcher the videogames]] he's back to sleeping with nearly every woman he meets. In fact, at one point in ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' this exchange happens:
-->'''Margarita''': I just realized... except for Ciri, you and me, Geralt has slept with every woman on this boat.
-->'''Phillipa''': Don't worry. It's only a matter of time in your case.
* What discussion of sex magic would be complete without ''Literature/AnitaBlake''? Though the series began merely using sex as appropriate to a modern vampire story, as it progressed, it got further derailed to the point where nobody can resist having sex with Anita, and she can do anything she wants with sex magic.
* Laurell Hamilton's other major character, [[Literature/MerryGentry Meredith Gentry]], also qualifies: she's been able to [[spoiler:bring creatures of Faerie into power via sex, and even revive parts of the Unseelie enclave.]]
* Literature/SirAproposOfNothing gets a ring (that does not go on his finger) that gives him pornomancy in ''The Woad to Wuin'', the second book of the series. Subverted in that it quickly proves to be a curse: "The women came to me in all shapes, all sizes, young and old, pretty and… less so. Finally they tied me to the bed. There are worse ways to pass one's hours, but none come readily to mind."
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''
** This is the power of one of the families of the White Court of Vampires, which they use to facilitate their feeding on a person's ''soul'' and ''life'' through sex. If a vampire gets hungry, gender-appropriate preys will try to get close and tear their clothes off. The vampires can tone the effect to [[DistractedByTheSexy tolerable levels]], though. It should be noted that gender DOESN'T matter for the White Court. If it has a libido, they can eat it.\\\
One of them is a DefectorFromDecadence who can't hold down a normal job because his especially strong "aura" tends to [[SoBeautifulItsACurse cause him to be the victim of sexual harassment]], forcing him to quit or get fired due to {{Double Standard}}s. He eventually gets around this by masquerading as an [[CampGay outrageously campy homosexual]] [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]] hairdresser, and absorbs minute amounts of life energy coming from the feelings of sensuality his patrons enjoy by having their scalps massaged.
** While Harry himself is an aversion, wizards are known to have this effect. It actually serves as a decent early-warning sign of dark wizards, aka "warlocks". Magic is heavily tied to the wizard's sense of right and wrong and the fact that magic that takes control of people means that the person [[FridgeHorror doesn't consider what they're doing abusive]] is a pretty good clue that someone is up to no good. Harry's strength--and certain Mantles of Power that he has--make a lot of the major magical players want him on their side. Many of them are [[FemmeFatale Femme Fatale]]s or have them on staff for that purpose.

* Mikael Blomkvist, the male lead from Stieg Larsson's ''[[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy Millennium]]'' series. There are only two female characters featuring in more than a few paragraphs that Blomkvist ''doesn't'' sleep with. One is a married woman with young children and the other is his sister. It never seems to be Blomkvist who seduces them either, it just seems like every female jumps him as soon as she gets a chance. Luckily the movies downplay this. Some of this is due to Larsson's editors making him put more sex scenes in because they felt it would give the novels more commercial appeal. By the third book they stopped doing this and it shows.
* The ''Literature/MarlaMason'' series by T.A. Pratt actually uses the word "pornomancer" to describe Tantric magicians who derive power from sexual desire and sex-related emotion. There is also a character described as a "lovetalker" with the magical/psychic ability to involuntarily evoke feelings of attraction and affection in everyone around him, making him irresistible.
* The entire cast of ''Literature/AtlantaNights''.
* In ''[[Literature/SmokeAndShadows Smoke and Ashes]]'', Leah is this by virtue of being the handmaiden of a demonlord of lust. It fizzles when she attempts to use it on gay men however.
* ''{{Franchise/Dune}}'' presents Duncan Idaho as a {{lampshaded}} example. His charm with the women is remarked upon by more than a few characters throughout the entire original Frank Herbert run of the series. Not bad considering that he gets killed partway into the first book. [[DeathIsCheap And near the end of the third]]. [[CloningBlues And countless times in the fourth.]] Being able to bed almost every female character in the universe is most likely just karmic balance for Duncan being the Duneiverse's resident CosmicPlaything. Though by the fourth book it's probably DarwinistDesire given that GodEmperor Leto is quite clearly interested in his bloodline given how he keeps cloning him, and putting them in charge of his otherwise [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] guards, to say nothing of his official use of the clones in his breeding program.
* In ''Literature/AmericanGods'' Mr. Wednesday rarely spends a night alone, seducing waitresses, hotel clerks, practically every mortal woman that has prolonged contact with him (except that neopagan barista, she annoyed him). At one point he quite explicitly states that he knows a charm (as in spell) that makes any woman he desires fall in love with him.
* Lakewalkers in ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'' can use their magic powers to get sex with muggles. In theory, their culture frowns on this, although some lakewalker communities have enough cultural contempt for muggles to be cavalier about it.

* ''Webcomic/{{Discovery}}'': Prowl was apparently a huge slut back in the day; the comic has shown him use his animal magnetism to his advantage twice already.

** The only time I saw him fail to pick up a woman was when he tried to hit on a bride AT HER WEDDING!! [[RefugeInAudacity while she was dancing with her husband.]] He then goes on to sleep with her sister [[UpToEleven having already slept with her mother]]

* ''Manga/YurikasCampusLife'' is about the titular girl with the rather strange gift of [[YuriGenre female-only]] Pornomancy, to the point that even men recognize her as beautiful, yet somehow not attractive. The main issue with this is that Yurika is straight and actually wants a boyfriend. After a few chapters' worth of denial and [[AccidentalPornomancer accidental sexing]], she comes to terms with this and amusingly becomes known as "the girl with the [[InsistentTerminology stamen]]", using her skills at female love to score [[PerpetualPoverty food and a place to stay]] after her father's business collapses.

* Creator/DannyTrejo's eponymous ''Film/{{Machete}}'' may be one ugly hombre, but still, [[Film/{{Grindhouse}} "Machete gets the women."]]. By the end of the movie, every main female character has favored him, and he even did Creator/LindsayLohan's character and her stepmother ''at the same time'', complete with [[BowChickaWowWow porn music]].

** For added hilarity, we have [[JerkJock Ryuuji]], a rather successful [[TheCasanova casanova]] who ''[[SubvertedTrope thinks]]'' he's this. He even tells his girlfriend he has such a superior DNA that women can't help but throwing themselves at him, thus she'll never break with him in spite of him continuously cheating on her… [[LaserGuidedKarma Then she meets Junta as the Mega Playboy and uses Ryuuji's own bullshit to justify her sudden feelings for him to herself, before breaking up with him]].

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'': Hiroshi Abe claims to have slept with 158 women, and Eikichi and Ryuji beg him to teach them how to be like him.

* The so-called "Romantic Encounters" mod for ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGate Baldur's Gate II]]'' adds many dialogues that can make the PC into this. It also modifies an existing mage in the sewers (Mekrath) into a more or less literal Pornomancer.

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* ''WebComic/MagickChicks'' uses this as [[TheReveal a plot point]], concerning [[SmugSuper Faith]] [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Abbot.]] For much of the series, Tiffany speculated whether Faith's [[PsychicPowers psychic powers]] were somehow at the root of her charm over the student body. Which was eventually confirmed in chapter 15, when [[spoiler: [[EvilRedhead Cerise]] revealed Faith's powers had sync'd with the school's without her realizing it, essentially [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/even_her_enemies creating a lust field around her that enhanced her desirability]]]]. Meaning, she quite literally oozes sex appeal, without even trying. However, given the circumstances and [[QuestionableConsent the implications that came with it]], [[ThisCannotBe she didn't take it well.]]

[[caption-width-right:320:Just like [[GenerationXerox his father]].]]

* This is the nickname for a certain Archetype in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', who can throw a ridiculous number of dice at any social roll. Their powers aren't explicitly related to sex, though the ones capable of spellcasting often end up taking the spell that [[PowerPerversionPotential induces a mass orgasm]] for the take of living up to the name. And yes, that is a canon spell. Presumably, it's quite popular at [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy certain parties]]. ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''is probably the TropeNsmer.

* This is the nickname for a certain Archetype in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', who can throw a ridiculous number of dice at any social roll. Their powers aren't explicitly related to sex, though the ones capable of spellcasting often end up taking the spell that [[PowerPerversionPotential induces a mass orgasm]] for the take of living up to the name. And yes, that is a canon spell. Presumably, it's quite popular at [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy certain parties]].

* Barney from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is a master of this, not only does he have an arsenal of magic tricks, he once managed to pick up a French chick whilst pretending to be an 80-year-old man. Basically, his pornomancy is a servant to RuleOfFunny, and if it's funny for him to get martinis thrown in his face that will happen instead.

Barney--by his own admission--has actually flirted with way, ''way'' more women than he has slept with. One episode has Marshall using GNB's photocopying department to make an absurd number of graphs: Barney's success rate is only about 1%. Somewhat TruthInTelevision, Barney is using what might be called "The Shotgun Approach". Basically, he tries so much, so often, that the law of averages kicks in. Even if he only scores once for every 50 shots he takes, he shoots so much that that still means he'd get more tail in a week than most of us would see in a lifetime.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Implied with Daario. Proven absolutely when he becomes the first man to share Dany's bed after her departed husband.

** From ''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Requiem]]'', there's the Daeva Bloodline, the Duchagne, whose primary power is Licencieux, which can cause spontaneous waves of pain or pleasure in the target, meaning you can make anything attractive or repulsive, not just yourself. Bonus: repeated uses on the same target following a repeated action can cause addiction. Addiction to the caster's favor, addiction to doing as they're told, [[RuleOfThree addiction to]] [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife contributing to wikis]]... the applications are endless.

* Shane from the ''Series/{{TheLWord}}'' wields such powerful pornomancer powers, [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer even the straightest of straight girls]] go [[StupidSexyFlanders "gay for Shane"]].

** Author Hank Moody, played by RealLife pornomancer/sex addict David Duchovny, is CursedWithAwesome pornomancy. An endless slew of gorgeous women fall into his bed; even his daughter and his soul mate usually just roll their eyes when they find out about his sexual shenanigans. A case could be made that his power is BlessedWithSuck (heh), since his life is always complicated by his sexual antics. One generally doesn't feel sorry for him, however.\\\
By Season 3, about the only adult women on the show he hasn't slept with are Marci, his best friend's wife, the boss of his best friend, and his daughter's best friend. He ''has'' slept with Mia (the 16 year old daughter of the man he took his wife back from), his teacher's assistant, a stripper/student in his writing class, the wife of the dean of the school he's working at, Karen, and about a half-dozen random sexual encounters. It finally comes crashing down in the Season 3 final episode.\\\

* Barney from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is a master of this, not only does he have an arsenal of magic tricks, he once managed to pick up a French chick whilst pretending to be an 80-year-old man. Basically, his pornomancy is a servant to RuleOfFunny, and if it's funny for him to get martinis thrown in his face that will happen instead.\\\
The episode "Stuff" highlights some of the weak points in Barney's game; although he is shown on-screen with a great success rate in picking girls up, it apparently falls apart fairly often on the way back to his or her place. Barney's solution? Turn a moving truck into a one-room bachelor pad in the alley behind the bar. Though, according to his own admission, he has never had a "perfect week", (7 women in 7 days) though he has tried to.\\

If he/she enthousiastically takes on the sex offered, it results in ReallyGetsAround.

* Lester Girls from ''ComicBook/TheTroubleWithGirls'' is an inversion of this. Everywhere he goes there will invariably be hordes of women lusting after him, much to his displeasure. One of his big desires is to meet a nice normal girl who doesn't try to get into his pants five seconds after saying "Hi!"

Barney--by his own admission--has actually flirted with way, ''way'' more women than he has slept with. One episode has Marshall using GMB's photocopying department to make an absurd number of graphs: Barney's success rate is only about 1%. Somewhat TruthInTelevision, Barney is using what might be called "The Shotgun Approach". Basically, he tries so much, so often, that the law of averages kicks in. Even if he only scores once for every 50 shots he takes, he shoots so much that that still means he'd get more tail in a week than most of us would see in a lifetime.

* ''Yurika's Campus Life'' is about a girl with the rather strange gift of [[YuriGenre female-only]] Pornomancy, to the point that even men recognize her as beautiful, yet somehow not attractive. After a few chapters worth of denial and [[AccidentalPornomancer accidental sexing]], she comes to terms with this and amusingly becomes known as "the girl with the [[InsistentTerminology stamen]]", using her skills at female love to score [[PerpetualPoverty food and a place to stay]].

You, my friend, are The Pornomancer. In [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} pornographic]] movies, the characters usually don't ''earn'' their sexual conquests so much as ''receive'' them from some greater power...whether that power is in-universe magic or simply a godlike, but lazy, writer or director (or both). There wouldn't be much of a porn movie if the characters didn't have sex, and nobody involved--including most of the audience--cares whether the seduction would be plausible in the real world. So it isn't. Thus, in the grand tradition of [[AWizardDidIt wizards who are helpful to lazy writers]], this field of study is known as [[WhateverMancy "pornomancy."]]

Often pornomancers are a walking DeusSexMachina, but they can exist in more family-friendly works, such as TheCasanova in a sit-com, or the FemmeFatale in a detective show. Pornomancy is often exhibited by StupidSexyFlanders and any other character so hot that they [[EvenTheGuysWantHim engender attraction]] from [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer same-sex heterosexuals]].

You, my friend, are The Pornomancer. In [[UsefulNotes/{{Pornography}} pornographic]] movies, the characters usually don't ''earn'' their sexual conquests so much as ''receive'' them from some greater power… whether that power is in-universe magic or simply a godlike, but lazy, writer or director (or both). There wouldn't be much of a porn movie if the characters didn't have sex, and nobody involved--including most of the audience--cares whether the seduction would be plausible in the real world. So it isn't. Thus, in the grand tradition of [[AWizardDidIt wizards who are helpful to lazy writers]], this field of study is known as [[WhateverMancy "pornomancy."]]

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics''

* Boomhauer and John Redcorn in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', although Boomhauer slightly subverts it during the one occasion we get to see the "secret" of his success: He simply asks literally every girl he sees until one eventually says yes.

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Love Espada has [[BiTheWay male and female students alike]] chomping at the bit for the chance to bang her and [[AllWomenAreLustful she's just as eager]] [[ReallyGetsAround to please.]] The 70.5 omake chapter recounts how an unnamed waitress voluntarily became her SexSlave, after falling in love with Espada at first sight. In chapter 76, Espada is said to have slept with over 100 girls during Tenbi's previous Himekagura Festival. And three chapters later, she leaves another group of female students passed out at her feet in various states of undress, with two still trembling in orgasm.

* ''Series/TheWire'': Jimmy [=McNulty=] has shades of this. A Season 2 episode starts with him effortlessly picking up a waitress despite being slovenly drunk and nursing a wounded hand from an earlier car crash. Then of course there was the incident with the two prostitutes during a sting, something [[NeverLiveItDown that other BPD Officers would joke about well into the show's final season.]]

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* The aptly named Ambrosia, a supervillain in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' is continually surrounded by a cloud of pheromones that make so attracted to her that they will do nearly anything to please her... including handing over an entire store's worth of jewelry, or the entire contents of a cash drawer, or shoot someone... and it works on both men ''and'' women. She has, on ''numerous'' occasions taken advantage of her one super-power to go into a single's bar and walk away with the prettiest people in the joint for a night of fun.
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** Much of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' was built around a fairly massive subversion/aversion of this: Vesper Lynd is set up as a typical Bond conquest-to-be, but instead of that he falls for her, hard, and she completely plays him. Given how ''Casino Royale'' is Bond's origin story, it's more accurate to say his callous womanizing [[StartOfDarkness stems from]] their destructive relationship. Few people realize his signature [[DrinkOrder vodka martini]] is actually symbolic: Bond names it after Vesper and then [[TragicKeepsake continues drinking it]] long after she's dead.