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* Nanase Katagiri from ''VisualNovel/{{Nukitashi}}'' is known as the biggest slut of Minotsuki Academy and is subjected to outrageous rumours, but there isn't any proof beyond her looks and she's still a virgin. She never clears up the misunderstanding and takes advantage of her fame to escape from perverted sex.
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* Richard Series/{{Castle}} is reputedly something of a lothario with a long list of girls in his past, but we've only ever seen him hook up with about three women. And two of them were his ex-wives.
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* Richard Series/{{Castle}} Series/{{Castle|2009}} is reputedly something of a lothario with a long list of girls in his past, but we've only ever seen him hook up with about three women. And two of them were his ex-wives.
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* One minor character in the Creator/TimDorsey novels is a trust fund kid living the life of a playboy who, despite his great skill in being able to get dates, has ''never once'' actually gotten laid.
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* One minor character in the Creator/TimDorsey ''Literature/SergeStorms'' novels is a trust fund kid living the life of a playboy who, despite his great skill in being able to get dates, has ''never once'' actually gotten laid.
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* {{Deconstructed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton Ring Of Lovers]]''. The main character, a Captain Gahagan is invited to a dinner party with several other famous men apparently chosen at random. Near the end of the party, he learns that their host had, by intercepting correspondence, discovered that his wife was cheating on him, but not who the other man was, and that the men at that dinner party had been selected as those whom the host believed most likely to seduce another man's wife. Despite the fact that Captain Gahagan had not in fact slept with anyone since he was a soldier on leave during the First World War (many years before this), he realized at this point that he had been delaying proposing to the girl he loved (and who loved him back), simply because he was unwilling to give up the notoriety, the false reputation as a playboy and ladykiller.
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* {{Deconstructed}} in ''[[Creator/GKChesterton ''[[Literature/TheParadoxesOfMrPond Ring Of Lovers]]''. The main character, a Captain Gahagan is invited to a dinner party with several other famous men apparently chosen at random. Near the end of the party, he learns that their host had, by intercepting correspondence, discovered that his wife was cheating on him, but not who the other man was, and that the men at that dinner party had been selected as those whom the host believed most likely to seduce another man's wife. Despite the fact that Captain Gahagan had not in fact slept with anyone since he was a soldier on leave during the First World War (many years before this), he realized at this point that he had been delaying proposing to the girl he loved (and who loved him back), simply because he was unwilling to give up the notoriety, the false reputation as a playboy and ladykiller.
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The character with an Urban Legend Love Life tends to come in two distinct types. The first is where even the reader isn't quite sure what to make of him; the other characters claim he's promiscuous, he's charming and chatty with the ladies, and innuendoes are made left, right and center. Yet it seems as though his romantic success is a bit of an InformedAbility -- with the possible exception of his [[OfficialCouple canon love interest]], he doesn't seem to be making serious advances on anyone. He's not likely to steal anyone's girlfriend or wife, although he may well flirt with them, and may in fact be much better behaved than more "sensible" male cast members. We're not sure whether to assume that he has other lovers on the go off-screen or off-page, and the writer hasn't deemed his sex life important enough to be in the plot (which would make him the inverse of a HollywoodDateless guy), or whether a higher purpose has made him put romance on hold, or whether he is genuinely pretty chaste, if not actually a virgin.
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The character with an Urban Legend Love Life tends to come in two distinct types. The first is where even the reader isn't quite sure what to make of him; the other characters claim he's promiscuous, he's charming and chatty with the ladies, and innuendoes are made left, right and center. Yet it seems as though his romantic success is a bit of an InformedAbility -- with the possible exception of his [[OfficialCouple canon love interest]], he doesn't seem to be making serious advances on anyone. He's not likely to steal anyone's girlfriend or wife, although he may well flirt with them, and may in fact be much better behaved than more "sensible" male cast members. We're not sure whether to assume that he has other lovers on the go off-screen or off-page, and the writer hasn't deemed his sex life important enough to be in the plot (which would make him the inverse of a HollywoodDateless guy), plot, or whether a higher purpose has made him put romance on hold, or whether he is genuinely pretty chaste, if not actually a virgin.
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* A Creator/LennyBruce bit claims Music/FrankSinatra never got laid due to this trope.
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* Most young men (high school to college-age) tend to act as if they have had more partners than they actually had. By contrast, many women in that age bracket tend to downplay theirs. Usually by the time people reach their late 20s, they realize they have nothing to prove and are either honest about their body count or stop keeping score altogether, as anyone who would judge them for it is not worth having around.
* UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, "A Man for All Women and a Woman for All Men." Had a reputation for being the biggest Casanova in Rome, an insatiable sexual appetite. While he did have a number of lovers (many of them married women) there is no proof that he was ever involved with the majority of the women he was accused of sleeping with. A combination of slander by his political enemies (in ancient Rome, an insatiable sexual appetite was considered unmanly) and a rumor feeding itself would account for most of these tales. It usually took little more than Caesar exchanging a few words with a woman in public for rumor to spread that he was sleeping with her.
** These rumors also extended to accusing him of having unmanly relationships with men. While just any relationship with a man wouldn't have been considered so bad, being [[{{Uke}} the passive partner]] or having a male partner your own age or older wasn't macho.
** Case in point: Caesar's own troops nicknamed him "whoremonger." Word travels fast.
* The sex lives of fashion models. Creator/JonStewart told ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine in 1995 "Models talk to you for six minutes and they're very nice and they say "Thank you." and then they go off to the [[BiggerIsBetterInBed larger]] [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=european&defid=1548301 European]] men they actually have sex with."
* Italian actor Creator/MarcelloMastroianni, or more specifically, his various characters. In almost every movie he was ever in, Mastroianni played a character who was a complete subversion of TheCasanova, and yet his reputation as one stuck for his entire career (much to Mastroianni's annoyance).
* Creator/BenjaminFranklin has a reputation as a ladies man - he's even an example on the Casanova page - but at least one biographer is convinced there was more smoke than fire. Franklin himself indicated as much when Jefferson, replacing him as ambassador to France, hoped to inherit his effect on the French ladies and Franklin ruefully replied it would do him no good if he did. Undoubtedly our senior Founding Father was a shameless -- and charming -- flirt but it's likely that he rarely went beyond talk.
* Aaron Burr, who really ''did'' by his own admission [[ReallyGetsAround sleep with a great deal of women, and at least two men]]; but to read the tabloid coverage of his sex life, you would think he had slept with the entire adult population of America and Europe (and possibly Quebec) between 1775 and his death in 1836 ([[AbominationAccusationAttack and, according to James Cheetham, a good chunk of the underage male population of New York]]).
* Cass Chaplin Jr. claimed that he and Creator/EdwardGRobinson Jr. regularly had [[GuyOnGuyIsHot bisexual]] [[AThreesomeIsHot threesomes]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe and that their booty calls were the primary sexual relationship of her adult life.
* Thanks to the power of the Internet, Spanish singer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Iglesias Julio Iglesias]] is something of a {{memetic|Mutation}} [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. A [[http://www.elmundotoday.com/2016/05/julio-iglesias-reclama-la-paternidad-de-todos-los-espanoles-nacidos-entre-1968-y-2016/ satire website]] once stated that he was claiming fatherhood of every single Spaniard born between 1968 and 2016.
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* A Creator/LennyBruce bit claims Music/FrankSinatra never got laid due to this trope.
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* Most young men (high school to college-age) tend to act as if they have had more partners than they actually had. By contrast, many women in that age bracket tend to downplay theirs. Usually by the time people reach their late 20s, they realize they have nothing to prove and are either honest about their body count or stop keeping score altogether, as anyone who would judge them for it is not worth having around.
* UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, "A Man for All Women and a Woman for All Men." Had a reputation for being the biggest Casanova in Rome, an insatiable sexual appetite. While he did have a number of lovers (many of them married women) there is no proof that he was ever involved with the majority of the women he was accused of sleeping with. A combination of slander by his political enemies (in ancient Rome, an insatiable sexual appetite was considered unmanly) and a rumor feeding itself would account for most of these tales. It usually took little more than Caesar exchanging a few words with a woman in public for rumor to spread that he was sleeping with her.
** These rumors also extended to accusing him of having unmanly relationships with men. While just any relationship with a man wouldn't have been considered so bad, being [[{{Uke}} the passive partner]] or having a male partner your own age or older wasn't macho.
** Case in point: Caesar's own troops nicknamed him "whoremonger." Word travels fast.
* The sex lives of fashion models. Creator/JonStewart told ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' magazine in 1995 "Models talk to you for six minutes and they're very nice and they say "Thank you." and then they go off to the [[BiggerIsBetterInBed larger]] [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=european&defid=1548301 European]] men they actually have sex with."
* Italian actor Creator/MarcelloMastroianni, or more specifically, his various characters. In almost every movie he was ever in, Mastroianni played a character who was a complete subversion of TheCasanova, and yet his reputation as one stuck for his entire career (much to Mastroianni's annoyance).
* Creator/BenjaminFranklin has a reputation as a ladies man - he's even an example on the Casanova page - but at least one biographer is convinced there was more smoke than fire. Franklin himself indicated as much when Jefferson, replacing him as ambassador to France, hoped to inherit his effect on the French ladies and Franklin ruefully replied it would do him no good if he did. Undoubtedly our senior Founding Father was a shameless -- and charming -- flirt but it's likely that he rarely went beyond talk.
* Aaron Burr, who really ''did'' by his own admission [[ReallyGetsAround sleep with a great deal of women, and at least two men]]; but to read the tabloid coverage of his sex life, you would think he had slept with the entire adult population of America and Europe (and possibly Quebec) between 1775 and his death in 1836 ([[AbominationAccusationAttack and, according to James Cheetham, a good chunk of the underage male population of New York]]).
* Cass Chaplin Jr. claimed that he and Creator/EdwardGRobinson Jr. regularly had [[GuyOnGuyIsHot bisexual]] [[AThreesomeIsHot threesomes]] with Creator/MarilynMonroe and that their booty calls were the primary sexual relationship of her adult life.
* Thanks to the power of the Internet, Spanish singer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Iglesias Julio Iglesias]] is something of a {{memetic|Mutation}} [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. A [[http://www.elmundotoday.com/2016/05/julio-iglesias-reclama-la-paternidad-de-todos-los-espanoles-nacidos-entre-1968-y-2016/ satire website]] once stated that he was claiming fatherhood of every single Spaniard born between 1968 and 2016.
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* Francesco in Ayn Rand's ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''. The women even confirm it.. Doesn't mean there was anything between them - doesn't even mean it was Francesco himself who was seen talking to the "lover".
** And he ends up the UnluckyChildhoodFriend for it!
** And he ends up the UnluckyChildhoodFriend for it!
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* Francesco in Ayn Rand's ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''. The women even confirm it.. Doesn't mean there was anything between them - doesn't even mean it was Francesco himself who was seen talking to the "lover". \n** And he ends up the UnluckyChildhoodFriend for it!
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* Inverted in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series, where the authors' attempt to portray Rayford as being sexually faithful to his wife right up until the Rapture and only considering an affair with a stewardess - but he comes off looking like a massive lech who probably doesn't sleep around only because the women won't have him.
** He also considers making out with another woman at an office Christmas party (while his wife stayed home due to being heavily pregnant) to not count as cheating.
** He also considers making out with another woman at an office Christmas party (while his wife stayed home due to being heavily pregnant) to not count as cheating.
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* Inverted in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series, where the authors' attempt to portray Rayford as being sexually faithful to his wife right up until the Rapture and only considering an affair with a stewardess - but he comes off looking like a massive lech who probably doesn't sleep around only because the women won't have him.
**him. He also considers making out with another woman at an office Christmas party (while his wife stayed home due to being heavily pregnant) to not count as cheating.
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* ''Literature/NightWorld'': In ''Literature/SecretVampire'', vampire James Rasmussen has a reputation as TheCasanova, going through numerous girlfriends throughout the school year. None of his relationships last more than a few months, tops. In reality, he secretly feeds off the girls and dumps them before long to avoid developing an emotional attachment to them (which is forbidden under Night World law).
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* From ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Warden Carlos Ramirez is a type one, with an extensive reputation and who talks a great game. [[spoiler:Naturally, we find out in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' that he is actually a virgin.]]
** Notable, in that Harry, a detective who can read people like a book, has no clue about this, until Lara Raith blurts it out after one look at Ramirez.
** Notable, in that Harry, a detective who can read people like a book, has no clue about this, until Lara Raith blurts it out after one look at Ramirez.
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* From ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Warden Carlos Ramirez is a type one, with an extensive reputation and who talks a great game. [[spoiler:Naturally, we find out in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' that he is actually a virgin.]]
**]] Notable, in that Harry, a detective who can read people like a book, has no clue about this, until Lara Raith blurts it out after one look at Ramirez.
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* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Luke hears rumors about Lando having a relationship with Mara Jade. [[YoureJustJealous Not that he's jealous]] (eyeroll).
** Of course, it turns out he just [[ThreeIsCompany misunderstood]]!
*** It wasn't a misunderstanding; Mara was undercover at the time, and the person she was investigating saw women as objects. To further that assumption, she went along with the target's belief that she was Lando's woman. When she answered the comm wearing Lando's shirt, it was because she didn't know who was calling, and if she might need to further the masquerade. (Of course, she did let Luke believe that for years because she was feeling a little vindictive that he believed she'd sleep with Lando in the first place.)
** And to silence the giggles of whoever [[HoYay read a bit too much]] into Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy, let us precise: Luke is jealous of ''Lando.''
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Rand is in love with three women (who all love him) [[spoiler:and has a batshit crazy Forsaken named Lanfear/Cyndane pining for him]], Perrin is married and is nevertheless relentlessly pursued by [[spoiler:Berelain sur Paendrag]], and Mat is a flirt and playboy [[spoiler:and continues his flirting ways despite being married to Seanchan Empress Fortuona]]... and ''each one'' frequently muses that the other two understand women much better than they do. Of the three, only Perrin is right. Special emphasis on Mat, who is considered an irredeemable lech and certainly loves a dance and a bit of canoodling with a willing woman, but who ''never'' presses his attentions on anyone who's not interested and whose final confirmed partner count as of the final book is [[spoiler:two. Only one of which was [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale consensual on his end]].]]
** Of course, it turns out he just [[ThreeIsCompany misunderstood]]!
*** It wasn't a misunderstanding; Mara was undercover at the time, and the person she was investigating saw women as objects. To further that assumption, she went along with the target's belief that she was Lando's woman. When she answered the comm wearing Lando's shirt, it was because she didn't know who was calling, and if she might need to further the masquerade. (Of course, she did let Luke believe that for years because she was feeling a little vindictive that he believed she'd sleep with Lando in the first place.)
** And to silence the giggles of whoever [[HoYay read a bit too much]] into Literature/TheCorellianTrilogy, let us precise: Luke is jealous of ''Lando.''
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Rand is in love with three women (who all love him) [[spoiler:and has a batshit crazy Forsaken named Lanfear/Cyndane pining for him]], Perrin is married and is nevertheless relentlessly pursued by [[spoiler:Berelain sur Paendrag]], and Mat is a flirt and playboy [[spoiler:and continues his flirting ways despite being married to Seanchan Empress Fortuona]]... and ''each one'' frequently muses that the other two understand women much better than they do. Of the three, only Perrin is right. Special emphasis on Mat, who is considered an irredeemable lech and certainly loves a dance and a bit of canoodling with a willing woman, but who ''never'' presses his attentions on anyone who's not interested and whose final confirmed partner count as of the final book is [[spoiler:two. Only one of which was [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale consensual on his end]].]]
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* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Luke hears rumors about Lando having a relationship with Mara Jade and unconvincingly insists he's not jealous (of Lando, that is). It turns out Mara was undercover at the time and the person she was investigating saw women as objects, so to further that assumption she went along with the target's belief that she was Lando's woman. When she answered the comm wearing Lando's shirt, it was because she didn't know who was calling and if she might need to further the masquerade. Of course, she did let Luke believe she was with Lando for years because she was feeling a little vindictive that he believed she'd sleep with Lando in the first place.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Rand is in love with three women (who all love him) [[spoiler:and has a batshit crazy Forsaken named Lanfear/Cyndane pining for him]], Perrin is married and is nevertheless relentlessly pursued by [[spoiler:Berelain sur Paendrag]], and Mat is a flirt and playboy [[spoiler:and continues his flirting ways despite being married to Seanchan Empress Fortuona]]... and ''each one'' frequently muses that the other two understand women much better than they do. Of the three, only Perrin is right. Special emphasis on Mat, who is considered an irredeemable lech and certainly loves a dance and a bit of canoodling with a willing woman, but who ''never'' presses his attentions on anyone who's not interested and whose final confirmed partner count as of the final book is [[spoiler:two. Only one of which was [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale consensual on his end]].]]
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Rand is in love with three women (who all love him) [[spoiler:and has a batshit crazy Forsaken named Lanfear/Cyndane pining for him]], Perrin is married and is nevertheless relentlessly pursued by [[spoiler:Berelain sur Paendrag]], and Mat is a flirt and playboy [[spoiler:and continues his flirting ways despite being married to Seanchan Empress Fortuona]]... and ''each one'' frequently muses that the other two understand women much better than they do. Of the three, only Perrin is right. Special emphasis on Mat, who is considered an irredeemable lech and certainly loves a dance and a bit of canoodling with a willing woman, but who ''never'' presses his attentions on anyone who's not interested and whose final confirmed partner count as of the final book is [[spoiler:two. Only one of which was [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale consensual on his end]].]]
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* ''Literature/TheCinderellaMurder'':
** Rosemary states with disgust that one of the most popular internet sleuth theories about her daughter's murder is that she was "some kind of slut involved with half the men on campus" and that's why she was killed. Laurie herself discovers one prevailing theory is that Susan took part in some kind of sex game with director Frank Parker in an attempt [[CastingCouch to secure a role in his movie]], which [[OutWithABang ended in her death]]. While Susan was an attractive and popular girl, there's no evidence she was involved with anyone besides her long-term boyfriend Keith; when Laurie brings up the possibility, Rosemary even says she wishes Susan ''had'' stepped-out on Keith with someone else, given how little Rosemary thought of him.
** Grace finds a gossip website called "Who's Dated Who?" (which Jerry grumbles should actually be called "Who's Dated ''[[GrammarNazi Whom]]''?"), which purports to collect information on which celebrities have been romantically involved with each other. Alex Buckley has a section, linking him to numerous actresses, models, anchorwomen and so on. Laurie (who has a crush on Alex) feels a bit uncomfortable about it, while when Alex himself reads it, he remarks that's he's never even ''heard'' of most these women he's supposedly dated.
** Rosemary states with disgust that one of the most popular internet sleuth theories about her daughter's murder is that she was "some kind of slut involved with half the men on campus" and that's why she was killed. Laurie herself discovers one prevailing theory is that Susan took part in some kind of sex game with director Frank Parker in an attempt [[CastingCouch to secure a role in his movie]], which [[OutWithABang ended in her death]]. While Susan was an attractive and popular girl, there's no evidence she was involved with anyone besides her long-term boyfriend Keith; when Laurie brings up the possibility, Rosemary even says she wishes Susan ''had'' stepped-out on Keith with someone else, given how little Rosemary thought of him.
** Grace finds a gossip website called "Who's Dated Who?" (which Jerry grumbles should actually be called "Who's Dated ''[[GrammarNazi Whom]]''?"), which purports to collect information on which celebrities have been romantically involved with each other. Alex Buckley has a section, linking him to numerous actresses, models, anchorwomen and so on. Laurie (who has a crush on Alex) feels a bit uncomfortable about it, while when Alex himself reads it, he remarks that's he's never even ''heard'' of most these women he's supposedly dated.
