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** Bob: "Alice, I [[{{asexuality}} don't find anyone sexually attractive]], nor do I care much for sex. The only reason I have sex with you is because I love you and thought that you enjoyed that sort of thing."

* '''Downplayed''': Alice only does this very, ''very'' rarely, as a last resort, and only for something she ''really'' feels is important.

** Instead, she says [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment she won't make him]] [[YourFavorite his favourite dish for dinner]] until he paints the garage.

* '''Played for Drama''': Bob [[YourCheatingHeart cheats on Alice]] because she keeps withholding sex from him.

* '''Exaggerated''': AliceAndBob haven't had sex in years because Bob hasn't painted the garage, [[FridgeLogic even though it burned down and they moved to an apartment years before.]]
* '''Downplayed''': Alice only does this very, ''very'' rarely, as a last resort. And only for something she ''really'' feels is important.

* '''Gender-Inverted''': Alice is a ManicPixieDreamGirl and Bob wants her to "grow up", so he refuses to have sex with her until she does.

* '''Double Subverted''': After a GilliganCut, Bob is seen frantically painting the garage.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob haven't had sex in years because Bob hasn't painted the garage, [[FridgeLogic despite it burning down and them moving to an apartment.]]

* '''Subverted''':
** When Alice says she'll deny him sex until he paints the garage, Bob says he doesn't care.

* '''Zig Zagged''':

** "If you want Bob to paint the garage, have you considered not having sex with him until he does it?" "What do I look like, a whore?"
** Bob: "Alice, I [[{{asexuality}} don't find anyone sexually attractive]], nor do I care much for sex. The only reason I have sex with you is because I love you and thought that you enjoyed that sort of thing."

** Bob goes and has sex with someone else.

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob [[YourCheatingHeart cheats on Alice]] because she keeps withholding sex from him.
* '''Played For Horror''': When Alice tries to withhold sex from Bob, he [[RapeAsDrama forces himself on her]].
* '''Implied''': Bob refuses to paint the garage, but later does so, after which Alice has sex with him.

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* '''Straight''': Alice wants her LazyHusband Bob to paint the garage so she refuses to have sex with him until he does so.

** There is a town down the road where all transactions are conducted with one party holding back a resource until the second party acquieses.

** Bob: "Alice, I [[{{asexuality}} don't find anyone sexually attractive]] nor do I care much for sex. The only reason I have sex with you is because I love you and thought that you enjoyed that sort of thing."

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** Alice and Bob are not exactly in a healthy relationship.

** Alice has sex with Bob to bribe him into ''not'' painting the garage.
* '''Subverted''': When Alice says she'll deny him sex until he paints the garage, Bob says he doesn't care.

** Alice pulls this trope in an attempt to make Bob suffer. Turns out Alice suffers even more than Bob. Bob ends up painting the garage to take pity on Alice.

** Alice knows exactly [[AllMenArePerverts what will motivate Bob]] and that garage ''really'' needed painting.

* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob are not exactly in a healthy relationship.

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Straight''': [[{{Tsundere}} Alice]] wants [[LazyHusband Bob]] to paint the garage so she refuses to have sex with him until he does so.

** Bob withholds sex from Alice until she paints the garage.
** Alternatively, Alice has sex with Bob until he paints the garage. (In all fairness to Alice, Bob ''did'' paint it a particularly hideous shade of pea green.)
** Alternatively alternatively, Alice offers to have sex with Bob if he paints the garage.
* '''Subverted''': Bob does not mind masturbating.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but it isn't long before he wants sex with a real woman and caves.

** Bob: "Alice, I [[{{asexuality}} don't find any-one sexually attractive]] nor do I care much for sex. The only reason I have sex with you is because I love you and thought that you enjoyed that sort-of thing."

* '''Exploited''': ???

** Bob: "Alice, I [[{{asexual}} don't find any-one sexually attractive]] nor do I care much for sex. The only reason I have sex with you is because I love you and thought that you enjoyed that sort-of thing."

* '''Defied''': "If you want Bob to paint the garage, have you considered not having sex with him until he does it?" "What do I look like, a whore?"

** See Subverted

* '''Justified''': Alice and Bob are not exactly in a healthy relationship.

** There is a town down the road where all transactions are conducted with one party holding back a resource until the second party acquieses.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob starts treating Alice like a whore because she apparently treats sex like a commodity.
** Alice needs the sex more than Bob does.
** Bob goes and has sex with someone else.
* '''Reconstructed''': The garage painting is just one part of an overly unsatisfying marriage, and this is part of Alice's attempt to get through to Bob.

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** Alice only does this ''very, very'', rarely, as a last resort. And only for something she ''really'' feels is important. Otherwise, she does not use this gambit.

* '''Inverted''': Bob withholds sex from Alice until she paints the garage.

* '''Parodied''': There is a town down the road where all transactions are conducted with one party holding back a resource until the second party acquieses.

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob starts treating Alice like a whore because she apparently treats sex like a commodity.

** ...almost.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice caves, but Bob stands firm. Two days later, Bob is weakening but Alice has strengthened her resolve. Eventually Alice is threatening to paint the garage herself unless Bob doesn't have sex with her.
** Alternatively, Alice only does this ''very, very'', rarely, as a last resort. And only for something she ''really'' feels is important. Otherwise, she does not use this gambit.
* '''Averted''': Alice considers the idea then decides it's demeaning for both parties.
** Or Alice never got this idea.

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* '''Conversed''': "Women have the poon, so they have control. It's just like in that [[{{Lysistrata}} one Greek play]]."

* '''Straight''': Alice wants Bob to paint the garage so she refuses to have sex with him until he does so.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob haven't had sex in years because Bob hasn't painted the garage, despite it burning down and them moving to an apartment.

* '''Subverted''': Alice tries to pull this on Bob, only for her to cave in first.
* '''Double Subverted''': She almost caves but Bob does just before she did.

** It doesn't matter to Bob because he's cheating anyway...

** ... but he still wants to have sex with Alice.