| 1 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/HotShotsPartDeux https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/so_excited.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:We'd show [[AutoErotica what happens next]], but that would be NotSafeForWork.[[note]]Okay, it wasn't explicit at all. And kinda funny.[[/note]]]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power.'' |
| 5 | -->-- Creator/OscarWilde (possibly apocryphal) |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Tropes related to sex -- or rather, why anyone was ''ever'' born. (Alternatively, given the complex minefield they describe, "How was anyone ''ever'' born?") |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Note that these tropes have [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease all real life examples blocked]], per the Administrivia/ContentPolicy[[note]]Of all the tropes in this category, only 30-something aren't explicitly listed in one of the NRLEP indexes, and all of these (like {{Sexophone}}) are ''not'' about the process itself[[/note]]. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | For tropes with names that sound sexual but the tropes in themselves aren't, see ItsNotPornItsAnIndex. |
| 12 | ---- |
| 13 | !!Tropes: |
| 14 | [[index]] |
| 15 | [floatboxright: |
| 16 | '''Related indexes:''' |
| 17 | + AttractionTropes |
| 18 | + BDSMTropes |
| 19 | + ChasteTropes |
| 20 | ++ VirginityTropes |
| 21 | + {{Fanservice}} |
| 22 | ++ NudityTropes |
| 23 | ++ RuleOfSexy |
| 24 | + FlirtingAndCourtship |
| 25 | + GenderAndSexualityTropes |
| 26 | ++ QueerAsTropes |
| 27 | + IncestIsRelative |
| 28 | + InfidelityIndex |
| 29 | + InnuendoTropes |
| 30 | + InterracialAndInterspeciesLoveIndex |
| 31 | + KissingTropes |
| 32 | + LoveTropes |
| 33 | + PhallicIndex |
| 34 | + TheOldestProfession |
| 35 | + PostSex |
| 36 | ++ PregnancyTropes |
| 37 | +++ BirthTropes |
| 38 | + SexIsEvil |
| 39 | + SexualDevianceIsEvil |
| 40 | + SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes |
| 41 | ++ TropesAboutPerverts |
| 42 | + ThisIndexTouchesItself |
| 43 | ] |
| 44 | * AboveTheInfluence: A character refuses to have sex with someone they're attracted to if the person is under some sort of influence. |
| 45 | * AccidentalAdultery: Someone cheats on someone by accident. |
| 46 | * AccidentalDeclarationOfLove: Someone confesses their attachment by accident. |
| 47 | * AccidentalPervert: Someone accidentally comes off looking perverted. |
| 48 | * AccidentalPornomancer: Somebody has sex a lot, in questionable ways, by accident somehow. |
| 49 | * AdaptationalSexuality: Changing a character's sexual orientation in the adaptation of a work. |
| 50 | * AggressiveSubmissive: A mouthy or aggressive character becomes submissive if they're having sex. |
| 51 | * AllGaysArePromiscuous: All gay men must have lots of sex. |
| 52 | * AllMenArePerverts: All the male characters are perverts. |
| 53 | * AllWomenAreLustful: The DistaffCounterpart to All Men Are Perverts: all the ''female'' characters are perverts. |
| 54 | * AllWomenArePrudes: None of the women like sex. |
| 55 | * AmIJustAToyToYou: One character flirts with another, who does like the flirter but worries that they view them as just a GirlOfTheWeek (or Boy of the Week as the case may be). |
| 56 | * AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Two characters have sex even if they physically couldn't, or in a position that's impossible. |
| 57 | * AnimalsLackAttributes: Animals have no visible genitalia. |
| 58 | * {{Anorgasmia}}: Someone cannot have orgasms. |
| 59 | * AutoErotica: Sex taking place in a car. |
| 60 | * AwfulBritishSexComedy: A comical, sex-focused movie that viewers find SoBadItsGood. |
| 61 | * AwkwardlyGayDream: A straight character unexpectedly having a dream that involves gay sex, much to their awkward discomfort. |
| 62 | * BastardBegetter: A character has a lot of kids out of wedlock because they sleep around a lot. |
| 63 | * BawdySong: A song with dirty lyrics. |
| 64 | * BedFullOfWomen: A lot of women are seen in a man's bed and he's implied, but never stated or shown, to have sex with them all. |
| 65 | * BedmateReveal: A guy (or gal) wakes up after a wild night they may not remember and finds there's someone in bed ''with them''. Often leads to DidTheyOrDidntThey |
| 66 | * BedroomAdulteryScene: Someone walks in on their spouse in the act of cheating on them in the bedroom. |
| 67 | * BedTrick: Someone has sex with someone by pretending to be their partner (or at least someone the other person is attracted to). |
| 68 | * BestialityIsDepraved: Bestiality (sex with animals). |
| 69 | * BetterThanSex: Someone prefers a certain thing over sex. |
| 70 | * BlackJezebelStereotype: The stereotype that black women are more sexual than other races. |
| 71 | * BloodstainedDefloration: A virgin woman's first time having sex results in mild vaginal bleeding. |
| 72 | * TheBodyPartsThatMustNotBeNamed: When the parts ''used'' for sex are considered so dirty that even the ''words'' for them are treated as inherently not safe for work. |
| 73 | * BoldlyComing: Sex with aliens. |
| 74 | * BondageIsBad: People who like BDSM are evil. |
| 75 | * BowChickaWowWow: Beatboxing pornography music. |
| 76 | * BrainsAndBondage: An intellectual who enjoys BDSM. |
| 77 | * BreakingInOldHabits: A character receives new hands and it's implied that they'll masturbate with them. |
| 78 | * BreedingCult: An attempt to breed a ChosenOne. |
| 79 | * BreedingSim: A video game focused on breeding creatures. |
| 80 | * BreedingSlave: Slaves that are used for breeding. |
| 81 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Romantic or sexual attraction between siblings. |
| 82 | * ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: Someone is sexually attracted to somebody they feel they can't or shouldn't have sex with. |
| 83 | * ButLiquorIsQuicker: Drunken sex. |
| 84 | * ButNotTooBi: Someone is bisexual but only ever seen intimate with people of one gender. |
| 85 | * ButNotTooGay: Gay couples aren't seen doing romantic or sexual things as much as straight ones. |
| 86 | * CallingYourOrgasms: During sex, someone outright says they're having an orgasm. |
| 87 | * CantHaveSexEver: A couple can't or are not allowed to have sex. |
| 88 | * CargoEnvy: A woman holding an object and a man is attracted to her and wishes he were in the object's place. |
| 89 | * CastingCouch: Someone has sex with a producer in order to be cast. |
| 90 | * CasualKink: Either a person's kinky personality is treated as normal and unimportant, or someone casually says something that implies they have a fetish. |
| 91 | * CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Promiscuous Catholic school girls. |
| 92 | * CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Someone pulls their pants down to masturbate and is caught with them down. |
| 93 | * ChastityCouple: A couple willingly abstains from sex and are perfectly content with never having intercourse. |
| 94 | * ChocolateOfRomance: Chocolate is seen as romantic or sexy. |
| 95 | * ChosenConceptionPartner: Someone wants a child and chooses someone to be the other parent. |
| 96 | * CoitusUninterruptus: Two characters are having sex and someone comes in, but one of them talks to the interrupter while still in the nude and in the same position. |
| 97 | * CombatSadomasochist: Someone enjoys (usually, but not always, in a sexual way) their own and others' pain. |
| 98 | * ComeBackToBedHoney: Two characters have sex. One leaves but the other wants to keep doing it. |
| 99 | * ComfortingTheWidow: Someone comforts a new widow after the death of their spouse, and it leads to sex. |
| 100 | * ComicSutra: Someone does something with a weird name while having sex, but we never find out what it involves. |
| 101 | * ComingAndGoing: Sex and death are associated with each other. |
| 102 | * CommonHollywoodSexTraits: Sex works in an unrealistic way in movies. |
| 103 | * ConceiveAndKill: A female character becomes pregnant, then kills the father. |
| 104 | * ConfessionTriggersConsummation: The first confession of love between two characters immediately leads to sex. |
| 105 | * ConsumingPassion: Cannibalism with sexy undertones. |
| 106 | * ConsummationCounterfeit: In an ArrangedMarriage, someone fakes a bloodstain on a bedsheet to imply that the bride was a virgin prior to the marriage. |
| 107 | * ContraceptionDeception: Somebody lies about protection when having sex. |
| 108 | * ConvenientlyCommonKink: Two characters (who are usually partners) share a rare fetish. |
| 109 | * CovertPervert: Someone has pervy thoughts but no pervy actions. |
| 110 | * CorruptingPornography: Pornography has a detrimental effect on people and/or sex, whether they're the participants or the viewers. |
| 111 | * CrashingThroughTheHarem: A character ends up running hurriedly through a group of (usually undressed) women. |
| 112 | * CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed: Being crazy or unhinged means being a great and passionate lover. |
| 113 | * CreatureBreedingMechanic: In a game, the player breeds creatures until they have a necessary creature. |
| 114 | * CrotchGrabSexCheck: Grabbing someone's crotch to find out what sex they are. |
| 115 | * CryingAfterSex: After two people have sex, one or both of them cries. |
| 116 | * {{Cuckold}}: A man whose love interest sleeps with someone else (and it's not a polyamory). |
| 117 | * DarwinistDesire: Someone will only have sex with a person with the "right" DNA. |
| 118 | * DeathAndTheMaiden: A GrimReaper is seen with a woman who might be a girlfriend. |
| 119 | * DefeatByModesty: Defeating a character by damaging or stealing their clothes in a way that exposes (or threatens to expose) their privates or underwear. |
| 120 | * DeskSweepOfPassion: A character swipes everything off of a desk to make room for love-making. |
| 121 | * DestructoNookie: Two characters have sex, and due to supernatural strength, furniture is broken. |
| 122 | * DeusSexMachina: A fictional thing that needs sex to work. |
| 123 | * DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: When somebody says this phrase while someone kisses or has sex with someone else during a disaster. |
| 124 | * DidTheyOrDidntThey: Two characters went offscreen and they could have had sex but they might not have. |
| 125 | * DidYouJustHaveSex: Someone who doesn't normally have sex is acting differently and another character finds out it was because they got laid. |
| 126 | * DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Romancing an EldritchAbomination or an alien. |
| 127 | * DinnerBathOrSexOffer: A woman offers her husband for a dinner, bath, or herself. |
| 128 | * DirtyMindReading: Someone reads another person's mind, who's thinking dirty thoughts. |
| 129 | * {{Dominatrix}}: A woman who is dominant in regards to BDSM. |
| 130 | * DontComeAKnockin: Implying Auto Erotica by showing a car swerving about. |
| 131 | * DoubleEntendre: A phrase with two valid meanings, one of them possibly sexual. |
| 132 | * DownfallBySex: The greatest failure for a character (or cause of downfall) is because they had sex with someone and are suffering the consequences. |
| 133 | * DoYouWantToCopulate: Someone without inhibitions greets someone else by asking them if they want to have sex. |
| 134 | * DressHitsFloor: A woman is required to take off her clothes and she's wearing a dress and we see it hit the floor. Not necessarily sexual, but often is. |
| 135 | * ElevatorGoingDown: Sex in an elevator. |
| 136 | * EntitledToHaveYou: Somebody feels that a person worthy of their respect should have sex with them. |
| 137 | * {{Ephebophile}}: A person who is sexually interested in underage teenagers. |
| 138 | * EroticAsphyxiation: Choking yourself or someone else to turn you on. |
| 139 | * EroticDream: Dreaming about sexuality. |
| 140 | * EroticEating: Someone is turned on by the way someone else eats. |
| 141 | * EternalSexualFreedom: Characters do something sexual that was not allowed in the time period they're set in, and it's not mentioned not to be allowed. |
| 142 | * EthicalSlut: A character who's moral and lusty. |
| 143 | * EuphemisticNames: When a person's name sounds like a SexualEuphemism. It usually [[MeaningfulName indicates that they are up for a roll in the hey]]. |
| 144 | * EuropeansAreKinky: Lusty European character. |
| 145 | * EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: A work of fiction where all or most of the characters have a lot of sex. |
| 146 | * ExoticEquipment: Aliens with weird-looking privates. |
| 147 | * ExtremeLibido: Someone is obsessed with sex. |
| 148 | * ExtremeOmnisexual: Character will have sex with ''anyone and anything'', no limits. |
| 149 | * FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: An alien that breeds with another species. |
| 150 | * FakeOrgasm: A character simulates a sexual climax (or confesses this fact) to show that a sexual encounter/relationship is unsatisfying. |
| 151 | * FantasticArousal: A humanoid alien-type creature gets sexually aroused if someone touches a place that's neither human anatomy nor their privates. |
| 152 | * FashionBasedRelationshipCue: What you wear indicates whether or not you're in a relationship, and can also signal who/what you're into sexually. |
| 153 | * FengSchwing: A place decorated to sexually arouse people. |
| 154 | * {{Fetish}}: Someone is sexually attracted to something considered unusual. |
| 155 | * FetishesAreWeird: A character's fetish is portrayed as weird or creepy. |
| 156 | * FetishFuelFuture: An author writes a future or alternate universe where their fetish is normal. |
| 157 | * FetishizedAbuser: Abuse is portrayed as sexy. |
| 158 | * FetishRetardant: A sex scene, or something that would normally be sexy, turns wrong. |
| 159 | * FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility: Characters with flexible bodies are implied to have great sexual prowess. |
| 160 | * FlirtingUnderFire: Characters flirt or do other romantic/sexual things during an action scene. |
| 161 | * FlowersOfRomance: Flowers are romantic. |
| 162 | * FoeCooties: Refusing to date someone because they slept with your enemy. |
| 163 | * FootsieUnderTheTable: When a character (usually female) slides their foot against their potential partner's leg under the table to try to seduce them. |
| 164 | * ForcedOrgasm: A person is brought to climax against their will, be it deliberately or accidentally. |
| 165 | * FreeLoveFuture: In the future, everyone can do what they want with regards to sex. |
| 166 | * FreudWasRight: The idea that everyone thinks about sex a lot. |
| 167 | * FriendsWithBenefits: Having sex with your platonic friend. |
| 168 | * FunnyConceptionStory: An unusual sexual encounter that conceives a child. |
| 169 | * GayCruising: Men seeking out anonymous casual sex with other men, oftentimes in public. |
| 170 | * GayEuphemism: Avoiding usage of words directly related to homosexuality. |
| 171 | * GayOption: Someone has an option to be gay in a video game. |
| 172 | * GeniusBreedingAct: Trying to breed a genius. |
| 173 | * GentileJewChaser: Someone is sexually attracted to Jews because they find Jews inherently attractive. |
| 174 | * GetARoom: Someone tells two flirting characters to get a room. |
| 175 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: A straight man is turned on by two lesbians having sex, kissing, or doing other romantic/sexual things. |
| 176 | * GladToBeAliveSex: Someone has sex because they are glad to be alive after experiencing something that could have killed them. |
| 177 | * GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Sometimes, adulterers are seen as good; other times, they're bad. |
| 178 | * GotOverRapeInstantly: A character who just experienced sexual assault instantly displays romantic or sexual interest as soon as the assault ends and the trauma is never addressed or brought up again. |
| 179 | * GoSeduceMyArchnemesis: Exploiting your nemesis by having sex or flirting with them. |
| 180 | * GRatedSex: Two people or animals do something that's not sex but works like sex. |
| 181 | * TheGruntingOrgasm: Men grunt and sigh when they have orgasms. |
| 182 | * GuyOnGuyIsHot: A straight woman is turned on by gay men kissing/having sex/etc. |
| 183 | * HappyEndingMassage: Someone tries to get sex at a massage parlor. |
| 184 | * HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday: Someone goes on and on about a prolific but nonexistent sex life. |
| 185 | * HeadTiltinglyKinky: One or more characters react to an unseen, weird sexual activity. |
| 186 | * HemoErotic: A fetish for biting and drinking blood. |
| 187 | * HeroicSeductress: A perverse heroine. |
| 188 | * HomePornMovie: Two characters film or photograph themselves naked and/or having sex. |
| 189 | * HomosexualReproduction: People of the same sex have a biological child. |
| 190 | * HookersAndBlow: Someone who is decadent has lots of sex and/or does drugs. |
| 191 | * HornyBard: The bard in a TTRPG party is a horndog. |
| 192 | * HornySailors: Everyone at sea is lustful, all the time. |
| 193 | * HotCoffeeMinigame: Interactive sex scenes in video games. |
| 194 | * HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Two creatures of different species have sex in a way that's unclear how they did it. |
| 195 | * HotterAndSexier: An installment in a franchise is much more sexually charged than usual. |
| 196 | * ICallHimMisterHappy: A character names their genitalia. |
| 197 | * IdealizedSex: Fictional sex works out better than real sex. |
| 198 | * IKEAErotica: Sex is described in a boring way. |
| 199 | * IKissYourFoot: Kissing someone's foot, which may not be sexual, but often is. |
| 200 | * IgnoreTheFanservice: Someone flirts with another person, but that person just ignores the flirter. |
| 201 | * IllBeInMyBunk: Someone sees something sexy and leaves, presumably to masturbate. |
| 202 | * ImAManICantHelpIt: Men can't control their sexual arousal. |
| 203 | * TheImmodestOrgasm: A woman makes a really loud noise when she has an orgasm. |
| 204 | * InappropriatelyCloseComrades: Two people want to date, but it's against the rules. |
| 205 | * InconvenientAttraction: People who hate being sexually attracted or in love. |
| 206 | * InnocentInnuendo: A scene was meant to be an innuendo, but there's nothing sexual actually going on. |
| 207 | * InsatiableNewlyweds: A couple have a lot of sex following their marriage. |
| 208 | * InstantSeduction: Someone can seduce people very quickly. |
| 209 | * InstantTurnOff: Someone loses their arousal very quickly for X reason. |
| 210 | * IntercourseWithYou: Song lyrics sounding sexual, usually intentionally. |
| 211 | * TheInternetIsForPorn: There's lots of pornography on TheInternet. |
| 212 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Violence and sex happening around the same time as each other, or even using violence as foreplay. |
| 213 | * InterruptedIntimacy: Two characters having sex are interrupted. |
| 214 | * InterspeciesRomance: Someone falls in love with a different species. |
| 215 | * IntimateArtistry: Someone does art of another person and it's seen as intimate. |
| 216 | * IntimateHealing: A character engages in a healing act that looks, and can be, intensely intimate. This can include actual sexual intercourse. |
| 217 | * IntimatePsychotherapy: Sex cures psychological problems. |
| 218 | * IntimateTelecommunications: Phone sex. |
| 219 | * IntroductionByHookup: Someone has sex or romance with a stranger and then meets said stranger. |
| 220 | * ItsNotPornItsArt: Some art looks pornographic but is not seen as porn. |
| 221 | * JailbaitTaboo: Relationships between teenagers and adults being taboo. |
| 222 | * TheJailBaitWait: An adult waits for the day a minor will become old enough for them to legally have sex with. |
| 223 | * JizzedInMyPants: A man ejaculates during the day while not having sex. |
| 224 | * JustLikeMakingLove: Someone compares another activity to sex. |
| 225 | * KarmicSTD: Someone gets a sexually transmitted disease for their bad behavior. |
| 226 | * KinkyCuffs: A fetish for handcuffs. |
| 227 | * KinkyRolePlaying: Characters act out scenarios as part as foreplay. |
| 228 | * KinkySpanking: A fetish for spanking. |
| 229 | * KissingCousins: Romantic and/or sexual relationships between cousins. |
| 230 | * KissMeImVirtual: Romance or sex with a virtual person. |
| 231 | * KissOfTheVampire: Vampires try to romance their bite victims to make the bite better for them. |
| 232 | * LanguageOfLove: Two characters (normally of different genders) pair up, despite a LanguageBarrier. |
| 233 | * LasciviousBeautyMark: A facial beauty mark is used to characterize someone as being flirtatious, seductive, generally sexually forward, and/or highly sexually attractive In-Universe. |
| 234 | * LawOfInverseFertility: A character is more likely to get pregnant if she's not trying to conceive and less likely if she is. |
| 235 | * LemonStu: A very lusty male FanFic character. |
| 236 | * LetsWaitAwhile: A character who doesn't have sex just for the sake of sex. |
| 237 | * LevelUpAtIntimacy5: A video game character gets stronger or more powered from intimacy. |
| 238 | * LewdLustChasteSex: Romantic, but non-sexual, scenes are described in a lewder way than actual sex. |
| 239 | * LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Women have sex because they have to, and they don't like it. |
| 240 | * LivingAphrodisiac: A sci-fi character who is the antagonist because she (or he sometimes) makes everyone else really want to sleep with them. |
| 241 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: A character has trouble having an erection during sex. |
| 242 | * LousyLoversAreLosers: Being bad in bed is portrayed as a major character flaw. |
| 243 | * LoversLedge: Someone has sex and then escapes through the window. |
| 244 | * ALoveToDismember: A character seems to be in love with a severed body part. |
| 245 | * {{Lust}}: A deep desire for something abstract. |
| 246 | * LustMakesYouDumb: A character does stupid things to satisfy their sexual desires. |
| 247 | * LustfulMelt: A character melts due to having a crush. |
| 248 | * LustObject: A character who is lusted over by another. |
| 249 | * LysistrataGambit: A spouse threatens to disallow sex as a punishment. |
| 250 | * MadonnaWhoreComplex: Women are either "proper ladies" or "dirty whores". |
| 251 | * MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Sex in a place that's not a bed, couch, or chair. |
| 252 | * MaleToFemaleUniversalAdaptor: Aliens with human genitals. |
| 253 | * MalMariee: A young woman unhappily married to a jealous, often impotent older man falls in love (and cheats on him) with a young lover. |
| 254 | * AManIsAlwaysEager: Men always want sex. |
| 255 | * ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex: A godlike character has sex with a normal person. |
| 256 | * MantisMatingMeal: Female praying mantises eating their mates after sex. |
| 257 | * MarshmallowHell: A woman/adolescent girl tightly hugs a young boy, and as she does so, she also sandwiches his head in between her boobs. |
| 258 | * MarsNeedsWomen: Male aliens wanting to do it with human women. |
| 259 | * MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Masturbation is used to denote a character is sexually frustrated, perverted, or repressed. |
| 260 | * MateOrDie: A character needs to procreate/have sex, or they will die. |
| 261 | * MatingDance: Two characters dance in a way that seems like they're having or thinking of sex. |
| 262 | * MatingSeasonMayhem: An animal or animal-like character becomes extremely sexual during a certain type of year. |
| 263 | * MentalAffair: Psychic sex. |
| 264 | * MileHighClub: Sex on a plane. |
| 265 | * MillsAndBoonProse: A sex scene is described with crazy metaphors for the physical stuff and PurpleProse for the emotions. |
| 266 | * MissConception: A character who has received inaccurate information regarding where babies come from. |
| 267 | * TheModestOrgasm: A woman orgasms quietly. |
| 268 | * MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: A more sexually and/or romantically experienced person pursues someone who has very little to no romantic or sexual experience. |
| 269 | * MrsRobinson: A woman much older than her love interest. |
| 270 | * MustNotDieAVirgin: Someone has sex for the first time as they think they're going to die. |
| 271 | * MyGirlIsNotASlut: Sexually promiscuous women are seen as dirty, but sexually promiscuous men are seen as cool. |
| 272 | * MyGirlIsASlut: A woman is promiscuous and that's seen as a good thing. |
| 273 | * MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: Someone detects sexual attraction via SuperSenses. |
| 274 | * NatureAbhorsAVirgin: Anyone who dislikes being a virgin will end up having sex. |
| 275 | * NatureAdoresAVirgin: People would rather have sex with a virgin. |
| 276 | * NaughtyByNight: A character who is tidy, polite, and doesn't think dirty thoughts during the day, but is outright lewd at night. |
| 277 | * NaughtyUnderTheTable: A character's thigh or privates get grabbed under a table by someone else at the table. |
| 278 | * NeedAHandOrAHandjob: A character needs help and thinks a prostitute is trying to help them. |
| 279 | * NerdsArePervs: Nerdy characters depicted as sex-obsessed, often with deviant preferences and lecherous instincts. |
| 280 | * NerdsAreVirgins: No nerds have had sex. |
| 281 | * NextThingTheyKnew: Two characters flirt and the next thing you know, they're making whoopie. |
| 282 | * NippleAndDimed: Most of a woman's breast can be seen, but her nipples are seen as very inappropriate. |
| 283 | * NoBiologicalSex: A character doesn't have a biological sex. |
| 284 | * NocturnalEmission: A man has a wet dream (ejaculates in his sleep). |
| 285 | * NoHeterosexualSexAllowed: To solve an overpopulation problem, a government forbids heterosexual sex. |
| 286 | * NoPreggerSex: Pregnant women don't have sex. |
| 287 | * NoSexAllowed: In a work set in the future, sex is not allowed. |
| 288 | * NotRightInTheBed: Someone acts lustier 'cause they're possessed. |
| 289 | * NotUnderTheParentsRoof: Parents do not want their kids to have sex at home. |
| 290 | * ObligatoryBondageSong: A song about BDSM. |
| 291 | * {{Omegaverse}}: A setting where humans have a secondary sex (alpha, beta or omega). |
| 292 | * OneNightStandPregnancy: Casual sex leads to pregnancy. |
| 293 | * OneThingLedToAnother: Someone doesn't go into the details of how dating led to sex. |
| 294 | * OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: A woman among the last of her species wants to do it with a man so they can repopulate the species. |
| 295 | * OptionalSexualEncounter: The option of sex in video games. |
| 296 | * {{Orgasmatron}}: A device that sexually arouses people. |
| 297 | * OrgasmicallyDelicious: Someone has an orgasm when they eat. |
| 298 | * OrgasmicCombat: People fighting sounds like sex. |
| 299 | * OutWithABang (literal): Someone dies during sex. |
| 300 | * OvercomeWithDesire: Two characters in love are so sexually attracted that they have sex on the spot. |
| 301 | * ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: A character desires romance and/or sex, but is too afraid of sexuality. |
| 302 | * ParentalIncest: Someone has sex with their parent. |
| 303 | * ParentalSexualitySquick: Someone is disgusted at the idea of their parents having sex. |
| 304 | * ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: A young adult or teen living with their parents has someone over to visit and a parent enters when the two are either having sex or making out, the parent ''thought'' they were, or they just appear to be kissing or having sex. |
| 305 | * APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: All wild parties that are not meant to be orgies lead to sex. |
| 306 | * PelvicThrust: A character thrusts their pelvis out. |
| 307 | * PervertAlliance: A group of perverts come together with a common goal. |
| 308 | * PimpingTheOffspring: Parents make their kids have sex for money. |
| 309 | * PinkIsErotic: Pink is associated with eroticism, sexual experiences and perverted or sensual characters. |
| 310 | * PitySex: Someone sleeps with a person they feel sorry for. |
| 311 | * PizzaBoySpecialDelivery: Promiscuous people who make house calls. |
| 312 | * PlotIncitingInfidelity: A story that starts with the protagonist catching a cheating partner. |
| 313 | * PostCoitalCollapse: Characters collapse into bed to imply they were having sex. |
| 314 | * ThePornomancer: Sexual things just ''happen'' to this character with no explanation. |
| 315 | * PowerDynamicsKink: Power, subjugation, punishments, etc. as a sexual "turn-on." |
| 316 | * PowerfulPeopleAreSubs: People in positions of power are sexually submissive. |
| 317 | * PowerIsSexy: Someone is sexually attracted to people in power. |
| 318 | * ThePowerOfLust: Sex or sexuality empowers or inspires someone to succeed. |
| 319 | * PowerPerversionPotential: Someone uses superpowers to do perverted things. |
| 320 | * PowerfulPeopleAreSubs: People who have [[AuthorityTropes high-power jobs]] tend to be submissive in bed, especially if BDSM is involved. |
| 321 | * PragmaticPansexuality: A character sleeping with anyone regardless of their actual sexuality to achieve their goals. |
| 322 | * PreClimaxClimax: Sex happens before the climax of the story. |
| 323 | * PrimalScene: A child walks in on two adults (usually their parents) having sex. |
| 324 | * ProfessionalSexEd: A parent hires a prostitute to give a demonstration on how sex works to their child. |
| 325 | * ProfessionalsDoItOnDesks: Two professionals make love on a desk. |
| 326 | * PromiscuityAfterRape: A promiscuous character is revealed to have RapeAsBackStory. |
| 327 | * PsychosexualHorror: A subgenre that explores psychosexual development as a subject matter, including themes of sexual development and sexual activities. |
| 328 | * QueerPeopleAreFunny: Homosexuality as a source of humor. |
| 329 | * QuestForSex: A whole story focused on a man trying to get laid. |
| 330 | * QuestionableConsent: It's not clear if a sex act was consensual. |
| 331 | * RapeAndSwitch: A man is implied to be gay because he was raped, rather than just being plain gay. |
| 332 | * ReadyForLovemaking: A character presents themselves in a way that shows they're ready for sex. |
| 333 | * ReallyGetsAround: Someone who has sex with a lot of people. |
| 334 | * RedemptionEqualsSex: A good guy redeems a bad guy (usually the good one is female and the bad one is male but sometimes not) and then sleeps with them. |
| 335 | * RedLightDistrict: An area with a lot of strip joints and similar places. |
| 336 | * RescueSex: Someone has sex with their rescuer. |
| 337 | * RetargetedLust: Someone is sexually attracted to one person but deals with it by having sex with another person. |
| 338 | * RightThroughHisPants: Two characters have sex even though one or both of them is wearing clothes. |
| 339 | * RightThroughTheWall: People live in an apartment and their neighbours are having loud sex. |
| 340 | * {{Robosexual}}: A robot has sexual or romantic relations with a human. |
| 341 | * RobosexualsAreCreeps: A person having sexual or romantic relations with robots is portrayed as creepy. |
| 342 | * RollInTheHay: Sex in a pile of hay. |
| 343 | * RomanceAndSexualitySeparation |
| 344 | * RoyalHarem: Royals have a harem. |
| 345 | * SafeSaneAndConsensual |
| 346 | * SafeWord: A code word for "no" that partners should say during sex to signal that they're not comfortable with progressing any further. |
| 347 | * ScrewYourself: A person has sex with a copy of themselves. |
| 348 | * SeductionAsOneUpmanship: A character seduces their rival's significant other to put one over on them. |
| 349 | * SeductionLyric: A speech intended to get someone into bed, in the form of a song or poem. |
| 350 | * SeductionProofMarriage: Someone becomes immune to seduction due to their marriage. |
| 351 | * SelfAbuse: Masturbation is bad for you. |
| 352 | * SerialAdulterer: A character with a significant other cheats with multiple different people. |
| 353 | * SerialHomewrecker: Person with an attraction to people who are already spoken for. |
| 354 | * SexAsRiteOfPassage: A man is embarrassed to be a virgin. |
| 355 | * SexAtWork: Characters have sex at a place where they're employed. |
| 356 | * {{Sexbot}}: A robot designed for sex. |
| 357 | * SexComedy: A wacky work with lots of sex in it. |
| 358 | * SexByProxy: Two characters have sex, and a third is having it with them psychically or something. |
| 359 | * SexEqualsLove: Characters who are in a sexual relationship but not in love will fall in love eventually. |
| 360 | * SexFaceTurn: A villain [[HeelFaceTurn turns good]] because they had sex. |
| 361 | * SexForProduct: An ad which says that you'll get laid if you buy it. |
| 362 | * SexForServices: Trading sexual favors for non-sexual favors. |
| 363 | * SexForSolace: A character has sex to cope with a bad experience. |
| 364 | * SexGod: A character who's really skillful at sex. |
| 365 | * {{Sexiled}}: Somebody is not allowed to enter a room because people are doing it in there. |
| 366 | * SexInASharedRoom: At least two people have sex in a room while another person/viewer is there -- willingly or unwillingly. |
| 367 | * SexIsCool: Sex is portrayed as cool. |
| 368 | * SexIsEvil: Sex is seen as immoral. |
| 369 | * SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: A character who thinks sex is a sin but has a sexuality. |
| 370 | * SexIsGood: Sex is seen as morally good. |
| 371 | * SexIsInteresting: Sex is portrayed as fascinating. |
| 372 | * SexIsLiberation: Sex is seen as liberating. |
| 373 | * SexIsViolence: Fighting is seen as sexual. |
| 374 | * SexlessMarriage: A married couple who don't have sex (which is usually seen as a bad thing). |
| 375 | * SexMagic: Using sex to do magic. |
| 376 | * SexMiseducationClass: Bad/incompetent sex education. |
| 377 | * SexMontage: A montage of couples having sex. |
| 378 | * {{Sexophone}}: Saxophone music means that someone finds a character hot. |
| 379 | * {{Sexposition}}: Combining exposition with sex scenes. |
| 380 | * SexSignalsDeath: {{Foreshadowing}} that two characters have sex and one or both of them will die. |
| 381 | * SexSlave: A character who is a slave for sexual purposes. |
| 382 | * SexStartsStoryStops: A random sex scene that appears out of nowhere and does nothing for the plot. |
| 383 | * SexTourism: Someone visits somewhere to have sex. |
| 384 | * SextraCredit: A student and a teacher do it to up the student's grades. |
| 385 | * SexualDevianceIsEvil: Nonstandard or taboo sexual behavior is associated with evil. |
| 386 | * SexualEuphemism: Calling sexual intercourse by another name. |
| 387 | * SexualExtortion: Disallowing something from another person until they consent to sex. |
| 388 | * SexualKarma: Good people will be rewarded with sex and bad people will be punished with rape. |
| 389 | * SexuallyTransmittedSuperpowers: Intimate contact with a superpowered being causes the SuperEmpowering of a prior {{Muggle}}. |
| 390 | * SexWithTheEx: Two people who are no longer a couple but still have sex. |
| 391 | * SexinessScore: When characters give an objective rating to other characters according to appearance or prowess in bed. |
| 392 | * SexyCatPerson: Characters who are anthropomorphic cats, cat/human hybrids, or simply have a cat theme, will often be very sexy. |
| 393 | * SexyCoatFlashing: Someone flirts by revealing that they're wearing nothing (or, if she's a woman, sometimes a bra) underneath their coat. |
| 394 | * SexyDiscretionShot: Two characters have sex, but you don't see it happen. |
| 395 | * SexyFigureGesture: One character describes the sexiness of another by using their hands. |
| 396 | * SexyFlaw: Flaws and imperfections ([[BlemishedBeauty physical deformities]], {{speech impediment}}s, etc.) as a sexual fetish. |
| 397 | * SexyShirtSwitch: A woman wearing a man's shirt or dress shirt is an easy way to indicate that they had sex the night before. |
| 398 | * ShagWagon: A custom van whose owner uses it to pick up women and have sex with them in the back. |
| 399 | * ShowerOfLove: Having sex and/or kissing in the shower. |
| 400 | * SingleMomStripper: A single mother who earns money by working as a stripper or similar. |
| 401 | * SkinshipGrope |
| 402 | * SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Rising to the top using sex. |
| 403 | * SleepingWithTheBoss: Having sex with someone in authority over you. |
| 404 | * SleepingWithTheBosssWife: Having sex with the lover of someone in authority over you. |
| 405 | * SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: The protagonist is sexually attracted to someone who is promiscuous but won't sleep with them. |
| 406 | * SlutShaming: Thinking that sexually promiscuous women are evil. |
| 407 | * SmellsSexy: Being sexually attracted to someone based on their smell. |
| 408 | * SmokingHotSex: After sex, one or both partners smoke. |
| 409 | * SonOfAWhore: A character whose mother is a prostitute or stripper. |
| 410 | * SourPrudes: Someone is prudish and looks down on people who like sex. |
| 411 | * SpeedSex: Characters have sex ridiculously fast. |
| 412 | * SpermAsPeople: Anthropomorphic sperm. |
| 413 | * StalkerWithATestTube: Someone stalks someone because they want to have sex with the other person and produce a genetically perfect baby. |
| 414 | * STDImmunity: No matter how unsafe the sex people have is, they will never get an STD. |
| 415 | * StrangelyArousing: Something that both sexually arouses and confuses a person. |
| 416 | * StudentTeacherRomance: Students having sexual relations with their teachers. |
| 417 | * StupidSexyFriend: Being sexually attracted to a friend and not wanting to be. |
| 418 | * SuccessThroughSexAccusation: A character's success is attributed to sexual favors rather than merit. |
| 419 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: Demons that have traditionally been portrayed as having sex with their victims. |
| 420 | * SuccubusInLove: Having sex with a succubus may lead to romance. |
| 421 | * SuggestiveCollision: Accidentally stumbling into a suggestive position with someone. |
| 422 | * SuperSexOrgans |
| 423 | * TeamworkSeduction: Two or more characters seduce someone together. |
| 424 | * TheTalk: Trying to explain sex to a child. |
| 425 | * TheTease: Someone likes to tease someone sexually. |
| 426 | * TechnicalVirgin: Someone has had sex, sort of, but has never had the kind of sex where two people's genitals touch each other. |
| 427 | * ThanksForTheMammary: When a character (accidentally or purposefully) grabs the breasts of a female character. |
| 428 | * TheirFirstTime: A couple decides to have sex for the first time. |
| 429 | * ThinkUnsexyThoughts: A man tries to think nonsexual thoughts to avoid having an erection. |
| 430 | * ThreeWaySex: Three people having sex together. |
| 431 | * AThreesomeIsHot: A DoubleStandard where, in three-way polyamory, it's cool to have two women and one man, but disgusting to have two men and one woman. |
| 432 | * TooKinkyToTorture: Not necessarily sexual. This is enjoying torture. |
| 433 | * Totally18: A definitely not underage character. |
| 434 | * TransChaser: A cis character has a fetish for transgender or gender-nonconforming people. |
| 435 | * TransEqualsHypersexual: Transgender or gender-nonconforming characters are depicted as having an ExtremeLibido, no sexual boundaries, [[FetishesAreWeird bizarre kinks]], or otherwise over-the-top sexual proclivities. |
| 436 | * TransformationExhilaration: A transforming character finds the experience enjoyable - even sexually pleasurable. |
| 437 | * TrojanGauntlet: A character gets all embarrassed about having to buy condoms. |
| 438 | * TropesAboutPerverts: An index of, well, tropes about perverts. |
| 439 | * TrueLoveIsAKink: When "flirt with monogamy" is an euphemism. |
| 440 | * {{Twincest}}: Twins that do it with each other. |
| 441 | * TwinThreesomeFantasy: Someone imagines having sex with their crush and a copy of their crush at the same time. |
| 442 | * TwoPersonPoolParty: Sex in a pool. |
| 443 | * UnfocusedDuringIntimacy: One or both sexual partners aren't really "in the moment." |
| 444 | * UnfortunateCharacterDesign: A character is unintentionally designed in a way that they look risque. |
| 445 | * UnexpectedVirgin: Someone who's revealed as a virgin and it comes as a surprise. |
| 446 | * VaginaDentata: [[BodyHorror Lady-parts with teeth]]. |
| 447 | * VampiresAreSexGods: Lusty vampires. |
| 448 | * VampiresHarem: A vampire is accompanied by consorts that he had turned and he is after more. |
| 449 | * VictorySex: Characters celebrate their victory with sex. |
| 450 | * VillainousIncest: Villains who do incest. |
| 451 | * VirginSacrifice: A HumanSacrifice needs to be a virgin. |
| 452 | * VirginShaming: Virginity is seen as bad. |
| 453 | * VirginTension: A woman losing her virginity is seen as tragic. |
| 454 | * VirginityFlag: There's a way to tell (besides asking them) whether or not someone has had sex. |
| 455 | * VisualInnuendo: An image that's innocent but can be seen as looking dirty. |
| 456 | * WalkOfShame: Everyone knows what you did, just keep on walking. |
| 457 | * WallBangHer: Having sex against the wall. |
| 458 | * {{Yiff}}: Porn of FunnyAnimal's. |
| 459 | * YouNeedToGetLaid: Someone strongly suggests that someone else go have sex. |
| 460 | * YouSexyBeast: Someone has sex with/a crush on/a romantic relationship with a dangerous monster. |
| 461 | * ZeroGSpot: Sex in space. |
| 462 | [[/index]] |
| 463 | ---- |
| 464 | ->"And now that you know how it's done... [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing don't do it.]]" |
| 465 | -->-- '''Troy [=McClure=]''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' |
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