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11	[[caption-width-right:300:[[SpeedSex It was the best thirty seconds of my life!]]]]
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13	->''"My name is Olaf Peterson. I am very good in bed."''
14	-->-- ''Series/RedDwarf''
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16	A character who talks big about his (or, more rarely, her) love life and success with the ladies (or gents), but in fact has little or nothing going on. Can be part of OfCourseImNotAVirgin.
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18	If everybody ''else'' is talking about the protagonist's (nonexistent) conquests, it's an UrbanLegendLoveLife.
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20	Compare HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday, [[ArmouredClosetGay which is frequently used in a parallel way.]] Subtrope of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. Also see DoYouWantToCopulate and UnexpectedVirgin.
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22	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
27	* RareFemaleExample: Sae in ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' constantly insists she has had tons of boyfriends and has all kinds of experience which she supposedly uses as inspiration for her writing.
28	* Downplayed in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' when Shirogane, [[spoiler:Mikado]] and Tsubasa have a boys' talk about women's assets. Both Shirogane and [[spoiler:Mikado]] (who are both virgins) give way TooMuchInformation about their "type" in order to sound sexually experienced after Tsubasa (who is not a virgin) remarks about how much of a ChickMagnet the other two must be. Then Shirogane and [[spoiler:Mikado]] eventually confess about their lack of experience.
29	* The plot of ''Manga/LoveLab'' centers on this trope, as main character Riko lies about how she's basically an expert on love matters and is made to 'teach' others on how to be experts as well. Eventually, [[spoiler:the trope is subverted when she admits to having zero experience in love]], but that doesn't happen until the very end of the anime.
30	* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': Eikichi and Ryuji claim to have had sex with 100 women each, and when asked when his first time was, Eikichi panics and says it was [[{{Squick}} in 5th grade with a 4th grader]], to one-up the guy asking, who claimed his was in 8th grade.
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33	[[folder:Film]]
34	* ''Film/AmericanBeauty'': The 16-year-old [[spoiler:Angela]] isn't the slut she makes herself out to be -- in fact, she's a virgin.
35	%%* Sherman in the first ''Film/AmericanPie'' film.
36	* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'':
37	** Brian tries to insist that "[He's] laid loads of times", even playing the GirlfriendInCanada card. He later admits that he's a virgin.
38	** Similarly, Allison lies that she is a nymphomaniac who even slept with her therapist before admitting that she is actually a virgin after Claire does.
39	* In the car trip to the mountain in ''Film/ColdPrey'', Morten mentions (very unconvincingly) that he has a girlfriend and that they have sex several times a day.
40	* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', TheMole's new marriage is suffering from TheLoinsSleepTonight. When his boss says that women are attracted to married men because "it tells them you've got some money and your dick works," he responds, "Oh, it's working! Ha-ha! Overtime!"
41	* Richie from ''Film/It2017'' is constantly boasting about his non-existent sex life, in between an endless stream of dirty jokes. Also counts as TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, since he's 13. ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' builds on it, [[spoiler:suggesting it's always been in response to his [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday insecurity about his own sexuality]]]].
42	* You Know from ''Film/KeepOffMyGrass'' brags about his incredibly active sex life at every opportunity so women won't think he's desperate and he can get laid for real. It doesn't work.
43	* Rascal in ''Film/MemphisBelle'' constantly teases "Virgil the Virgin" while bragging about his own conquests. The novelization reveals that Rascal himself is in fact a virgin (ironically Virgil is not, having slept with a woman the day before the mission).
44	* Kevin is introduced in the second part of ''Film/Moonlight2016'' bragging to Chiron about being caught by a teacher having sex with a girl in school. It's never clarified if this event actually happened or if he's lying. This also doubles as HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday, as Kevin spends the rest of the film having UnresolvedSexualTension with Chiron.
45	* In ''Film/TheStrawberryBlonde'', set at the beginning of the 20th century, Amy strongly implies that she likes to have sex with men, much to Biff's horror. Later, she recoils in fear when Biff takes her seriously and starts kissing her in the park, revealing that she made it all up.
46	--> '''Biff''': Well, wouldn't you like a nice, young man to marry you someday?\
47	'''Amy''': No, not particularly.\
48	'''Biff''': So you don't believe in the institution of marriage!\
49	'''Amy''': An outmoded, silly convention started by the cavemen and encouraged by the florists and jewelers. After all, what's marriage?\
50	'''Biff''': Wouldn't you like to have a home and kids?\
51	'''Amy''': Certainly I would, but that doesn't mean you have to go through all the...\
52	'''Biff''': You mean --?\
53	'''Amy''': Exactly. ''[she winks]''
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56	[[folder:Literature]]
57	* {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'': adolescent StreetUrchin and incipient gang leader Cery is amused to hear teenage nobles bragging about their alleged sexual conquests because most slum boys their age have ''actually'' done the things they're claiming to have done and don't see it as some sort of prize to shout from the rooftops.
58	* [[spoiler: Carlos Ramirez]] from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. He talks a big game but when they show up at the Raith estate in the run-up to the climax in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Lara Raith]] is touched that Harry thought to bring a virgin as a gift.
59	* In the Creator/TheodoreSturgeon short story "The World Well Lost", the spaceship captain Rootes is a "colorful little rooster" who spends most of his time in port in various [[DenOfIniquity dens of iniquity]] and the hours afterward raving about his conquests, though most of them are paid by the hour. His crewman Grunty suspects him of being an ArmoredClosetGay who's overcompensating like nobody's business.
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62	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
63	* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Liz says of Jack's career troubles that he's having a tough year: "First William F. Buckley dies, now this? Next stop impotence, right?" In response, he just laughs way too loudly and leaves the room.
64	* ''Series/{{Arrested Development}}'':
65	** Gob telling Michael he had sex with Starla:
66	--->'''Gob''': Guess who was just "over her." Don't-I'll tell you, me. I bleeped the business model.
67	--->'''Voiceover''': Actually, they just made out.
68	--->'''Gob''': Yeah...she had all sorts of orgasms.
69	** This is a RunningGag with Gob; he also wants his AccidentalMarriage annulled but can't bring himself to admit that he didn't consummate it. He and his wife then consummate the marriage before he goes before a judge and says that they didn't.
70	** In season 2, Tobias and Lindsay try an open marriage. Both of them fail to sleep with anyone--Lindsay fails to pick up men, and Tobias is busy jealously stalking Lindsay--but they both claim later on that they did.
71	** George Michael refers to himself as overtly sexual in his senior year of college after stumbling into anger sex from his study abroad host. In reality, his senior year is not a particularly sexually fulfilling one.
72	* Sheldon and Amy from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' do this to convince Amy's mother that they are a couple, as she is uninterested in romance or sex [[CharacterizationMarchesOn (at first).]]
73	** In a later season, Sheldon is forced to work with a colleague he doesn't like. When he discovers that the other guy's work is more advanced than his, he is humiliated. The other guy says it's understandable since Sheldon has a girlfriend to distract him. Sheldon goes along with the assumption, but unfortunately now the colleague wants to hear details...which Sheldon is far too clueless to provide. Hilarity ensues.
74	** In Season 8, Amy and Sheldon finally have sex -- so in Season 9, Amy is very, ''very'' willing to bring up the fact that she's now sexually active, even when it has very little to do with the conversation at hand.
75	* Xander's classmate in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Teacher's Pet". We know this because he becomes the prey of a MonsterOfTheWeek that only eats male virgins. He threatens to sue everyone when they figure this out.
76	** In a later [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] Xander gets an ex-demon girlfriend who always wants to talk about the sex they just had. With everyone with earshot. A subversion because [[TooMuchInformation she gives more details than anyone wants to know.]]
77	* Both protagonists of ''Series/TheEndOfTheFuckingWorld'' do this, to different degrees.
78	** James claims to be sexually experienced when Alyssa asks, but after he finds out she's a virgin, he confesses that he's one, too. Alyssa admits that she'd already figured it out -- it was pretty obvious.
79	** Alyssa herself never outright claims to be sexually active, but her boldness when it comes to the matter makes it seem like she already knows what she's doing. When she says she's a virgin, James seems genuinely surprised.
80	* Daniel Radcliffe guests starred in an episode ''Series/{{Extras}}'' as himself -- a pathetic version of himself who is desperate to shag anything that moves and to shake off his Harry Potter persona by doing such "adult" things as smoking.
81	-->'''Radcliffe''': I've done it with a girl, intercourse-wise.
82	* Parodied with Dave in ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'', who acts like an expert in all things, especially being a ladies' man. Judging by his tendency toward [[{{Malaproper}} malapropisms]] and the way he (deniedly) lives with his parents...
83	* ''Series/FreshMeat'': Kingsley dubs himself "The Pussy Man" on the gang's first night out, although at least he only meant it as a throwaway comment to one person, and is suitably embarrassed when Howard shares it with the group later. It turns out [[OfCourseImNotAVirgin he's a virgin]].
84	* In the unaired pilot for the TV adaptation of ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'', the main female lead is listing her very long list of academic qualifications, all of which she has achieved at a very young age (she's no older than thirty). The male lead makes an offhand joke along the lines of "how'd you find time to have a life?" The female lead, suddenly very touchy, begins insisting that she had a life, ending with a completely out of the blue and not very convincingly delivered declaration that she "had boyfriends," the implication being that she's lying and is probably still a virgin.
85	* In one episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', we get a flashback to Barney's school days. One of his classmates (probably around twelve years old) brags to Barney that [[BlatantLies he's slept with a hundred girls]]. Barney takes this at face value and retorts that someday, he'll sleep with ''two hundred'' girls. In a rare subversion of this trope, [[TheCasanova he actually does.]] When he calls up the old classmate to gloat, the classmate is quite disturbed and says that Barney needs help.
86	* In ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Moss does this when he has to pretend to be married, several times going out of his way to mention all the frequent and amazing sex that goes on in his marriage.
87	* Parodied in the ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' episode "The Gang Gives Frank an Intervention" with Dee and Denis's cousin nicknamed "Gail The Snail"
88	-->'''Gail''': Guess what mom, I'm sexually active!
89	-->'''Her mother''': You're 33, you're supposed to be sexually active.
90	** She also bragged about losing her virginity to the gang. [[OfCourseImNotAVirgin Though who would be willing to sleep with her is anyone's guess.]]
91	* The "Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge" sketch from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Creator/EricIdle spends most of the duration peppering Creator/TerryJones with knowing sexual innuendo, leading to this final exchange.
92	-->'''Idle''': I mean, you've done it. You've...slept...with a lady.\
93	'''Jones''': Yes?\
94	'''Idle''': What's it like?
95	* In an episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' the son of the person Sam leapt into was a virgin and his "friends" mocked him for it, but according to [[WordOfGod Word Of Ziggy]] one of them was a virgin too.
96	* ''Series/RedDwarf'': The Cat is constantly bragging about his good looks and sexual prowess but series XI episode "Can of Worms" confirms that he's never actually had sex due to the lack of female ''felis sapiens''. He finally has sex in that episode with what turns out to be a Vampire [[EmotionEater GELF]] disguised as a ''felis sapiens''. On learning of the deception he insists that it "still counts" as sex.
97	* Parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch where Paul Reiser AsHimself is interviewed on a talk show and is asked how many sexual partners he's had in his life. He answers three dozen, which the host then mishears as three, and proceeds to deconstruct ruthlessly, explaining that all men automatically exaggerate their numbers, so "three might really mean just two, one, or even zero." A group of proud virgins in the audience stand up to congratulate him and [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame immediately make him their role model to his utter dismay]] and virulent protest.
98	* David Rose from ''Series/SchittsCreek'' tends to offer up stories of his promiscuous adventures but is usually pretty defensive about it since most of those relationships ended with him getting dumped. His sister Alexis is far more casual about her adventures because she was usually doing the dumping and has nothing to prove.
99	* The Todd from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' is known across Sacred Heart and beyond for his high fives and constant sexual innuendo. When finally asked by the Janitor how many times he had sex recently the answer was a shame-filled "Bagel."
100	* ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' has a walking manifestation of this trope and HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday in the form of Dean Winchester.
101	* On ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', attention-hungry SpoiledBrat Xanthippe tries to impress her friends by claiming to have slept with an impossibly cool SurferDude. She turns out to have based her description of the guy on a character from ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub''.
102	* In the ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode [[Recap/TheXFilesMiniseriesE03MulderAndScullyMeetTheWereMonster "Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster"]], Guy Mann tells Mulder how he used to be a normal [[LizardFolk lizardman]] until a human bit him, causing him to occasionally [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent transform into one]]. Mulder hears him out but refuses to believe Guy's anecdote about Scully seducing him and taking him into the back room for a quickie. Guy admits to making up that part and chalks it up to a newfound human tendency to tell lies about sex.
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105	[[folder:Music]]
106	* Music/TheLonelyIsland would like to tell you that they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o just had sex!]] It was the best [[SpeedSex thirty seconds]] of their ''life!''
107	--> I just had sex! And I'll never go back (never go back!) to [[BuffySpeak the not-having-sex ways of the past!]]
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110	[[folder:Theater]]
111	* Rod from ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' incorporates this into his song, [[GirlfriendInCanada "My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada."]] Granted, he was [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday hiding something else]], [[TransparentCloset albeit unsuccessfully]], but there was a dose of this, too.
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114	[[folder:Video Games]]
115	* [[TheCasanova Astarion]] from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' talks at length about the amount of people he's slept with, tries to seduce the player character and other camp companions as soon as he gets the chance, and claims that he plans to celebrate his return to Baldur's Gate with "a night of hedonistic debauchery". PlayedWith in that this boasting is not to conceal a lack of sex life, but rather a lack of ''consensual'' sex life -- Astarion spent the previous 200 years under the control of his vampiric master Cazador who, on top of a myriad of other abuse, used him as a sex slave to "entertain" party guests, and forced him to HoneyTrap victims by sleeping with them before bringing them home for Cazador to feed on. Entering a relationship with Astarion leads him to confess that he initially only seduced you to manipulate you into keeping him around, and that he hasn't truly enjoyed sex in a long time due to the associated trauma.
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118	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
119	* [[HornyScientist Miu Iruma]] from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', and to a very ludicrous degree. She tries to portray herself as someone with a lot of sexual experience by being [[CasualKink open about her kinks]], like waxplay and being [[SlutShaming slut-shamed]]. However, it is strongly implied that Miu is actually a virgin herself; she gets defensive when she gets [[VirginShaming virgin-shamed]] ([[HypocriticalHumor even though she does the same on a regular basis]]), accidentally discloses that she has an unlucky love life (much supported by her FriendlessBackground), and gets really nervous when a serious opportunity for sex comes up, like in her Love Suite Event. It is also suggested that despite acting like a slut, [[IJustWantToBeLoved Miu wants actual love and not just sex]]. She would insist on being offered a romantic gesture before going any further, and her fantasy is a ChildhoodFriendRomance, much to the surprise of Shuichi.
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122	[[folder:Web Animation]]
123	* In a ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Valentine's day PSA:
124	-->'''Grif:''' Valentine's day? The day we celebrate love? And Romance? You know... girls?\
125	'''Simmons:''' Ohhh yeah, I celebrate that ''all'' the time with ''all'' kinds of ladies.\
126	'''Griff:''' Riiight. Then why didn't you know what I meant?\
127	'''Simmons:''' I thought you said Valentine's... Doy?
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130	[[folder:Webcomics]]
131	* T-Rex from ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' seems to discuss non-existent/"hypothetical" relationships often.
132	** Though, early strips establish that [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4 he and Utahraptor were a couple in college.]]
133	** Also, did he mention that he and Dromiceiomimus had tea... '''[[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=106 and dinosaur sex?]]'''
134	* Joe in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' is constantly talking about his amazing sex life, despite the fact we never see a female character react to him with anything other than contempt. He eventually admits to Danny "I have never actually had a threesome. I just talk a good game."
135	* Milford in ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound''. [[http://scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20040906 "Listen right, when I was on holiday, I met this girl, and got off with her like a hundred times."]]
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138	[[folder:Web Original]]
139	* [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] is a non-sexual example of this trope.
140	* [[SmallNameBigEgo Danny Sexbang]] of Music/NinjaSexParty. If his name didn't give it away, about half of their songs use this trope to some degree or another.
141	* Variation with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. He ReallyGetsAround, but he tries to convince us that he's just a normal player when really his love and sex life are both freak shows.
142	* Parodied by ''Website/TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/video/teen-boys-losing-virginity-earlier-and-earlier-rep,35906/ "Teen Boys Losing Virginity Earlier and Earlier, Report Teen Boys."]]
143	%%* [[http://50-trolls-of-gay.tumblr.com/post/84963358793/kasoukai-harleyteir-kasoukai-reblogging This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post.
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146	[[folder:Western Animation]]
147	* Master Shake from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' likes to portray himself as a ladies'... shake, although it is repeatedly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by someone (usually Frylock) pointing out that he doesn't even have genitalia or any knowledge of how sex even ''works.'' Indeed, Frylock and Meatwad have both had (whether implied or explicit) more successful sexual encounters than him.
148	* Zapp Brannigan from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.
149	-->"Kif, I have made it with a woman. Inform the men."
150	** Although ironically, that quote comes from right after he ''really did'' have sex with a woman. And they ''are'' [[NoodleIncident certain it's a woman this time]]. Still, a later episode suggests this trope applies to him more often than not:
151	--->'''Zapp:''' You're the only woman who's ever loved me!
152	--->'''Leela:''' I never loved you!
153	--->'''Zapp:''' I mean ''physically!''
154	* Enforced in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. Eda has a long list of ex-boyfriends that both she and King repeatedly mention, but we never actually see her in a relationship outside of [[spoiler:[[HighSchoolSweethearts Raine]] (who broke up with her over 20 years before the story began)]] because Disney was squeamish about having a DirtyOldWoman in a show meant for kids.
155	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Cartman claims he's been laid "like, five thousand times."
156	* While Mariner from ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' has claimed to have been with everything from outright villains, to gender nonbinary babes, to borderline {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, she's never actually been seen dating anyone. The only confirmed person Mariner has dated was Captain Amina Ramsey, and that was back in their academy days, along with one awful date with a ConspiracyTheorist on the ''Cerritos'' a year before the series started. It's only in Season 3 that we finally see her in a relationship in the present day when she starts dating her former SitcomArchNemesis Jennifer.
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