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4A wacky romp, usually full of {{fanservice}}, blunt innuendos, and [[ASimplePlan simple plans]] all to one purpose -- to get laid! Expect tons of BoobBasedGag, humorous dating or hook up scenarios, and maybe a large dollop of VirginShaming, or SexAsRiteOfPassage if they still is. These can be explicit or non-explicit. The hijinks don't have to end after our hero or heroine gets laid.
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6Note that the proportion of sexual material can vary; jokes on other subjects are certainly permitted. A comedy series can have episodes of sex comedy while completely avoiding the subject at other times. Many of the examples below actually feature variants of the trope, or {{deconstruct|edTrope}} it in some way. Conversely, when PornWithPlot tries to be funny, the result is obviously some kind of sex comedy, if not usually a very good one.
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8Many long-running sitcoms aimed at grown-ups will have an episode of sex comedy sooner or later, sometimes featuring an attractive visiting character or guest star who catches the attention of one or more of the primary cast.
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10Related to PoorMansPorn, because you can own a copy of the film and no one will know it's one scene you own the film for.
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12May occasionally overlap with RomanticComedy. May be a cause of BestKnownForTheFanservice. Compare {{Ecchi}}. Subgenre: AwfulBritishSexComedy.
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21* ''Manga/AILoveYou'' starts off with the UnluckyEverydude getting a MagicalGirlfriend due to [[LightningCanDoAnything a lightning strike hitting his computer, causing her to materialize into the real world]], with some fan-servicey moments here and there. Then around the time Number 20 and 40 appear, there are ''much'' more fan-servicey moments, Hitoshi is made out to be a huge pervert who only wants to get some nice action (whether it be from his computer program girlfriend or... actual {{Ecchi}} video games) and there's more jokes that go pretty far for an overall comedy series with [[TearJerker tearjerky]] moments, including things like Hitoshi arousing Number 30 enough and [[ItMakesSenseInContext pinching her nipple]].[[/index]]
22* ''Anoko to Iikoto'' is a collection of humorous NSFW stories about ACupAngst, BrotherSisterIncest, and other hentai fetishes.
23* ''Manga/BGataHKei'' is about Yamada, a girl who aims to have 100 casual sex partners, even though she's still a virgin and is secretly insecure about it. When she meets an unremarkable boy, the rest of the series shifts to being about her making advances on him so he'll be her first, even though he's oblivious and she develops genuine feelings for him. Commentary is regularly provided by the Eros Deities, who are personifications of the characters' libidos.
24* ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'' is a WorkCom about adult models and porn actors. Also crosses over with SliceOfLife, as well as being a FightingSeries since the main protagonist is a karate black belt.
25* ''Dragon Pink'' is a PornWithPlot, the plot being a RolePlayingGame infused with {{Slapstick}}.[[index]]
26* ''Manga/HappyMania'': A young woman sleeps her way into true love, with many semen jokes along the way.
27* ''Manga/{{Hen}}'': A {{yaoi}} and a {{yuri}} series of the same title dealing with the LGBTAwakening of two protagonists who previously thought they were straight and weaponized their sexuality, now forced to [[LadykillerInLove figure out how to relate to people of the same sex whom they have actual feelings for]].
28* ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'' is about a group of adventurers who want to find out which species of CuteMonsterGirl is best to have sex with, as they go to various brothels and write reviews of their experiences. The series takes [[UnproblematicProstitution a rather lax view of prostitution]] and is largely a fanservice-filled romp. While the manga doesn't actually show anyone having sex despite the premise revolving around it, the anime is much HotterAndSexier.[[/index]]
29* ''Anime/JunkBoy'' is basically [[GagPenis "boner joke"]] the series. If the main character isn't popping a stiffie over some hottie he just met he's humping a hole into a ''Colonel Sanders statue.'' (No, that last part isn't made up, see [[WebVideo/BennettTheSage Bennett the Sage's]] review of the anime for details.)[[/index]]
30* ''Lunatic Night'': It's AfterTheEnd, and the last human male has to repopulate the Earth with his new harem. HilarityEnsues.[[index]]
31* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is an AnimatedShockComedy about two [[FallenAngel fallen angels]] known as [[AllWomenAreLustful Panty & Stocking Anarchy]]. Panty has an obsession with having sex with as many men as possible, with a lot of jokes being made because of this. Stocking also has an active sex life even if subdued compared to Panty, being into bondage, with some jokes of her being TooKinkyToTorture.
32* ''Manga/PeterGrillAndThePhilosophersTime'' is a comedy series about a man and his UnwantedHarem of {{Cute Monster Girl}}s who keep trying to get him to have sex with them [[StalkerWithATestTube so he can give them strong children]]. While the {{Fanservice}} goes beyond what a typical ecchi series shows and it's very clear that sex ''does'' happen, no actual sex is ever shown directly and it typically cuts to the morning after.
33* ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'' is about 21% school SliceOfLife jokes, 10% height jokes, and [[LOL69 69]]% sex comedy. Though here, the protagonist (and only male) is the StraightMan -- it's the surrounding girls who provide all of the lust and sex jokes. Surprisingly, it's not actually {{Ecchi}} despite all the sex jokes, and the fanservice is pretty limited.[[/index]]
34* ''Sex Demon Queen'': a hentai [=OVA=] that's also a HeroicFantasy-MagicalGirl parody.[[index]]
35* ''Anime/StrangeLove'': An OVA adapted from the second series of ''Manga/{{Hen}}''. An odd series about a sexy redheaded schoolgirl who develops feelings for another student after breaking up with her rocker boyfriend. Tries to mix silly comedy antics with some genuine dramatic moments for... a rather unique experience.
36* ''Anime/VeryPrivateLesson'' notably inverts a common set up of this genre by making the adult male teacher protagonist be the unlucky target of the infatuations of an underage teenage girl and forced into the role of her protector and guardian lest her mob boss father have him fitted for a pair of cement shoes. "Hilarity" ensues. [[/index]]
37* ''Manga/WhyTheHellAreYouHereTeacher'' is an {{ecchi}} series about TeacherStudentRomance. While full of fanservice, the only times sex is actually shown is in omakes (or in the case of the anime, the OVA).
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40[[folder:Comic Books]]
41%%* Creator/RobertCrumb's comic strips surely are full of this.
42%%* Milo Manara's work is, too.
43* Horacio Altuna's erotic fiction also includes a lot of comedy, usually a five-page set-up ending on a gag or punchline.
44* ''ComicBook/CheaterCode'' is fully an adult work about a gay Asian-American man finding himself thrown into a video game world.
45* ''ComicBook/MoneyShot'' is a PornWithPlot SpaceOpera about explorers finding aliens to make porn with.
46* ''ComicBook/RedEars'': This enormously successful Belgian comic book is nothing more than an erotic gag comic strip series.
47* ''Comicbook/SexCriminals'' is a series about two people who can [[TimeStandsStill freeze time when they have orgasms]]. They use this ability to rob banks so that they can use the money to save a library.
48* Much of the work of Icelandic artist Kjartan Arnorsson is a comedic core wrapped in a thick layer of pornographic shenanigans, where the context may be sexual but the execution is often presented as silly, almost cartoonish antics.
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52* ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'': The author wrote [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13634814 two]] [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13683924/chapters/31431636 prequels]] that are {{lemon}} examples; the sex scenes are described as a RandomEventsPlot combining BizarreAlienBiology and ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex, with [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin]] being made into both a SexGod and an IronButtMonkey.[[/index]]
53* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline [[https://www.wattpad.com/94456772-sword-art-online-16-5-chapter-16-5 Chapter 16.5]]'': This infamous exercise in IkeaErotica has been widely shunned by the fandom, yet it's still made many readers laugh by being SoBadItsGood.
54* The NSFW ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21884344/chapters/52234822 Love Hurts]]'' is a series of loosely connected drabbles regarding the sex lives (and attempted sex lives) of various pairings. The primary pairings are Blake/Yang ([[ComicSutra more sexually adventurous than is probably healthy]]), Ruby/Oscar (young and stupid and with no idea what they're doing), Weiss/Jaune (FriendsWithBenefits), Nora/Ren (LikeAnOldMarriedCouple), and Qrow/Winter (SlapSlapKiss), but there are a few other random {{Crack Pairing}}s that are vaguely in continuity with the rest. Jacques and Willow Schnee separately cheated on each other with the same "maid" (actually an assassin), Cinder ended up hooking up with Taiyang without knowing he was Yang and Ruby's father, and Salem watches everything through her crystal ball and gets ''very'' drunk over the stupidity of it all.[[index]]
55* ''Fanfic/OrangeRoseGathering'', a spinoff FusionFic of the ''Fanfic/{{Blossomingverse}}'' and ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' focuses on a HormoneAddledTeenager Chloe Cerise as she goes on a working vacation in Pallet Town, where she meets many, ''many'' of Ash's siblings during his family reunion, with plenty of {{Fanservice}} and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity all over the place]].
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59* Creator/RalphBakshi 's [[index]]''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' also falls in this category.
60* ''Tarzoon The Shame of the Jungle'' puts sex into blunt parody.
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64* ''Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'' by Creator/WoodyAllen.
65* A lot of Creator/MelBrooks' films fall in this category, despite sex not being the central theme; they tend to have a lot of sexual innuendo in their jokes.
66* ''Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Fantasy'': A sex comedy musical with [[PornWithPlot actual sex scenes]].[[index]]
67* ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'': The clue is in the title.
68* The ''Film/AmericanPie'' series is fairly definitive of the genre.
69* ''Film/AnotherGayMovie'' and its sequel ''Another Gay Sequel: Gay's Gone Wild'', unsurprisingly.
70* The ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies, being ''Film/JamesBond'' parodies, riff nonstop on the ''Bond'' movies' sexual content.
71* ''Film/BelleEpoque'': A cheerful comedy in which an affable young man lives for a while with a rich dude and the rich dude's four hot daughters. He winds up working his way through all four hot daughters -- and one of them is Creator/PenelopeCruz.
72* ''Film/TheBirdsTheBeesAndTheItalians'': A bunch of Italian bourgeoisie has affairs with each other's spouses, take mistresses, and have unfortunate experiences with a underage nymphet.[[/index]]
73* ''Deep In the Valley'', where two average dudes are [[TrappedInTVLand sucked into the world of porn films]].[[index]]
74* ''Film/EatingOut''
75* ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'': '80s teen sex comedy.
76* ''Film/FrenchFriedVacation'': The first entry of this {{Vacation Film|s}} series (released in 1978) features much nudity and sex-related gags. The following two meanwhile largely avoided this and went for {{Slapstick}}.
77* In ''Film/HotBot'', two sexually repressed and unpopular teenagers discover a lifelike super-model {{Sexbot}}. Thrilled at the chance to finally have sex, Huffy and Nard go to great lengths to protect their newest discovery.
78* ''Film/TheLastAmericanVirgin''
79* ''Film/LosinIt'', a 1983 comedy about teenage boys making a trip to Tijuana to lose their virginity.
80* ''Film/LoveAndOtherDrugs'': A higher drama quotient, but still in the category.
81* ''{{Film/Mischief}}'', a 1985 comedy where a shy high school student wants to get it on with a popular girl in 1956 Ohio. Basically, it's Happy Days with sex in it.
82* ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'', a parody of both this genre and teen movies. Most visibly pronounced with Areola, a ForeignExchangeStudent who [[InnocentFanserviceGirl spends the entire film butt-naked]].
83* ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movies, at least once a film, will parody dramatic Hollywood sex/romance scenes.
84* ''Film/NoHardFeelings''
85* ''[[Film/ThePinkPanther1963 The Pink Panther]]'' has a fair number of sexual jokes, even though [[spoiler:no one really gets any]].
86* ''Film/{{Poltergay}}'' - A married couple inherits a house inhabited by five disco era gay ghosts. They like to draw penises and spy on the couple when they have sex.
87* ''Film/{{Porkys}}'' is the TropeCodifier for the Teen Sex Comedy subtrope.
88* ''Film/PrettyCool'', and its sequel, ''Film/PrettyCoolToo''.
89* ''Film/PrivateSchool'' is another '80s comedy featuring various sex-related hijinks at a girls' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin private school]].
90* ''[[Film/PromisesPromises1963 Promises! Promises!]]'': A sex farce involving accidental wife swapping, possible adultery, a dorky dude worried about his impotence, lots of dirty double entendres, and naked Creator/JayneMansfield.
91* ''Film/SexualChemistry'' is a 1999 soft-core [[PornWithPlot porn film]], but with an essentially comedic central idea (a scientist accidentally invents a drug that causes him to temporarily change sex) and a fair number of jokes accordingly.
92* ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' is a DeconstructiveParody of the genre, with the protagonists' obsession with getting into the pants of the hottest girls at school used to paint them as a bunch of weirdos.
93* ''Film/TheSweetestThing'': It's like a chick flick was directed by the guys who direct Creator/RobSchneider's films.
94* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': Not officially, but since the HormoneAddledTeenager is a key component of the SlasherMovie formula being parodied, there is plenty of sex gags that [[CrossesTheLineTwice redefines "over the top"]].
95* ''Film/SoundEroticism'' is mainly a satire of Hungary in the 1980s, but, as its title suggests, has plenty of sex-related humor.
96* ''Film/{{Striptease}}'' is a film in which the heroine is a stripper, some of whose fans fixate on her.
97* ''Film/TheWomanInRed'' crosses this with RomanticComedy. It is about a man pursuing a woman, has a soundtrack by Music/StevieWonder, and the most famous scenes involve seeing up the woman's dress and seeing her naked in her bedroom.
98* The film ''Film/YesGodYes'' is about a repressed Catholic School Girl discovering the wonders of masturbation while attending a religious youth retreat.
99* Either the premise of ''Young People Fucking'' is obvious, or we're all just lying to ourselves.
100* ''Film/Zapped1982'', a parody of ''[[Film/Carrie1976 Carrie]]'' in which a teenage boy gains telekinetic powers and [[PowerPerversionPotential uses them to strip girls naked]].
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104* ''Series/{{Brass}}'': Most of the lead characters are highly lecherous, leading to a lot of sexual plots and sub-plots.
105* ''Series/DreamOn'' is very much sex comedy, albeit with a gimmick.
106* ''Series/SexEducation'': Can probably be termed more of a Sex-Dramedy. It's very funny, and sex in some form or another is usually the subject, but it treats the characters' emotional journeys with utmost seriousness. The protagonist is actually a teenaged amateur sex-counselor, who tries to help his fellow classmates, for a fee. His mother is actually a professional (and licensed) sex therapist.
107* ''Series/{{Sexify}}'': A Polish TV series about a tech student who develops an app meant to make sex more enjoyable for women.
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111* Most musicians know better than to make this a schtick. Thankfully, Music/BloodhoundGang does not.
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115* The Ancient Greek play ''Theatre/{{Lysistrata}}'' demonstrates that the sex comedy is OlderThanFeudalism.
116* In the 19th century, Creator/GeorgesFeydeau not only popularized {{farce}} in the modern form, but was quite risqué about it by the standards of the time; many of his stories have elements of sex comedy, and the combination has remained popular in theatrical farce to the present.[[/index]]
117* "Nothing On", the ShowWithinAShow in ''Theatre/NoisesOff'', is a Feydeau-style sex farce. As we only ever see the first act, we don't get to see how it develops, but the young ingenue spends most of the act stripped to her underwear and one of the male leads hops around with his pants around his ankles.[[index]]
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120[[folder:Video Games]]
121* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' is an AdventureGame by genre, but by content, it's a Sex Comedy with logic puzzles.
122* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'' is a competitive Dating Sim in which your LovableSexManiac playable character tries to score a date for prom, the quest being full of innuendos and several characters being very open about their sexuality as well as EveryoneIsBi.
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126* Among (non-porn) webcomics, ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' is perhaps the purest example, although it's ''relatively'' subtle and even deconstructive about it -- some of the time, anyway.
127** Of its {{spinoff}}s, ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' and ''Webcomic/PixieTrixComix'' are more or less equally sex comedies (especially the former) but dial back on the explicitness and add a little more SoapOpera, while ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'' is less about sex and somewhat less explicit (despite the odd ShowerScene and a fair bit of nudity with careful use of the SceneryCensor), but still approaches the trope at times; some of the later plots and PrintBonus material dial the sexual content back up a bit.
128* ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'' is mostly a SliceOfLife Furry Comic story, but does slide into (relatively tame) sex comedy regularly (especially with the titular character's job as I.T. specialist for an adult film studio). Considering the series is a safe for work story set in the same universe as the author's NSFW stuff, one could argue its an overly complicated attempt to do PornWithPlot... with all the plot sequestered in the tamer wide audience series and the raunchier adult content depicted elsewhere.
129* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' primarily revolves around sex comedy in a HighFantasy setting. Unlike the aforementioned webcomic, it is quite explicit and occasionally pornographic. Not all of it though, and some jokes could easily fit into a SFW fantasy parody.
130* ''Webcomic/TheRockCocks'' is more of a {{Dramedy}} or SliceOfLife story, but definitely has heavy sexual content.
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133[[folder:Western Animation]]
134* The infamous 1929 cartoon ''Everready Harton In Buried Treasure'' is a sex comedy.
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