Line #101 Main/TheGruntingOrgasm


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2	[[caption-width-right:243:Some things can't be un-seen. Or un-heard.]]
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4	AKA the male orgasm.
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6	While women situate themselves between TheModestOrgasm and TheImmodestOrgasm, due to the DoubleStandard, males are usually not shown climaxing on screen/panel. Or it's very brief.
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8	But not always.
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10	When a male is shown experiencing a particularly intense climax, he generally can't control himself either and utters grunting sighs and growls instead of the more typically female yelps and squeals. It can go up to an utter scream, but that's rare. It is often accompanied with a gritty or silly face, rolled eyes, clenched teeth, and [[CallingYourOrgasms foretold by naughty words and sweat]]. Is sometimes featured/parodied in OrgasmicCombat.
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12	In the event that a man attempts to [[FakeOrgasm fake this]], expect his partner to be unconvinced.
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14	Compare/Contrast TheModestOrgasm and TheImmodestOrgasm. Can be TruthInTelevision, though it is sometimes exaggerated in fiction to make the hero seem macho.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
22	* Any BoysLove manga or anime sports at least one of these, especially for the {{Seme}}. {{Uke}}s tend towards TheImmodestOrgasm.
23	* Done in many, many Hentai, in particular by the villainous characters. The rare good aligned male characters tends more to TheModestOrgasm.
24	* In ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'', Tanaka advises [[SequentialArtist Toda]] to focus more on the female character's face than the male's during a climax scene, since most of the {{hentai}} magazine's readers are (presumably heterosexual) males.
25	* ''[[{{Manga/Berserk}} Guts]]'' in the third Golden Age Arc movie during the love scene with Casca.
26	* One particular mention goes to the [[MemeticMutation infamous]] "goosh goosh" ''Manga/TokyoTribe 2'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBYJTfpFmMs scene]]. [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale Not for the]] [[BloodyHilarious faint of heart.]]
27	* ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine'': Zenigata is explicitly fond of Fujiko due to her skills in the bedroom. Once, when she slept with him she made him do some grunting moans so loud she manages to trick Oscar into thinking she is torturing him.
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30	[[folder:Comedy]]
31	* The man in the other car having sex with a woman, whom Man asks for a crowbar to get his friends out of the trunk, in "Pedro And Man At The Drive-Inn" from Creator/CheechAndChong's ''AudioPlay/LosCochinos''.
32	* A comedian once said a woman's orgasm sounds like she's climbing stairs ("''pant, pant, gasp, pant...''"), whereas a man's orgasm sounds like he's falling down stairs ("Oh shi-ooh-ah-erg-ah...")
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35	[[folder:Comics]]
36	* Played for laughs in ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' during a sex scene between Chuck and Rachel. Chuck's grinding away while Rachel lies there bored.
37	* The second volume of ''Comicbook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has a sex scene between Mina Harker and Allan Quartermain which shows him grunting a bit. Mina also seems to be having an immodest orgasm as she wails.
38	** Hawley Griffin, the sociopathic Invisible Man, is introduced in the series moaning ''Oh Goddd!'' while raping a female student of a correctional academy.
39	* The sex scene between Barry and Claudette in issue 2 of ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday The 13th: Pamela's Tale]]'':
40	--> '''Barry''': YEAH, BABY! UHNNNN! TAKE IT!
41	--> '''Claudette''': [[TheImmodestOrgasm OH, BARRY! OH! OH MY GOD! AAAAAAHH!]]
42	* The wolfman Kill from ''ComicBook/TheIncal'' is introduced doing a big howl while doing it with a human woman.
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45	[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
46	* Used in the stories, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/100083/1/blissful-dream/blissful-dream Blissful Dream]] and [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/106068/1/relax/intimacy Relax.]]
47	* Grouchy grunts while having sex in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Grouchy And The Love Doll". So does Papa Smurf in [[HulkingOut Hulk mode]] in "Papa's Big Crush".
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50	[[folder:Film]]
51	* Billy Bob Thornton in ''Film/MonstersBall''. NSFW.
52	* Creator/BruceWillis in ''Film/ColorOfNight.''
53	* David Abbott in ''Crawlspace''
54	* Creator/MichaelDouglas in ''Film/BasicInstinct''
55	* Tony Leung in ''Film/TheLover''
56	* Almost all the male characters in ''Film/WaitingToExhale''.
57	* Jensen Ackles in a wonderful scene in the movie ''Film/{{Devour}}''.
58	* Sean William Scott in ''Film/RoadTrip'', due to a very... special medical inspection.
59	* Kevin Kline in ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'', accompanied by an extremely goofy smile.
60	* Parodied by Creator/ChristianSlater in ''Film/PumpUpTheVolume''.
61	* In ''{{Film/Munich}}'' the main character does a silent version while having sex with his wife, but since he's having flashbacks to earlier events in the movie it's not especially sexy and comes off as more disturbing.
62	* Done up to eleven by the eponymous lead in ''Film/MacGruber''. The main character's expressions during sex are a rather disturbing series of piggish and odd grunts.
63	* Bernie (William H. Macy) in ''Film/TheCooler''.
64	* ''Film/FortyShadesOfBlue'' has one with Michael James (Darren Burrows) while doing it with Laura (Dina Korzun).
65	* ''Film/TheCenterOfTheWorld'' has Richard Longman (Creator/PeterSarsgaard) doing it with Florence (Creator/MollyParker) by the end of the movie with this trope.
66	* In ''Film/BabyBoy'', during Jody and Yvette's sex scene, his orgasm is a few soft grunts compared to her almost [[TheImmodestOrgasm bringing the roof down]].
67	* The first ''Levottomat'' film (a series of sex-related dramas out of Finland) inverts this slightly with a scene that begins just as a guy climaxes; he's virtually silent about it, but the woman lets out a single grunt instead.
68	* In ''Film/{{Frida}}'', we have a rare scene in which the woman is dominant and the man is making the noises. Kahlo's first boyfriend grunts loudly and nearly screams as they have sex in a closet during a house party, so she has to cover his mouth.
69	* The Young Monk in ''Film/SpringSummerFallWinterAndSpring'' when he loses his virginity to The Girl.
70	* Gender-inverted in ''Film/ColdMountain'' where it's a woman who says, "He's going to hump me until I grunt." [[InterruptedIntimacy We don't hear if she's a moaner or a grunter though]].
71	* The Cockswell Academy [[OurFounder founder]] statue grunts and pants when the foreign language teacher Mona Lott [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn does a striptease]] near the end of ''Film/LooseScrews''.
72	* Clapet, the BigBad butcher of ''Film/{{Delicatessen}}'' does a pretty epic and hilarious one that makes everyone in the hotel stunned.
73	* Ben Stiller in ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'' during the hair gel scene.
74	* Both male protagonists in ''Film/YTuMamaTambien'' when they're jerking off in the pool.
75	* In ''Film/ForrestGump'', when Mrs. Gump is [[SexForServices "convincing"]] the head of the local elementary school to allow him in, we can hear him loudly grunting, Upon finishing and approaching Forrest (who was unwittingly eavesdropping), the boy starts to imitate his grunting, which causes him [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere to run away in embarrassment.]]
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78	[[folder:Literature]]
79	* The title character of ''Literature/{{Sabriel}}'' overhears one in the next room of an inn.
80	* A common theme in Alexei Kremzar's books, including ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Educating-Sarah-Education-Alexei-Kremzar-ebook/dp/B008V16AEA/ Educating Sarah.]]''
81	* Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt combines this with TheImmodestOrgasm in her sex scenes. And she's got plenty of them.
82	* At the low end of the grunting scale, in Creator/KurtVonnegut's ''Literature/SlaughterhouseFive'', "Billy made a noise like a small, rusty hinge. He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia."
83	* In ''Literature/TheLifeAndOpinionsOfTristramShandy'' the elder Mr. Shandy believes the quality of the (male) orgasm determines the quality of the offspring. He is approaching a great climax with his wife when she deflatingly asks him if he remembered to wind up the clock, a household chore in those days. He forever after blames the resulting paltry dribble for his son Tristram being such a disappointment. The book was written in 1759.[[/folder]]
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85	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
86	* ''Series/FellowTravelers'':
87	** During Christmastime, Hawkins Fuller performs fellatio on his lover Tim Laughlin, and the latter grunts when he orgasms.
88	** In 1957, Tim is the "giving" partner when he and Hawk are engaged in anal sex, and the former muffles his orgasm by [[BiteOfAffection biting and sucking on the latter's shoulder]] while groaning in pleasure.
89	* On one episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}},'' Lilith and Frasier happen to both go to the same summer weekend retreat with their dates. Believing that Lilith is having sex in the next room, Frasier starts leaping up and down on his bed [[TheImmodestOrgasm making]] [[CallingYourOrgasms certain noises.]] He takes the [[TheModestOrgasm silence]] he's met with as a sign that Lilith is enjoying herself even more. In reality, she's out having a stroll, and she walks in as he's [[DoubleEntendre getting into it.]] To add to his embarrassment, his girlfriend walks in, too.
90	* Done many, many times in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (Tyrion Lannister is introduced during one), and one of Theon Greyjoy's makes him look like he is being electrocuted.
91	* Two short instances in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' features the character Finn do this TWICE, each time VERY noticeable to the audience by his expression and his grunts and groans. This, however, isn't as big as other examples, usually just down to a couple of "oh"s and finally a grunt when he unsuccessfully tries to stop it.
92	* Frank in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' gets his own entire gratuitous sex scene in ''Lethal Weapon 5'' (as his demand for funding the movie). No one else enjoyed that scene.
93	* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK''. As the detectives and prosecutors watch the tape of CP Alesha Philips' rape, DS Matt Devlin stands as far away as possible and turns his back (he's in love with her). Unfortunately, he can still hear everything and visibly cringes when her assailant lets out one of these.
94	* Trevor from ''MTV's Pets'' does this often while masturbating.
95	* Done various times in the short lived softcore series ''Nightcap''.
96	* Several years ago, ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' did a parody of the Herbal Essences commercials, with "Herbal Essences" for men. A bunch of men in a court room, washing their hair, and making grunting noises. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghG4VbUWU3Q Here is a newer version of this...]]
97	* Male characters orgasming in ''Series/TheTudors'' tend to do this a lot.
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100	[[folder:Music]]
101	* Parodied by Music/{{Eminem}} in a skit on ''The Slim Shady LP''.
102	* Such grunts form a (ridiculous) part of the intro to Elastica's "Line Up". (It's a song about groupies, so it's totally appropriate, guys)
103	* "Hot Shot", by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, could be read as some hammering Wham, a strangled Bam, and a very perfunctory Thank You Ma'am.
104	* Heard in Music/{{Rammstein}}'s "Rein Raus"
105	* Music/TheStranglers' ''Peaches'' has a fairly unambiguous bit towards the end where singer Hugh Cornwell gets, me er, ''overcome'' by all the comely ladies in bikinis he is ogling on the beaches. On stage he even ''mimed'' masturbation, to make it clear to those who hadn't got the idea what the grunting noises betokened.
106	* The rhythmic male and female grunts in Music/FleetwoodMac's "Big Love" seem to indicate this.
107	* The voice constantly panting "undercover" near the end of Alan O'Day's "Undercover Angel" also suggests this.
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110	[[folder:Video Games]]
111	* Jason Brody has one in the bad ending of ''VideoGame/FarCry3''. [[spoiler: Then he [[OutWithABang dies]].]]
112	* The Player Characters of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsInAnime'' games have hilariously cartoonish moans whenever receiving OutWithABang at the hands of the lusty enemies.
113	* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'': the titular Duke during the ending does some pretty loud grunts with a babe who wanted some more ''action''. Thankfully it's not shown.
114	* Similar to FNIA, ''VideoGame/OnlyCans'' has the talking soda cans make hilariously cartoonish moaning, hissing, and fizzing sounds when the player spritzes them.
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117	[[folder:Webcomics]]
118	* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': Male responses in the comic's numerous sex scenes vary, but some occasionally make some noise. Notably, Gary's first time involves a very audible "virginnnnGhhggnnn", to Kiley's shock. (Strip #539, December 15, 2011, NSFW.)
119	* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'': Pierre's first time with Sandra produces some fairly restrained but audible moans of "Oh Sandra". What neither of them know, unfortunately, is that [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/uniforms_on_the_floor they have witnesses at that moment]] -- and Eloise isn't going to take this scene well.
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122	[[folder:Web Original]]
123	* Subverted in the "Thanksgiving" episode of ''WebAnimation/TheDamnFew.'' Sealy's (off-screen) falsetto barks and squeals top out in an ecstatic, "mmmmmmmI'matopsecretNavy''SEAL''!!!!!"
124	* Subverted by WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. Whenever he reenacts an orgasm (and trust us, he's done it a lot), there's no grunts involved, just high-pitched gasping and squealing. But then the character is pretty girly anyway.
125	* Also subverted with Music/SiIvaGunner infamous meme character Loud Nigra, who does a [[NoIndoorVoice very, very loud]] and overly long scream when he's orgasming.
126	* The [[MemeticMutation infamous]] ''Shrek is Love Shrek is Life'' incarnation of the [[Franchise/{{Shrek}} epynomous ogre]] has the tendency of letting out a mighty roar when he reaches his ''climax''. Can also be considered a rare male example of TheImmodestOrgasm.
127	* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
128	** Vegeta during the hysterical scene in episode 34 where he and Bulma conceives Trunks. Complete with Galick Gun.
129	** Other episodes indicate this is the case for other (every?) male characters, such as a non-canon scene between Future Gohan and Bulma with a Masenko, Goku and Chi-Chi with a Kamehameha while conceiving Goten, or Krillin with a Scatter Bullet [[spoiler:that destroys the Krillin Owned Counter]].
130	* Zabuza (also voiced by Lanipator) at the beginning of episode 6 of Naruto The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show.
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133	[[folder:Western Animation]]
134	* Parodied in the episode "Altruists" of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Adult Party Cartoon'', a scene of sawing a log is INCREDIBLY heavily implied to represent a [[HoYay homosexual]] sex scene, complete with begging and a very joyous Grunting Orgasm from Stimpy. [[http://www.dailymotion.pl/video/x7vj5v_gross-ren-and-stimpy-moment_fun See it for yourself (NSFW, obviously).]]
135	* Cleveland in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy.'' "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH-[[CallingYourOrgasms and boom goes the dynamite.]]"
136	** Peter makes a loud moan when he finishes with Bonnie in a parody of ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.
137	* Brock Sampson in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', as his old college roommate Rusty can attest.
138	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Randy Marsh in the episode Over Logging as he jacks off to internet porn. His moans are so loud that the characters outside thought he was being attacked by a tiger.
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