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8	->''"Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day! Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!"''
9	-->-- '''Austin Powers''', ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]''
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11	[[noreallife]]
12	Sometimes, a man doesn't ''want'' to have [[RagingStiffie an erection]]. Either it's potentially physically hazardous, or there's a beautiful woman who he actually wants to spend time with and turning up with an obvious case of wood might not help (or both). It could be that he's just embarrassed to be seen in public that way. And sometimes, a man might be in the act, so to speak, and in need of some way to [[SpeedSex delay the inevitable]].
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14	Either way, the solution is the same: to conjure up some image in the brain that draws attention away from the contents of the pants. Such an image is either hilariously mundane or hilariously horrific. In American media, the former option often takes the form "think about baseball!"[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_metaphors_for_sex Ironically, there are a bunch of baseball metaphors for sex.]][[/note]]
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16	Someone in a TransparentCloset might try thinking of someone of the same gender; because [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday of course thinking about the same gender would not result in a positive reaction for a heterosexual person like themselves]]. For some reason, this doesn't work.
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18	The opposite of LieBackAndThinkOfEngland when used for sex. FetishRetardant and TheLoinsSleepTonight are when you don't need to do this.
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20	Contrast with NotDistractedByTheSexy, where somebody doesn't have to struggle to avoid having sexual thoughts.
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23	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
27	* ''Manga/AILoveYou'': Hitoshi has been forced into a pair of underwear that will [[GroinAttack slap him in the crotch]] whenever he stirs and will ''explode'' if it reaches thirty slaps. He tries to avoid getting whacked by thinking about male bodybuilders... [[TooDumbToLive while peeking in on the girls' locker room]]. (Un)fortunately, he loses focus for a second, the underwear slaps him, and the sound alerts the girls, who beat him up.
28	* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'': Ichikawa delves into this at times whenever he gets inadvertently stimulated by Yamada.
29	** He counts the prime numbers while curled up after seeing Moe, [[ItMakesSenseInContext who’s being used by Yamada as a replacement human chair]], grope Yamada ForTheLulz.
30	** Yamada accidentally shows him her unzipped back while they’re both in a dressing room. He calms down after his sister (Who's in the same store as them, to her lack of knowledge) sends him a pic of her trying out a skirt, asking for his opinion.
31	** In an extra chapter, Ichikawa gets the thought of Yamada bathing him in his head. He calms himself down immediately by plastering his sister’s face on Yamada’s.
32	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Ed is with Winry and trying not to think of the time Hawkeye teased him about [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend being in love with her]], and starts spouting out the periodic table.
33	* ''Manga/IchaichaSuruToOkaneGaWaichauFutariNoHanashi'': Aki wakes up with a {{nosebleed}} after having an EroticDream sleeping next to Hanasaki, and runs to stand in a cold waterfall to stop being turned on before she wakes up.
34	* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Ichika finds himself in a changing room with Charlotte, after she pulled him in both to hide from the [[ClingyJealousGirl other girls]] following them, as well as to show him the outfit she planned to wear at the beach. With his back turned to her, as he hears her undressing, he forces himself to [[MouthfulOfPi recite Pi]] in order to get his mind off thinking about her naked body. It eventually works, but a few moments later they get caught...by his older sister and homeroom teacher.
35	* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': In the dub, when Brief has to avoid ejaculating or [[spoiler:he'll unleash the SealedEvilInACan]], he starts yelling "Dead puppies and grandma! Dead puppies and grandma!"
36	[[/folder]]
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38	[[folder:Comedy]]
39	* Early in his career, Creator/WoodyAllen told a story in a stand-up routine where he thought about baseball to "prolong the moment of ecstasy". He got so caught up in his imaginary baseball game that he didn't even realize for a while that the woman already left.
40	* Creator/LarryTheCableGuy had a bit talking about how his girlfriend was disappointed that he climaxes too fast during sex, and tells him to think of something else to make it last longer.
41	-->'''Girlfriend:''' Oh for crying out loud! Think about baseball. Think about baseball!!!
42	-->'''Larry:''' [''narrating''] I messed that up, and thought about SOFT ball!
43	[[/folder]]
44
45	[[folder:Comic Books]]
46	* In a Franchise/{{Batman}} story, Robin and Batgirl get trapped inside a safe together, and with the characters so tightly packed in with each other, Batgirl's SensualSpandex is giving Robin a boner and he is repeating to himself "think clean thoughts, think clean thoughts..." while Batman uses a metal cutting beam to get them out.
47	* ''ComicBook/FinePrint'': This is discussed and also practiced by characters for delaying arousal.
48	* In one ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw'' story, there is a scene where three of the Secret Tribunal heroes overhear Marshal Law having sex with Breathless. Two of the heroes wonder how he manages to keep going so long, and the third replies, "That's easy, all you do is count the number of days to Christmas... slowly."
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51	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
52	* ''ComicStrip/{{Rudi}}'': Rudi does this one time at a nude beach. Problem is that everything he tries to think of only makes him hornier. ("Square root of 4761 makes... 69! Shit, maths is too perverted!") Then, when he finally manages to get his RagingStiffie under control (by thinking about cancer) -- a pissed-off wasp stings him several times in a male body part, making things even worse.
53	[[/folder]]
54
55	[[folder:Fan Works]]
56	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Let's just say Germany and Japan were ''really'' trying to think unsexy thoughts when Italy was showing them the ''David'' statue; they didn't want to reveal they were thinking of ''Italy'' as the youth in the nude!
57	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' fics:
58	** ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': Female variant. In chapter 17 the female cast is holding a bachelorette party in a male strip club, and Asuka is trying to think of something else in order to not get too horny and do something stupid... so she starts thinking of her best friend getting married to "that monkey-faced brute" Touji Suzuhara (whom she cannot stand).
59	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4632418/1/It-Can-t-Get-Worse It Can't Get Worse]]'': Shinji tries to summon this. He then decides he went too far with it and stops. What did he think of? ''[[ScaryShinyGlasses His]] [[FingerTenting father]] [[{{Squick}} in a thong]]''.
60	** ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': Invoked by Shinji during the fight against Gaghiel. To distract himself from Asuka's chest touching his back, he conjures up the picture of Gendo in a one-piece and instantly regrets it.
61	** In chapter 23 of ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', Shinji is trying to keep his hormones under control, so he makes himself think of his father, hoping that the mental image will turn him off.
62	* A ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' fanfic has Will using the "Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day" version after a ParodySue gives him a love potion. He has to spend a lot of time chanting, but it works. Jack, his fellow captive, has [[LampshadeHanging no idea who he's talking about]] but is impressed all the same.
63	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fics:
64	** A fanfic has a bit more of a PG version. After being challenged by Akane to not blush no matter what she does to him, Ranma tries to prevent himself from blushing by imagining Cologne in a string bikini.
65	** A lemon has Ranma think about martial arts and mentally go through several katas in order to not come before Akane.
66	* A comedy fic of ''Series/TheXFiles'' has Mulder in the middle of a meeting and daydreaming when he sees Scully eating a banana and his imagination starts generating some very NSFW daydreams. He excuses himself to the bathroom and goes through a variety of possibilities (baseball, some of the cases he worked), until his thought process stumbles on the idea of the Cigarette Smoking Man naked. Mulder is relieved not be turned on anymore, but [[INeedAFreakingDrink really wants to wash the mental image away with a beer]].
67	* In ''Fanfic/FeverDreams'' when L lets Light back into his presence, Light has to work hard on focusing on the murder case L has given him instead of on L.
68	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fics:
69	** There's an old fanfic called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/590609/8/How-to-Warm-up-a-Frigid-Valentine How to Warm up a Frigid Valentine]]'' where Harry and Ginny get stranded with wet clothes and no wands in a rickety old cabin in the middle of a snowstorm and have to share a bed naked to keep each other warm. When Harry wakes up at one point to find that Ginny has unconsciously cuddled up to him in her sleep, he starts rather desperately trying to think of a potions recipe to recite, in order to keep his mind off their situation. The first potion that finally pops into his head? The Shrinking Solution.
70	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11761312/3/Heart-and-Soul Heart and Soul]]'' Hermione's father uses the Margaret Thatcher version to curb his reaction to an over-intimate [[HeadTurningBeauty Veela]] on a nude beach.
71	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3691757/11/Haunted-Jaded-Eyes Haunted Jaded Eyes]]'' Snape thinks of disgusting potion ingredients when he starts lusting after Harry.
72	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10191677/8/Still-I-Rise Still I Rise]]'' Harry thinks of a naked Snape, Filch, and Dumbledore after seeing Hermione in a wet school blouse.
73	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10766595/4/Harry-Potter-Three-to-Backstep Harry Potter - Three to Backstep]]'' Harry deals with fantasies of Hermione and Daphne naked by thinking of Umbridge naked.
74	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10523682/16/Harry-Potter-and-Grief-s-Wisdom Harry Potter and Grief's Wisdom]]'' Harry banishes fantasies of a threesome with Hermione and Luna by thinking of his aunt in a towel.
75	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10506441/4/Arx-Domus-Nigrae Arx Domus Nigrae]]'' Sirius tries to banish thoughts of Hermione in lingerie by mentally reciting Arithmancy tables.
76	** In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1520690/chapters/4753695 Better Late Than Never]]'' Harry deals with a wet dream about Draco by thinking of Mrs. Weasley in a bikini.
77	** ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/collections/hpfandom/works/392778 The Artist and the Savior]]'':
78	--->'''Dean:''' ''Think unsexy thoughts! Think unsexy thoughts! Um, crap. Uh, [=McGonagall=] getting it on with Dumbledore.''
79	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8535709/3/Grey-Is-Better Grey Is Better]]'' Harry thinks of Snape having sex with Umbridge after walking in on a partially-dressed Hermione.
80	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5619147/7/Violence-Inherent-in-the-System Violence Inherent in the System]]'':
81	--->'''Harry:''' ''Umbridge naked dancing. Dumbledore shagging a troll. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Ver- oh, that's just sick.''
82	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12137113/2/Revealing-Perspectives Revealing Perspectives]]'':
83	--->'''Harry:''' ''No! Stop it. Think about something else. Think about Snape. Eurgh. Snape and Umbridge; in tutus. Hrrk.''
84	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4780695/14/A-Collection-of-Harmonious-OneShots A Collection of Harmonious OneShots]]'' Hermione, fed up with Harry's comment that he loves her like a sister, ties him to a bed and then strips.
85	--->Harry felt a slight stirring in his crotch, but concentrated on images of Umbridge in a bikini... with a riding crop... spanking Mr. Filch... yeah, that worked.
86	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12310861/24/The-Augurey The Augurey]]'':
87	--->''Shit, fuck, god-dammit, son of a''--[Harry] was going to come in his pants and embarrass himself completely. ''Shit. Hagrid's pajamas, Flobberworms, Cornelius Fudge, Aunt Petunia's knickers.''
88	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7218741/3/Out-of-the-Ashes Out of the Ashes]]'':
89	--->[Blaise] wracked his brain to think of something disgusting enough to get his erection to go down... ah, he had it... Snape and Dumbledore, together and naked. '''Ugh!'''
90	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12895634/6/A-Second-Chance-at-Happiness-Maybe A Second Chance at Happiness? Maybe?]]'':
91	--->He supposed another reason it was so strange was because of how arousing he found the image. Regulus looked poised and focused, holding a deadly weapon and standing proud and dangerous. Harry kept having to think of dead puppies to stop his body from reacting. Getting an erection while wearing thin trousers was not going to go down well.
92	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13470939/1/17-Clumsy-and-Shy 17, Clumsy and Shy]]'' Harry gets an erection when Ginny lands on him after falling off a ladder.
93	--->Harry turned his head and looked at her over his shoulder. "Sorry," he said again, his voice sounding gruff and deep. He tried to think of the least arousing thing in the world...''Snape in his underpants...Snape in a dress...Mundungus Fletcher kissing Snape in a dress''...
94	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2241604/3/Chimera-Luck Chimera Luck]]'':
95	--->'''Harry:''' ''Bubotuber pus. Blast ended skrewts. Percy Weasley. Voldemort in a Speedo. Snape in a Speedo. Oh, ick!''
96	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1659292/2/HexCrossed-Lovers HexCrossed Lovers]]'':
97	--->'''Harry:''' '''Professors Dumbledore and [=McGonagall=] in bed together with whipped cream? No, that's not going to work. Filch, Mrs. Norris and Lockhart in a three way. I've got it now; Voldemort in a pink lace negligee that should work!''
98	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7206210/1/The-Coffee-Prince The Coffee Prince]]'':
99	--->'''George:''' ''Think of naked Hagrid doing things with that Beauxbatons bird. Think of crabby old Aberforth tending to his goats. Think of [=McGonagall=] in a corset. Don't think of Harry bent over the counters. Don't let his smile get to you. Most of all, don't reach out and grab his arse!''
100	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9825552/9/When-All-Seems-Lost-It-s-Not When All Seems Lost (It's Not)]]'' an announcement of Mrs. Weasley's arrival interrupts Harry and Snape's makeout session.
101	--->'''Snape:''' Think about something truly horrid. Like Hagrid in a tutu.
102	** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14035567/5/Magical-Blocks-and-Bonds Magical Blocks and Bonds]]'':
103	--->'''Harry:''' Snape in Madam Longbottom's dress, and Umbitch's pink cardy, Dumbledore in board shorts and a grubby grey singlet.
104	* Happens a couple of times in ''Fanfic/SerendipitousFate'' with Adrien, with thoughts such as his father in a Speedo and kittens which may or may not be dead. Results in a hilarious DiggingYourselfDeeper exchange with Marinette when she asks what he's thinking about.
105	* In ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] and the Planet of Lesbians'', Buster Kincaid is faced with [[TwinThreesomeFantasy twin]] scantily-dressed scientists intent on using him as a GlorifiedSpermDonor for their LadyLand society. He tries a SurvivalMantra ("[[Franchise/{{Dune}} I must drink beer, beer is the mind killer...]]"), the procedure for assembling a Class IV Rocket Engine ("Insert the long tribanium rod into the moist cunt...I mean the Moise-Carver termination socket. Do not attempt to force the rod if it becomes stuck, but instead come, I mean ''coat'' the rod in ejaculate...''ejection'' lubricant in order to ease its passage into the tight hole...") and then:
106	-->"The President of Earth naked!" babbled Buster. "The cold depths of space, ahhh... the Giant Toothed Vagina of Freudian Nightmares! The Slime-Dripping Sludge Monster of Stenchia III!"
107	* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku accidentally ropes himself into a game of romantic chicken with Yang. She uses every trick in the book to get him to fold, including leaning forward so he could stare straight at her CleavageWindow. He desperately tries to think of everything cold he can to keep it down.
108	-->'''Yang:''' ''[leaning on a restaurant table seductively]'' Don't be so stressed Iz-u-ku~ After all, you've taken me out to someplace fancy... you're allowed to look~.\
109	'''Izuku:''' ''[looking anywhere but at her]'' Cold thoughts Izuku, cold thoughts. Ice cubes, cold showers, Mountain Glenn winter. Going skiing on the top of the mountain and then tumbling down a good way through all that snow. Cold thoughts, cold thoughts, cold thoughts...
110	* In ''Fanfic/{{Eye of the Storm\|KisekiMa}}'', in reaction to Scathach's beauty, Shirou try to focus his thoughts on Rin. It isn't specified if he want to calm buzzing hormones by focusing on his true love, or by fear of what she will do to him if he's be unfaithful.
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113	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
114	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfFordFairlane'': Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) at one point early in the film gets an unwanted erection and says out loud to his penis ""Come on, down boy. Down Stanley. Roseanne Barr naked. Gone."
115	* In the Creator/SteveMartin movie ''Film/AllOfMe'', a woman is stuck in the body of the main character. He wants to sleep with another female character, but his "roommate" objects and starts filling his head with images of dead kittens and old nuns.
116	* In ''Film/AmericanPie 2'', Michelle is giving Jim some sexual advice, and the lessons get to feeling at-ease around girls. Noticing he's already sporting a boner, she growls at him, "''Series/GilligansIsland'', Mr. Howell!" before elaborating that he needs to distract himself with unsexy thoughts. For his part, he starts thinking of chairs, mastodons, cleaning the bathroom, and dung beetles.
117	* ''Film/AustinPowers'' combines this with a SurvivalMantra: "Baseball, cold showers. Baseball, cold showers." Then, after things escalate a bit: "[[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher MARGARET THATCHER]] NAKED ON A COLD DAY! MARGARET THATCHER NAKED ON A COLD DAY!"
118	* ''Film/BedroomsAndHallways'': UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher again serves as anti-erection fodder, where Leo, a gay man, is convinced to sit in a sauna with the fellow (straight) members of his support group.
119	* The title character of ''Film/{{Blankman}}'' routinely goes into... convulsions... when kissed or otherwise aroused. "Think about math..."
120	* A RunningGag in ''Film/BubbleBoy'' is Jimmy reciting the Pledge of Allegiance any time he gets an erection and repeating it until it goes away, as his hyper-fundamentalist mother had taught him to do. This includes when his crush gets a little too close to him while teaching him to play guitar and, much later, when [[ItMakesSenseInContext mud wrestling two bikini-clad women]].
121	* In ''Film/CloselyWatchedTrains'', a Czech film that oscillates between sex comedy and LaResistance thriller, the protagonist is a young man who is suicidally depressed after he [[JizzedInMyPants prematurely ejaculated]] on the big night with his girlfriend. The doctor advises him to think about football to slow things down.
122	* In the movie ''Film/TheCouchTrip'' John Burns, who is posing as a psychiatrist, recommends thinking of transmission repair for this purpose. Unfortunately, his description of taking apart a transmission, though he doesn't seem to realize or intend it, does not exactly qualify as unsexy. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQNjg982JQ Observe.]]
123	* ''Film/FollowThatDream'': Toby's go-to method of not getting taken in when a woman is trying to seduce him is to recite multiplication tables.
124	* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Gilda instructs Guy "Think Sunday school" when they first have sex so he lasts longer.
125	* ''Film/TheMansion'': Djamal encounters a vintage porno mag and then attempts to think of unsexy things because he knows [[GagPenis his erection]] will keep him from being able to move quickly. He fails.
126	* ''Film/NightMoves'': When main character Harry Moseby is asked why he doesn't respond to a teenager's clumsy attempts to be sexy, he jokingly responds that he thinks about things like "George Washington's teeth."
127	* Implied in ''Film/{{Rubikon}}''. Gavin complains that Dimitri isn't doing the required 45 minutes exercise on the space station's gym bike. Dimtri replies that he does it while Gavin and Hannah are having their own early morning 'exercise'.
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Literature]]
131	* Creator/DaveBarry:
132	** In ''Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys'', Barry includes advice for men on how to delay their orgasms and suggests thinking of Margaret Thatcher, or, in extreme cases, [[FanDisservice Rush Limbaugh in a thong.]]
133	** In another, he mentions a technique devised by a friend of his, wherein the man and the woman are having sex, and the guy's dog comes to investigate, and cheerfully shoves its subzero nose in an area the guy would ''really'' not like to feel cold in.
134	--->'''Man:''' Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes...\
135	'''Woman:''' Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes...\
136	'''Man:''' [=YesyesyesYEOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW=]...
137	* In the novel ''Literature/{{Choke}}'', the protagonist thinks of corpses and other disgusting things to avoid early ejaculation.
138	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', Moist von Lipwig finds himself in this mindset regarding Adora Belle Dearheart. "''He'd get another chance to be smiled at by Miss Dearheart -- think about {{Golem}}s! Golems, golems, golems!''"
139	* In ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'', practitioners of [[VirginPower cultivational purity]] like Xie Lian are taught to mentally recite from the Daoist scripture ''Dao De Jing'' in order to dispel unwanted reactions. For Xie Lian, the technique is less that effective against his reaction to Hua Cheng.
140	* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': Early in the ''Mage Winds'' trilogy, Darkwind rescues a woman who he finds sexually attractive, but who he thinks may be a HoneyTrap. (She is.) To counter his physical response to her, he concentrates on the monthly chore of scrubbing out the reservoir in his privy.
141	* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': In ''Brisingr'', when Nasuada meets Blödhgarm, she is {{distracted\|ByTheSexy}} by his [[SmellsSexy appealing scent]]. Elva advises her to think about the bitter taste of horehound, which clears her head.
142	-->Again she succumbed to the wanton attraction of Blödhgarm's odor, imagining what it would feel like to run her hands through his mane. She only returned to herself when Elva pulled on her left arm, forcing her to bend over and place her ear close to the witch-child's mouth. In a low, harsh voice, Elva said, "Horehound. Concentrate upon the taste of horehound."\
143	Following her advice, Nasuada summoned a memory from the previous year, when she had eaten horehound candy during one of King Hrothgar's feasts. Just thinking about the acrid flavor of the candy dried out her mouth and counteracted the seductive qualities of Blödhgarm's musk.
144	* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', Tom Rogan thinks of "White Sox batting averages or who was trying to undercut him for the Chesley account at work" to last longer in bed.
145	* ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'': ''Soulless'' has two instances:
146	** Lord Maccon ''tries'' to get himself under control regarding Alexia.
147	--->''He was sure his control was around somewhere if he could simply find it. He tore his eyes away from the tops of those remarkable breasts of hers and tried to think unpleasant thoughts of particularly horrible things, like overcooked vegetables and cut-rate wine.''
148	** Later, Alexia is locked in a cell with Lord Maccon by the villains, and due to her status as a PowerNullifier and it being full Moon, she has to hold on to him so he stays in human form, and when she really notices that he's [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing naked]]...
149	--->''He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane.''
150	* In ''Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball'', author Joe Peta recalls a college friend who pictured baseball star Roberto Clemente when he wanted to slow himself down. Peta mortified him in a social setting by saying his pal had to imagine Clemente while having sex, to which another fellow asked "Batting or fielding?"
151	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': In ''Boston Brawl'', when Fey and Tennyo are teasing Hank with TeamworkSeduction, Sara advises him to distract himself by thinking about non-sexual things.
152	-->She laughed and pulled him over to the window, "OK, ''dude'', the key is chairs."\
153	"Chairs?" He looked puzzled.\
154	"Think about anything non-sexual. Furniture is good for most guys. Or someone totally heinous, like Hitler or George W. Bush. Anything to get your mind off the problem."\
155	Understanding slowly dawned on his face, "Ah… ok… chairs. Right, chairs. Hey, chairs are made out of wood, right?"\
156	"No," Sara shook her head, "don't go there. Creator/WoodyAllen's not a good one either. How about cups? Not too erotic?"\
157	"Depends what you put in them."\
158	"Touché. Ok, I've got a sure fire winner. [[DeanBitterman Ms. Hartford]]."\
159	Hank winced, "Thanks, I'll never get any wood ever again..."
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162	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
163	* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': In "The Last Temptation of Cory", Cory mutters the words "lunchroom lady" to get him to stop thinking about a pretty girl who is trying to seduce him away from Topanga.
164	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]" had Buffy acquiring uncontrollable telepathy after killing a demon who has the power. Xander freaks out when he learns about this, because of his [[HormoneAddledTeenager usual train of thought]], and tries desperately to deter it:
165	-->'''Xander:''' 4 times 5 is 30. 5 times 6 is 32. Naked women. Naked Buffy. Help!
166	** Made slightly funnier in that Xander is so focused on trying to distract himself that he gets the maths wrong.
167	* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': In "Needs", several Actives wake up in their sleeping chambers with their original personalities before they were mind-wiped, [[YouWakeUpInARoom but no memory of how they got there]]. So they have to pretend to be the mind-wiped Actives while they work out how to escape; unfortunately, this means going into the co-ed showers. Victor plays the baseball flavor of this trope straight and out loud, reciting the Mets roster by fielding position after catching a glimpse of incredibly hot Sierra all wet and naked.
168	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In "Coup By Clam", D'Argo becomes mentally linked to [[DirtyOldWoman Noranti]], who starts stimulating herself, causing an identical reaction in D'Argo, who doesn't enjoy it as much as you'd think.
169	-->'''Aeryn:''' Come on D'Argo. Just fight it.\
170	'''John:''' Dee, think about baseball. Math. Isosceles triangle. Rusty... razor blades. Gravel. ''[hint: it doesn't work]''
171	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': In "The Nuclear Man", Barry Allen is given some unwanted advice by Cisco in order to avoid being [[SpeedSex the Fastest]] [[ArcWords Man Alive]] during his date with Linda Park.
172	-->'''Cisco:''' You're gonna need to think about a ''lot'' of dead puppies. Like, we're talking about a whole ''kennel''. And baseball. Cold showers. You know what? ''Nuns''.
173	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'':
174	** Frasier and Kate Costas are trying to get over their mutual lust after their affair nearly loses them their jobs. Attempting to avoid the press by taking a service elevator, they get stuck and soon discover the elevator is full of the belongings of a romance novelist who's moving house, and [[ContrivedCoincidence a few accidents later]] they're in a mood-lit compartment with sultry posters on the walls, reeking of spilt musk oil, and with a double mattress taking up most of the floor.
175	** Niles' advice to Frasier when he's trying to resist Lilith;
176	--->'''Niles:''' Remember the summer we were at Uncle Henry's farm, we found that dead horse, lying in the hot sun, crawling with maggots? Hold on to that picture! You can ride that horse to safety!\
177	'''Frasier:''' Thank you, Niles. You know, that might just do the trick. When it comes to an ugly image, [[{{Pun}} you can't beat a dead horse]].
178	** In an episode when Niles was desperate for sex, Daphne makes one of her typical InnocentInnuendo remarks that sends Niles' mind off to fantasy land. Frasier brings him back down to Earth with the phrase "Grandma in a teddy."
179	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
180	** In an episode, Joey mentions "baseball, or sandwiches, or... Chandler" as things he thinks of to keep himself from getting too "excited". Phoebe tries to follow his advice when she has to massage an incredibly hot client, but finds even baseball and sandwiches too sexy... thinking about Chandler, on the other hand, works fine. In fact it works a little ''too'' well and she gets so distracted she lets the appointment overrun by an hour.
181	** In another episode Ross gets rid of an erection by thinking about his grandmother.
182	** After Phoebe and Mike break up Phoebe asks Monica to keep them from [[SexWithTheEx having sex again]]. Eventually Monica is forced to leave Phoebe and Mike alone together while she uses the bathroom so she provides them with a list of off-putting imagery to keep themselves under control while she's out of the room.
183	--->'''Monica:''' Here's a few things you can discuss: mucus, fungus and the idea of [[BrothersisterIncest me and Ross doing it]].
184	* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': A RunningGag is Finn thinking of the time he ran over a mailman in order to prevent himself... arriving early. It's made a plot point on "Never Been Kissed" when Sam needs to find his "mailman" and decides to think of Coach Bieste in various unflattering positions. It's so effective that the method spreads-in fact, it's ''too'' effective, soon the boys ([[RunningGag and Tina]]) actually start saying Bieste's name during makeout sessions, causing their partners to become suspicious. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash And then Bieste finds out]], [[TearJerker and things get very unfunny]]]]. That's right, ''Series/{{Glee}}'' actually [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed the trope]].
185	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
186	** Marshall tries to prolong sex with Lily to avoid a big fight they agreed that they wouldn't have until after they'd had sex. To slow things down, he starts thinking of unsexy things, such as roadkill, clipping toenails, and bugs. But then he finds he's taken it too far and needs to rearouse himself, so he starts thinking of sexy things, such as bugs with boobs.
187	** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Barney's brother James before he came out as gay: while having sex with his girlfriend, he'd think about baseball (and, more specifically, the men playing baseball) to make it go ''faster''.
188	* ''Series/{{iZombie}}'': After eating the brain of a CDC doctor, Liv starts to get visions of her having sex with Ravi. Ravi apparently says unsexy things ''out loud'' in order to "delay the inevitable".
189	* ''Series/KyleXY'': Josh explains to Kyle that when he doesn't want to have an erection, he thinks of "disgusting things" (for him, zits and old people). Kyle responds that he finds grapefruit disgusting (Josh: "Huh."). Later in the episode, he repeated that phrase while escaping naked from the parents of the girl he was with.
190	-->'''Josh:''' Zits. Old people. Zits. Old people. GRAPEFRUIT!
191	* ''Series/LazyTown'' has Bill Thompson captured by the "Evil Dudette" (who is the brother of the "Evil Dude") shouting out "You're an ugly girl!" & what Austin Powers said about Margret Thatcher without clothes on a cold day.
192	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'':
193	** In "What I Did for Love", Jefferson mentions that there was a time when he had to think about baseball to slow things down during sex; nowadays, he just wants to think about baseball.
194	** In another episode Steve thanks Al, because wondering why Steve Guttenberg is a star works like this.
195	** In "Dial B for Virgin", Bud thinks out loud "Zima Guy, Zima Guy. No, no, I mean, I mean, Roseanne, Roseanne..."
196	* ''Series/MelissaAndJoey'': In one episode, Joey has to constantly call his mom in order to distract him from having sexual thoughts about a friend of Melissa.
197	* ''Series/MyLeftNut'': When the doctor is showing Mick's swollen testicle to the medical students, Mick is busy worrying about not getting a RagingStiffie, especially since the [[HospitalHottie attractive medical student]] is also there. He keeps thinking about cold water to keep himself in control... but amusingly ends up having [[TeenyWeenie shrinkage]] instead of an erection.
198	-->'''Mick:''' Jumping in the sea in Donegal. Jumping in the freezing cold Atlantic ocean in Donegal. The absolutely baltic freezing cold ocean covering my balls.\
199	''[Mick sneaks a glance down at his penis]''\
200	'''Mick:''' Shite! Not that cold. Warm. Warm. Warm thoughts.
201	* ''Series/{{Parkinson}}'' has this beauty:
202	-->'''Creator/BillyConnolly:''' Men have many methods. Some people think of the FA Cup team of 1953. You mustn't think of sex or poof! it's all over. I do the nine times table. I got to 81 once.
203	* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Leslie takes this to a different level in "Road Trip" when she is forced to go on a trip for work with Ben, who has a lot of {{UST}} with her, but can't date her because he is technically her superior. She compiles a list of un-sexy conversation topics, such as university bed-lofting rules and the history of the ladder. She even goes as far as making an unsexy CD mix, which included whale noises and Jimmy Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech.
204	* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': In "My Student", Elliot orders a med student to shave a patient's pubes. The med student tries to fight it, but Elliot threatens him with more stuff. The med student shortly instructs the patient to "think about baseball".
205	* ''Series/TheSingingDetective'' has an unusual variant: the protagonist is having ointment rubbed into his body - ''all'' of his body - by an attractive nurse and is desperately trying not to become aroused. ([[TakeThat Most of the "unsexy" thoughts were about people the screenwriter hated.]])
206	* ''Series/{{Skins}}'': Anwar recites Creator/HughGrant's filmography in order to slow himself down.
207	* ''Series/That70sShow'': In "Thanksgiving", Eric has to do this after making out with an attractive girl. His inner monologue goes: "Okay, baseball, Vietnam, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, Pat Nixon, Pat Boone, the girl that gives the weather, no, no! Okay, jellyfish, really big spiders, come on, dig deep, dig deep, okay, the day we backed over Skipper in the driveway, instead of going to the county fair, I had to bury him in the backyard." Inverted later with Donna who thinks of sexy things.
208	* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Inverted. When Sookie, a mind-reader, questions Sam on Tara's whereabouts after she'd been turned to a vampire, Sam forces himself to think ''sexy'' thoughts to distract himself. It doesn't work.
209	-->'''Sam:''' ''[thinking]'' Look at her boobs, look at her boobs, look at her boobs, [[ThoughtAversionFailure don't think about the walk-in]] [cooler]--DAMMIT!\
210	'''Sookie:''' She's in the walk-in!\
211	[...]\
212	'''Sookie:''' Sam, can I give you a hug without you thinking about my boobs?\
213	'''Sam:''' [[ImAManICantHelpIt Probably not]].\
214	'''Sookie:''' Oh, all right. ''[hugs him anyway]''
215	* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' discusses it:
216	-->'''Charlie:''' When you're making love, the way to slow yourself down is to think of something completely non-sexual.\
217	'''Alan:''' What do you think of?\
218	'''Charlie:''' You.
219	* ''Series/WonderWoman'': After immortal Princess Diana of [[LadyLand Paradise Island]] invokes WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove when she sees a man for the first time, her mother hilariously invokes this:
220	-->'''Queen Hippolyte:''' There are some things that are better not known. Young Amazon minds are best occupied with athletic discipline, higher learning.
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223	[[folder:Music]]
224	* Music/{{Warrant}}'s "Cherry Pie" has the line "Think about baseball and swing all night!"
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227	[[folder:Video Games]]
228	* Maccer from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' is a chronic masturbator. To get him to stop, his manager tells him to "Think of [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Thatcher]]". Unfortunately, that just turns him on more.
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231	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
232	* At the beginning of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', the protagonist's imagination starts to run wild when he first meets the attractive Dr. Mosely. He comes up with a rather squicky image to keep his hormones in check:
233	-->'''Protagonist:''' ''[thinking]'' Ice showers with Harvey Weinstein, ice showers with Harvey Weinstein, ice showers with Harvey Weinstein....
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235
236	[[folder:Web Comics]]
237	* Slick from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' has to work really [[{{Pun}} hard]] at this when he gets a hug from Monique.
238	* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' has this, when a guy has to go without sex for a while. Being around computer nerds, unsexy thoughts aren't hard to come by.
239	* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'':
240	** The comic has a number of takes on this.
241	--->"Oh, Steve! What gives you such amazing stamina?":\
242	"[[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2108#comic The boundary conditions of the universe.]]"
243	** Also done with sports in this [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3814 strip]], from boxing to baseball to soccer... ending in senior league bowling.
244	* ''The Pain - When Will It End'' has one comic, "Silver Linings of the Holocaust". The first example is "Excellent Sexual Endurance Aid", where the man is thinking of the atrocities committed in concentration camps to keep from going off early. Then his thoughts stumble across Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS, and, well...
245	-->"ARBEIT MACHT FREI!"
246	* Alan of ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'', after being called by Ally to deal with the problem of her two subs, Lisa and Anne, being stuck in a harness with a vibrating egg between them without the key to the padlocks, tries without success to Think Unsexy Thoughts as he tries to work through the increasingly louder moaning, culminating in him having to [[IllBeInMyBunk head to the bathroom]].
247	--> "Math...um...dead pets...politics...ugh...iiit's official. I'm never wearing jeans in this house again..."
248	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': [[InvertedTrope inverted]], [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1310 when Tedd needs to distract himself from science]] in order to pay attention to his date.
249	-->'''Tedd:''' Think sexy thoughts, think sexy thoughts...
250	** Ellen and Nanase claim to "think about baseball" frequently. Here's just [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2011-08-11 one example]] of many. Then, when [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-10-30 Susan makes this claim]] [[BlatantLies to Diane]], and [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-11-01 gets called on it]], the two of them [[DiscussedTrope discuss why people claim to "think about baseball" when they actually aren't.]]
251	* One page of ''Webcomic/OriginalLife'' has Fisk wake up with morning wood and a desperate need to pee. He tries to get rid of his RagingStiffie by doing this, but then his sleeping wife cuddles up to him...
252	* In ''Webcomic/{{Dumbing Of Age}}'', when Joe gets accused of having a one-track mind :
253	--->'''Joe:''' I don't '''always''' think about sex. '''During''' sex, I try to think about somebody's grandma.
254	* A ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' strip features [[TheCavalry the Sexual Cavalry]], who attempt to save a man in the throes of impending premature ejaculation by showing him pictures of "diversions", including a difficult maths problem and an optical illusion. Unfortunately, their efforts prove fruitless to stop it--prompting the man's partner to ask the cavalry to help with ''her'' problem.
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257	[[folder:Web Videos]]
258	* ''Series/FlandersCompany'': After Andromalia (a [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]]) has inflicted a RagingStiffie on Dr. Parker, Hippolyte is asked how he's resisting her influence (beyond a NoseBleed). Hippolyte's answer is that he's thinking about dead puppies. Lots of dead puppies.
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261	[[folder:Western Animation]]
262	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
263	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E9TheLastTemptationOfHomer The Last Temptation of Homer]]": While stuck in an elevator with Mindy Simmons, a sexy new coworker, Homer Simpson imagines his sisters-in-law, Patty and Selma, wearing towels and shaving their legs in the bathroom, as well as his best friend Barney [[ManInABikini in a polka dot bikini]] drunkenly humming the theme to ''[[Series/IDreamOfJeannie I Dream of Jeannie]]''. It doesn't work, as Barney morphs into Mindy. His mantra is the {{Trope Namer\|s}}. Ironically, Mindy ''also'' had the same mantra as Homer.
264	** Ned Flanders is also tempted with dangerous ideas about a woman that he is not married with. He urges himself to think about the Holy Bible. He fails: the Bible gets some legs and began to play with the ribbon and "open" as a strip-tease dancer.
265	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''[='=]s Quagmire was subjected to "aversion therapy" to try and discourage him from being such a pervert, which involved a ceiling fan perched right above his groin and a Victoria's Secret catalogue. His attempts to contain himself involved thinking of dead kittens, old nuns, ''really'' old nuns, and Creator/ReneeZellweger.
266	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnCallahansQuads'' had the main character think about his ugly nun teacher in order to help him ''maintain'' an erection... because the unsexy thoughts would help him with premature ejaculation.
267	* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. Murderface at first tries to think of sexy thoughts so he doesn't think about how a male doctor is examining his junk, then when he realizes he's getting hard, tries desperately to think of unsexy thoughts because jerking off in a doctor's face 'makes you gay'.
268	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'', Andrew tries to repress his sexual urges while out on a date with his crush,[[spoiler:Missy]], but Maurice, his hormone monster, won't leave him alone, so Andrew tries to ward him off with pictures of his grandmother and a mezuzah (he thinks it works like a cross). When neither of those work, he subjects Maurice to Garrison Keillor jokes, causing Maurice to convulse in pain.
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