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1'''Basic Trope''': A woman is punished in some way for having sex or expressing her sexuality.
2* '''Straight''': Alice has sex or dresses provocatively, and suffers socially for it, being ostracized, losing a job, being criticized, or being attacked by people around her.
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Alice switches from floor-length dresses to ankle-length dresses. She gets stripped naked, handcuffed to a pole in the middle of the city and jeered at and photographed by onlookers.
5** Alice is shamed for enjoying sex with her husband, as all of the other women "[[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland dutifully lie back]]".
6** Alice is lambasted just for having an appealing body.
7** SexEqualsDeath
8* '''Downplayed''':
9** Alice starts having sex, one person says she's a slut to her face, a few snicker behind her back, everyone else shrugs it off and treats her as normal.
10** Alice ReallyGetsAround, and people think that she shouldn't be so promiscuous.
11** The shaming is equal opportunity as both man and woman receive it.
12* '''Justified''':
13** [[DeliberateValuesDissonance The work is set]] at time when a woman losing her virginity before marriage and the guy she lost it with not marrying her afterward mean [[DefiledForever she is now "damaged goods" and no one will marry her]].
14** Being publicly shamed for having had extra-marital sex is the legal punishment in Alice's country.
15** Alice frequently [[VirginShaming shames those who don't want/have sex]] and needs a taste of her own medicine.
16** Alice sleeps with many men but is engaged to Bob, who is unaware of her lifestyle.
17** Alice is a serial homewrecker who enjoys destroying families by seducing and sleeping with married men so she can tell everything to their wives and kids afterwards. Points added if she has no FreudianExcuse or [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse is treated as nothing for her current actions]].
18** Bob is a rare male example who constantly seduces and manipulates young, naïve girls into giving themselves up to him in a time when being an unmarried nonvirgin lady spells doom.
19* '''Inverted''':
20** BeAWhoreToGetYourMan
21** Alice starts to shame herself and immediately gets [[QuitYourWhining slapped down]] and told that [[SexIsGood sex is part of a normal adult lifestyle]].
22** Alice is [[YouNeedToGetLaid shamed for]] [[VirginShaming not having sex]].
23** Alice has sex and is praised for [[SexAsRiteOfPassage becoming a "real woman"]].
24* '''GenderInverted''': Bob learns the hard way that having sex with women does not made him a stud.
25* '''Subverted''':
26** Alice is being called names for having had sex but it turns out she didn't and everyone involved in the bashing [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is sued]] for public slander.
27** Alice is a GoodBadGirl who likes to see herself as an EthicalSlut and, even though she gets called names, she leads her life regardless of what people may say.
28** Everyone was okay with Alice, but she kept bragging about [[TooMuchInformation her sex life in great detail]], even when they expressed their discomfort and asked her to stop.
29* '''Double Subverted''':
30** After the hoopla over insulting Alice is over, she reveals to her best friends that she only gives handjobs and blowjobs. Thus, her hymen is intact!
31** Eventually the name-calling escalates to worse forms of harassment, or perhaps even violence, to the point that Alice can't just shrug it off anymore.
32** The people around Alice decide the only way to get her to stop giving so much detal about her sex life is to make her feel bad about it.
33* '''Parodied''':
34** Shaming the Slut is a yearly parade, where someone wears a ridiculous costume based loosely on a cheerleader's uniform and they pelt it with water balloons.
35** Alice is chastised for holding hands before marriage.
36* '''Zig Zagged''': The town gets in an uproar whenever side characters have sex, but the heroine is allowed to get away scot free and is even given free muffins for life at the bakery for losing her virginity, until a monster shows up and the town decides to sacrifice her to it for being a giant slut, only it turns out the monster only eats virgins as a punishment for not having the emotional maturity to just do it.
37* '''Averted''':
38** No one gives a shit about sexuality.
39** No one describes any sexuality in the work.
40* '''Enforced''':
41** Out of fear of MoralGuardians they throw in [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing shallow messages against premarital sex]].
42** ContractualPurity
43** The writers want to preach sexual liberation, and portrays anyone against it as stuffy and old fashioned at best and abusive at worst.
44* '''Lampshaded''': "You skank!! Aren't you ashamed of existing? You have sex with all these men and you don't care! Whore!!!"
45* '''Invoked''': "You can't be a with Bob, Alice. Not unless you want to marry him. You know what will happen if you do..."
46* '''Exploited''': "Look, I need to distract them from my bad grades or I'll never get elected class president. All I have to do is sleep with some guy and that won't even come up!"
47* '''Defied''':
48** "You can call me a slut all you want, at least I'm honest. You think all these perfect girls you see in church are all faithful wives? Think again. Oh, and that goes for them guys too."
49** While Bob does not like Alice's behavior, he decides that confronting her about it would be counterproductive and time-wasting.
50** "Alice, if you want to bed-hop all your life long, that's your problem and your decision. But don't come crying if there are consequences, you're an adult woman thus you should be able to deal with your own life choices."
51* '''Discussed''':
52** "Why is it that when an unwed woman has sex, she's automatically labeled a slut?" "Social mores, dear boy, social mores..."
53** "If women are being shamed for having sex with men, then how do you explain [[DoubleStandard men not getting shamed for having sex with women?]]" "Sadly, it's mostly because it's ridiculously easy for a horny woman to get laid compared to a horny man."
54* '''Conversed''': "Wow, this book is... when's the last time parents kicked their kid out for having sex? Seriously."
55* '''Deconstructed''': Alice ends up leaving her town as a result of all the abuse and humiliation her peers put her through.
56* '''Reconstructed''': The act is considered shameful, but very few characters are outright ''cruel'' about it, and the ones that are get called out on it, giving a little more nuance to the views associated with the trope.
57* '''Played For Laughs''': She keeps having sex and when people walk in, they mistake it for something perfectly innocent, but her reputation keeps getting ruined for totally innocuous things.
58* '''Played For Drama''': Alice get slut-shamed and eventually commits suicide or is forced into entering a convent.
59* '''Played For Horror''': Alice tries to escape from the SerialKiller who targets especially [[DisposableSexWorker sex workers.]]
60* '''Intended Audience Reaction''': The writer makes the {{Inversion}}, {{Subversion}}, {{Aversion}}, or TropeDeconstruction of how [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale female]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale rapists]] are usually depicted by treats the shaming as a LaserGuidedKarma.
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