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->''"When I look back upon my life\\
It's always with a sense of shame\\
I've always been the one to blame\\
\\
For everything I long to do\\
No matter when or where or who\\
Has one thing in common, too\\
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin."''
-->-- '''Music/PetShopBoys''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHetRTOD1Q It's a Sin]]''

A character with this state of mind believes that SexIsEvil, but can't escape their own sexuality. This forces the character into a couple difficult dilemmas, which they may resolve in any combination.

#'''To have sex or abstain from sex.''' Having sex means they're participating in something they believe to be evil, but abstaining from sex leaves them with the anguish of unmet sexual desire. (Likewise regarding masturbation)
#'''To judge others, oneself or both'''. Some characters judge other people as "evil" for having sex, but hypocritically give themselves a free pass. Other characters exclusively judge themselves and fall into self-hate, without being especially focused on the actions of other people. Some characters judge themselves and other people in equal measure. One common pattern is for a character to criticize others for inspiring his own sexuality, in a NeverMyFault scenario. This latter type is likely to care little, if at all, for their sexual partners, as they consider them "dirty" and might resent them (or worse) for "leading him into temptation."

Needless to say, these characters operate under ethical guidelines completely opposite to those of an EthicalSlut.

The character isn't necessarily a rapist (though they might well fear becoming one if they aren't careful); it's enough for them to be a {{Jerkass}} about their sexuality under the presumption that SexIsEvil, [[MadonnaWhoreComplex "unmarried non-virgins are whores"]], or similar. They are likely to eventually [[DestructiveRomance take it out on their partner(s)]], themselves, or both.

If they do commit sexual harassment or [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes worse]], they might be ObliviouslyEvil about it. They are likely to show their consideration by choosing victims who are already DefiledForever, so that some extra abuse [[DisposableSexWorker won't make any difference]]… to them, that is.

In a setting where SexIsEvil, this character will exemplify the evils of sexuality. If they make a HeelFaceTurn and become good, they are likely to forgive their victims for "tempting" them. In a setting where sex is ''not'' evil, the character is likely to be contrasted with a ChivalrousPervert, GoodBadGirl, or fully operational EthicalSlut.

A character with this mindset is likely to think that at least some men [[ImAManICantHelpIt are incapable of controlling their sexual urges]], so women should [[TheUnfairSex expect them to commit sexual harassment or worse]] and be CrazyPrepared in various ways, such as second-guess what these men might find attractive and then try her best to ''not'' look attractive, lest these men get their urges.
Some particularly unsympathetic or [[TroubledSympatheticBigot tragic]] characters may take this attitude one step further, demanding the DoubleThink that we should all consider men to be some kind of monsters while still considering them to be the superior gender--morally and otherwise. This is done by blaming women for "tempting" men (by their appearance or even their mere ''existence'') and thus making any [[SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes sex-crimes]] against them their own fault. Naturally, many works portray this attitude as [[NoWomansLand barbaric misogyny]].

While this trope seems like it would fall into the "AlwaysMale" category, and traditionally it was, female examples do exist. They're less likely to be genuinely dangerous and more likely to be frumpy killjoys taking out their repression on others in their capacity as MoralGuardians. On the other hand some such women may cause genuine harm depending how cruel they are in enforcing propriety, especially if they're AbusiveParents or otherwise in a position of authority.

Makes for a particularly tragic PoliticallyIncorrectVillain -- or AntiVillain. See also ArmouredClosetGay, TroubledSympatheticBigot, ThenLetMeBeEvil, and InternalizedCategorism. Contrast the two tropes that oppose this one, CelibateHero ("I Don't Need Sex But You Can Have It, Just Not With Me") and EthicalSlut and ChivalrousPervert ("Sex Is ''Not'' Evil, And I Am Horny"). Contrast RomanticizedAbuse for when abusive sexual gratification is played for fetish appeal rather than angst, contrast the polar opposite ImAManICantHelpIt when the male character doesn't even try to keep his sexual urges in check. Compare ''and'' contrast WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou, which is more about "Violence Is Evil And I Am Angry." This can lead to a case of RomanceAndSexualitySeparation.

In many cases, this trope comes with religious connections. Many religions have specific rules regarding sex, and some go so far as to claim that sex is inherently wrong (with perhaps a grudging acceptance of the fact that there needs to be ''some'' sex in order to create the next generation, but you're not supposed to enjoy it).

Compare and contrast EvilDesiresInnocence.

[[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease No Real Life examples, please]]. But examples of how real cases have been ''portrayed'' in media are okay.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'': Ichikawa's sexual thoughts eventually manifest into a second [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary Nigorikawa]] in Chapter 92; one with black wings and an almost-perpetually sinister smirk calling himself ''Lucifer'' who [[SizeShifter shrinks and grows based on]] how horny Ichikawa is. We would say that [[ObviouslyEvil it couldn't get more "evil" than that]] if he wasn't just a minor nuisance 90% of time. (And the 10% still isn't evil).
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Asuka tells [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Misato]] that she has never seen "such an inappropriate relationship" by someone who is supposed to be her guardian regarding Misato's relationship with [[ChivalrousPervert Kaji]]. However, she makes several passes at the man herself, including trying to [[spoiler: seduce him the night before they arrive in Japan, but he flatly turns her down]]. She also makes several less than subtle attempts to get [[ExtremeDoormat Shinji]], who is so socially awkward he doesn't get it.
* Iino from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is repeatedly shown to be [[CovertPervert bottling up a ton of repressed sexual urges]], and cracking down hard on lewd material/conduct on campus is implied to be her idea of keeping it under control.
* Jirou from ''Manga/KamisamaKiss'' is pretty much the walking embodiment of StraightEdgeEvil, [[spoiler:the Evil part doesn't last]], but he soon starts becoming attracted to the heroine Nanami. Unfortunately for Jirou, Tomoe (a [[AsianFoxSpirit Kitsune]] and ShapeshiftingSeducer) notices this...
* ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'' is rife with this, as society has declared that ''anything'' with "lewd" connotations should be strictly outlawed [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans for the public good]]--including basic sexual education and even clinical terms for genitalia. Suffice to say, suppressing peoples' natural tendencies in such a manner leads to this trope, particularly with [[spoiler: Anna, [[ObliviouslyEvil who confuses lust with love]] after being given an AccidentalKiss by Tanukichi]], going full-on {{Yandere}} not long after.
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Mutsuki is a trans man who was initially depicted as finding MaleGaze and attention to be disgusting owing to being a victim of implied sexual abuse by his father and later Torso. However, it's seeing Sasaki interact with Touka that makes him jealous and realize he has feelings for Sasaki and secret resentment for Sasaki leaving the Quinx squad. It results in Mutsuki stabbing Uta when he is wearing Sasaki's face while proclaiming his love and begging Sasaki/Uta to PleaseDontLeaveMe. He then undresses from the waist up and is implied to do something sexual to Uta/Sasaki while calling himself embarrassingly female and cuddling close to him.
* Explored in ''Manga/OMaidensInYourSavageSeason'', which is all about girls coming to terms with their sexuality. Early in the series, Kazusa and Rika both suffer from this. Rika suffers more from the 'Sex Is Evil' thought, and Kazusa more from 'and I am Horny'. Though both get better about it by the end of the manga.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''Comicbook/NewMutants'' Wolfsbane's guardian Reverend Craig was a preacher of the hellfire and brimstone variety, and he basically beat it into her that she was going to hell because her mother was a prostitute. [[spoiler: It was later revealed that he used to have sex with prostitutes, one of them being Rahne's mother. She realized this later on and went to confront him revealing she knew his secret and that he was actually her biological father.]]
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* A ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' strip illustrated how the Reverend Staneglass dealt with the trope in him regarding Miss Buxley. It shows Staneglass and Miss Buxley walking their separate ways, and two privates talking about them:
-->'''Private 1:''' [asks how the Chaplain avoids Miss Buxley's charms]\\
'''Private 2:''' He just closes his eyes to it.\\
''[the Chaplain crashes into a streetlight]''
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* The general gist of [[http://oceansex.livejournal.com/39981.html?thread=783405#t783405 this]] fanfic on a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' kink meme involves Cyrus feeling this way about Cynthia. Considering that Cyrus's canonical motivation is "Emotions Are Evil And I Am Passionate," it's not surprising that fanfic involving sexuality sometimes takes him in this direction.
* A lot of fic involving [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite N and Hilda]] is like this, with N raping her because he's too overwhelmed by confusion over his sudden sexual urges and attraction to her.
* Some ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fanfics feature Ron feeling guilty over thinking of Kim in this manner.
* Briefly touched on in ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'', when Michael, a fundamentalist Christian who's infiltrating [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]] to get information on a planned attack on the Christians, meets Ginny. He briefly finds her "hot" but forces those thoughts out of his head because they're evil, and is deeply uncomfortable when she pats him.
* The NSFW ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21884344/chapters/52234822 Love Hurts:]]'' Weiss was raised in a strict upper-class household, and her sex education came from an alcoholic mother who hated her husband and an overprotective older sister. She was therefore taught not to have sex before marriage, and she got the impression that [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland she shouldn't enjoy it anyway]]. So when she does get into a premarital sexual FriendsWithBenefits relationship, she occasionally feels really guilty about the whole affair. Though the fact that her mother is blatantly cheating on her father and her beloved older sister is in her own premarital relationship helps a bit, she still holds herself to an unreasonable standard.
-->Weiss stopped herself a second time. ''Do I want this?'' she thought to herself. On one hand, asking Jaune to do what she was going to ask just seemed wrong, almost abusive. On the other, she ''was'' getting rather delicious shivers just thinking about it.\\
"I'm such a slut," Weiss berated herself, which was very, very far from the truth. Nonetheless, she knocked on Jaune's door.
* In ''Fanfic/FlagFlyingHigh'', Lan Sizhui has been adopted by the very proper Lan clan, with the expectation that lust was something to purge out of yourself. Then he falls in love with Harry and starts to daydream about kinky situations involving the other boy, something that makes him extremely ashamed and flustered.
* ''Fanfic/LelouchOfTheWingsOfRebellion'': Normally, as in [[Anime/CodeGeass canon]], Shirley is very adamant that she loves Lelouch for his good quality and believes in reforming him from his bad qualities. [[spoiler: Shadow Shirley]] is very blunt in clarifying that, no, Shirley does in fact like his dark side and when Shirley [[spoiler: found out he was Zero]], that only skyrocketed her attraction to him.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* The "Hellfire" sequence from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' is the epitome of this trope in song-form; Claude Frollo constantly tries to convince himself that his attraction to Esmeralda is [[NeverMyFault her fault and not his]] and that "God made the devil so much stronger than man." This leads to him trying to have her [[BurnTheWitch burnt at the stake]] to rid his mind of her, or [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe be his and his alone]].
-->''Like fire, hellfire,\\
This fire in my skin\\
This burning desire\\
Is turning me to sin!''
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheAdultVersionOfJekyllAndHide'': Leeder is cheating on his fiance, and Hide picks up a sailor just to have sex then mutilate him.
* The master of the reformatory for wayward women in ''Film/DiaryOfALostGirl''. He confiscates a tube of lipstick from a particularly pretty prisoner, then puts the lipstick on himself. Then he writes "Punish Erika" on his day calendar with the lipstick. ''Then he draws a heart''.
* ''Film/DarkShadows'': Barnabas, in his attitude to his attraction to Angelique. He is quite unapologetic about the way he used her for sex and broke her heart. This being a setting where a witch is created as a woman makes a deal with the devil, it is heavily implied that it was his cruelty that turned her into a witch... Just like it was her cruelty that later turned him into a vampire.
* The bad guy in ''Film/PreachingToThePerverted'' spends the movie fighting against harmless sadomasochists. [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out that he is a sadist as well, but has avoided taking part in the "perverted" lifestyle by living out his sadistic lusts in a "more acceptable" way... [[SadistTeacher taking it out on children]].]]
* The protagonist of the movie ''Film/TheGoodGirl'' is so repressed that it leads her into a destructive adulterous relationship.
* One of the main themes, if not the main theme of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' is the conflict between the stuck-up, virginal, devoutly religious Sgt. Howie and the sexually liberal, promiscuous pagan islanders. The filmmakers have stated that Howie's decision of whether or not to have sex dictates what happens to him in the end.
* In the movie ''Film/CrimesOfPassion'', "Reverend" Peter Shayne mixes moralism and horniness into a combination that grows more and more destructive. Stalking a prostitute he has the hots for as a misguided crusade to "save her soul." His sexual harassment of her [[spoiler: eventually forces her to kill him in a final confrontation. Afterwards she and the protagonist (who tried to save her from the psycho, but she saved herself instead) become a couple and presumably live happily ever after]].
* In ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', Judge Turpin fills this role, fooling himself that he can protect young Johanna from the evil of other men's sexuality by forcing her to marry him and satisfy his own selfish [[DirtyOldMan lust]]. Various theater versions of this musical have various takes on this. Some make him a more clear-cut example by highlighting his self-loathing, while others make him more one-dimensional. His solo "Johanna (Mea Culpa)" exemplifies this much the way "Hellfire" does for ''Hunchback'''s Claude Frollo.
* In ''Film/DisturbingBehavior'', this is the most frequent cause of the [[MindControlDevice mind-control chips]] [[GlamourFailure glitching out]]--fundamental instinct on the part of former teen {{delinquents}} [[FightingFromTheInside straining against]] puritanical {{brainwashing}} resulting in temporary AxCrazy. Either that, or it's a form of [[Franchise/StarTrek pon farr]].
* In ''Film/{{Secretary}}'', this view on [[BondageIsBad his own sexuality]] seem to be the core of Edward's internal conflict.
* Greg Pilkington in ''Film/{{Priest 1994}}''. The conflict is pretty natural since he's a gay Catholic priest, but [[spoiler: the way he treats his sex partner is still pretty appalling, and Father Matthew calls him out on it.]]
* Amaro, the eponymous priest of the Mexican film ''Film/ElCrimenDelPadreAmaro'', being under the Catholic Priesthood's vow of celibacy he becomes infatuated with a beautiful teenager, he at first rejects her advances and performs acts of penance for his lust, but then he later gives in and goes full swing from this trope to ImAManICantHelpIt.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch''. Richard Sherman knows full well that "The Girl" is sexually innocent and theoretically shouldn't pose any threat to him, and that [[HiddenDepths his own subconscious lust]] is what is sorely tempting him to ravish her. [[WhatTheHellHero But that doesn't stop him from temporarily entertaining the idea of murdering her in order to end his torment.]]
* In ''Film/SadieThompson'', Davidson the puritanical Christian reformer kills himself after he can't overcome his lust for Sadie (see Theatre below for the stage version, ''Rain'').
* In ''Film/TheMarriageChronicles'', Ethel is shown as enjoying the sex antics of his wife, but repeatedly protests that he "don't want no freaky things" during the therapy.
* ''Film/DrStrangelove'''s [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} completely insane]] [[GeneralRipper Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper]] believes that because he feels sleepy after sex, that therefore means women are trying to steal his essence (he also seems to have no concept of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractory_period_(sex) refractory period]]). However, he still has lots of sex, he just tries to not let them steal his essence.
* Mark of ''Film/TheSessions'' has great guilt over his sexual feelings, both due to his Catholic upbringing and because of the profound guilt he feels over what he perceives as the sacrifices that everyone makes for him. It is only after Father Brendan gives him his blessing that he pursues losing his virginity and even then, his negative feelings toward sex make it difficult for him to make progress.
* ''Film/TheBarrettsOfWimpoleStreet'': In his VillainousBreakdown, Edward more or less admits that his own unyielding grip on his daughters Elizabeth and Henrietta is driven by his own belief that sex is sinful, because his own urges led to him [[MaritalRapeLicense raping his wife]].
-->'''Edward:''' You know nothing of the brutal tyranny of the senses, and how even the strongest and best are driven by it to hell!
* Implied in ''Film/{{Deathgasm}}'' during the fight at Brodie's uncle and aunt's house. After they--[[TheFundamentalist religious fundamentalists]]--become possessed, Brodie finds a variety of sex toys in the closet which he uses as [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]].
* ''Film/JeanneDielman23QuaiDuCommerce1080Bruxelles'': Jeanne is a SingleMomStripper prostitute who entertains callers in her apartment. She receives men with the same rote dullness that she peels potatoes for dinner or does the laundry -- until she gets a strange expression on her face when a client is on top of her humping away. Out of nowhere, and clearly to her own shock, she gets an orgasm. As soon as she gets out of bed, she murders her client by stabbing him in the neck with a pair of scissors.
* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'': Norman Bates has this as a result of his [[ChildSupplantsParent oedipus complex]]. Whenever he gets attracted to a woman, the "Mother" side of his SplitPersonality takes over and murders them to punish him.
* Mallory Knox in ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'' is a female example of this due to her deep rage over her sexual abuse at the hands of her father. She has a tendency to initiate flirtation or sexual activity with men other than her OneTrueLove Mickey, then flip out and kill them for being depraved sex beasts.
* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': The priests preach that everything sexual except for straight sex between married couples is wrong. However, when they come upon Élisabeth and Fantine (the {{lesbian vampire}} couple) after they've had sex, they pause to stare at them rather than [[HeteronormativeCrusader kill the pair immediately]]. Élisabeth sees and accuses them of being hypocrites who are turned on by them. It seems to be true, given the above, but they [[BuryYourGays kill them both]] after this.
* ''Film/StationsOfTheCross'': Maria's church has a very high bar for modesty and sexual purity, so when she begins to talk to a boy who likes her, her priest insists she's tempting him to lust and her mother screams at her until she cries over the dinner table. This abuse culminates in Maria asking the boy to never talk to her again and worrying about his own soul, leaving Maria friendless.
* A major theme in ''Film/TheDevilsPlayground'' is the tensions, personal or otherwise, that arise from religious doctrines requiring one to suppress their natural sexual desires, whether it be a boy going through puberty or an adult man struggling to control his desire for the opposite sex after catching glimpses of women's bodies at a public pool.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AiNoKusabi'' has Iason Mink who is TheBeautifulElite that must abide by the NoSexAllowed law. He chastises his eventual SexSlave early on for being disgusting and having no value other than to perform sex acts as low-class scum. Then ''he'' starts engaging in sex himself realizing he quite enjoys it.
* The villains in the first book of the ''Literature/MillenniumSeries''. The original title translates to "Men Who Hate Women", and that sums it up quite nicely. The villains are distinguished, [[SarcasmMode morally upstanding]] gentlemen who happen to be serial rapists and sexual serial killers. They are contrasted by a protagonist duo of ActionGirl [[HollywoodHacking hacker]] and KnightErrant [[MostWritersAreWriters journalist]] who are both {{Ethical Slut}}s.
* John the Savage, from Aldous Huxley's ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', is a classic example of this trope. He's completely confused thanks to an upbringing consisting of a mother from a society where all desires including sexual ones are instantly gratified, the traditional "savage" society in which he's been living as an outcast with her that shames female promiscuity, and reading a lot of Shakespeare. When he falls in "love" with someone from the hyper-liberal society, [[MadonnaWhoreComplex he wants to think of her as pure and is terrified that she actually wants to sleep with him because that's dirty]]. Yet he certainly has his own repressed urges.
* In Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', the villain, Claude Frollo, has this with his mix of lust and loathing for Esmeralda.
* Carrie's abusive Bible-thumping mother from ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'' was convinced that sex was evil, even within the confines of marriage. However, her husband managed to pressure her into having sex (or outright raped her; it's a bit ambiguous), the result of which was her telekinetic offspring. She never got over the fact that she enjoyed the act.
* Keira in the ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'' books is a religious fanatic who believes that sex is evil and killing people is good. She is also a teenage girl. Needless to say, she is ''very'' confused.
* Baelor the Blessed, a Targaryen king in the backstory of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' was a fairly decent king and laid the foundation for unification with Dorne, but he was also a religious nut who imprisoned his three sisters (one of whom was also his wife) so that he would not be "tempted" by the sight of them. This meant he was indirectly responsible for the founding of House Blackfyre, who rebelled no fewer than five times against the crown, and his refusal to father an heir cleared the way for Aegon the Unworthy, arguably the second or third worst king of the Targaryen dynasty (after Aerys the Mad King and Maegor the Cruel).
* Alec D'Urberville in ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'' morphs into this trope. After he seduces Tess (read: rapes her while she sleeps) and she leaves, he has a spiritual "reawakening" that causes him to become a man of God. When he meets Tess again, he blames her for his fall and makes her swear on a roadside cross to never tempt him again. Which is, of course, his way of trying to cover up the fact that he still wants her, bad. In the end, he drops the religion.
* Played with in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' with Relg, a religious fanatic and zealot. His problem is not that he believes ''sex'' is evil. It's more that he believes ''taking pleasure in pretty much anything except religion'' is evil. He hates women who tempt men, and he hates himself for responding to physical beauty in women. The rest of the characters think he's off his rocker, including Taiba, the extremely attractive [[spoiler:Marag]] woman who also becomes part of the group. She confronts him about it, arguing that the 'sin' is in his mind, not hers. His inability to resist her is the first step towards him getting over his attitude, which he eventually does.
* The villain of ''Literature/{{Whispers}}'', and one villain in ''Literature/{{Watchers}}'', both by Creator/DeanKoontz. Actually, the vast majority of Koontz' villains (more so in his early work, but still present today) have major issues with sexuality.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'', this trope is what drives The Cunning Man, the villain of the piece.
** In ''Literature/SmallGods'', female worshipers at the Church of Om are kept strictly segregated behind partitions during all services, lest a mere glimpse of half the human race render its priests or male worshipers mad with lust.
* In ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', Hank Rearden displays this about having sex with protagonist [[GoodBadGirl Dagny Taggart]] and cheating on his wife, Lillian.
* In a ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' short story, this trope is used as a spiritual weapon that backfires. A fanatical trio of Christian fundamentalists -- one man, one woman, and one ghost -- uses the cumulative power of the abstinent living members' sexual frustration to power magical attacks against pagans and their deities on the Street of the Gods. As it happens, the Street is a place where ''any'' revered figure can take on spiritual power, and when the holy trio make the mistake of [[spoiler: coming too near the Church of Marilyn Monroe]], the first two are overwhelmed by the Horny side of this trope and start tearing each other's clothes off, oblivious to danger or their ghostly associate's protests.
* In ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'':
** The protagonists have to rescue Leitha from being [[BurnTheWitch burned as a witch]]. It turns out that the local priest is constantly getting aroused by seeing pretty girls, but since he's a holy man and assumed to be above that sort of thing, he assumes they're using witchcraft to "corrupt" him, so he has them charged and executed instead of dealing with his own weak moral fiber. While Leitha (who did actually have supernatural powers--that let her figure out the whole tragic mess, to boot) survives, it's revealed that he's murdered a very large number of girls beforehand.
** Heroic character Bheid has a bit of this going on, he's eventually forced to get over it, [[spoiler: and ends up married to the above-mentioned Leitha.]]
* In ''Literature/ThePoisonwoodBible'', Orleanna indicates that her husband [[TheFundamentalist Nathan]] is a prime example of this trope. She mentions that he would rarely sleep with her, and when he did, he would end up begging God for forgiveness and blaming her for having led him into temptation. Somehow, they managed to have four children, a fact that Orleanna wryly {{lampshade|Hanging}}s.
* In one of the Literature/AubreyMaturin books, a sailor comes to Stephen asking if there's such a thing as the opposite of an aphrodisiac, and if so, can he have some--because his wife is a very religious woman and is disgusted by the idea of sex being pleasurable, so even when she's willing to sleep with him, he freaks her out with his enthusiasm, and then he feels even worse. He's concluded that his only chance of ever having the thing he wants so badly is not to want it.
* In ''Literature/InTheTimeOfTheButterflies'', Patria describes her hands "wandering" at night and her desire to lick the fingers of every man that walks into her father's store, despite the fact that she wants to be a nun.
* Being what he considers an upstanding Christian man, John struggles with sexuality in ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn''.
* ''Literature/SongAtDawn'': Raymond de Toulouse is described as having "a priest's mentality about sex and a fifteen-year-old's restless penis". He reconciles this by deluding himself into thinking he's a KnightTemplar and therefore he can rape the daughter of a vassal because that somehow fits into {{God}}'s plan. Everyone else thinks he's evil.
* Creator/WSomersetMaugham's story ''Rain'' ends on the strong implication that the reason Rev. Davidson killed himself is that he tried to act on his unspoken lustful attraction to Sadie Thompson while trying to convert her to lead a more decent life. The notorious stage adaptation makes the implication only slightly more explicit.
* Two of the young adult characters in ''Literature/NeedfulThings'' are saving their virginities for each other until after they marry, leaving them both incredibly sexually frustrated. It leads one of them to being seduced by the cursed items from the store.
* The Big Bad in Bertram Fox's ''Impudent Crimes'' gets his start when a prostitute mocks him as a nervous virgin and he pounds her to the floor. He concludes that he's been given a calling to fight the evil of sex and goes on to be an evangelical preacher, but still beats up whores in his spare time.
* A major theme in ''Literature/TheNakedSun''. Solaria is a planet where all physical contact is obscene and tolerated only for the purpose of procreation. The main suspect is the murder victim's wife, Gladia, who was actually curious about sex and sexual pleasure, which led to a lot of problems between her and her "Good Solarian" husband. The criminal turns out to be a person who lusted after Gladia and hated her for it, especially after she refused what passed for his "advances". [[spoiler:She refused to become his assistant. There is no way he could compromise with his feelings beyond that; he was the one person on Solaria who would (and did) rather die than see another person face to face.]]
* The antagonist in one of the ''Literature/NightHuntress'' novels, the ghost of Heinrich Kramer, the guy responsible for the ''Literature/MalleusMaleficarum'', could be described in these terms. He's intensely obsessed with women and resents them for it so much that he's spent five hundred years raping, torturing, and burning them at the stake on the pretext that he thinks they're witches. Their real crime is obviously that they make his pants fit funny.
* Eileen, the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Eileen}}'' describes herself as a prude. She harshly judges women who she deems too slutty, and is disgusted by and tries to deny anything sexual about herself, to the point of starving herself and wearing very baggy clothes to avoid looking feminine. Yet she is constantly thinking about sex and always disgusted by her own arousal - at one point she shoves snow down her pants in response to some sexy thoughts.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': King Baelor Targaryen locked up his sisters in the Maidenvault so they wouldn't "tempt" him. Baelor was such a zealot that he ended up fasting himself to death. He died without an heir and was succeeded by his uncle.
* In one episode of ''Series/SexAndTheCity'', one of the main characters dates a guy who gives her a hard time for "making him dirty" by allowing him to have sex with her.
* In the miniseries version of ''Literature/LesMiserables'' (NOT the novel by Victor Hugo and not the musical either -- only the miniseries version), the protagonist Jean Valjean has been given a dose of this. In all versions of the story, he loves his adopted daughter, but in the miniseries, this has been given creepy undertones of him having pedophilic urges that he needs to fight with himself to keep in check.
* This is the reason behind Karofsky's bullying of Kurt in ''Series/{{Glee}}'', although in his case it's more of a case of Homosexuality is Evil and I Am Gay.
* Brandon Hantz from ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' states in a confessional that Mikayla "flaunts herself" and that as a born-again Christian he has trouble being around her. To their credit, the editors show '''no''' sympathy toward this attitude, putting together a montage of Mikayla obliviously working around camp whilst Brandon stares at her [[StalkerWithACrush in the creepiest way imaginable]].
* ''Series/MarcoPolo'': [[BigBad Jia Sidao]] is traumatized by his sister becoming a prostitute when they were both children, especially because he had to hide under the floorboards while she did so. When he actually falls for a woman he has trouble expressing it.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** Substitute "illogical" for "evil" and you get a [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan]] going through ''[[MateOrDie pon farr]]''. Dr. [=McCoy=] says that "perhaps it's the price they pay for having no emotions the rest of the time". They're so ashamed of it that they can barely discuss it among themselves, much less with any offworlders. In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Amok Time", Vulcan attitudes toward sex almost result in [[EroticAsphyxiation terrible]] [[DiedInYourArmsTonight consequences]].
* ''Series/TheTribe'': The Guardian, the fundamentalist preacher of the Chosen cult, actively represses his own sexual desires. He takes it very badly when Trudy offers herself to him, as he had conferred the title of Supreme Mother unto her as she carried the child of Zoot, his supposed God. He gets into a complicated relationship with Tai-San, whom he genuinely lusts for, while seeking spiritual advice from her.
* In ''Series/ShadowAndBone'', Matthias Helvar is a [[TheWitchHunter Witch Hunter]] [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalist]] who has been raised to believe women fall into [[MadonnaWhoreComplex Madonna/Whore]] categories, and that Grisha women in particular will use charms and wiles on any unsuspecting man. So when he finds himself forced to rely on a HotWitch to survive a shipwreck and the subsequent trek across dangerous permafrost, culminating in the two of them having to [[IntimateHealing conserve heat]] by [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed sharing a bed]]... suffice to say, he doesn't handle it particularly gracefully, resorting to calling her "lewd" and "[[ShamelessFanserviceGirl immodest]]" to try and hide the fact he's insanely attracted to her. The cherry on top is that this witch's specific power-set allows her to read heart rates and body signals, so he's not fooling anyone.
-->'''Mattias''': ''I can't wait to be back in my own bed.''\\
'''Nina''': ''Yes, I can '''feel''' how much you hate sleeping next to me.''
* ''Series/GrownIsh'': PlayedWith. When Ana and her LoveInterest Javi have sex for the first time while under a VowOfCelibacy, it turns out to be terrible, with him being [[LousyLoversAreLosers completely unable to please her]] and her actually injuring him. After some soul-searching, they both blame it on their religious guilt and decide to break up... but then we SmashCut to a PostCoitalCollapse on the sofa, with their second time being much better, leading them to the conclusion that SexIsGood and abandoning their VowOfCelibacy.
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* The Music/AliceCooper song "Nurse Rozetta".
* The Music/PetShopBoys' ''It's A Sin''.
* [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]'s ''Genkai Haretsu,'' and its PV. The lyrics and PV depict a VillainProtagonist who believes this--and who drugs his female companion and is implied to either [[ILoveTheDead kill]] or [[DudeShesLikeInAComa put her into a coma]] and enshrine her on a bed of flowers that looks like a funeral bier out of this.
* The Music/NineInchNails song "Kinda I Want To". [[spoiler: Or at least up until the end. "Maybe just for tonight, we can pretend it's alright…]]
* The Music/DreamTheater song "Voices" is straight-up this. Songwriter John Petrucci was raised Catholic.
* The Music/{{Genesis|Band}} song ''Jesus He Knows Me'', about a televangelist.
* Implied in Music/{{Nirvana}}'s "Lithium": "I'm so horny, but that's okay, my will is good." I.e. I can resist my urges.
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[[folder:Print Media]]
* A lot of newspapers accused themselves, each other [[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/16/republican-lawmaker-blames-11-year-old-victim-of-alleged-gang-rape/ and a certain politician]] of internalizing this trope in their portrayal of a horrific event where eighteen men gang-raped an eleven-year-old girl. The politician was portrayed as thinking it was the kid's own fault she got raped -- and thus really her parents' fault since they were responsible for her -- while the papers, in reporting on how the girl seemed to dress way above her age, cast unfortunate overtones of "[[BlamingTheVictim Did you see how she was dressed? She was asking for it!]]"
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/JimCornette displays this attitude when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W2_-ByJR6U cutting a promo]] on how much better Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress is than the Street people Jimmy Valiant, Rocky King, and manager Big Momma only for her to show up and interrupt him.
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[[folder:Religion]]
* In ''Literature/TheBible'', Paul writes quite a bit regarding marriage and sex. For instance, in [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%207&version=ESV 1 Corinthians 7]], he says (paraphrasing) "I wish everyone could be celibate like me, but if you can't keep it in your pants you're better off getting married. And if you're gonna get married, don't be selfish; you have a duty to keep your spouse satisfied." Interestingly, [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%203&version=ESV later in his life]] his position on this solidifies and he says that church leaders ''must'' be married, both to avoid temptation and because the experience of running a family is crucial training for the challenge of running a church.
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* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
** One supplement for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' features a town where a mage with strong ideas on wholesomeness and youth morality created a working that would keep teenagers away from sex, ''especially'' "aberrant" forms of sex such as homosexuality or kink. The good news is, it's worked, as most of the youth have sublimated their sexual desires into other hobbies. The ''bad'' news is if they ever give in to their sexual desires outside of the context of heterosexual marriage, it's a sin against the KarmaMeter -- with premarital sex being as bad as manslaughter, and homosexual or kinky sex being as bad as ''torture''. Which means the Mage has effectively created a ticking time bomb for mass-producing [[TheSociopath sociopathic sexual sadists]] and {{serial killer}}s. For BlackComedy, the mage, not being a great titan in social studies, centered the enchantment around a statue of the high school's namesake. Its name? '''''[[DirtyOldMan Benjamin]] [[KavorkaMan Franklin]] [[Creator/BenjaminFranklin High]].'''''
** The supplement ''Inferno'' features the Rider in Shameful Dreams, a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demon]] that personifies lust mixed with shame. A mage was so convinced that her sexuality was "inappropriate" that she severed it from her mind and banished it to [[DreamLand Astral Space]], where it mutated into the Rider and set off to victimize other believers in the trope.
* In the [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] pornographic tabletop game ''FAPP'', everybody in the world is infected with a disease that causes immortality and ExtremeLibido. One faction called the Prudes hates all sex and anyone who is caught engaging in sexual activity is either MadeASlave, forced to join the military, or imprisoned, and all of these will be forever due to the immortality. The society is naturally full of hypocrisy. Nobles can get away with all the sex they want as long as they do it in private and commoners caught having sex can often avoid punishment through bribery, [[SexualExtortion often in the form of sex]].
* The ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' book ''Possessed'' features an old man who spent many years standing with a bible in hand at the college gates, berating female students for their skimpy clothing. Turns out that his true motivation was that he enjoyed staring at beautiful young women and commenting on their bodies and clothing. The whole moral superiority thing was merely an excuse that he used to trick everyone (surely including himself) that his behavior was acceptable. To make it worse, indulging his hatred of beautiful young women and his self-inflicted sexual frustration opened him up to what can be called DemonicPossession. Having turned into a Formori minion of the Wyrm, he ends up attacking a young beautiful female co-ed ''werewolf'', [[MuggingTheMonster making himself the first kill in her new career as a slayer of wyrm-tainted monsters]].
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Angelo in Creator/WilliamShakespeare’s ''Theatre/MeasureForMeasure'' considers himself wholly above carnal desire but is horrified when he finds himself sexually attracted to a virginal nun. In fact, this messes his head up so badly that he almost instantly descends into ThenLetMeBeEvil and becomes one of the most duplicitous bastards in the whole of the Shakespearean canon.
* Grace Chasity from the ''WebVideo/{{Hatchetfield}}'' universe (specifically in ''Abstinence Camp'' and ''Theatre/NerdyPrudesMustDie'') is the self-appointed MoralGuardian of Hatchetfield High. She is extremely sexually repressed due to her religious upbringing, which causes her to judge her more openly sexual classmates. When she becomes attracted to JerkJock Max in ''Nerdy Prudes Must Die'', she panics and feels like a "dirty girl." Her mental state deteriorates from there. [[spoiler: Her hatred of all things sexual eventually causes her to snap and declare that all "dirty dudes must die."]] In ''Abstinence Camp'', she [[spoiler: steps in for Lumber-Axe and threatens to kill any campers who so much as hold hands.]]

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* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Kniles' [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] mother [[GoneHorriblyRight beat into him]] that abstinence and chastity are the greatest virtues in life. Now, they're [[ICallItVera the names of his daggers]], he relieves his urges with [[TortureTechnician torture]] and [[ILoveTheDead necrophilia]], and his mother has no clue that he's [[NomDeGuerre widely known as "the Flenser"]].
* The Vestal in ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' is a religious hero, implied by the name to be chaste ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation though she can still visit the brothel]]). However, one of her trinkets is a salacious diary, she will frequently throw out baseless sexual accusations at her teammates when Afflicted, and her horniness played a significant part of her backstory.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', this trope is more or less the entire reason for [[BigBad Michael Roa Valdamjong's]] FaceHeelTurn in the past. He became insane and evil because, as a man of the Church, he was unable to come to terms with his attraction to Arcueid ([[WhatIsThisFeeling or even realize that it was love/lust that he was feeling for her]]).
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Joyce from [[Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} David Willis' works]] ''[[Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky It's Walky!]]'' and ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'', both incarnations of her. In both, she was raised a strict fundamentalist Christian. She eventually overcomes this in ''It's Walky!'' (and in fact, [[spoiler:sex SAVES her boyfriend, Walky, or rather is responsible for his resurrection, turning the SexIsEvil trope on its head.]] In ''Dumbing of Age'', she is still battling her urges against her faith--and her [[DateRapeAverted being drugged at a party]] has done her no favors on that front.
* In a series of strips in ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' where Monique dressed as a Gypsy girl, at one point she ran into [[TheFundamentalist Seymour]], who [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2009-03-13 accused her of inflaming lust]]. She paraphrased [[http://biblehub.com/matthew/18-9.htm Matthew 18:9]] to {{impl|iedTrope}}y that Seymour's just as inflamed.
* In ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', among the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of countries, Faroe Islands. Since the Faroes are more religious than most of Scandinavia, he gets the whole repression thing full force. He also reacts to Denmark and Netherlands petting in the same way as [[YaoiFangirl Sister Japan]]--with a {{Nosebleed}}.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The satire newspaper ''Website/TheOnion'' commented on the scandal of the Catholic Church covering up for pedophile priests (by moving them around instead of firing & reporting them, thus covering their tracks and giving them access to new victims) with a [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/pope-forgives-molested-children,101/ fake announcement from the Pope]], who announced that God will forgive the children for their crime of leading his priests into temptation.
* The idea that women must dress and behave modestly and demurely so as not to tempt men or cause them to sin is deconstructed in [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/phoenixandolivebranch/2012/06/modesty-body-policing-and-rape-culture/#comment-1826026022 this essay,]] as well as in [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/phoenixandolivebranch/2011/11/modesty-a-response-to-common-misunderstandings/ this one]] by the same author.
* In the ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article [[https://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women]], #3 is "We Think You're Conspiring With Our Boners to Ruin Us".
-->When that happens, when we get that boner at the funeral, we get mad at the girl showing the cleavage. Because we, ourselves, our own rational personality that knows right from wrong and appropriate from inappropriate, knows this is a bad place to get a boner. So it comes off like cleavage girl is conspiring with our penis to screw us over.
-->Is that a crazy thing to think? Yep! That's why it's so frustrating, especially if you don't have a whole lot of emotional maturity, and grew up with male role models who had even less.
-->No, this doesn't excuse anything. Obviously, "She was asking for it!" is still a bullshit rape defense. All I'm saying is when you see guys actually get annoyed or angry at the sight of a girl showing too much skin, or if you see them eager to degrade or humiliate the girls at the strip club, this is why. It's probably why some Muslims make their women cover themselves head to toe.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The controversial ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove Red Hot Catholic Love]]" combines this trope with PedophilePriest. Due to the law forbidding catholic priests from marrying, the priests have decided to turn to sexually abusing children instead since [[LoopholeAbuse this isn't specifically prohibited by the Holy Document of Vatican Law.]] Aside from the alien priests of the planet Galgamesh who [[SpoofAesop apparently practice pedophilia because the adult females of the species have enormous genitals]] [[VaginaDentata lined with teeth]].
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