->''"I just had an argument with a girl I know. She was saying how it's unfair that if a guy fucks a girl a week, he's a legend; while if a girl fucks just two guys in a year, she's a slut. So, in response, I told her that if a key opens many locks, then it's a ''[[ThePornomancer master key]]'', but if a lock is opened by many keys, then it's a shitty lock. ''That'' shut her up!"''
-->--'''Website/SFDebris''' (speaking in jest) on "[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Profit and Lace]]"

People who don't live by the standard that SexIsEvil are sometimes called "sluts", for good or ill. MyGirlIsASlut! No, MyGirlIsNotASlut! Or even EthicalSlut, when it's portrayed as a good thing. In the case of Slut Shaming, however, being a slut - or really, just simply having sex that someone disapproves of - is stigmatized as something very bad indeed.

One traditional DoubleStandard is that if a man has sex, [[AManIsNotAVirgin he is just being a man]]. If a woman has sex, she's DefiledForever. Thus, slut shaming is used against women far more often than against men. And the men are often free to [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny admire or even have sex with the "sluts", while despising them at the same time]]. An alternative view is that (since the 19th century) because men are sometimes seen as [[AllMenArePerverts innately slutty]], calling one a slut doesn't mean much. Unfortunately, the male ability to be more cavalier about sluttiness has [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalisation a downside in the idea that]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale men can't 'not want]] [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale sex' and/or be raped.]]

The times, they are a-changin', and people who have sex don't get quite the punishment they used to, but Slut Shaming happens every day. In short, Slut Shaming is the act of making someone feel bad for actual or perceived promiscuity. It tends to be far more overt for women than for men, and men tend to get more leeway than women with different standards of promiscuity for either gender[[hottip:*:promiscuity for a woman might be sleeping with 5 men in a month, but promiscuity for a man might be sleeping with 50]], but the key is punishment for promiscuity, real or perceived. Slut Shaming is attacking someone for:

* Having sex.
* Wanting to have sex.
* Dressing provocatively. And remember, [[ValuesDissonance my provocative]] [[FullyClothedNudity is your "whoops, my ankle's showing".]]
* Any expression of sexuality.
* Anything that is perceived by the attacker as an expression of sexuality.

In comparison, the tropes MyGirlIsASlut[=/=]MyGirlIsNotASlut are about how the girl's love interest reacts to her sexual activity or lack thereof. Slut Shaming is about how the girl suffers the disapproval of society in general. You could play the two against each other for drama.

SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains is a form of sister trope. See also MadonnaWhoreComplex and MyGirlIsNotASlut. Compare SourPrudes and SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny.

NoRealLifeExamplesPlease - we all know it happens, but we don't need a debate on which examples qualify and which ones does not. Especially since it's likely to devolve into a debate over the victim's behavior in general and sex-life in particular.

'''Note:''' Please refrain from virgin-shaming when adding examples. If people can sleep around without being judged, they should also be able to choose abstinence without being labelled a "prude".

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!!Dirty, Shameful Examples

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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A male example, Oliver Queen, AKA The GreenArrow, is often insulted and bashed by people InUniverse and out for cheating on BlackCanary. The problem? He didn't exactly cheat on her, he was ''[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped]]''. Afterwards they did turn him into a regular womaniser in order to retroactively justify this, but not until after it brought out a load of UnfortunateImplications.
* WordOfGod confirms that the first Terra from ''{{Comicbook/TeenTitans}}'' was shown in a sexual relationship with villain Slade Wilson specifically to emphasize how evil she was by showing what a slut she was, despite there being no evidence that she ever slept with anyone else. Add to that that she was 16 while Slade is significantly older and it crosses into QuestionableConsent territory since technically ''Slade'' is the one who's committing statutory rape and emotionally manipulating a 16 year old girl. Later on, Slade actually gets written as an AntiHero while ''Terra'' is the one who eventually dies, so it falls into major UnfortunateImplications.
* In another male example, {{Nightwing}} is considered by some to be a slut and horribly promiscuous due to being portrayed as a womanizer by some writers. This leads to the same fans dismissing the scene in which he was raped by Tarantula, with the reasoning that he was a man and must have ''wanted'' sex from her, even though he clearly refused and begged her to stop.
** Years earlier, fellow Titan Mirage had committed rape-by-fraud by taking on Starfire's appearance, who at the time was Dick's girlfriend. When called on what she did, Mirage simply joked that Dick should've known something was off, and Pantha jokingly referred to Dick as a slut.
* In ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'', the Scarlet Witch does this to Rogue, at one point calling Rogue one of her father's floozies. This time she wasn't even being mind-whammied by the Red Skull.
** Granted, Rogue had just killed a man on live TV and had been incredibly hostile to all the Avengers (i.e. her teammates) and has stated the only reason she is on the team is to make sure the Scarlet Witch doesn't go insane and depower all mutants again. The Scarlet Witch brings up the relationship not in a way to shame Rogue for her "promiscuity," but to remind her that she isn't exactly pure and noble herself, having a relationship with the X-Men's worst enemy.
* In second series of ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' avoids this in universe - Kate Bishop dismiss the idea that going to bed with a guy on first date makes her a slut - but faces it in real life - apparently the angry letter from issue #3, that was accusing both Kate and Noh-Varr of not being role models and saying having sex makes them "instantly unlikable" was actually one of the few printable letters and one of few not trying to put all the blame on her. {{Creator/Kieron Gillen}} addressed the thing on his Tumblr and made it clear that not only he disagrees with this line of thinking, but it personally offends him.
* In ''{{Runaways}}'', Nico has a dream where her parents berate her for being a "shameless whore" for "kissing" and "being with" multiple boys. Nico calls them out on the double standard, pointing out that her father probably dated women before her mother, and that she isn't going to listen to them. Given that Nico earlier expressed discomfort and shame over her tendency to use physical intimacy to cope with grief, the scene likely shows her overcoming her issues. Interestingly, Nico is the only one to think that way. No one else thinks badly of her for what she does.
** In an arc where the group ends up in the 1800s, Victor falls in love with a lower-class girl named Lilli, who is very physically affectionate with him, by way of hugging, kissing, and being open about loving him. Nico later says of them, "She's a ho and you're a toaster. Let's just go." She later admits that she did want to let them be together, because she knew they really were in love, and her line was probably because [[spoiler:she just recovered from being tortured by an ancestor.]]
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[[folder: Fan Fiction]]
* TrixieBelden fanfic, ''FanFic/YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe'', seems to exist for the sole purpose of Slut Shaming Dot and [[MadonnaWhoreComplex rendering her deplorable due to her sexuality]].
* Critics of ''MyImmortal'' tend to demonize Ebony for her open sexuality and provocative outfits. (HAHA Geddit? Demonize? Cuz she's a goffik satanist?)
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[[folder:Film]]
* Thanks to the HaysCode, Slut Shaming was ''[[EnforcedTrope enforced]]'' for many years in Hollywood.
** Although they were made long after the end of the Hays Code, this tradition is nowhere more apparent than in {{Slasher Movie}}s and horror movies, where the sexually promiscuous are the ones to die first, and only the virtuous virgin is [[FinalGirl allowed to live]]. This is often because the killer's FreudianExcuse is a horrible mother instilling MonsterMisogyny. End result? DeathBySex.
** In other films, a woman who had sex simply wasn't allowed a happy ending (though she didn't necessarily have to die). The women of ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', for example, simply get ditched by the TrueNeutral protagonist.
* ''Film/WeddingCrashers'' follows the tail-end of the careers of a few semi-professional (male) sluts. Any time they're exposed for what they are, they're heaped with shame for their behavior.
* Near the end of ''MoulinRouge'', Christian, angry about being dumped by Satine, (she was trying to protect him from the Duke) publicly humiliates her by throwing money at her, saying "I have paid my whore!".
* ''Film/EasyA'' - The film is built around this trope: The protagonist pretends to have had sex once, and when the whole school starts to slut-shame her for not being a virgin she decides to make the most of it.
* All the girls in ''TheMagdaleneSisters'' are sent to the laundry because of this. Margaret was raped at a party, Rose and Crispina both had babies while unmarried, and Bernadette (although still a virgin) is ''pre-emptively'' judged a slut for her beauty and flirtation with boys.
* Vivian in ''PrettyWoman'' escapes this from her main client, but civilized society views her as "trashy" and his friend clearly forgets that she's a person and not a sex object once he learns that she's a prostitute.
* In ''Film/BlackDeath'', the protagonists scream "whore!" at the matriarch of an isolated village after she has them drugged and imprisoned (after they'd actually come to her village in the first place in order to hunt down and torture percieved witches). What makes it particularly hypocritical is that at no point during the film does she ''ever'' do anything that could be viewed as ''remotely'' "slutty" - even by the most exacting [[DoubleStandard double standards]]. She never seduces anyone, she never takes her clothes off, she doesn't even flirt with anyone or show an inordinate amount of skin. Thanks to DeliberateValuesDissonance, "whore" is just the default choice for insulting a woman regardless of anything she says or does.
* KatDennings' character Caroline in ''DaydreamNation'' gets this. She comes back epically:
--> '''Jenny:''' Ugh, slut.
--> '''Caroline Wexler:''' What did you call me?
--> '''Jenny:''' I think I just called you a slut, slut.
--> '''Caroline Wexler:''' Why?
--> '''Jenny:''' Because everyone knows that you've banged, like, forty different guys since you came here.
--> '''Caroline Wexler:''' Really? Forty? Okay, let's just say that I have banged forty guys. What's the problem? You're just jealous because you've been brainwashed by puritanical assholes who think sex is a sin. But then again, your little gerbil-sized brain has been reprogrammed by the media to believe that sex is the be-all, end-all. So now you're stuck, right? 'Cause on the one hand you love to fuck, but afterwards you feel overwhelmed by guilt and you're not sure why. Maybe it's because sex is neither as good or as evil as you've built it up to be.
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[[folder: Humor]]
* There is a joke about a woman who complains to the doctor:
--> '''Woman''': After every date, I end up in bed. I can simply refuse no man, and afterwards, I feel like a slut and an idiot. \\
'''Doctor''': Very well, I'll give you some pills, and you'll have no problem refusing... \\
'''Woman''': No, doctor, not something to be able to refuse. Give me pills so I won't feel like a slut and an idiot.
* More nastily, the book of insults and putdowns, ''Ouch'' by Dave Dutton has insults for men commenting variously upon ugliness, stupidity, arrogance, cruelty and so forth. ''[[DoubleStandard All ]]''[[DoubleStandard the lines aimed at women]] consist of either "she's a slut" or "she's frigid". Damned if you do, damned if you don't, ladies.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* As punishment for having a child out of wedlock, Hester Prynne had to wear the eponymous ''[[TheScarletLetter Scarlet Letter]]'', 'A' for 'adultery'.
* RobinHobb deals with the subject realistically and without condemnation (from the author, plenty from the societies she creates).
** The ''RealmOfTheElderlings'' features restrictive roles for women and plenty of slut-shaming.
*** Molly has to go to great lengths to hide her relationship with Fitz and flee the castle once [[spoiler:she gets pregnant]], Fitz is killed in disgrace, and the coastal duchies nearly collapse during the war.
*** Fitz himself meets with a great deal of disapproval for his dalliance, but the consequences for him would never be as severe. Sure, he got killed a few times, but never for sex.
*** Conversely, his relationship with Starling never met with the same disapproval, because she's a minstrel, and [[MyGirlIsASlut the rules are different for minstrels.]]
*** Althea in the second series, in a more conservative climate, is routinely shamed for her activities, which include pursuing a man's career (sailing) and a man's sexual appetites (having any). Her niece, Malta, is [[ShowDontTell portrayed]] as a man-eater in bud, which may be budding sexuality in a young woman or simple starvation for mental stimulation.
*** In the third trilogy, Fitz shames Starling a bit when, on learning of her marriage, turns her out of his bed. He then shames his son for taking up with a young woman when he didn't have the ability to make an honest woman out of her, and gets in a fight with the girl's father over the same. Fitz receives some shame himself when the world at large believes he's gaying it up with his foreign-born employer. The Fool himself also seems to disapprove of Fitz sleeping around with women he doesn't love, but not on moral grounds; his reasons are more complex and more specific to their relationship.
** ''TheSoldierSon'': The eponymous son becomes, thanks to a disease, grotesquely obese, which warrants disgust from everyone he meets, and colors their opinion of any desire he might express. His father's disgust is deepened when he believes the boy caught the disease from a prostitute (false), and he flees town ahead of a mob for supposed necrophilia (also false).
* The ''AubreyMaturin'' series plays the DoubleStandard for all its worth.
** Aubrey has never learned to keep it in his pants and frequently gets into trouble at home and abroad, not least when a miscegenated son by a favorite whore of his shows up later in the series and earlier when an unscrupulous woman blackmails him with threat of showing up, pregnant, to his wife. When, in the first book, his dalliance with a superior officer's wife costs him a small fortune and an important promotion, others defend him because, "It was her what set her cap for him! Everyone knows that!"
*** When Aubrey catches an STI in the first book, he's told by Maturin (acting as his physician) that "a lady of your acquaintance has been too liberal with her affections". Slut Shaming and the DoubleStandard in one sentence.
** Meanwhile Maturin ardently pursues a widow whose reputation is thoroughly blackened by "doing what a woman must to get by alone in this world". Otherwise he was so chaste that his superiors in the intelligence community were for a time concerned that he might be susceptible to blackmail. For being gay.
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein loved MyGirlIsASlut and only made villains prudes. However, he frequently set his characters in a society similar to that he grew up in (early 20th century midwestern America), which meant there was plenty of shaming going on, and his characters had to be devious to get away with doing what they wanted, and never felt bad for it.
* ''MemorySorrowAndThorn'' has this in full effect. When a girl falls for a beautiful man's blandishments, she feels ashamed. When a young man she's been friends with forever finds out about it, he (still a virgin) is hurt and shames her, but eventually comes around.
* Matrim Cauthon of the ''WheelOfTime'' series is another inveterate manwhore (though the text rarely implies that he does more than kiss women, and when he does he tends to be monogamous), upon whom shame is copiously heaped, mostly by the [[TheUnfairSex women in his life]].
** RobertJordan has also written historical fiction with the DoubleStandard firmly in place, usually in his native Charleston, South Carolina.
* Common in the works of JaneAusten:
** In ''PrideAndPrejudice'', Lydia's fling with Wickham almost ruins her entire family's reputation. They are saved only when Darcy pays off Wickham to marry her. Georgiana Darcy narrowly escaped the same fate when Wickham wanted to elope with her in order to get his hands on her fortune.
** ''MansfieldPark'''s Maria Rushworth is forever ostracised from polite society after leaving her husband to run away with Henry Crawford, who then refuses to marry her. She ends up having to leave the country.
** Invoked in ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'' when Elinor cautions Marianne about getting too close to Willoughby for the sake of her reputation. Willoughby is also revealed to have caused disgrace to Colonel Brandon's ward, with whom Willoughby had an affair and abandoned her when she became pregnant.
** Generally, any female character considered to be too flirtatious, or who breaks off an engagement to chase another man, is subjected to this ([[Literature/NorthangerAbbey Isabella Thorpe]], [[Literature/SenseAndSensibility Lucy Steele]], [[{{Persuasion}} Elizabeth Elliot]], and others.)
* The {{Beautiful Slave Girl}}s on ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' will use this to taunt and/or insult each other, at least when they're not taunting and/or insulting each other over how frigid the other is.
* ASongOfIceAndFire plays with this trope; whores are a totally unremarkable fact of life for the lower levels of society, (and the only higher-ups concerned about this are considered religious fanatics by their peers) but the nobles ''can'' be a different matter; the shame attached to sex outside wedlock is totally dependent on who the people involved are, and whether it benefits their allies or enemies to go one way or the other.
** Lord Tywin Lannister famously had his father's mistress stripped naked and paraded through the streets after his father died, but this is strongly implied to have been a case of putting the lowborn whore in her place, (since she had gained considerable political power and wealth,) rather than strictly because of moral objections to her being a whore. He frequently rebukes [[TheUnfavorite Tyrion]] for his use of whores, citing the shame he brings on his house, [[spoiler: even though he is shown to (discreetly) use them himself]], and may just object to Tyrion's flaunting his activities, rather than the activities themselves.
** [[spoiler: Cersei Lannister]] is forced to walk naked through King's Landing by the ChurchMilitant as penance for her adultery, but this is only permitted by the nobles because the political situation makes this beneficial to various players.
** In contrast, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Oberyn Martell]] openly brings his "paramour" to court, and treats her very well, though it is stated that Dorne is generally more sexually liberal than the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. [[spoiler: Daenerys]] likewise has no moral qualms about having a paramour, and (while wary of the political consequences of someone openly talking about the affair,) doesn't seem to mind that everyone knows about it.
* In ''Going Too Far'' by Catherine Alliott, the protagonist believes that she cheated on her husband while spending the weekend away with friends. [[spoiler: It didn't happen. The guy drugged her and signed them both in at a hotel so he could use her as an alibi while he committed a burglary.]] Afterwards, she discovers she's pregnant. She is driven to despair, not only because her husband throws her out, but because of this trope she fears being rejected by her friends and family (who are largely sympathetic while acknowledging that her problems are her own fault) and struggles to tell her gynaecologist that she doesn't know who the father is. [[spoiler:It's her husband's baby - the other man is infertile and didn't have sex with her anyway.]]
* ''TessOfTheDUrbervilles'' shames herself far more cruelly than most other people shame her.
* In ''ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'', Francie witnesses a girl named Joanna being harassed by a bunch of housewives because they believe she has no right to show her illegitimate child in public. They go so far as to throw stones at her, and the narrative explains that they only do this because they're bitter about their own loveless marriages.
* In the ''HarryPotter'' series, [[BigBrotherInstinct Ron and the twins]] take a dim view of Ginny's boyfriends. Ron also reacts poorly to finding out that Hermione had snogged Viktor Krum. In Ron's case, it seems to mostly be jealousy due to his own inexperience, and Ginny calls him out for this when he comes dangerously close to using the word. [[IfItsYouItsOkay Her brothers seem to be fine with Harry being her boyfriend, though.]]
** Mrs. Weasley is mentioned as still calling overly flirtatious/promiscuous women as "scarlet women" (Hermione finds the term silly, probably showing how Mrs. Weasley is still kind of old-fashioned) and is rather cold towards Hermione, when Rita Skeeter paints her as playing with the affections of both Krum and Harry. Given that she sees Harry as a surrogate son though, it's likely her dislike of Hermione was more disapproval over her hurting Harry.
* In ''TheHouseOfNight'', Aphrodite is constantly put down by the narrator, Zoey, for being a "slut", despite only being involved with two guys in the whole series, the second with whom the relationship is incredibly serious. This despite the fact that the main character has had several boyfriends (some at the same time) throughout the series. The plot also occasionally derails to talk about how bad blowjobs are.
* Marcie Miller, from the ''HushHush'' series, is shamed for her alleged sexual exploits at every possible opportunity. When she goes out to a nightclub, Nora and Vee whisper about how her dress is so short, her thong can be seen from under it. At one point, Nora pointlessly brings up how Marcie is rumored to put a tennis racket in the window, so boys know when she's offering sexual favors. Even Marcie's own slut shaming is turned on her, when Nora tells how she spray painted the word "whore" on Nora's locker. Nora adds that Marcie ought to have done that to herself.
* Somewhat inverted in ''FiftyShadesOfGrey''. Christian talks of Ana's virginity as an "issue" or "an obstacle to be removed". Kate also mentions that she has been waiting for Ana to lose her virginity for 4 years (as if she had nothing better to do).
** On the other hand, Ana herself tends to be uncomfortable with women having casual sex. At one point, she even worries that she's being a "kept woman" for Grey
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** Buffy doesn't have too many partners in her seven years on television -- four, to be exact. Still, the show has a strong tendency to punish her for having sex, while the characters tend not to.
*** After Buffy sleeps with Angel, [[spoiler:he loses his soul and turns back into the demonic Angelus]], playing the hellmouth version of "I've slept with my boyfriend and now he's acting different". Punished by the show, nothing but love from her family.
----> '''Buffy:''' [crying] You must be so disappointed in me. \\
'''Giles:''' No, no I'm not. \\
'''Buffy:''' This is all my fault. \\
'''Giles:''' No, I don't believe it is. Do you want me to wag my finger at you and tell you that you acted rashly? You did, and I can. I know that you loved him. And he... has proven more than once that he loved you. You couldn't have known what would happen. The coming months are going to be hard... I suspect on all of us. But... if it's guilt you're looking for, Buffy, I'm not your man. All you will get from me is my support... and my respect.
*** After she sleeps with Parker, the situation is played quite a bit more normally, with him just not calling her afterward, and she got a lot of slut-shaming from Spike, who was happy to taunt her for youthful naiveté. And try to kill her.
*** After she sleeps with Spike, Buffy really hates herself (she had a lot going on, and he was just the cherry on the shitstorm sundae). At one point she cries in Tara's lap, begging not to be forgiven. Spike thoroughly humiliates her. Of course, he is a soulless, "evil" vampire. Yet even ''he'' tires of the casual sex before long, considering it to be more base than loving sex, and turns Buffy out unless she agrees to make love properly. Wow.
** Xander is always punished for having or wanting to have sex, by the discovery that his partners are evil or amoral demons, mummies, giant bugs... Even Anya, his long-term love interest, is arguably a form of this.
*** And ironically, Xander is not one to shy away from making slut-shaming comments towards others, especially in the first three seasons, where Cordelia gets the brunt of them during their frequent sniping at one another.
** Playing fast and loose with men is one of the reasons Faith is treated as evil, bad and just plain wrong. It is actually principle to her MoralEventHorizon.
* Similar to ''Buffy'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'' punished Cordelia for one-night stands (with two mystical pregnancies, no less). However, characters tended to be more concerned with whether or not someone was having sex with Angel and unleashing his evil alter-ego.
* As the most active member of the team, the eponymous ''{{Castle}}'' is the only one who really could be shamed, and his partner, Kate Beckett, is usually happy to do so. She's also more than willing to shame any suspects of the week she disapproves of.
* ''{{Chuck}}'s'' Sarah Walker frequently uses her body to get information, get past guards, and so on. This makes Chuck (entirely smitten) jealous and uncomfortable, and he occasionally attacks her for it.
* Inverted by ''Series/{{Community}}'s'' Annie Edison. During the school's sexuality fair, it's revealed she's never seen a penis and everyone tries their best to make her comfortable about the word and the object, but she's proud to be uncomfortable about, thank you!
** It's also gender-inverted on Community by Jeff and Britta. Both of them are shown to be quite promiscuous, but [[TheUnfairSex Jeff is more shamed for this than Britta]]. [[hottip:*:(See: AlternateAesopInterpretation.)]] Britta is sometimes judged by the [[HolierThanThou extremely Christian Shirley]] and extremely sexist Pierce, but the rest of the study group are non-judgemental about it.
** In season 3, Pierce and Shirley use Britta's "free spirit" as part of a BatmanGambit to get the [[ItMakesSenseInContext humanized Subway]] out of their school. They subtly tell Britta to fuck Subway every which way because she is a "liberal minded person" and comment constantly on her promiscuity.
** Furthermore there is a RunningGag in season 3 where Pierce continuously implies Britta is a prostitute.
* ''DocMartin'' gives us a surprise pregnancy in the fourth season. The mother doesn't get much guff, but she does get some. The father gets none for the sex, just some for the lack of a wedding.
* The first season of ''{{Dollhouse}}'' gives us the anonymous client "Miss Lonelyheart", an octogenarian who frequently contracts the use of the doll Victor, and who is mocked by the staff of the house for it. [[spoiler:It turns out the octogenarian is a decoy and the real client is [[TheChessmaster Adele]]]].
* ''DowntonAbbey's'' first season shows a young lady of the upper class having a disastrous one night stand ([[OutWithABang he dies in the act]]). Her mother is shocked and disgusted, and her reputation suffers immeasurably when the rumor spreads to London.
** Heavily subverted when [[spoiler:she finally tells Matthew. While he's shaken at first, he tells her he doesn't forgive her, because he doesn't believe she did anything wrong.]]
** Its second season gives us Ethel, a new maid brought in during the war, as Downton is converted into an adjunct of the hospital to help with injured, convalescing veterans. Ethel [[GoodLookingPrivates loves a man in uniform]], literally. She's caught in the act by the head housemaid, and is sacked without notice and without references. When she winds up pregnant, the same head is sympathetic, and still helps as much as she can, even trying to shame the officer who got her pregnant (and who rebuffs the attempt).
* ''{{Firefly}}'' didn't have a long run, but it had a good amount of sex.
** Mal ''loved'' to shame Inara for her career. Again, this was due in part to his attraction to her, but also to his conservative history, as contrasted with Inara's cosmopolitan, pro-Unification history. ''Out of Gas'' shows us that he called her a whore from the moment they met and she never liked it.
*** Of course, he did have a fling with Nandi, who was the [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold madam of]] [[BandOfBrothels a small brothel]], who was NotSoDifferent (on the fringes of society, fighting for her "crew"). Much of his dislike of Inara's profession probably stems from his rancid dislike of her clientele - the kind of guys he cheerfully fought against in the War.
*** One would expect Shepard Book to also shame Inara, but though he probably disapproved, he kept his judgment to himself.
** Kaylee was shown to be rather enthusiastic about spaceships, and willing to sleep with mechanics to see the engines, but no one ever shamed her for it on screen. A refreshing aversion which demonstrated that Mal was voicing his jealousy of Inara through the lens of his former religion.
*** The pilot does have Jayne mock Kaylee for "getting wet" over Simon. It's more about him not liking Simon though, and Mal angrily orders Jayne out of the room for saying it.
* The pilot to ''Series/{{Friends}}'' gives us Monica sleeping with a man on the first date. The show didn't make too much hay of it, but the executives were worried the public would blame her, so the producers polled the live audience. Male or female, the only one who wasn't made to feel bad for sexual activity was Phoebe. Joey never really felt too bad, but his friends shamed him for his behavior.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' plays this straight, inverts it, and averts it.
** Barney is a serial-user man-whore, and his friends tend to treat him as weird more often than heroic.
--->'''Ted:''' You should be proud. You should be ''tested'', but you should be proud.
** Lily is Marshall's MyGirlIsASlut, with the pair of them having an incredibly active sex life, but Marshall makes a huge fuss about the possibility that he wasn't the one to take her virginity. At the same time, part of his problem was that he gave her his, and the revelation that they might not have lost it to each other "rewrites their history."
** Ted's generally after true love and not one night stands. When he does have one night stands, the response is varied, from treating it as a trivial detail ("The Pineapple Incident"), to heroic ("The Third Wheel"), to despicable ("No Tomorrow").
** Robin has fewer conquests than Ted, but she's had a one night stand with Mitch, inventor of The Naked Man!. After the gang spends a few minutes admiring Mitch's ingenuity, Marshall says, "I call slut!" Robin spends the majority of the episode trying to justify what she did so she doesn't feel bad, but Marshall ends up taking back the slut comment after Lily [[{{Hypocrite}} successfully uses]] the Naked Woman on him, showing that he's NotSoAboveItAll.
* ''LawAndOrder'' and its spin-offs provide a realistic treatment. One of the problems the prosecutions often faces is that while they're trying the defendant, the defense is trying the victim. Once a victim is shown to have had sex with more than one person, it becomes a concern that the jury will assume she deserved murder or rape.
* ''MadMen'', thanks to ValuesDissonance, has the DoubleStandard in full effect. The men are free to romp, so long as they're discreet, and other men don't particularly care, but if a woman steps toe over the line, she's torn apart. Peggy Olson gets it particularly bad from her family and her priest for having a baby out of wedlock.
* ''{{Scrubs}}'' tended to treat characters badly if they had sex outside of a committed relationship. Men were ostensibly excused if it had been long enough, but they were portrayed (and treated) as somewhat pathetic.
** Played with in a first season episode where Elliot has a one-night stand with a surgeon who turns out to be a jerk, telling everyone the juicy details and bragging about his conquest. At first she's mortified (and feels betrayed because Turk joins in with a few comments about how nice her butt is), but she ends up deciding that she likes at least being known around the hospital where she was previously invisible to everybody (plus it's so far off from her actual personality that it doesn't bother or shame her much).
--> '''Elliot:'''(proudly) "I'm Elliot Reed… SLUT!"
** Often played with from J.D. When catching up with a college friend, he proudly brags about having had sex with a girl "on a pile of coats with dozens of people watching. What a whore!" Or when Jordan tells J.D. and Kim about her abortion:
---> '''Jordan:''' It was when I was working as a waitress on Nantucket. I was dating this guy named Kevin. He had the most beautiful blue eyes; they were either sky blue, or powder blue, I could never decide which. Anyway, his best friend knocked me up. [{{Beat}}] Don't look at me like that; it was my first time.
---> '''J.D.:''' Oh, we're not judging. [thinking: Whore!]
** Denise in the eighth season starts sleeping with Derek and calls herself a ho-bag. Ultimately subverted, as Elliot tries to reassure her.
--->'''Denise:''' I don't know why I keep jumping into bed with him. My confidence is shot from screwing up that spinal tap last week, and then yesterday I misdiagnosed an ectopic pregnancy. I don't know, maybe I wanted to do something I knew I could do right, like bangin' a dude. I'm a giant ho-bag.
--->'''Elliot:''' No, no you are not. So, is Derek a good guy?
--->'''Denise:''' Derek? I thought it was Erik.
*** There's also a RunningGag that has her sleeping with random fat guys, and being somewhat ashamed by it. It's PlayedForLaughs, though.
* The ''MidsomerMurders'' episode "''A Sacred Trust''" involves some romantic liaisons, including one girl shamed for her involvement with a jock.
* In the first season of Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined, after having a one night stand with [[spoiler:Gaius Baltar]], Starbuck gets thoroughly shamed by Apollo. The subtext makes it clear that it's because he's totally in love with her, but it takes the form of attacking her for promiscuity.
* ''LostInAusten'': Darcy shames Amanda when he discovers she's previously lived with another man (although he is not aware that she's from the 21st century), emphatically stating that he cannot marry a woman who is "not a maid". Lydia elopes with Bingley rather than Wickham (see Literature below for ''PrideAndPrejudice''), but they avoid scandal when they admit nothing sexual happened between them. Jane ultimately annuls her marriage to Collins so she can be with Bingley, but her reputation is so damaged that they move to America. Wickham and the Darcys agree to pretend that Wickham raped Georgiana so she will be saved the shame from having made advances towards him.
* ''Series/CougarTown'' loves to take the piss out of Lorie for being kinda slutty. The show really, ''really'' loves to give Grayson shit. In the third season, Lorie and Ellie get in argument over who's sexier and have to settle it by finding someone they've both slept with. Travis goes through their lists[[hottip:*:multiple pages each]], finds one person they've both slept with, then calls them both ho's.
* A rare male example on ''{{Glee}}'' where Sue shames Will for his interest in Emma while still technically married to his wife.
** In the episode "Bad Reputation," Emma calls Will out for making out with Shelby and letting April sleep over. "You're a slut Will, you're a slut you're a slut..."
** While practicing for their duet, Brittany carries Artie to her bed and divests him of his virginity. He breaks up with her the next day because it was less important to her than to him; he thought she was just using him for his voice (to win a competition) and that sex was part of that.
* On ''Series/OnceUponATime'', after David and Mary Margaret's affair is revealed to Storybrooke, Mary Margaret is shunned for a couple episodes. She gets the worst of it from Regina, who has a vested interest in making Mary Margaret miserable.
* Ordinarily, {{Bones}} is quite sex positive. However, in the first episode of the fourth season, when a victim's father described her as a very good girl, Bones said, "Not all the time" and showed him a tabloid rag with his daughter (wealthy heiress), topless, on the front page.
** A few episodes later, she's dating two men at once, one with a purely physical connection, the other purely mental. Booth spends a significant amount of time attacking her for it.
* Averted and subverted most of the time in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. Blanche Deveraux is an EthicalSlut whose reputation as a man chaser proceeds her, though none of her housemates have a genuine problem with it. Despite the amount of slut jokes they make none of them are meant in malice, and are pretty much part of the chemistry between Blanche and her roommates, just as they'll joke about how dumb Rose is, how mannish Dorothy is, and how old and mean Sophia is. Blanche is actually very proud of her promiscuity and holds herself to the standard that she will never be a mistress and she always practices safe sex.
** The one time this was played straight was in an early season episode "The Triangle". Dorothy's boyfriend made a pass at Blanche, and when she told Dorothy, Dorothy believed her boyfriend over Blanche. Dorothy believed Blanche was just jealous since Blanche is usually the one who gets the man, and in anger called her a slut.
** Also played straight in an episode where Rose's daughter, Bridget, and Dorothy's son, Micheal, have a one-night stand. Though Dorothy's anger and embarrassment is first directed at her son, she goes on to blame Bridget for the incident. Rose doesn't react much better, bemoaning that her daughter's first time was a meaningless fling and then shutting down further when told that it wasn't Bridget's first time at all. She also responds in kind to Dorothy, suggesting that Micheal was to blame. It takes all episode for everyone to come to terms with the fact that these are two grown adults who made the decision to have sex together.
-->Dorothy: Rose, what do you call a girl who's slept with a man she's known for less than one day?
-->Blanche, who has been attempting to mediate: A damn good sport?
-->Dorothy: I call her a ''tramp''.
* A first season episode of {{Psych}} has Shawn and Gus acting as legal consultants to a murder trial, for the defense. As the defendant had sex with the victim the night of the murder, the prosecution and media attack her for that. As he slept around a lot[[note]]And was murdered by a jealous secretary he ''never'' slept with[[/note]], the defense ends up attacking him for that.
* One episode of ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' had GuestHost Alexander Armstrong call an MP "a bit of a shagger" and a FemmeFatale Russian spy "a bit of a slag". The rest of the panel [[WhatTheHellHero was quick to call him out on this]].
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* Mentioned above, any woman, who dresses down even a little, in pop music, is shamed or told off, or told on or arousing suspicions of the moral guardian's.
* In the Music/KatyPerry song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs&ob=av3e I kissed a girl]]", the protagonist keep bashing herself in this way, fueled by InternalizedHomophobia.
* Discussed & Defied in the music/{{Madonna}} song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRgJofToinY Human Nature]]
* Defied in the Music/ChristinaAguilera song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmaPtbt4BAY Dirrty]].
** Discussed & Defied in the songs [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOiNuDS2Jc Still Dirrty]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg8QgUIKXHw&ob=av2e Can't Hold Us Down]].
* The Music/CarlyRaeJepsen video, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic Call Me Maybe]] is a [[EarWorm painful example]] of the contortions a woman has to go through to express sexuality without being called a slut. She sees a beautiful man, and is physically pushed by her friends into trying to attract his interest, because she obviously can't just go up to him. Then, ostensibly having attracted his attention through [[HilarityEnsued her zany sitcom shenanigans]], she hands him her number, making it a point to say she's not a slut and ''never'' does this ("I just met you / and this is crazy"), before handing him her number and pointedly ceding all future authority and activity to him ("so call me maybe"). Then she reiterates that she's not a slut ("and all the other boys / try to chase me"). All so she can hit on the boy next door. One to ten she still gets called a slut.
* Music/TaylorSwift has been accused of this several times (along with MadonnaWhoreComplex):
** ''Better Than Revenge'' is one long TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about a girl who stole the narrator's boyfriend and has the line "she's better known for the things that she does on mattress" to further the point.
** ''Fifteen'' has her imply her best friend is DefiledForever due to having sex with her boyfriend, who soon dumps her. She ''could'' have been trying to make a statement about how sometimes people, especially younger ones, jump into sex before being truly ready and properly prepared to deal with the potential consequences, but it doesn't come across that way and instead came across as this trope.
** ''You Belong With Me'' has the lines "she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts" and "She wears high heels, I wear sneakers" which imply that [[RealWomenDontWearDresses this makes the girl unsuitable for her love interest.]]
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Goethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}'' gives details of the slut shaming costumes of rural Germany at that period. The bride's bridal garland being ripped from her head and stamped underfoot by the village boys, the "slut" having to sit in a particular pew in church and so on. [[DoubleStandard Nothing was done to the man, of course]].
* In the stage production of ''LesMiserables'', the song "At the End of the Day" ends with the factory workers and foreman condemning Fantine for being a "whore" for having Cosette out of wedlock. Given that Fantine had retaliated earlier by saying that she's not the only worker with a sexually clean history and given that she's been refusing the foreman's advances, more than a little of the accusations are them just trying to get rid of her out of spite.
--> '''Workers:''' While we're earning our daily bread/ She's the one with her hands in the butter!/ You must send the slut away/ Or we're all gonna end in the gutter!/ It's us who'll have to pay/ At the end of the day.
--> '''Foreman:''' I might have known the bitch could bite/ I might have known the cat had claws/ I might have guessed your little secret./ Ah yes, the virtuous Fantine/ Who keeps herself so pure and clean/ You'd be the cause, I have no doubt/ Of any trouble hereabout/ You play a virgin in the light/ But need no urgin' in the night!
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* Subverted somewhat in Literature/TheBible. While it doesn't think highly of sex outside of marriage ("No adultery" is one of the Ten Commandments, for starters), it treats adulterers as people instead of dirty whores; with A) Jesus big on redemption and atonement, not punishment, and B) shamers being reminded that their sins [[NotSoDifferent aren't any better than those of the shame-ee.]]
** The Pharisees bring an adulteress before Jesus and ask what he thinks should be done with her. According to traditional law, she should [[VigilanteExecution be stoned to death]]. Jesus said to the crowd "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." When everyone in the crowd [[NotSoDifferent realized they were sinners]], they all left. Jesus then told the woman GoAndSinNoMore.
** A similar story appears in Genesis--Judah condemns his widowed daughter-in-law, Tamar, to death for getting pregnant out of wedlock. It turns out the conception was when Tamar [[BedTrick dressed as a prostitute and slept with Judah]], who was trying to weasel his way out of a levirate marriage. When Tamar reveals this, Judah admits that she is more righteous than him; they don't become a couple, but the twins she gives birth to become Judah's heirs.
** As with the above Jesus example, there was another incident with a woman at a well who gave Jesus water. Jesus asked her to draw a cup for him and she tried to refuse the request for being both a Samaritan and an adultress (an adultress at the time could mean a number of things). Jesus knew this and didn't mind either one.
* After the dice game in the ''{{Mahabharata}}'', Karna calls Draupadi a slut for having five husbands (even though, as stated earlier in the narrative, she is not the first woman to do so...[[DoubleStandard and men were permitted to take multiple wives, mistresses, and concubines]]), and uses her "sluttiness" as justification for why she should submit to his and Duryodhana's sexual advances in front of his court. Later, she tells Krishna what went down, and he says he'll make it right, that no woman (especially one as pious as Draupadi) should be treated that way.
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* As any female fan can tell you, the slut-shaming that goes on in Professional Wrestling is not only rampant, it's been going on nigh-constantly for years. While commentators like Jerry "the King" Lawler and Tazz get to drool over the Divas/Knockouts and beg them to get their "puppies" or "pigeons" out (being euphemisms for breasts), it's a guarantee that if the ladies in question actually ''did so'', they would be considered sluts.
** Furthermore, wrestling is a form of media in which women whose only crime is being a {{heel}} (a designated "bad guy") are loudly and incessantly chanted at with calls of "SLUT" or "SHE'S A CRACK WHORE". Pick a female heel, whether it be Sherri Martel, StephanieMcMahon, Francine, {{Lita}}, Vickie Guererro, or EveTorres, and you are 100% guaranteed to find them being chanted-at, for the shocking and horrendous crime of . . . being unlikeable. Nice, {{face}} ladies dress provocatively, but not slutty; they smile and provide FanService with no complaints. If they do anything else, even simply speaking their mind (as in Eve's new gimmick), they're sluts/crack-whores/bitches/"hoe-skis".
* Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon was frequently referred to as a slut but only after she turned on her father and sided with Wrestling/TripleH (with whom Vince had been feuding) and took control of his company. She never did anything remotely whorish though so it's more of a case of fans not knowing what other insult to chant at her ("Gold Digger" and "Manipulator" not exactly being easy for wrestling crowds to chant).[[note]]Also, there's the fact that "slut" and "gold digger" would be more applicable to Triple H, as Stephanie is the daughter of Wrestling/{{WWE}} Chairman [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] and stands to inherit the company. Triple H's original [[TheGimmick gimmick]] was an elitist, BlueBlood snob who was presumably very wealthy as well. After he formed [[Wrestling/DGenerationX DeGeneration X]] with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, Wrestling/{{Chyna}} and [[Wrestling/RickRude "Ravishing" Rick Rude]], he abandoned the [[RichBitch rich bastard]] gimmick, though it was never explained whether he still had the money.[[/note]]
* Unfortunately for Wrestling/{{Lita}} her run as a "slut" came across as legit Slut Shaming in real life. Behind the scenes she had cheated on boyfriend Wrestling/MattHardy with Wrestling/Edge and fans became aware of this and began to chant insults at her on TV so the writers used it as a storyline to turn her heel. The unfortunate part came where she turned on her husband - who was only her husband because he had scared her into sleeping with him.
* AJ managed to completely avoid this, and it was epic. After being dumped by DanielBryan, she snapped and turned her attentions to {{CM Punk}} and {{Kane}}, as well as continuing to flirt with Daniel Bryan. It was quite clear she was manipulating them for her own desires and she ended up getting the job as Raw General Manager.
** She also had a brief dalliance with JohnCena and is now (April 2013) with DolphZiggler, and has been for several months. Interestingly, though some fans and the commentators like to slut-shame AJ and call her names, her current and past love interest(s) are reluctant to do so -- even Daniel Bryan, the ex with the biggest beef with AJ, is catty about her ''choice'' of romantic partner, not her having pursued those romantic partners. Her current boyfriend, Dolph Ziggler, is completely unperturbed about her romantic history and is very proud to be with AJ. Only CM Punk threw their relationship back in her face.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' provides us with an example of shaming by legislation. The extra, in-game index describes how courtesans (by that time, a word meaning, essentially, "whores") were by law more and more circumscribed and sharply defined in dress and hairstyle in an effort to eliminate their profession from polite society.
** Revelation gives us yet another example. A senator complains that his organization has been demoted to useless functions, like legislating the length of women's sleeves (a real thing). The heralds also make announcements about that same recent legislation. Wearing their sleeves too short was a punishable offense for women.
* The criminal inmates of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' are slightly misogynistic to the same degree they're also trying to slightly hurt Batman's feelings. There are a lot of taunts thrown at Harley and Catwoman.
* During Miranda Lawson's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.
--> '''Captain Enyala:''' I was just waiting for you to finish getting dressed. Or does Cerberus really let you whore around in that outfit?
* Some ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' fans don't like [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Tharja]] for many [[AbusiveParents valid reasons]], but one of the more minor reasons tend to be her [[{{Stripperiffic}} outfit]]. Tharja herself, however, is mortified when she realizes how revealing her outfit is, which makes the choice of clothing sound less about any conscious choice on her part and more about catering to the MaleGaze.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' use "slut" and "whore" freely to describe anyone they don't like, but they've both admitted to enjoying being slutty themselves. More to the point, they both have a ''very'' dim view on shaming women for having for having sex or enjoying it.
** In the Critic's case, his doing this less as time goes on is very likely a result of his [[DougWalker actor]] getting rape and death threats for invoking FemaleGaze on himself so much.
** In-universe, Critic gets some from Douchey. First he's just called a whore, but then he's called a “war whore”, an insult for a woman who cheats while her husband is away fighting.
** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick criticizes ''MoulinRouge'' for this.
* [[http://themetapicture.com/youre-expecting-greeting-card/ This joke.]]
* In the second season of ''TheGuild'', Codex is interested in a hot stuntman neighbor and dresses up (showing cleavage) to get his interest when Vork shows up out of the blue and asks "Why are you dressed like a harlot?" Then he invades her home and peruses her belonging before randomly turning to her and saying "Cover yourself, woman."
** At the end of the third season, [[spoiler:Codex and Fawkes have sex]] and she discusses it with the guild at the opening of the fourth. In addition to yelling at her for sleeping with the enemy, they call her a slut and attack her for doing so after one date. Then, when he makes it clear it was a one time thing, she starts calling herself a slut.
* Inverted to ''hell'' in SixBillionSecrets; any secret that features a proud female virgin will sure as hell elicit at least 50 "[[UnstoppableRage angry]]" essays within the comment section.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Inverted in ''QuestionableContent'', after Faye sleeps with [[spoiler:her boss's brother, Sven]]. She immediately begins to freak out, but is reassured by her therapist that she's not a slut, and that a casual sexual relationship can be healthy, and is perhaps exactly what she needs at that point.
* MagickChicks: Invoked by name when [[AlphaBitch Faith]], [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/enjoying_the_perks calls Tiffany out on it.]] Also counts as a mild WhatTheHellHero moment, since Tiffany is the school's resident superhero. Though her argument is rendered rather moot when she continues sleeping around while insisting she only has eyes on Tiffany.
* InUniverse example: Kankri from ''{{Homestuck}}'' at one point criticises [[EthicalSlut Porrim]] for sleeping around. She is ''not'' pleased. As Kankri is intended to be an example of [[DeliberatelyBadExample the worst forms of social justice]] [[{{Foil}} while Porrim is the opposite]], the readers are definitely expected to side with her.
* Candi Levens in the CiemWebcomicSeries, as well as later incarnations of her in two ContinuityReboot stories, are frequently subjected to this due to her having an UrbanLegendLoveLife. Part of it is because she is frequently confused with her triplet sisters, at least one of which ReallyGetsAround.
** By ''Ciem 2'', she began having sex with Donte regularly, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil no longer caring what the neighbors thought]].
* Webcomic/{{Oglaf}} parodies this a few different ways. Once is with a city full of virgins terrified of sluts, [[VirginityMakesYouStupid who don't know what sluts or sex are]]. Another is with a [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic smith]] who gives a ''man'' stereotypical lady armor for not being "manly" enough, with the word "SLUT" emblazoned across the chest[[note]]Apart from that, it's really good armor[[/note]]. A third is the garden of Eden, with God actually being okay with the apple thing, but telling them they have to cover up the tits. No... just the lady tits.
* In ''WebComic/SinFest'', Seymore gives a scathing comment to Monique for dressing provocatively. Later, Xanthe does too, indicating her dress is the work of the Patriarchy. Since the Sisterhood arc, pretty much any expression of male sexuality is literally demonized to the point where the porn industry is an extension of the devil himself.
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