'''Basic Trope''': {{Dystopia}}n government [[DystopianEdict outlaws sex]].
* '''Straight''': TheGovernment of [[BilingualBonus Nekhoroshiya]] has outlawed sex, puts hormone suppressants [[WaterSourceTampering in water supply]], and grows citizens via cloning rather than let them reproduce naturally.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Everyone in Nekhoroshiya is forcibly sterilized, and even hugs or kisses might lead to a death sentence.
** Getting aroused at all is a ThoughtCrime.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Sex isn't banned per se, but [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland regarded as an unfortunate necessity, and taking pleasure in it is a big no-no]].
** Only sex outside of monogamous marriage is banned.
* '''Justified''':
** Nekhoroshiya's purpose is a social experiment attempting to separate mankind from its base instincts, so sex is the first thing to go.
** Nekhoroshiya is chronically overcrowded, and it's a population control measure; citizens can't be left to their own devices to reproduce as much as they please.
** After a major incident of LustMakesYouDumb on an industrial scale, the Nekhoroshiyan government has decided to ban sex because they feel [[WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings that nobody should be having sex if it results in society becoming shitter as a whole]].
* '''Inverted''':
** SexIsGood
** Nekhoroshiyan government encourages sex as much as it possibly can, [[Literature/BraveNewWorld possibly to also control the citizenry]].
** Due to Nekhoroshiya being underpopulated, all citizens will be forced to have sex each month. Anyone who disagrees will be taken to "breeding" camps and forcefully raped in order to produce children. The church is replaced with a sex cult that violently and mercilessly kills asexuals, celibates and antisexuals and [[EntitledToHaveYou anyone who doesn't want to have sex with them.]]
* '''Subverted''': When certain difficulties with the UterineReplicator are discovered, sex between married couples for the purposes of reproduction only is relegalized.
* '''Double Subverted''': However, if you're caught enjoying it, you will be shot.
* '''Parodied''':
** Sex is promptly outlawed so that the {{Delivery Stork}}s don't go out of business.
** The ban is immediately bypassed by LoopholeAbuse in a way that is HeadTiltinglyKinky.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Despite Nekhoroshiya being a dystopian society, sex and love aren't a big matter for the government.
** Alternately banning sex leads to a utopian society where technology has advanced immensely due to society redirecting their sexual energies into improving the state of the world and mercilessly dealing with rapists and pedophiles. Within a few years, humanity -no longer needing sex for reproduction- is ready to expand their reach to other planets and maybe interact with alien societies.
* '''Enforced''':
** The writer believes that SexIsGood, so they write the leaders of Nekhoroshiya as [[StrawCharacter straw characters]] who are anti-sex to show how harmful and stupid such a viewpoint is.
** The writer wants to write deep relationships, but is uncomfortable with writing about sex, so they place the main characters in a society where sex is against the law and trying to break that law is too risky.
* '''Lampshaded''': "We in Nekhoroshiya don't have any sex!"
* '''Invoked''': Someone close to the GloriousLeader believes that SexIsEvil, and tries to get the Leader to ban or restrict it.
* '''Implied''': A couple is seen ready to get it on, only to be met with disapproving glares and later being chased out of a public space.
* '''Exploited''': Resistance groups use sex as a recruitment tool to bolster their numbers, leading to mass rebellions across the state.
** Alternately sex is used as a tool by the state to control the populace by keeping them docile and addicted to their own bodily pleasures. By the time the average person realizes that their rights have been sapped, it's too later for them to do anything and they simply [[BreadAndCircuses go back to their V.R headseats and A.I produced smut]], the tools having been created by the government.
* '''Defied''': As soon as the sex-banning DystopianEdict is proposed, riots break out across the country, since people can't even imagine living without sex.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Why is that in those dystopias, sex and love is always outlawed?" "Because typical dystopian leaders want people to love them, not eachother."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** The edict not only causes massive unrest [[StupidEvil defeating the whole point of control]], but also massively weakens them vs rivals. The issuer winds up immediately ousted by a MilitaryCoup.
** The moment that the Nekhoroshiyan government is sieged, the rebels decide to violently rape every government member as a demonstration of their power before taking control and forcing everyone to have sex. Anyone who isn't getting it on, will be forced to become a SexSlave for the new regime, and sold off to the highest bidder.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** The military coup decides that a change in society must be a more gradual effort, and decide to highlight personal choice and individual responsibility in regards to sexual matters.
** After violently raping all the members of the old government and forcing everyone to have sex, the new Nekhoroshiyan government collapses due to their sheer hedonism, depravity and decadence making them vulnerable to an antisexual revolution, one that actually improves society in the long term.
* '''Played For Laughs''': When governments across the world announce that sex is banned, one man is on his knees screaming a BigNo before several other people start throwing tantrums. The rest of society simply decide they don't care with the main characters asking what's for dinner.
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