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  • The 40-Year-Old Virgin while it's also Virgin-Shaming, what the main character is subjected to by his "friends" shows just how bad each of them are. The main character, however, is ultimately something of an aversion, as he's actually not that concerned with sex, being more interested in love, and is certainly a lot more mature and grown-up about it than most of the other people around him (including some of the women).
  • Nearly all men in Act of Vengeance ogle women, make lewd comments, and treat rape as nothing serious: suggesting the women want it, and should just lie back and enjoy it. Sgt. Long may be the sole exception. Two guys who joked at least make apologies when the women they're talking with furiously berates them, revealing that she'd been raped herself.
  • American Pie: Granted, it's a sex comedy and focuses on that issue, but the sheer lengths the main characters go to for their goal is ridiculous. All they want is sex and that takes priority over everything else. Sure, by the end of the first movie, they decide it's not that important, but they get it anyway and after that, it's all they ever talk about. Even Eugene Levy's character, who as far as we can tell is in a loving relationship with his wife, falls into this: for example, when he buys hardcore pornographic magazines in order to give his son The Talk.
  • With a few notable exceptions, all the male characters in Hundra are predatory creeps, much to the shagrin of the title character whose mission is to find a mate in order to begin repopulating her massacred tribe.
  • The Nice Guys: Lampshaded and deconstructed as part of the Complexity Addiction in the plot to reveal a conspiracy in the Detroit auto industry: create a Porn with Plot and have the "plot" be an expose. The girl who created said plot tries to defend it by saying that this trope will ensure maximum distribution, but the heroes point out that this very same fact may risk men won't care about the expose.
  • Almost any Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Sexual voyeurism in Boogie Nights, a call to a phone sex line in Punch-Drunk Love, etc. But The Master, with its severely sex-addicted main character, takes the cake. There Will Be Blood averts it by going to the other extreme; there are almost no interactions at all between two characters of the opposite sex (with the exception of a touching romance between two secondary characters).
  • The Bronze: Subverted. Hope bluntly hits on a couple Black guys she meets in a bar, offering them a threeway. They first act interested but then turn her down and tell her to leave them alone. She acts surprised, so presumably this had worked before.
  • The male characters in The Burning are all quite the horndogs.
  • In Conan the Destroyer, Malak offers to apply a medicinal salve to Zula's injured thigh. She lets him at first but then has to remind him that the wound is lower. Indeed, when the camera pulls away, the trail of medicine has journeyed far north of the injury.
  • Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (A'yoy) does stare at Lolita, but it's Johann who utterly, hilariously pervs on Ann, trying for a grope even while getting slapped by her.
  • Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde: Helen's allure attracts every man in the office she works in, even attracting the attention of the homosexual Yves (much to his confusion).
  • The Hairy Bird: Mr. Dewey, a male teacher at an all-girls school, leches on his female students. A group of boys at an all-male school plan a bet that humiliates the girls.
  • In Just One of the Guys, the annoying little brother Buddy is a 15-year-old obsessed with sex.
    Terry: Sometimes I just wish I were a guy.
    Buddy: No, you don't. The male body needs sex at all times. It's a living hell.
  • Subverted in Killshot. The mafia girl at the beginning thinks the Professional Killer Blackbird, after finishing his job killing someone else that she was aware of, disturbs her while she's showering because he very blatantly wants to sneak a peek. Instead he shoots her in the head for having seen his face.
  • Lockout:
    • Treated rather interestingly when one villain, Hydell, is sex-crazed for the female lead (Emily) he ends up stabbing his own brother, Alex, in the chest for a chance to get at her. But his brother — prior to being stabbed — inverts this trope by being pretty fed up with his obsession and complains "you're shouting about THAT when we have a serious problem!"
    • The protagonist, Snow, also uses this trope interestingly. At times he mocks her with his sexuality (such as when she falls face-first onto his crotch and he tells her that "you don't have to do that, a simple thank-you is enough") but at other times he seems distinctly uninterested in her as a sexual being (such as when he's looking at her leg wound and saying "ew! yuck!" even though it's on her thigh, practically in her crotch).
  • Monsters Crash the Pajama Party. One of the girls asks to make sure the place is warm since they won't be "dressed" for the cold while holding up her red nightgown. One of the guys says, "Igor like sex," and the girl says, "Yeah, we know."
  • Virtually every male in Ms. 45 tries to come on to Thana or her co-workers. At least, that we see through her eyes.
  • Not Another Teen Movie is meant to be a parody, so it's understandable, since most of the characters are not really meant to be sympathetic, but there are many instances that invoke this trope such as male students peeking in on a girl's bathroom.
  • This is an effect of the Other Halves app; it happens to women, too.
  • The Party Animal has a plot that revolves around a young college student desperately trying to lose his virginity, and the incredible lengths he will go to achieve these ends.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Overlapping with Idiot Ball when Elizabeth disguises herself as a man aboard a ship and they find her dress. The captain then announces that the stowaway lady is probably naked — cue a mad rush to find her (Elizabeth joining of course for pretenses). None of the sailors think that the woman would have put on men's clothes?
  • Porky's. Peeking in the showers of the girl's locker room? Check. Soliciting a girl because you hear she's wild in bed during school hours? Check. Being so desperate for sex that you rely on hookers? Check. Being tricked multiple times with the promise of sex when you should know better? Check.
  • The Quiet: Of the two major male characters, Paul rapes his own daughter, and Connor uses Dot's deaf-muteness to share his sexual fantasies with her thinking she won't get it.
  • In Repulsion nearly every male in the film is lecherous, condescending, crude, unfaithful, or all of the above.
  • Of the three male characters in Revenge (2017), one is cheating on his wife with a beautiful young woman, the second rapes her first chance he gets, and the third lets it happen and then gleefully helps cover it up. The latter two also spend nearly their entire screentime before the rape doing nothing but ogling the female lead.
  • Revenge of the Nerds. The things the protagonists do over the course of the movie include: installing cameras in a sorority house so they can watch them on their television, hiding in women's showers, and selling pies with nude women hidden in the tin for fundraising. At the beginning of the movie, you see the characters calculating the number of breasts in their school. One of the main characters dresses up in a costume in order to trick a woman into having sex with him.
  • Road Trip starts off with an I'm a Man; I Can't Help It moment and quickly devolves from there.
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Robin Hood is told to seek the key to what all men desire. It turns out to be the key to unlock Maid Marion's chastity belt.
  • There are two male characters in Shame and both are depicted as sex maniacs.
  • The Sex Trip: The movie features several men hitting on "Edna" at every opportunity, especially his best friend Steve, who is not subtle about his attraction to his female body. Eddie is no better at the beginning, being a shallow womanizer who only cares about one-night stands and attracts a crowd of socially awkward men who want to learn to sleep with women. When Eddie learns his lesson and regains his original body, he releases his third book, which looks at things from a women's perspective — and the women are relieved to be understood by at least one man.
  • In Sheitan, the city boys Bart, Ladj, and Thai are only interested in getting into the panties of Eve and Yasmine. Their obsession blinds them to all of the weird events going on around them until it is far too late.
  • You would think that Clarice Starling is the only woman in the universe of The Silence of the Lambs that the majority of men have ever seen because nearly every single man hits on her. In the novel, this is played with more. Aside from the homoerotic implications of her sleeping in and thus needing to share a shower with her roommate, she realizes that Dr. Chilton hits on her because he's socially inept. In contrast, one of the entomologists asks her on a date because he really does like her, and it's implied she'd be tempted but for, y'know, the serial killer on the loose.
  • X-Men: The Last Stand invokes this, with Rogue telling Bobby, "You're a guy, your mind's only on one thing." Whether he's straying or she's jealous is up to interpretation.

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