The opposite of Sex Tropes.
Not to be confused with Unisex Tropes, which deal with sex-the-category rather than sex-the-act.
See also Asexual and Aromantic, the orientations of people who don't experience sexual or romantic attraction.
Tropes
Related indexes:
- Purity Personified: People whose innocence may preclude sexuality.
- The Singles Index: Tropes about single people
- This Index Is Not My Girlfriend: Relationships that look like they might be Love Interests, but aren't.
- Virginity Tropes: Tropes about virginity
Tropes that avert sex tropes — inadvertent, happenstance sexlessness:
- Celibate Eccentric Genius: An eccentric genius who's uninterested in sex.
- Chaste Hero: A hero is clueless about love or lust.
- Chaste Toons: If cartoon characters have small children around, it's their nephews and nieces, avoiding the implication that they would ever procreate.
- Children Are Innocent: Children have no budding sexuality.
- No Love for the Wicked: An evil character who doesn't have sex.
- Maiden Aunt: An older female relative who never married.
- No Hugging, No Kissing: There's no sexuality or romance in a work.
- Old People are Nonsexual: Old people don't have sex.
- Oblivious to Love: A character is clueless about someone's interest in them.
- Sexless Marriage: A couple who no longer has sex.
- Sexy Villains, Chaste Heroes: Heroes are chaster than villains.
- Token Wholesome: A modestly-dressed character in a fanservice heavy cast.
Tropes that defy sex tropes — characters being deliberately chaste:
- All Women Are Prudes: The gender stereotype that women in general lack a sex drive.
- But I Would Really Enjoy It: A character deliberately refrains from sex for an honorable reason, but is really horny.
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: For some reason, this particular person or couple having sex would cause disaster to ensue.
- Celibate Hero: A hero who avoids all romantic relationships.
- Chaste Separating Sword: A sword lain between bedmates to signify chaste bedsharing.
- Chastity Couple: A romantic but celibate Official Couple.
- Courtly Love: A romantic affair that is ideally never consummated.
- Exiled to the Couch: A couple going through a rough patch refuses to share a bed.
- Hates Being Touched: A person with a strong aversion to physical contact, generally including sex.
- Let's Wait a While: A couple decides to hold off on Their First Time.
- Lysistrata Gambit: Withholding sex from a sexual partner until they do X.
- Madonna-Whore Complex: The False Dichotomy in which women are perceived as either totally pure and chaste, or totally corrupt and promiscuous.
- No Sex Allowed: All sex is forbidden under penalty of law.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: A character may have sexual feelings, but is too afraid to ever act on them.
- Platonic Declaration of Love: A person saying "I love you" to someone they have no sexual or romantic feelings for.
- Platonic Kissing: Kissing for reasons other than sexual attraction.
- Sleeping Single: A married couple sleeping in two separate beds.
- Sour Prudes: A character who doesn't have sex looks down on people who indulge.
- Straight Edge Evil: A villain who abstains from sex, drugs, and everything fun.
- Taking the Veil: A woman has a Turn to Religion and becomes a nun, with the Vow of Celibacy included.
- Tamer and Chaster: A later installment/incarnation is significantly less sexual.
- Vow of Celibacy: A vow not to have sex.
