We all know that
sex heals all physical wounds. But in fiction- most often in
Hurt Comfort Fic- sex also heals emotional wounds. Even PTSD, addiction, or depression over terminal illness fade instantly after our hero is in the loving embrace of their love interest. In
Fan Fic parlance, this is often called the 'healing cock' and mocked, as it is often
Narm
Examples:
- Horrendously subverted in the movie The Legend Of Hell House
. The young female psychic thinks that by offering herself to the ghost of a tormented young man, he might know peace and move on. Let's just say that this does not turn out to be a romantic and cathartic experience like that one scene in Ghost. She gets violated by the vindictive apparition, which was never a young troubled man but the ghost of the house's murderous old owner.
- Attack Girls Swim Team vs. The Undead
- Watchmen (the comic). The heroes were too late, millions of New Yorkers have just died, and the first thing Dan and Laurie do is have sex. Laurie justifies it in a way that fits this trope.
- Marian helps Robin Hood through his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the Crusades by sleeping with him in the novel Lady of the Forest by Jennifer Roberson.
- In the movie Baby Boy, the main character loses his temper and slaps his girlfriend, and then she starts breaking down and crying uncontrollably. So he picks her up, carries her to the bedroom and gives her oral sex while sad music plays. She forgives him and it's never mentioned again.
- A mutual variant occurs in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy and Angel, having barely escaped with their lives from the Judge, end up having sex after retreating to Angel's apartment, presumably as a response to their terror of losing one another. It ends badly.
