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A good way to show the physical intimacy and trust a couple have is to rest one's head on the other's lap. Usually, the man does the resting while the woman provides the lap. Bonus points if she's feeding him grapes or something.
In Japan, if they're
really close, the sitter is
cleaning out the layer's ears with a pick. This is something old married couples do.
Compare
Holding Hands.
Examples:
Anime & Manga
- In Fate Stay Night, Saber makes Shirou rest on a park bench after she realizes that he's about to collapse due to fatigue from his injuries. Then she realizes that there is no pillow, and picking the idea up from another couple on another park bench, makes him rest his head on her lap. Then he falls asleep (he was really tired).
- This happens very early on in 11eyes for a Yuka/Kakeru bonding scene.
- In Skip Beat, Ren uses Kyoko's lap as a pillow. They aren't a couple, but there's much romantic tension there.
- In Great Teacher Onizuka, when Anko and Noboru, Anko accidentally smacks Noboru in the face with her purse thinking he's a perv, so she lets him rest his head in her lap until his nose stops bleeding.
- The implied intimacy of the situation is the reason why Dolores and Mr. Raptor (Both Humongous Mecha, mind you) end up going straight to Instant Seiza when a bump during transportation puts them in this position in Zone Of The Enders: Dolores, i. That, and the cockpit sticking out from between Dolores' legs...
- In Mahou Sensei Negima, Negi does this a lot, falling asleep on his students' laps on numerous occasions. The romantic overtones are usually subverted. Such as when he falls asleep on Konoka's lap, leading the cheerleaders (and Ayaka, who promptly freaks out) to believe that they're secretly dating, when in fact he's just exhausted. Naturally, Ayaka is overjoyed when Negi conks out on her lap later on, again due to fatigue.
- In the last episode of the first Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series, Fate rests her head on her familiar Arf's lap while sleeping in her cell.
- In Kodomo no Omocha, Akito puts his head on Sana's lap and she cleans out his ears, except...she was pretending to be his mother and had to blackmail him to get him to do it.
Film
Literature
Live Action Television
- In a flashback scene at the end of an episode of Monk, it is revealed that Trudy Monk would put her feet up on the coffee table (the sole reason why that piece of furniture is crooked in an apartment of perfect right angles) so Adrian could put his head in her lap.
Theater
Webcomics
