Basic Trope: Women are portrayed as having no sex drive.
- Straight: Alice is uninterested in sex, as are the other females in the series.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and her female friends are Celibate Heroines who find even the idea of kissing repulsive, and don't find lewd jokes any bit "funny".
- All women on another planet are so disgusted by the thought of sex, that they have to keep reproducing the human race through asexual means to survive.
- Every single woman hates sex so much, that all female scientists work together to invent a method of asexual birth, where the offspring has no interest in sex, all while killing off all the men.
- Downplayed: Alice is not a prude, but just is not as interested in sex as Bob.
- Justified:
- Alice has a sexual dysfunction (dryness, persistent pain, difficulty maintaining arousal, Anorgasmia, etc.) that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to enjoy sex or a psychologically induced Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality.
- Alice does not enjoy sex, due to trauma.
- Alice is a nun. Her vows include total chastity and she's perfectly fine with it.
- Alice's husband, Bob, is a terrible lover in bed, so Alice is understandably uninterested in intercourse.
- The series is about a group of asexual women and how they deal with a life where sex seems to be everywhere.
- In Alice's society, sex is viewed as something men do to women, not as something men do with women. And women are expected to endure it for the sake of keeping their husbands happy and making babies, not enjoy it, initiate it, or seek it out.
- The setting is a religious community or a Period Piece where sex before marriage is criminalized and punished.
- Alice is protecting her Virgin Power.
- In this setting, there isn't much in the way of reliable birth control (and given that Alice's society sees itself as always teetering on the verge of extinction, not much incentive or encouragement to use it anyway. And since in this setting, Lineage Comes from the Father, it's important to know whose children are whose for the sake of inheritance. Alice must remain a virgin until marriage or be considered Defiled Forever...or worse.
- Inverted: All Women Are Lustful.
- Gender Inverted: All the men have little to no interest in sex with the women being the ones who are called out for their perversion.
- Subverted:
- The women in the series only seem like prudes. They actually have incredibly filthy minds.
- Beth, a Good Bad Girl, is introduced.
- Alice doesn't want to have sex with Bob not because she is a prude, but because she is actually lesbian.
- Double Subverted:
- The women in the series hate themselves for thinking these thoughts, and/or must pretend they aren't interested in sex in order to be seen as "respectable."
- Beth only sleeps with men to feel good about herself, or her sex life is actually All Just a Dream, or not actually sex, or she is just lying about her virginity.
- Despite being a lesbian, Alice still refuses to have sex or make out with her girlfriend.
- Parodied: Alice goes near-catatonic with disgust if the word sex is even mentioned... much to the delight of Steve, who loves Trolling the heck out of her.
- Zig Zagged:
- The women in the series hate themselves for thinking these thoughts. These wrong, perverted, dirty, naughty, sexual thoughts... Obviously, the women in this show all have their own Guilty Pleasures.
- Alice doesn't enjoy sex, but Beth does. Then we find out Beth only sleeps around to feel good about herself. But Clarice genuinely enjoys it - because she's
"abnormal". And yet after her Heel–Face Turn, she gets a sex scene where she has The Immodest Orgasm. Which it turns out she was faking.
- Averted:
- Sexuality is irrelevant to the plot.
- Women aren't prudes in the setting.
- Women are absented in this work.
- Enforced:
- "Nobody will like Alice if she actually wants sex!"
- "It is not acceptable for the audience if a woman enjoys sex. We have to make all the women of this show averse to the idea, else they will be hated."
- "Our show is a Yaoi Genre, if we added a thirsty girl in our work, especially straight girl, we would receive a huge backfire from Yaoi Fangirl"
- Lampshaded: "Could you stop making everything about sex?"
- Invoked: Alice's parents taught her from a young age that Sex Is Evil, though her brother Steve was taught the opposite.
- Exploited: A misogynistic gay community makes use of this trope to get men to change their sexuality.
- Defied: Alice gets propositioned by Steve who knows about her dislike of sex and promises to be gentle and go at her pace. Alice ponders a bit and then accepts.
- Discussed: "Dude, of courses you're not going to get laid. She's a girl." "Hey, I wouldn't say that. Not all women have to hate sex, despite what your old movies keep telling you."
- Conversed: "Aw, come on. This is the fifth time we've almost gotten a sex scene between Alice and Bob, but she keeps being such a prude! Why does this have to happen to all the women in this show?"
- Deconstructed:
- Alice had it drummed into her head by her family and teachers that any woman who enjoys having sex, even with a man she loves, is a slut by definition. This ruined her ability to enjoy it, even with someone she loves.
- Alice and most other women of the show Lie Back and Think of England and this frustrates their boyfriends who eventually leave them all because making love to someone who doesn't respond just doesn't feel as good as when someone enjoys it.
- Alice is simply uninterested in sex in whichever form and is put down and insulted because of it.
- Reconstructed: After seeing her friends in successful relationships, Alice eventually realizes that sex isn't all bad after all. Nevertheless, she decides that at the moment she's personally not too interested in this whole "sex" thing anyway, and prefers focusing on other things that matter more to her.
- Plotted A Good Waste: Alice doesn't enjoy sex with Bob because she's secretly a lesbian, but she's afraid to tell him.
- Played For Laughs: A sitcom where much of the problems arise from Bob dealing with Alice, refusing sex to him, happily, for no reason whatsoever.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob, constantly seeing that the media constantly depicting that only men like sex, and that All Women Are Prudes, believes that no matter what girl he finds, she'll be a prude no matter what.
- The classic Incompatible Orientation situation: Bob is straight who finds that all the women, especially who he liked are Asexual and Aromantic. Should he give up from finding sexual partners or he must adopt a Situational Sexuality instead?
- Bob, constantly seeing that the
Not tonight dear, I have a headache. Let's go back to All Women Are Prudes instead.
