Basic Trope: A character can't shut up about how much sex they have... when they really have none.
- Straight: Bob mentions once per day that he has a vibrant, active sex life. He's a virgin.
- Exaggerated: Bob mentions his active sex life once per hour. He's never even held a girl's hand.
- Downplayed: Bob talks about sex more often than others, but not to an insane extent... and he's made out a few times.
- Justified:
- Bob wants any interested parties to know that he's not inexperienced, no matter how untrue it may be.
- Bob is hoping to shed his loser status with sex, so he talks about it in hopes that it happens for him.
- All of Bob's friends have active sex lives, so he lies to make it sound like he fits in.
- Bob is afraid that him not having sex makes people see him as not a "real" man. And in his family/the school he goes to/his workplace, any deviation from traditional gender roles is punished with bullying, blackmail and public shaming. Knowing that this would happen to him, he just falls in line.
- Bob is asexual and afraid of how his friends might react if they found out.
- Inverted:
- Bob has a lot of sex, but keeps that information private.
- Bob has a ton of sex, but mentions once per day that he's a virgin.
- Urban Legend Love Life
- Subverted: It turns out it's true. Bob really does have a lot of sex, and he proudly brags about it.
- Double Subverted: Then it turns out that Bob had sex once, and he's repeating stories he heard from friends.
- Parodied:
- Any and all of Bob's sex stories turn out to be true - even the implausible ones... Hell! ESPECIALLY the implausible ones, which he had to tone down because they were too outlandish for anyone to believe them!
- Bob's sex stories are Blatant Lies.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes he's lying, other times he's telling the truth.
- Averted: Bob doesn't talk about sex at all.
- Enforced: "We want to have An Aesop about how it's okay to not fit in with what people think men should be like. Let's have Bob, a virgin who's insecure about that fact, brag about his nonexistent sex life all the time, and have his friends see right through it and point out that it's okay, and that they accept him for who he is."
- Lampshaded: "Look Bob, there's no way what we're about to do isn't your first time. Nobody who's lost their virginity talks about it as much as you do."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Bob, stop telling us those Blatant Lies about your nonexistent sex life. We all know you're a virgin, and we're okay with that."
- Discussed: "And here comes Bob to tell us about how he's totally not a virgin."
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob overhears Alice talking about "Josephine", so he uses that name when making up an escapade to impress Dan. Dan's response? "Dude, there's only one Josephine in town, and she's Alice's horse."
- Bob stupidly makes up a story about how he had sex with the queen. This gets him charged with high treasonnote .
- Played For Drama:
- Bob mentions how often he has sex with younger girls, and it's so exaggerated that nobody believes him until a teenager confides to Alice that Bob raped her.
- Bob brags about date raping a lot of girls. No one believes him, but the fact that he would even brag about having supposedly done it makes them afraid that it's just a matter of time and that he will do it for real, because he clearly doesn't see it as a bad thing.
- Bob brags about supposedly having slept with another man's girlfriend. The man in question finds out, actually believes it, and savagely beats him to an inch of his life.
- Bill (who has a Berserk Button or, worse yet, a Trauma Button and a fear of intimacy yet also loathes himself because he really wishes he could get over his fears and get some) gets very, very upset about how Bill just won't shut the hell up about his damned sex life. By which we mean he begins to bludgeon Bob, who tries to reveal that he was just lying to make Bill stop, which makes Bill even more angry because Bob drove him mad with lies.
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