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Basic Trope Description: A character needs to have sex, or they will die.

  • Striaght: Alice has a condition that demands her to have sex with someone every two days, or she will die of a hormonal overload.
  • Exaggerated: Alice needs to have sex once an hour to stay alive, or she will explode to Ludicrous Gibs.
  • Downplayed: Alice gets really sick when she doesn't have sex for more than a week.
  • Justified:
    • Procreation of Alice's species is enforced this way by their biology.
    • This is in fact a known medical condition in Alice's Speculative Fiction universe.
  • Inverted: Alice cannot have sex ever, since any form of sex would kill her.
  • Subverted: Alice calls Bob and says desperately that she will die if they don't sleep together - but she is only Bob's Stalker with a Crush and wants to force herself on him.
  • Double Subverted: Alice really has a condition that causes her to die when she doesn't has sex every two days, and she believes Bob to be the best sex partner for herself.
  • Enforced: "Alice and Bob are the romantic leads, and we need to bring them closer together!" "What about making Alice sick with that sex disease from the previous season? Sex Sells!"
  • Averted: Alice wouldn't die if she didn't had sex, she just wants it.
  • Zig-Zagged: Alice looks really bad, and tells Bob that she had to die if they didn't had sex. Bob is disgusted by such a demand, but Charlie demands to examine her - maybe she really has something off regarding that. The examination finds nothing, but then Alice is visibly dying. Bob tries to dry hump her, what makes her get better for a moment, but then she dies anyway - the true reason was another, undiscovered condition.
  • Parodied: Alice starts humping anything along the way, including objects.
  • Invoked: Alice is cursed with a desire for sex that kills her after two days if not fulfilled by an Evil Sorcerer.
  • Exploited: Charlie, a sex addict, surrounds himself with a harem of partners with the condition to get as many opportunities for consensual sex as possible.
  • Defied: A cure for Alice's condition is developed.
  • Lampshaded: "So you would die for the chance to sleep with me? And you mean that literally?"
  • Discussed: A doctor discusses Alice's condition with her, its reasons and what she can do against it - and how to get sex without violating anyone else or herself.
  • Conversed: "Good that this cannot happen to real people."
  • Deconstructed: Cemeteries end up full of people like Alice who just died because they didn't find a willing partner, and people with the condition go for extreme measures to get sex...or believe it justifies rape.
  • Reconstructed: There are customized sex toys and specialized brothels to help those with the condition to stay alive.
  • Implied: Bob and Denise leave Alice's funeral, and Bob laments that he should have "just let her do it".
  • Played For Laughs: Desperately trying to get sex, Alice does all kinds of wacky hijinx to get some affection and consent from possible partners around her.
  • Played For Drama: Alice is torn between her needs to survive and the rights of the others, and desperately tries not to do any dumb stuff and to force Bob into the act, a man who doesn't want to do it with her, but likes her as a friend, inducing feelings of guilt in him.
  • Played For Horror: Alice turns into a Serial Rapist due to believing it is her right to have sex, and anyone who doesn't want to give it to her is trying to kill her.

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