Sandbox / Good People Have Good Sex

Examples taken from Good People Have Good Sex, salvaged from its TRS thread for the Trope Idea Salvage Yard.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• In Japanese media, it's not uncommon for a character to state that a boy's interest in girls marks him as a normal, healthy boy. A couple of times in If My Heart Had Wings someone says this of the protagonist; tellingly, the second time is Aoi saying this of himself after he is Mistaken for Gay.
• Played with in Übel Blatt. Glenn was a Dirty Coward in the past and is a major antagonist, but he seems genuinely heroic after his resurrection and accordingly has (a lot of) sex that his partners greatly enjoy, but he remains The Stoic throughout it. Meanwhile, Lebellont rapes peasant women to conceive new children and invites his allies to do the same, but only after the loss of almost all of his children and a spiral into insanity caused by isolation, massive burn trauma and having to face his own villainy. Before that, he exhibited Villainous Valour.
• Berserk:
  • Double Subversion in the manga. It takes Casca and Guts at least one try before they can make sweet, sweet love without one of them having a bad bout of temporary insanity caused by post-traumatic stress from childhood sexual abuse. Still, their moment is the only instance of sex in the series so far that wasn't either Attempted Rape, near-rape, actual rape, demon rape, a pagan orgy, just plain sick, or done out of spite, money, lust, or pity. Not to mention that Guts and Casca resolved all of their then-current inner troubles through Intimate Psychotherapy.
  • Played straight in the TV show and movie, in which Guts and Casca have passionate, uninterrupted sex, taken up a notch in that the two have very good non-verbal communication cues when expressing their wants during their first time. In fact, this trope is yet another facet of showing how much Guts and Griffith contrast with one another. Earlier, Griffith is shown taking Princess Charlotte's virginity, but Griffith only initiates the act in order to gratify his angst over losing Guts, and so the sex is pretty emotionless between the two of them. In the afterglow, Griffith is seen sitting apart from a sleeping Charlotte, clawing at himself and crying. In contrast, Guts has sex with Casca out of love and so their intercourse is brimming with emotion. In their afterglow, Guts has Casca sleeping in his arms and is shown to be totally content with a smile to match.
• Final Yamato was, until 2009, the last chapter of the Space Battleship Yamato saga. It concludes with the long-awaited wedding of the Official Couple, followed immediately (in the theatrical version) by a tearfully passionate, tender sex scene.
• Subverted in Futari Ecchi. The main characters, both still virgins at the beginning, have to actually learn how to have good sex over time. Their First Time is extremely awkward and Played for Laughs.
  • In one chapter, the protagonists Makoto and Yura during a trip to hot springs meet with a young couple that looks up to them regarding the development of love relationship. Makoto and Yura, of course, feel proud of this. But later, when Makoto and Yura accidentally find the young couple having sex in the hot springs bath, they almost get an inferiority complex when they find out how that young couple is so much better at sex than them.
• His and Her Circumstances spruced up its one and only sex scene by having flowers cover everything.
• In Kaze to Ki no Uta, the rape scenes are gritty, shocking, and clearly show the characters' pain. In contrast, anything with Serge and Gilbert tends to be loving, tender... and surrounded by a lot of flowers.
• Arguably deconstructed in Kemonozume, where good guys Toshihiko and Yuka have extremely good sexual chemistry and would really like to get it on. The only problem is they can't because Yuka keeps transforming into a huge flesh-eating monster when she's turned on.
• The heroines in Mnemosyne spend their free time having sexy lesbian encounters. The villains' preferred pastime involves ropes, sharp objects^note including spears, daggers, and piercings in very painful places, and innards.
• In Monster, when Eva has flashbacks of Roberto, he is shown as an utterly repulsive pig slobbering all over her body. In contrast, Helenka and Schubert's loving sex scene is gentle and emotive.
• Sensual Phrase has many sex scenes, and several of them are highly enjoyable for the people involved. Although Sakuya's goodness is rather questionable, he is great in bed, and he plays the trope straighter after he and Aine get married.
• This is one of the major precepts in the work of Tanaka Yutaka, especially with regard to emotional honesty, open communication, and its ilk.
• When Madoka and Kyōsuke finally sleep together in Shin Kimagure Orange Road, it's a mix of this and Their First Time, as well as very sweet and gentle despite Kyōsuke's initial doubts about how selfless he is or not. Madoka reassures him that it'll be okay and also wonders if her and Kyōsuke's kids would be esper like him, and after some more chat while naked, Kyōsuke pulls the covers off Madoka and they have sex.
• Makie and Renzaburo in Wicked City. Their sexual encounter is extremely sweet, paused, and slow, especially compared with all the rape and Fan Disservice that has been going on. Doubles as Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex as they both have barely survived an attack from the local demonic Dark Action Girl — who's the same woman that Renzaburou himself had sex with in the beginning. The trope is even more enforced when the viewer realizes that theirs is the only sex scene that is fully pleasant and, more importantly, consensual - i.e., Renzaburou had been tricked into sexing up the Dark Action Girl since she was a Honey Trap, and Makie had been violently gang-raped a few scenes ago.
• Takao Itou and Sara Uchida have sex in the third Kasei Yakyoku OAV; it's an emotional, romantic, tender moment, with a beautiful song as background music. It contrasts with both of them having been sexually abused in the past: Taka was almost raped as a teenager by a beautiful older woman who then was killed in front of him by her husband, while Sara barely escaped from being gang-raped by yakuza.
• Daisuke from Resort Boin, who goes from being on a vacation to a tropical island to sightsee women to end up having sexual escapades with six gorgeous women by generally being the nice guy. He helps each of the girls out as their main assistant for any agenda they have on the duration of his vacation, he ends up being a protective yet perverted badass with a heart of gold who kicks anyone's ass for messing with them (ask Nao and Mika). Then he's rewarded with hot consensual lovemaking that would make James Bond jealous.
• Zigzagged all over the way in Sakura Gari. Souma Saiki is not only unearthly gorgeous but he is very good in bed and often gets pretty nice "action" from his sexual partners in return (with Watase offering us all kinds of details), but while not outright evil, the man has VERY serious issues. And said partners either have their own problems or get hit with misfortune because of Souma.
  • Not to mention, the very kind and softspoken Masataka never really gets "good sex" since he's sexually abused by both Souma and Katsuragi... until the end of the manga, where his and Souma's Intimate Psychotherapy session is very gentle and loving, and it comes as catharsis after a good part of their issues are resolved.
• Chivalry of a Failed Knight: The protagonists, Ikki and Stella finally have sweet tender sex for the first time on volume 9, and end up using all ten of the condoms Stella had prepared.
• Inverted in The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar. Yuuto is a Chaste Hero and Above the Influence all the time while Lopthir and Sigyn are continuously shown later to have a lot of passionate time, even a bed scene in the 8th episode.
• Inverted with Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, the Big Bad "Queen" and her loyal henchwoman Abby have an extremely satisfying sex life. Meanwhile, protagonist Asuka is Oblivious to Love, while Kurumi, the girl who has the most obvious hots for her, has some major screws loose in her head and is a big fan of torture, including sexual torture.
• The anime of Record of Grancrest War contrasts Theo and Siluca's emotional, satisfying lovemaking with Marrine's passionless bartering of her virginity by placing those scenes in the same episode. This may not have been a good stylistic choice: fans complained that having seen the latter made them less able to enjoy the former.
• The 13th volume of Lord Marksman and Vanadis starts with Elen as Greast's prisoner and enduring captivity and an Attempted Rape from him. When she is eventually rescued by Tigre, she confesses to him how terrified she was during her ordeal, which leads into a mutual Love Confession, and they make love that night.
• Sword Art Online has Kirito and Asuna enjoying their marital privileges after barely surviving a harrowing assassination attempt. Unlike most examples, the reason Their First Time goes so well is actually justified because it is noted that in Aincrad, the game system ends up muting or at least downplaying the less enjoyable aspects of sex. The Sugary Days short story series also indicates they made good use of their honeymoon time. Contrast this with the multiple villains throughout the series who can't seem to stop sexually assaulting almost every cute girl they see.
  • Meanwhile, inverted in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online where the one confirmed sexually active couple in the series, Kanzaki Elza a.k.a. Pitohui and Asogi Goushi a.k.a. M are quite the hedonist and masochist, respectively. Main character Kohiruimaki Karen a.k.a. LLENN reacts pretty badly when Elza kisses her, while Shinohara Miyu a.k.a. Fukaziroh likes lots of boys in real life but can never seem to make her relationships last beyond the first date.
• In Cross Ange, we get the contrast of the sick creeper Embryo is when he uses his powers to force Ange to strip and masturbate before him, and then later tortures her by increasing her body's sensitivity to the point that she can barely move and function without being aroused, all in an effort to break her into becoming his wife. In stark contrast after she has escaped his clutches, when she encounters Tusk again, who she thought had died saving her from Embryo, this hard-as-nails warrior princess swiftly tackles him to the ground and proceeds to mount and ravish him to confirm he's really there with her and not some weird illusion. And later according to Tusk, they went at it for three days and nights.

Comic Books

• In Joss Whedon's last arc of Astonishing X-Men, before the X-Men make their final stand against the Breakworld, Colossus is overwhelmed by the position he finds himself in, as he is supposedly prophesied to destroy the Breakworld. While he and Kitty Pryde are granted shelter by a renegade "pacifist" Breakworlder, as they prepare for bed Kitty distracts Colossus from his emotional turmoil by standing before him completely naked. The next issue we see them in afterglow, and going by the conversation it was very good:
  Kitty: Whoof!
  Colossus: Katya, I...
  Kitty: Wait, not done with 'Whoof'. You are better than I imagined. And I've imagined.
  • Earlier in Whedon's run of Astonishing, after Piotr and Kitty reunite, their great sex makes Kitty phase involuntarily through the bed and floor.
• Goddess saw villains, anti-heroes, and... pretty much everyone having a strange kink or three.
• Empowered and Thugboy. It greatly helps in building up her self-esteem.
• Taken to extremes in the Preacher graphic novels. The main character, Jesse Custer, prefers having sex with his pretty, blonde girlfriend on the hood of a Cadillac — or in the driver's seat of a stolen hot-rod during a police pursuit. Meanwhile, virtually all of the villains are either sexual perverts to a ridiculous degree, gay, bisexual, or at least French. Or some combination thereof.
• Done to a similar degree in The Boys, another Garth Ennis work. One thing the villainous supers tend to have in common is their willingness to have sex with just about anyone regardless of gender or species (not that it stops them from being homophobes); half the time they are seen having sex with prostitutes/each other. One of the main characters, Billy Butcher and his CIA boss, Veronica Rayner, are in something akin to a sexual relationship, though that is fueled entirely by mutual loathing and the sex is loud, profane and vitriolic. However, the sex scenes between Butcher and his late wife Becky are depicted much more positively. Pretty much the only characters in a regular happy sexual relationship are Hughie and Annie.
• Spider-Man: Spider-Man gets in on the act as well, but zig-zag it a bit in that Peter Parker and Mary Jane are shown to be quite kinky. Also, in another instance when Peter is working with the Black Cat Felicia makes the comment "I swear, if you weren't so good in bed, you'd be useless" to which Peter says "I was good in bed?". The same Felicia thinks Peter Parker is the best man she ever been with, also in the biblical sense. After he and Mary Jane get back together when Nick Spencer began his run on the title, their first scene together as a couple is them waking up in bed together, half-dressed.
• An example can be found in Superman, of all places. After Clark Kent and Lois Lane finally got together, it was made abundantly clear^note probably as a deliberate Take That! to the "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" essay written by Larry Niven for the lulz that they can't stop having sex with each other.
• Averted all over the place in Watchmen, though this is possibly due to the moral ambiguity of all the characters. Nevertheless:
  • The first costumed hero, Hooded Justice, is implied to be a) homosexual and b) an S&M enthusiast, though there is a subtle hint in the artwork of one issue that implies that he settled into a stable and loving relationship with another man later in life, thus playing this trope straight. More info can be found here.
  • The first female costumed adventurer, Silhouette, was a lycra-clad lesbian femdom with a horsewhip.
  • Of all the protagonists, Dan Dreiberg (or Nite Owl II) is the closest thing to a truly upstanding, moral idealist in the whole piece, and he has a costume fetish; the first time he and Laurie go at it, he can't get it up at all.
    • His self-esteem is also pretty low at that point. After he and Laurie have gone out and saved people from a burning building, he really feels able to enjoy himself (though he admits the costumes do add a thrill).
  • The first Silk Spectre has an affair with the man who savagely beat and tried to rape her, leading to an interesting discussion of the emotional implications of rape and its impact on Laurie's parentage, but that's neither here nor there.
  • Rorschach may actually be a straight example, as he doesn't have sex at all and has a firm Sex Is Evil stance (there's a hint he may be a repressed homosexual), and it's clear he isn't a good person.
    • It may also have to do with the fact that he first glimpses and notions of sex come from his mother - a prostitute who didn't care if he saw and was emotionally abusive to him.
  • Likewise, Ozymandias doesn't see much personal need for a sexual relation and is more or less asexual. He lacks the Sex Is Evil mindset, however.
  • Finally, Doctor Manhattan, the only superpowered being in the series uses his powers in the most "interesting" ways during intercourse in hopes of exciting Laurie. Not only does it end up squicking her out but he knew it was inevitable. Since he is mostly without emotion and is more concerned with the nature of science, it makes sense that his sex scene is both fascinating and lifeless.
• Quarrel and Crackerjack from Astro City have a very vigorous and enthusiastic sex life. Crackerjack also Really Gets Around, but Quarrel doesn't mind.
• According to Roy Harper, Kendra Saunders (Hawkgirl III) is the best lay he's had, beating out Femme Fatale Cheshire.
• In Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy, Christopher Belmont passionately consummates his nuptial night with his wife Illyana while Sona Bartley provides her body for the main villain Dracula's pleasure, who is otherwise cold and unfeeling since he views her as his servant and not his bride.
• Zig-zagged in the case of Kate Kane. In dedicated relationships, she and her partners are shown or described having fulfilling, intense sex. When Kate was more into one-night stands, however, the sex is not particularly remarkable. Kate also enjoys being tied up.
• Inverted with Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight of Black Order, who are a pair of genocidal killers, each with kill counts measured in planets, but are nonetheless a Happily Married villain couple who make no effort to hide that they have highly compatible sex drives and have sex daily if they can, and notably get frustrated if separated for a long period of time.

Fan Works

• Advice and Trust: After fighting Leliel, Shinji and Asuka had vanilla, passionate sex as often as possible. In contrast, Ritsuko and Gendo's relationship, while physically pleasurable, was entirely devoid of anything resembling love or passion.
• Beyond the Dawn, a huge fic inspired by The Silmarillion, contains very tender and poetically depicted love scenes between Beren&Luthien. On the contrary, one of the prominent enemies, mighty orc Boldog, is a real motherfucker. Literally.
• Cabin Fever: Parting Shot: Subverted. Marcy is the 'loose' sorority girl, yet most of her sex scenes are portrayed as being profoundly satisfying, life-affirming and occasionally moments of Character Growth. Meanwhile, Karen, the ostensible Good Girl, has one sexual encounter implied to be sleazy, pointless, and regrettable. However, Karen's behavior on the night in question was an unusual contrast to her typical Good Girl sensibility. Also, Marcy's sexual encounters weren't all good; namely, when a sensual Two-Person Pool Party unexpectedly becomes a threesome against her wishes.
• While Child of the Storm isn't exactly detailed about what kind of sex the characters have, the narration hinting rather than stating, it is quite clear who's having it - and if it's a heroic couple, it's usually good.
  • Jane and Thor seem to be fairly vanilla (except in location. No couch is safe, apparently) and both parties seem to enjoy it. A lot. Regularly. To Harry's disgust.
  • Wanda and Harry Dresden are also implied to have a very active sex life, though how vanilla it is or isn't is up to the imagination.
  • Tony and Pepper also have a lot of what seems to be very fulfilling sex, at a contrast to his prior history of one-night stands, and it's implied to be rather kinkier than most of the rest of the cast.
  • By distinct contrast, Yelena Belova's molestation of the Red Son a.k.a. a Blank Slate of Harry is played for Squick and then purest horror when its full extent becomes apparent.
• The last few episodes of Children of Time contain a lot of sexual themes and situations... Sally Watson nee Sparrow conceives inside the TARDIS, giving birth to a baby with Time Lord DNA. Colonel Moran nearly rapes seventeen-year-old Beth Lestrade, and Professor Moriarty threatens to do the same much later on when he has Beth Bound and Gagged. Special attention is paid to the Sherlock and Beth as they enjoy their brief honeymoon, with lovemaking scenes that are, on the whole, very affectionate and passionate (and add to the Character Development of their marriage).
• Codex Equus: Played with Prince Stoltur Skjöldur and his husband, Prince Caerulus Melodia (formerly Blue Suede Heartstrings), as they're neither strictly 'evil' or 'good', respectively. Stoltur is evil, vain, and depraved, but he has a nobler side and, save for the damned shades in his family's hell-fiefs, generally treats his lovers well. Caerulus is good, humble and kind, but he suffered from three Ages worth of abuse-related trauma, and it took him a long time to accept his own flaws in part because of it. After overcoming their respective problems and joining the Equestrian Pantheon, they would become Happily Married, and they have a healthy sex life where size differences are a non-issue (Caerulus can shapeshift) and both of them take turns on being dominant/submissive to help Caerulus become more self-confident. This is exemplified in a Codexverse scene where Stoltur and Caerulus have sex (implied to be missionary-style) a few weeks after their wedding - both parties are mutually consenting, and the entire thing is depicted as sweet and tender due to the love, trust, and devotion they have for each other. Having centuries of sexual experience helps, too. Hilariously, Stoltur once provided details about his and Caerulus' intimacy during one interview with Codex Equus writers/researchers, much to their dismay.
  Jade Shell: There was one interview where Prince Stoltur happily went into great detail over what this means... I think my boss made me rewrite the entire section to make it more 'kid-friendly'.
• Cross Ange: The Knight of Hilda: In addition to the canon pairing of Ange and Tusk, Hilda and the main OC Rio consummate their relationship in a scene of Pre-Climax Climax after both come to terms with their feelings for each other. Prior to Chris's Face–Heel Turn, she and Rosalie are also shown to have a passionate and fulfilling love life. Rio and Hilda take their relationship to the next level. He's a virgin and she isn't, but it also happens to be her first time with a man. The next morning, as Hilda reflects on the previous night, she realizes she's never felt so good after having sex before and briefly considers the fact that maybe it was because Rio was a man, but quickly decides that the real reason is because she loves him and that this was her first time making genuine love with someone else, as opposed to the cold and emotionally manipulative sex she was having with her fellow Norma women on Arzenal for the sake of surviving and establishing controlling hierarchies.
  "Hilda had never felt this good after sex before. Warm and full rather than cold and lonely. Was it because she had done it with a man? After all, Rio hadn't been lying when he told her it was different than with another woman. No, she decided. It was because it was with you. She'd feel this way if Rio were man or woman. Human or Norma. This was what it meant to make love and not just sex. To take joy in another person's pleasure, to give yourself over to them and know that they were doing the same.
• A Crown of Stars: Asuka was two dictators' plaything for three years and they always made her feel filthy and shameful. When she and Shinji got together and started to have sex he made her feel wonderful, beloved, and special; and she could not get enough of him. Sex scenes between them are depicted as tender rather than titillating.
• In the Death Note Slash Fic A Cure for Love L notices an immediate change (for the worse) in their sex lives once Light becomes Kira again.
• This is played with in Dirty Sympathy while villains like Daryan and Kristoph get off rough sex and rape and protagonists Klavier and Apollo have gentle, awesome vanilla sex, but the time the latter two have sex with each other they really can't be considered ''good'' people.
  • Tony and Pepper, on the other hand, are a very loving and affectionate couple who are apparently quite kinky, zig-zagging this trope, with Tony noting that Pepper is capable of far dirtier things than one would expect from her.
• In a series of ER stories based on Doug and Carol's relationship, every one of their sex scenes is the epitome of Idealized Sex. They both explicitly state that sex with each other is better than with any of their previous partners—the few times that they have sex with other people, although there's physical pleasure, there's zero emotional connection.
• Evangelion 303: Subverted. Asuka and Shinji's first time was pretty awkward due to both their inexperience. Their sex life improved after that point, and it was mostly normal passionate lovemaking. However, after their engagement they started to experiment (turns out that Asuka is a sub).
• Zig-zagged in Ghosts of Evangelion. Due to their extreme PTSD, it takes Asuka and Shinji a long time to even attempt sex, and their first try is awful and traumatic for both of them. They continue to have some awkward and unpleasant attempts thereafter, but they care about each other, keep trying, and the story implies that by their mid-twenties they have established a reasonably frequent and enjoyable love life.
• Ghoul Detective Series has some examples:
  • The Whiskey Trio is strongly implied as this. Tobias bluntly rejects the suggestion of having the trio stay at his home.
  “How about at your house, Tobias?” asked Kogoro, Tobias shivered, “No, no, no. I’m not into it. After all, you guys already know that they have a pretty active sex life,” the half-Andalite boy shook his head. Hiro and Rei blushed while Shuichi was unrepentant.
  • Hagi and Jinpei are also implied to be this as shown by their discussion, which made the boys disgusted as hell.
  “Well, about that, Jinpei-chan is particularly a harsh one. Sometimes he won’t let me have my release while he fills me many times!” Hagi moaned, “Hey, hey, Hagi. I don’t do that often you know,” “Yeah, but that’s too mean, Jinpei-chan!” “Seriously, Hagi, I thought you really like the punishment part,” “It’s true that I like it, but sometimes, you are way too rough!” “Ma-tsu-da-san. Are you completely forget that there are children here?” Miwako pointed out with every syllable of Jinpei’s name spelled out. Jinpei and Hagi fell silent as they stopped their argument. Ayato rushed to the toilet and threw up. Kaneki and Tobias’ faces turned white sheet. The triplets’ faces looked like they’ve just drunk a particularly sour lemonade. Ai had her usual ‘Are you serious?’ face while the girls were blushing hard. Realization dawned in the duo soon enough. One second later, they were sitting on their knees with Chihaya scolding them, “Don’t talk about it in front of the kids,” she said, “We’re really sorry, ma’am,” both Jinpei and Hagi apologized, “Seriously, are you trying to traumatize class rep?” Date snarked once again.
  • The Nagano triad is also falling into this category. Somewhat deconstructed as they are having sex regularly because they are desperate to have children.
• A writer on fanfiction.net named Senigata writes numerous fanfictions of Final Fantasy VII that depict healthy sexual relationships between Cloud and Tifa.
• Namedropped in the Harry Potter: Pokémon Master Series. Harry meets with his girlfriend's father who openly admits that he and his wife have a ton of sex and if Harry and Jasmine (after they get married of course because this is Jack's daughter after all) ever stop having sex then Harry is to assume one of them has turned evil. Jack also postulates that the reason Voldemort is evil is he needs to get laid.
• In Supergirl story Hellsister Trilogy, Kara and Dev, Clark and Lois… have healthy, passionate sex lives. Wonder Woman also gushes about her and Steve Trevor's blessed married life. In contrast to the heroes, Satan Girl and Mordru’s sex is noisy, loveless, and icky.
• HERZ: Shinji and Asuka are depicted having good, nice, passionate, comforting, healing sex frequently (although Kensuke claims that they have S&M sex and Asuka is Shinji’s mistress).
• Higher Learning: When Asuka and Shinji finally made love it was depicted like tender, touching, and comforting. On the other hand, Gendo's relationship with Ritsuko is shown as emotionally abusive.
• Knight Ode is an Octopath Traveler fanfiction depicting Primrose and Olberic as having a very happy sex life together.
• Every Law & Order: UK story based on a relationship between Matt Devlin and Alesha Phillips is the epitome of this. Whether it's explicit or if we get a Sexy Discretion Shot, it's clear that their sex life is fantastic.
• In Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations, Samus and Micchy are usually seen sharing an intimate moment together. Thanks to Weakness Turns Her On, Samus eventually learns to show Micchy affection like a human being. In nearly every scene in later chapters which is not a fight scene, pre- or post-mission, and the perspective is focused on either one of them, their moment comes as a tender, comforting, and emotional sex.
• My Mirror, Sword and Shield:
  • Schneizel and his aide Kanon are fighting against the Evil Overlord, Lelouch and share a tender moment together while in hiding.
  • Suzaku and Lelouch play with this. They are a time traveler and emperor respectively trying to ensure world peace and have a loving and passionate relationship with each other. And they do it rather frequently. But Lelouch is an Evil Overlord who had many dissidents killed and subjugated many people. And Suzaku is The Unfettered Well-Intentioned Extremist who betrayed his own people and plans to let his lover die to ensure the timeline.
• The Necromancers of China Saga's side plot involving Po and Tigress' growing relationship humorously deconstructs this. Due to having no experience, their first time is sloppy, quick, and disappointing. It then reconstructs it by them getting just a little better each time. Even a year later, they're still sloppy, but they admit it's much better than when they started.
• The Night Unfurls:
  • Sanakan and Hugh, two Kid Heroes, make love in Chapter 18 of the original. It's heavily implied that this is not their first time.
    "Their lovemaking had been passionate, not wild enough to destroy the entire room but enough that both had been satisfied."
  • The Black Dogs, on the other hand, don't give a crap about consent.
• The One I Love Is...: Shinji had sex with Rei and later Asuka when they needed comforting each other. It is depicted as a tender, heart-warming moment where they tried to take care of each other.
• Cori Falls exploits this trope for all its worth. Even Jessie and James's first time, which is supposed to be awkward, is so perfect they believe the fireworks from the Pokemon League were going off just for them!
• Deconstructed a bit in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: while it is true that relationships with genuine connections have something that other sexual acts, even those from involving people considered 'sex gods' in-universe when it comes to physical acts, do not, the good people part fully relates to the relationship and not their actions outside it. The first person in fic who was shown to have both the emotional and physical side of sex perfected is also a major Knight of Cerebus, as her status as it doesn't affect her sexual performance one iota.
• Implied to be the case with Bright Eyes and Lancer in the Pony POV Series. While details aren't clear, after Bright Eyes loses her memory and they end up having sex for the first time (which, ironically, triggers some of her memories to return), she implies this trope is in play. Lancer is gentle, kind, and considerate to her beforehand, to the point he never made any advances or attempts to have sex with her until she was ready and asked him, so it's safe to say he was the same way in bed. It certainly didn't hurt that the memories Bright Eyes regained were of their wedding day.
• In Respawn of the Dead (including the prequel), Heavy and Medic are depicted as having loving, mutually enjoyable sex (although Medic apparently likes to play with scalpels and shows up after an offscreen sex scene with the world's biggest hickey, not to mention the fact Their First Time is after they had way too much fun spychecking Soldier and Scout the hard way). But Soldier humps his shovel and gets off on beating up Medic. In the prequel, Spy pleasures himself in front of the mirror, disguised as the Engineer, which... just gets worse in the main fic.
• Risen has Scott Summers and Jean Grey, who make passionate, hot love as opposed to the power games of people like Sebastian Shaw.
  Much later, the afterglow of their lovemaking lending a most pleasant languor to his body and mind, Scott pushed his damp hair off of his forehead and sat back against the headboard, silently studying his lover. She lay sprawled on her stomach amidst the tangled bedclothes, her head resting on folded arms at the end of the bed; as his fingertips traced slow patterns on the smooth skin of her legs she turned her face to look at him.
  "I think I had forgotten just how incredibly good we are together," she murmured, rolling over onto her back, the sheet that partially covered her falling away. "Thank you for refreshing my memory."
  "It was my pleasure." He lifted her foot to his lips.
• Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act II: In chapter 32, when Kurumu, Moka, and Mizore consummate their relationships with their respective beaus, they all describe the experience as such. Mizore particularly stands out, as she remarks that having sex with Dark was such a powerful experience that she actually passed out from the pleasure more than once.
• Used throughout Sailor Mac's Sailor Moon fanfiction, even discussed at certain points (Darien explaining to Serena that hardcore porn catalogs were for people who needed cheap thrills, whereas their sex was better in his eyes because it was driven by pure love). She finally kicked the naughty meter up a notch in the "Hot Controversy" series, in which certain kinks are discussed, introduced, and experimented with.
• Scar Tissue: Subverted. Asuka and Shinji were good but severely traumatized children. Due to their awful childhoods and go through the Angel War they were dran to each other and they were very dependent on each other, but they were unable to connect with each other. Not knowing how having a normal relationship, for a while they had an arrangement where Asuka had to have sex with him whenever she pleased, but they always felt sick after each session (Asuka because she was using him; Shinji because he was being used and he felt he was also using her in a way). Fortunately, their relationship gets better and healthier when they get help after a harsh wake-up call.
• When sex is implied or seen in the Shadowchasers Series, it usually fits the Trope, whether the two participants are heterosexual, gay, or bi. The love scene between Sofia and Philip in Conspiracy is slow, sweet, and romantic, while Ace and Kenshin in Tournament of Shadows is pleasurable and enjoyed by both. On the other hand, villains tend to be viewed differently; in Ascension, Tiberius supposedly slept with Lorelei once, and it disgusted him. (This tends to be a franchise where the Sensible Heroes, Skimpy Villains Trope is applied a lot.)
• The Second Try: Shinji and Asuka's sex life is passionate and vanilla, too.
• Shatterheart: Syaoran and Kurogane have passionate and emotionally satisfying sex when they upgrade from Friends with Benefits.
• All but stated to be the case for Tsunade and Jiraiya in Son of the Sannin. It gets to the point that, while waiting for the Five Kage Summit, the two request to have a shared room so they can kill the time having sex.
  • To a lesser extent, Shisui and Shizune are also implied to have a very healthy sex life.
• Rarity and the protagonist have a very healthy sex life in Sophistication and Betrayal, particularly when compared to Cashmere. It is averted on some occasions though, such as the time where he almost takes his eye out on her horn, which ruins the moment somewhat.
• Thousand Shinji: Subverted. Although Asuka and Shinji are not nice people in this story, they ARE fighting to save humanity, and they have passionate sex.
• Almost any mention of sex outside the main couple in Weightless is usually either rape (Shepard was lured into a statutory-rape situation with Ghost/ Kai Leng and later was flat-out raped by a rival gang when she was young), sex based mainly on lust (Garrus with all of his previous girlfriends), or to take advantages of something (Aria's favorite method to gain control and information). But all love-making scene of Garrus and Shepard are always written in an incredible loving way to show their love and passion for each other whether they are playing rough or gentle.

Film — Animated

• Played with regarding La Muerte and Xibalba from The Book of Life. Word of God states that they have many children. However, their individual goodness is not the same. She is no doubt a kindhearted Goddess, but her husband, Xibalba starts off as the Big Bad before he Took a Level in Kindness.
• The Incredibles:
  • It's implied during the Good-Times Montage that Bob and Helen's sex life improved when he bought a new car with the money he got from his first Omnidroid mission and got back into shape.
  • When Syndrome learns Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl got married and have children, he exclaims this sort of thing.
    Syndrome: Elastigirl?! You married Elastigirl?
    [Syndrome sees the children]
    Syndrome: And got biz-zay!
• The Shrek movies make it a point to stress as much as possible for a PG movie that Shrek and Fiona are very, very happy with one another.
• It is heavily implied in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that Jessica and Roger have a very active sex life—in one scene, Eddie jokes about Roger being "a better lover than a driver", to which Jessica emphatically responds, "You better believe it, buster." Near the end of the film in the Acme factory Jessica seductively suggests Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex / Rescue Sex to Roger saying she’ll “bake him a carrot cake” after Eddie defeats the Big Bad and rescues them both from the Dip. It is carried further in the Maroon Cartoon Short "Tummy Trouble" when Jessica sensually offers to “play a little Patty-cake” with Roger when they get home after the shoot. Not to mention the fact that because Jessica was drawn as a walking sex symbol she is probably a natural Sex God. And since Good People Have Good Sex, that makes Roger one lucky Righteous Rabbit! Given that Jessica loves Roger for his good nature and humour rather than any physical attraction, but enjoys sleeping with him all the same just further cements this trope. This all makes perfect sense when you recall that rabbits are infamous for their frequent copulation.

Film — Live-Action

• 300: Leonidas and Gorgo have one passionate night of love-making just before he departs to the Hot Gates. While we don't necessarily see Xerxes having sex, he owns an harem replete of sex slaves with some of which look very deformed and disfigured (implied to be for the emperor's pleasure).
  • The sex scene with Leonidas and Gorgo also contrasts with the later scene where Theron practically rapes Gorgo as part of a bribe so he'll continue to support Leonidas' mission.
  • The sequel features the villain Artemisia having very rough and savage sex with Themistocles (the movie's protagonist no less).
• Merrily played with in every incarnation of The Addams Family, where Weird People Have Weird Sex — and also, very obviously, a terrific time. In fact, Gomez was the only husband in black & white Televisionland who lusted after his own wife. He more than made up for the rest of them, too.
• Played for drama in American Me. The Villain Protagonist, the historical Mexican prison gang leader Montoya Santana (played by Edward James Olmos), is released from prison for the first time in years. He meets a beautiful woman whom he quickly falls in love with. When they make love for the first time, he can't reciprocate except by violently forcing himself on her. All the years that he's had to perform Prison Rape to survive in prison have given him a rather warped perspective on sexuality.
• In Beyond the Lights, Noni and Kaz have LOTS of fun together- starting with the former inducting the latter into the Mile-High Club. Towards the end of the movie, Noni responds to an interviewer's question by saying that she "faked a lot of things" while with her Jerkass rapper ex Kid Culprit- suggesting that the horizontal tango is not exactly his strong suit!
• But I'm a Cheerleader:
  • Played with. Mary is actually perfectly okay with the students having sex! ...As long as it's heterosexual sex in which the man is dominant and the woman is submissive and there's no foreplay and...
  • Graham and Megan also have mutually enjoyable sex late in the film.
• Downplayed in Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter. The title character effortlessly hooks up with a beautiful and willing woman, who enjoys sex with him — but then (with a freshly bleeding lip) asks him why he's so rough with her (he gives a Freudian Excuse about his having been "kissed" by vampires).
• In The Departed, Matt Damon's villain character has at least one bout with erectile dysfunction (tellingly right after he's gotten engaged, betraying his deep-seated trust issues.) The hero, Leonardo DiCaprio, is a lovin' machine.
• In Robert Rodriguez's Desperado, we have an extended, passionate love scene between the main protagonists, played by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek. Cut to the villain Bucho lying on his bed, smoking a cigar and looking bored while a prostitute bounces up and down on him. Then she kisses him and he blows smoke into her mouth, sending her into a coughing fit.
• The contrast between Georgiana's first time having sex with her husband in The Duchess and her first time having sex with her lover, especially since Minister Gray, despite not looking all that athletic, actually turns out to be quite muscled.
• In Highlander III: The Sorcerer, Connor MacLeod has very passionate and romantic sex scenes with his past and present love interests. The villain Kane visits a hooker in a seedy inner-city neighborhood whom he proceeds to physically abuse.
  • In the first film, the Kurgan subverts this. He's insane and monstrous, but apparently he sexes up Candy the prostitute good. Later he tries to suggest to Connor this is the reason why Heather MacLeod took the secret of her rape to her grave; that he "gave her something [Connor] never could" and she secretly wanted him to come back. Of course, the more likely reason is she just wanted to protect her husband's feelings and prevent him from going on a doomed Roaring Rampage of Revenge against an immortal barbarian who would easily kill him.
• A twist on this trope is in A History of Violence involving the same couple. Tom and Edie have a very passionate love life for a couple that's been married close to twenty years. After she learns that her husband may have been a vicious criminal, Edie has even more passionate sex (but rough and borderline violent) with him on the staircase.

• In Jason's Lyric, the main character, Jason, is a good man who spends his youth taking care and looking out for his family. Later, he meets his dream girl, Lyric, and they eventually fall in love. After they are officially dating, they finally kiss and have a passionate sex in the woods that magically turns into flower fields. Later, they have sex again in the electronic shop and get back together, after a brief argument. And even better, his mother gives her blessing for his wish to move out with Lyric.
• Jennifer's Body: Analysed by the relationship between Jennifer and Anita, Jenifer was sacrificed under the belief that she was a virgin and her body was possessed by a succubus after the events at the concert. Jennifer was allegorical of a sexual predator who targets the opposite sex for trying to sleep with her. Anita "Needy" Lesnicki was shown to be with a supportive and considerate boyfriend named Chip, who wanted to make sure that Needy would enjoy their first time as much as he would.
• Played completely straight in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. Both of the protagonists are in loving relationships and apparently have lots of good sex.
• In the fourth Lake Placid movie, Sheriff Giove and Ryan Loflin are seen having a nice moment, then going off together and waking up in bed the next morning, somewhat sated and happy. This is contrasted with Brittany leading Drew off to have sex, partially to keep him from pursuing Chloe instead of her, although interestingly, that scene receives the same, tender musical accompaniment as the two adults get, and both of them seeming to have a good time, arguably providing a subtle indication that Brittany and Drew aren't meant to be demonized for it.
• In Magicians, one of the characters is tormented by his manipulative gay agent who repeatedly mentions his erectile dysfunction in order to prevent him from forming any other relationships. When he finally gets in bed with a woman, his erectile dysfunction is cured.
• Heroes Neo and Trinity in The Matrix have a very passionate relationship. Granted, they only get one actual sex scene, but it's quite sensual and romantic, with an emphasis on the love between them.
• Used in Nanny McPhee. Mr. Brown obviously loved his deceased wife very much and it is kind of apparent, what with the seven children they had. As Ms Quickly noted, "I know what [Mr. Brown] wants with me and it's not marriage, no wonder there's so many of [them]".
• Red Sparrow: Dominika and Nate sleep together twice over the course of the film. These are the only sexual acts in the film that are even properly consensual, never mind passionate.
• In Revenge of the Nerds, the nerdy Lewis wins the heart of Betty by disguising himself as her boyfriend and giving her good sex. When he reveals the truth, she asks how he got so good at it, and he responds, "All jocks ever think about is sports; all nerds ever think about is sex." Compare to her boyfriend Stan, who is shown at several points in the movie having trouble getting it up.
• The Saint (1997). In one scene Simon Templar disguises himself as the Big Bad Ivan Tretiak, and trolls him by claiming that the most difficult part of the disguise was pretending to be so lousy in bed.
• Sappho: Sappho and Phil have a passionate, loving sex life showing they're Happily Married at the beginning. Then once she meets Helene and they fall for each other, Sappho has passionate sex with her too. Phil follows suit, even managing to have it against a tree with Helene with mutual enjoyment.
• Seducing Dr. Lewis and its English-language remake, The Grand Seduction, have all the villagers having awesome sex when fishing was still strong and plentiful. After they finally manage to get their factory in the village, they finally have good sex once again.
• Shame: The protagonist Brandon is a sex addict, masturbating and browsing porn in the time between screwing random women, and sometimes even during said screwing. But when he's finally able to have sex with someone he actually has an emotional connection with, he can't get it up. Commitment is a turnoff to him, so he remains trapped in his shallow lifestyle.
• Averted in Shortbus. Most of the characters struggle with their sex lives but retain their sympathy to the audience.
• In the action movie Showdown in Little Tokyo, the Cowboy Cop hero Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) is a muscular sexual dynamo whose penis size is literally complimented by his detective partner. The Big Bad Yoshida is a misogynistic rapist who is implied to not be able to get it up unless he physically beats women.
• In Spartacus the titular hero is straight and monogamous (claims of Ho Yay notwithstanding); the corrupt but essentially sympathetic Gracchus is a womanizer and the outright evil Crassus is a Depraved Bisexual.
• Subverted in Team America: World Police, when the hero finally gets the girl, the puppet-on-puppet sex is Nausea Fuel. He gets her by outright lying to her. Then again, she wanted him to lie to her, or just didn't understand that no one lives forever.
• Ted Bundy: Well, Ted is obviously a brutal rapist on the side, but this trope is especially apparent when he ties up his girlfriend Lee for a rough bout of bondage sex, which she clearly doesn't enjoy.
• In Tequila Sunrise, Mac, the hero, and Jo Ann, the restaurant owner he falls in love with, have sex for four hours straight.

Literature

• Eric Flint, more than once in both the 1632 and Belisarius Series. He seems unusual (though not unique) in making tender and aesthetically pleasing sex scenes that do seem to fit well with the plot. Too often such things are a Lowest Common Denominator passage.
• The Dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four has the Party's aim of eliminating all sexual pleasure and eventually make sexual intercourse itself obsolete even for procreation... so that all that sexual repression and frustration can be channeled into hatred for Eurasia/Eastasia.
• Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights. While the Sultan wasn't a good person (indeed he recognizably acted like a stereotypical serial killer), Sheherazade was a noble and heroic woman as well as being skillful.
• Atlas Shrugged, being an Author Tract written by Ayn Rand, treats this as a Writer on Board issue: Strawman Socialists can't help but believe that Sex Is Evil; Rearden has the misfortune to be married to one of them, so Dagny justifies the consummation of her affair with him by her having experienced a guiltless pleasure greater than anything they could tolerate.
• The Dystopia in Brave New World has casual promiscuity that removes all intimacy from sex.
• Discussed in Meyer's Breaking Dawn. Despite being a good person (sort of, Edward's rock-hard body, super speed/strength, and vampire instincts cause him to accidentally bruise the still-human Bella on their honeymoon (while biting a few pillows). Bella apparently likes it rough, but Edward feels that not being gentle in bed makes him a bad person, tying into his issues with his own violence and his massive self-hatred complex, and refuses to have sex with her again, no matter how much she begs. When she finally convinces him to give it another try, he doesn't give her any more bruises, though he does break the headboard of the bed. Of course, when she is eventually turned, the bruising no longer becomes a problem. The other Cullens also apparently have extremely violent, house-breaking sex, but they seem to like it.
• In A Brother's Price this is played straight with Jerin, as well as Jerin's grandfather Alannon, whom he remembers fondly; we learn that both he and Jerin's father gave Jerin The Talk about pleasuring women. It is later revealed that Alannon was trained in some obscure art of lovemaking. All those men are depicted as unambiguously good people.
• In Caliphate, Christian slave girl Petra endures rape at the hands of her masters and gets sold to a brothel where she is subjected to even more degrading and abusive sex from the costumers, with the only comfort she finds being with Chinese prostitute Ling. When she makes love with Hamilton for the first time, not only is it consensual but she dreamily thinks that "He's not as good as Ling, but he's better than any man who's ever had me."
• Captive Prince: Damen's sexual prowess is actually part of his nationwide reputation as The Good Prince; when he and Laurent start to have sex, he takes extra care that Laurent is comfortable and happy. In contrast, the Big Bad is a child molester.
• Harry Turtledove's Alternate History body of work is large enough that a common theme has become apparent: the only remotely satisfying sex that occurs is almost inevitably between a husband and wife (and depending on how you feel about his ability to write sex scenes, you may come away with the feeling that even that isn't acceptable). This is played with in The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, wherein we have a guy who has a satisfying love with his long term girlfriend, although they are about to get married by the end of the novel.
• The "Bad People Have Bad Sex" aspect of this trope is spoofed in the fictitious play "The Courier's Tragedy" in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. In the play, all the villains are incestuous perverts. At no point in the novel does anybody have good sex, but they all appear to enjoy what they have. The Handsome Lech is compared, within the text, to Humbert Humbert.
• Standard procedure for all Danielle Steel novels. In particular, the novel Daddy, where the hero is stunned at how spectacular sex with his new girlfriend is, having thought that his and his ex-wife's sex life was perfect and in the novel Dating Game, where the heroine expresses the same sentiment regarding her new boyfriend vs. her ex-husband.
• In Dance of the Butterfly, Skothiam and Lilja develop into a romantic relationship that quickly gets sexual. They also engage in BDSM, and it is all presented in a healthy, mutually-satisfying way.
• In The Dinosaur Lords, whenever Melodía and Jaume are together, they have wonderful sex, whereas more villainous Falk feels no satisfaction when he rapes a woman.
• In Dora Wilk Series, after main character and Miron resolve their Will They or Won't They?, they have sex very often, and it's described as good practically always. After Miron comes back after his absence in book four, this is true as well.
• Michael and Charity from The Dresden Files. They have seven children (partly because they're devoutly Catholic; the only reason there were no more is the result of what Fake!Harry did to Charity while she was heavily pregnant with number 7) and in "It's My Birthday, Too" we find out that every Valentine's Day their kids have to barricade themselves in their rooms from the noise. Similarly in Jim Butcher's other series, Codex Alera, Tavi and Kitai have plenty of it whenever they have a spare moment. It doesn't help that Kitai sometimes has a one-track mind...
• In John Shirley's Eclipse series, this is very much so — he at one point has a juxtaposition of good and bad characters' sex scenes to make the point. Of course, the whole series is left-wing political porn seemingly designed to boost spirits (at least) during the Reagan Darkness.
• In the medieval Romance Novel Enchanted, the heroine has a Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality due to having been raped by one of her father's knights and forced into an Arranged Marriage with another, leading them to have a Sexless Marriage. Until she finally gets over her fears and confesses to him. From then on, they're the epitome of Insatiable Newlyweds.
• Subverted in The Guardians; when the angel-human hybrids are adjusting to their new powers and senses, they're encouraged to get it all out of their system. One novice spent 30 years having orgies before he finally grew bored of it. Even mature Guardians aren't above a little Power Perversion Potential.
• Harry Potter:
  • The Happily Married and loving Arthur and Molly Weasley. As Draco Malfoy points out to Ron in the first book, they have more kids than they could afford.
  • Word of God says Charlie Weasley never got married because he simply was not interested, so this might be a subversion.
• Richard Littlejohn's Hell in a Handcart: the villains have violent BDSM sex, Les Collaborateurs all masturbate with police truncheons or busts of Karl Marx or copies of the Evening Standard (and are all universally gay), the Sidekick has sex, but with a woman he's not fond of, and the protagonist... doesn't have sex at all but just receives random blowjobs from his wife (who has to make do otherwise with vibrators).
• The Honor Harrington series by David Weber tends to play this very straight. Honor herself is stated to have very good sex with both her first love Paul Tankersley and her eventual husband Hamish Alexander. By contrast, Pavel Young, her nemesis of books one to four, is all about dominating and hurting his "partners" (and not in the fun way), which eventually leads to his downfall when The Dog Bites Back. Similarly, Anton Zilwicki and Catherine Montaigne are shown to have a very healthy sex life while Zilwicki's antagonists in the Crown Of Slaves subseries (co-written by Weber and Eric Flint) are frequently rapists or involved in the "production", sale and/or abuse of sex slaves. Javier Giscard and Eloise Pritchart, despite being officially antagonists in that they are fighting for the People's Republic of Haven, are both unambiguously good people and desperately in love with each other both physically and emotionally. The one minor subversion of note is the relationship between Victor Cachat and Thandi Palane, also from the Crown Of Slaves books, for whom the trope becomes "Somewhat Morally Ambiguous People Have Amazing (and Kinky) Sex".
• Elea and Paikan, the very Happily Married couple in Rene Barjavel's The Ice People. Twice. And the second time is an awful Tear Jerker because all the scenes with them together are flashbacks which Elea is letting us see eight hundred thousand years later.
• The In Death series: Big time. Witness in Death reveals that Richard Draco used rape drugs on a lot of women, filmed the sex acts without the women's knowledge or consent, and when Areena Mansfield had sex with him shortly before his death, all she could express was disgust and disinterest.
• This was very common in the James Bond novels, where Bond himself is of course a Chivalrous Pervert, and many of the villains were depicted as perverted, psycho homosexuals, or impotent. One of the few cases where Ian Fleming's pop psychology was close to Truth in Television is depicting the Psycho for Hire Red Grant in From Russia with Love as a homicidal maniac incapable of any kind of arousal except for arguably that he gets from killing. There is some link between sociopathy and lack of sex drive which is explicitly part of some characters and would certainly explain others.
• In the Kate Shugak novels by Dana Stabenow, Kate's healthy (and satisfying) sex life is always lovingly described, with her enthusiasm occasionally veering into Casual Kink territory.
• Used constantly in early Dean Koontz books. The heroes always have amazing sex (written about at length), while the villains are usually repulsed by sex or (their own!) genitalia.
• Both played straight and averted in the Kushiel's Avatar and Kushiel's Legacy trilogies. One of the major ideas of the series — which features an entire nation whose "hat" is kinky sex — is that the real difference between "good" and "bad" sex isn't kinkiness (the heroine is a sadomasochist) but rather consent. The good characters care about it. The evil characters don't.
• Mercedes Lackey: Good People Have Good Sex, and bad people have bad, bad sex — "bad" being defined, in Lackey's lexicon, as "anything involving even the suggestion of physical restraint, control, power, or trust". Anyone in a Lackey book who expresses even the faintest hint of interest in consensually tying someone to a bed will inevitably end up torture-slaughtering children for sexual thrills — in gratuitously, lasciviously graphic detail.
• We don't get any details of what Terisa and Geraden, the Official Couple of Mordant's Need get up to, but it seems to be fairly vanilla while still being mutually enjoyable. The same goes (again, insofar as we are told) for every other character in the series that is even remotely sympathetic, even ones like Saddith and Elega and Prince Kragen. The all-out baddies, meanwhile, include a sexual sadist, a homosexual rapist and a man who has sex with animals.
• Night Watch (Series) usually subverts or averts its Morality Tropes, but not this one. Alisa has the best sex of her life with a Light Other, described in very un-kinky fashion. Her Dark Other lover was only willing to engage in sadomasochistic play, and judging by what little was described of it, magic was the only thing that kept it in the "safe" part of Safe, Sane, and Consensual.
• In the Outlander series, Jamie and Claire have really good sex. In contrast, evil Depraved Bisexual Captain John Randall is incapable of getting hard unless he's beating or torturing the person he's raping. And even then, it's shown that unless the victim is Jamie, he still might not get hard.
• Paradise Lost: John Milton delivers a Take That! to the Moral Guardians of his time by including sex (a lot of sex, according to Eve) in Adam's and Eve's perfect life in Eden. Milton had some very unconventional religious views. Archangel Raphael tells Adam that the sex life of angels is even better.
• Dominika Egorova, the protagonist of Jason Matthews's Red Sparrow, is trained as a Sparrow, a spy that uses sex to manipulate targets. Whenever she sleeps with a mark, she tends to resort to using the techniques she learned for the sake of her mark, keeping herself completely detached from the act. After she gets into a relationship with CIA agent Nate Nash, however, she is able to indulge her desires and enjoy having sex with him.
• In Redeeming Love, this is subverted. The novel makes it clear that prostitutes’ experience of sex is not fulfilling either physically or emotionally, no matter their personality or motives. Also, even after they begin to establish a stable relationship, it takes a long time for the married hero and heroine, Michael and Angel, to make love with results that they both consider “good”.
• Every novel by Raymond E. Feist tends to feature this, and the opposite for his antagonists. Whether its in The Riftwar Cycle or The Empire Saga (co-authored by Jenny Wurts), all of his heroes find their soulmates and have mutually fulfilling sex lives, whereas any villain is ALWAYS a pervert, sadist, rapist, or all three without exception.
  • It's even played with in 'Rise of a Merchant Prince' - the protagonist is on Team Hero but he is the sketchiest and most cowardly of the Good Guys. He marries out of obligation, has an awkward and unsatisfactory sex life with his wife, and spends time chasing after femme fatales who are out to trick and take advantage of him. As the series progresses however, due to adversity caused by the plot he grows closer to his wife and as he becomes more traditionally heroic, their marriage improves along with the sex lives.
• The villainous side turns up in The Silence of the Girls - most of the men in the book are rapists, but the especial Jerkass Agamemnon also has a preference for brutal sodomy. So when Briseis becomes pregnant, the only possible father is Achilles.
• Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: Most certainly played straight with Jack and Nikki, Myra and Charles, and Yoko and Harry. In the book Fast Track, Rena Gold has had sex with Maxwell Zenowicz, and she frankly is disgusted and tired of it by that point.
• Implied in Snuff with Vimes and Sybil, after the better part of a decade of marriage.
• Song at Dawn: Dragonetz and Estela are blissfully in love and they have transcendentally good sex. The former is emphasized over anything physical and their foreplay was discussing music.
• Played straight, averted, and subverted throughout in the Star Wars Expanded Universe:
  • First, Luke and Mara regularly use double entendres around each other, but some of these have an S&M subtext, e.g. "I hope he doesn't mean the same thing as when I call you master,".
    • Luke also had a one-night stand with Akanah in the Black Fleet books. In typical Luke style, he was emotionally attached to her and then learned everything she told him was a lie.
  • Played straight in the Jedi Academy Trilogy, where Admiral Daala has homophobic thoughts.
  • Played straight and averted in The Courtship of Princess Leia, with a (good) race of amazons that enslave men and a (bad) queen who tries to seduce and kill Luke, and her (good) son imagines the two of them having sex.
  • Averted in The Joiner King, with Zekk fantasizing about sex with Jaina, Alema Rar, and Jag.
  • Played straight in Invincible by having Tahiri molest Ben. Eventually, he inspires her to perform a High-Heel–Face Turn.
  • Corran Horn, depending on the book, averts it (his sexual history includes a Selonian) and plays it straight (having sex with Mirax every time they see each other, and having plenty of history with human women).
  • Leonia Tavira, the main antagonist of I, Jedi, plays it straight, having sex with her underlings as a reward.
  • Oddly, the Jedi of the Old Republic avert the trope by having as much sex as they want, so long as there's no emotional attachment.
  • To finally ensure it's played straight, Luke and Leia never ever mention the former's previous crush on the latter.
  • The Yuuzhan Vong, of course. An entire species of sadomasochists.
  • Karen Traviss's Mandalorians don't give a toss about homosexuality.
• Played straight in the Tom Clancy novel The Sum of All Fears. Jack's wife, Cathy, spends much of the first two-thirds of the novel sexually frustrated and unhappy, as Jack's increased drinking and continual work difficulties thanks to the US presidential administration of the time cut into his sex drive. She eventually comes to think he is having an affair behind her back. However, once the whole mess is cleaned up, they have a long, long romp that seems to revitalize Jack something fierce
• Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana is more a case of Free People Have Good Sex: while Tigana is in the grip of two foreign tyrants, the only forms of sex depicted are prostitution, rape, incest, BDSM or sex under false pretenses. Not until the Tiganans prepare to rise up against their dictators is "healthy" sex depicted.
• In the Colleen McCullough novel The Touch, Elizabeth absolutely hates having sex with her husband Alexander (he isn't abusive or cruel, but she was essentially forced into an Arranged Marriage and therefore doesn't love him). When she finds true love (with, bizarrely, the son of Alexander's mistress Ruby, who he does have a good sex life with), she's absolutely floored at how wonderful sex can be. By the time the book ends, they're the Happily Married parents of twins and expecting again and all dialogue indicates that they still can't keep their hands off each other.
• Shows up somewhat unexpectedly in Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (perhaps not so unexpectedly considering the sympathetic treatment of Good Bad Girl Sissy). One chapter introduces an unmarried mother who proudly walks down the street with her baby carriage. The "good housewives" who shriek and throw stones at her are said also to have Bad Sex:
  There was no longer high joy for them in the act of love. They endured the love-making rigidly, praying all the while that another child would not result. This bitter submissiveness made the man ugly and brutal. To most of them, the love act had become a brutality on both sides; the sooner over with, the better. They resented this girl because they felt this had not been so with her and the father of her child.
• Subverted in Bentley Little's University (a.k.a. The Night School): The two student protagonists are among the "good" minority on the titular campus. However, whenever they make love, the evil force suddenly takes them over and they have rough, dirty sex that leaves them very sore and often bleeding. Even at the end, after the campus is destroyed, they're still "infected" and continue to enjoy a kinky BDSM-style sex life.
• Wicked Lovely: None of the fey courts are exactly good, but their relative levels of sexual Hollywood-ness does depend on their nature somewhat. Summer fey are shown to be very passionate but mostly vanilla. Winter fey are largely frigid. Dark fey are very kinky, and whilst this is generally shown as seductive, if destructive, but some of the backstory takes this way too far. High court fey are shown to not really be that into sex (it's so illogical!) With the exceptions of Sorcha, who it is mentioned was once with Irial, former king of the dark court, and they, umm, 'did business' with one another against a willow tree.
• In Poul Anderson's "A World Called Maanerek", among the healthy planet-dwellers, the young men and women often venture to the aves; Torrek wrestles with his brief attack of Green-Eyed Monster because Sonna is a free woman. The Hegemony, on the other hand, feeds its units Antisex and allows spouses to meet only to breed (with the resulting children immediately taken to creches) — and allow, as "tension release", to let loose all the men on shipboard on a part of a planet, to release aggression on the men and children, and having stopped Antisex, made the local woman freely available.

Live-Action TV

• In 24, Jack and Renee spend nearly forty minutes having sex, which she describes as perfect. Charles Logan meanwhile apparently finishes in about 2 minutes. Similarly, when Vladimir Laitanan (who previously beat and raped Renee) blackmails her into sleeping with him, they are done in 9 minutes. Possibly subverted as Jack himself is not that good a person after all.
• Angel, both the show and the character, have a complicated relationship with sex to say the least, seeing as a moment of true happiness can make him lose his soul, making him evil again. While having sex with his then-girlfriend, Buffy, did make him lose his soul, he has meaningless sex with Darla (and in season 5 - with a few casual partners), which doesn't activate the curse.
  • There are several aversions of this trope throughout the show, most notably in the very steamy sexual relationship Wesley embarks on with Lilah.
• Sheridan and Delenn's wedding night would have been this in Babylon 5. Unfortunately, G'kar's cybernetic peeping tom gave this an annoying bit of Mood Dissonance.
• No-one in The Bill engages in "rough sex". If anyone says that, it's a rape or domestic abuse situation.
• A complex case in Black Mirror: The Entire History of You. At one point, Liam and Ffion have sex, but they use their Grains (digital implants in their eyes that allow video recording and playback of memories) to show scenes of past lovemaking. The vigorous and pleasant sex from earlier in their relationship contrasts with the loveless and mechanical humping of the present. This reflects how their relationship has soured, and to make it more interesting, from Ffion's perspective, it is hinted that the memories are not of sex with Liam, but with someone else...
• A lot of the characters in Bones are pretty darn sexual, even devoutly Catholic Booth.
  Cam: Um... a lot of these guys look pretty rough.
  Daisy: I like it rough, but only when there's a safe word.
• In The Boys, Hughie and Annie are the nicest characters of the series and their sex is sweet and healthy. On the other hand, Homelander, one of the main antagonists, is much worse at sex: when Stillwell engages in intercourse with him, he climaxes within 45 seconds. The show also has a tendency to give its villains bizarre and gross sexual fetishes to make them less likable, while the heroes stay vanilla.
  • Homelander has a really weird complex about milk. He has an almost orgasmic expression while milking a cow and later drinks it straight from the udders, unpastuerized. He's later shown to spy on Stilwell while she breast feeds her kid and steals some of her breast milk to drink.
  • Stormfront, another villain, enters a sexual relationship with Homelander. While his performance is shown to be better the relationship also involves kinky or unpleasant elements, such as harming each other (they are Nigh-Invulnerable superheroes) with Homelander frying Stormfront´s chest with his Eye Beams, or having sex in an alley after Homelander turns a robber's head into paste. Apparently, maiming and gruesomely killing people are good for their libidos.
  • The Deep has to extort women for sex; the one woman he's shown having consensual sex with is the one that he also says gives terrible blowjobs. Season 3 reveals that he has sex with animals in his free time and seems to like them more than human partners
  • Soldier Boy founded the degenerate orgy Herogasm and is shown to have a fetish for overweight elderly women.
  • Cameron Coleman, a Tucker Carlson expy, is revealed to be into getting pegged by his corporate overlord both figuratively and literally.
• Inverted in Breaking Bad, where Walt's unexpected transformation into a criminal has nothing but positive effects on his sex life with his wife. Apparently Morally Ambiguous People Have Good Sex too...
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Inverted in the earlier seasons when amoral mass-murdering vampires Spike and Dru have a happy, long-term relationship. It's so blatantly loving it would be sickeningly sweet if they weren't constantly killing people. Meanwhile, the good guys are entangled in a mess of love polygons and generally incapable of expressing attraction or communicating with their partner once in a relationship.
  • Played straight when Buffy's morally ambiguous counterpart, Faith, takes over her body, she attempts to get kinky with Buffy's boyfriend, Riley. To her initial disappointment, he starts off with being gentle, in the missionary position, under the covers. She found the intimacy of it to be... distressing.
  • Contrast the rough and kinky sex between a traumatized Buffy and a soulless Spike in Season 6, versus their tender bedroom interaction the following season after Spike gets his soul.
• Played with very slightly in Castle, in which it's hinted that both Castle and Beckett have mildly kinky bedroom tastes. When they finally get together in Season 5, it is suggested that they have a very active and satisfying sex life.
• Cheers, as Sam and Diane know so well. They've even been known to discuss it with each other!
• When Chuck and Sarah finally get together, we don't see what's going on in their train compartment — but the montage of room-service dishes tells us that they stay in there and don't come out for days.
• Community: Played with. Jeff Winger is a good man on many levels, but his biggest flaws are that he both tends towards being the Narcissist and tries to remain emotionally detached; Britta says that this makes sex with him less enjoyable than it should be, and it's implied that this is because he focusses too much on himself and his own pleasure. In a later episode, she mentions that he refuses to make eye contact during sex, and confirms that Troy (the Nice Guy of the group) is much better in bed. On the other hand, in the Darkest Timeline Evil!Annie says that sex with Evil!Jeff is awesome, but she's crazy. And possibly nothing more than a delusion.
• Averted in Criminal Minds, where one episode has a man's wife ask "what's gotten into you tonight?" in a voice clearly implying that they just had very good sex. What had got into him is that earlier that day, he shot someone. Of course, maybe that sex was in his head, as he turns out to be a hallucinating psychotic. In general the show plays it very straight though. Hotch's wife is basically the show's moral center, and according to Hotch anyhow the sex was great (although it can't save their marriage in the end). Morgan's partners range between okay, and mind-blowing. Even seven years into their marriage, Jareau and her husband can't keep their hands off one another. Even applies to Rossi, who has had three rocky relationships: but let's just say the sex wasn't the problem. Though both Garcia and Emily have dated creeps before.
• In Daredevil (2015), Foggy is implied to be a good sexual partner, though it's also indicated he might not have been when he was younger (and, in flashbacks, more fratboyish).
• Subverted in Ed. After seasons of Will They or Won't They?, Ed and Carol finally get together. They jump into bed with the right slow-motion effects and stirring music. But the next shot shows two, very disappointed individuals.
• Firefly:
  • Wash and Zoe seem to have a pretty good sex life going. It might be a partial subversion, however, since they don't mind getting a little wild. Same for Simon and Kaylee, who are quite happy to do it by the ship's engine, because it's canonical that's what Kaylee's into.
  • Played painfully straight in "Heart of Gold". Mal and Nandi's sweaty, wrapped in sheets lovemaking is juxtaposed to the episode's bad guy ordering a prostitute to blow him in front of his henchmen.
  • A companion won't even service anyone they consider bad. Inara once tells a sweet young man that he should feel confident and special. If she had been hired for his Jerkass father, she wouldn't have even come.
• Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond. Ian Fleming is shown passionately Wall Banging his Girl of the Week, while his future Love Interest is being kissed and undressed by her husband and looking rather bored by the whole business. So presumably inverted with Unfaithful Cads Have Good Sex while good people don't.
• Frasier: Niles' marriage to Maris is mentioned to be both loveless and sexless - Niles having to sleep in a separate bedroom. However, his eventual relationship with Daphne is much more energetic. The day after they finally do sleep together, Frasier just finds him sitting there, utterly blissed out. A later episode has Daphne admit Niles ruined other men for her.
• Friends: It was because their sex was so good that Monica and Chandler, two of the nicest most loyal characters on the show, upgraded from a one night stand to Friends with Benefits and then to a serious relationship. They risked a valuable friendship but the sex was just. that. good. So good that they considered doing it in the room next to her brother! It's also emphasized that sex with each other was better than with previous partners. (Which had been reasonable to bad). They both describe each other as the best they've ever had, with the implication its because they're better people with each other. They even went so far as to say that Chandler is better than Richard!
• Game of Thrones: Despite the sheer amount of sex in general, and the sheer lack of any clear-cut "Good" and "Evil" characters, there is an observable pattern. Characters in stable, loving relationships have sex facing each other. Characters who are not just mounting their partners from behind. This is even a plot point with Daenerys and Drogo. Their first several nights together are spent with Drogo roughly mounting Dany from behind, as is the Dothraki tradition. The change in the nature of their marriage is reflected in a change of sexual positions, as Dany insists on facing Drogo during sex and slowly earns his love and gets pregnant. She later also has a healthy sex life with Daario Naharis who while not good is moderated into a more righteous path during their relationship. Also played very straight by the Martells, in particular Oberyn Martell and his paramour Ellaria Sand. They are both genuinely kind people, and both seem to have a lot of good sex (with each other, or with other partners). Furthermore, bad characters have really painful or depraved sex, or don't get any. Subverted with Cersei and Jaime though. Apparently the sex is amazing and they act like Insatiable Newlyweds at times, but they're both Jerk Asses and twin siblings, to boot.
• In the opinion of Marine Person from Generation Kill good sex makes people good, the global instability and the Iraq war boils down to people having a poor sex life. ^{Click to enlarge} Cpl. Person: Lack of pussy that fucks countries up, lack of pussy is the root fucking cause of all global instability, if more hajis were getting quality pussy, there'd be no reason for us to come over and fuck 'em up like this, cause a nut-busting haji, is a happy haji. You take the Republican Guard and comp their asses for a week in Vegas. No fucking war! If Saddam invested more in the pussy infrastructure of Iraq than he did in his fucking gay ass army, then this country would be no more fucked up than say, Mexico.
• In an episode of The Golden Girls, Rose revealed that her late husband Charlie had died while they were making love. In a later episode, she revealed that for most of their married life she and Charlie would make love at least twice a day; once every night and once every morning. When Blanche learned this, her reaction was, "No wonder you still mourn that man!"
• Marshall and Lily from How I Met Your Mother have an awesome sex life and they're wonderful people. Amusingly, the show deliberately subverts the traditional All Women Are Prudes / All Men Are Perverts dynamics; Marshall's a horny son of a gun, but Lily's usually the one pushing for sex. When they went three weeks without sex, Lily developed the shakes.
• Impulse: Henry with Josh. It stands in complete contrast to her experience with Clay as Josh, before and after the sex, is nothing but kind and supportive, and so the sex is clearly good for her. Unfortunately it's also heavily deconstructed as, while he's a good man and they enjoy the sex, it also triggers the trauma she suffered from Clay and causes her panic attacks after.
• Avoided to a degree in Jack of All Trades episode, "X Marquis the Spot", where the people on Agony Island (most notably Hans and Helga) are depicted as shunned by society for their love of bondage, but not wrong or evil. The Marquis is evil, but that has more to do with him being French than being a sadomasochist. At the end of the episode, Emilia mentions that although S&M isn't for everyone, there's nothing inherently evil about it. Jack is too creeped out to agree.
• This trope couldn't be played more straight than in the mini-series adaptation of Labyrinth. When Guilhem has sex with his sweet-natured wife Alais, it's slow, loving, and missionary style. When he commits adultery with Alais's bitchy sister Oriane, it's loud, rough, and doggie style (and neither of them seems to be enjoying it much).
• Madam Secretary makes it very clear that even after at least twenty years of tough intelligence and political careers and three children, Liz and Henry McCord's marriage is passionate in every sense of the word. As an ethics professor with a strict personal code based partly on moderate Christian theology, Henry is, bar none, the most morally upstanding person in the series, and Liz has teased him that she finds his morals quite a turn-on.
  Henry: Who says you have to be a bad boy to get the hot girl?
• Malcolm in the Middle: Lois and Hal are very sexually active. Very active.
  Malik: Only twice per week?
  Hal: Oh, per week... Fourteen.
  • Bryan Cranston once noted that Hal is always trying to seduce Lois, because "he just loves making love to that woman."
• In the Masters of Horror episode "Jenifer", the first indication that Frank is becoming obsessed with Jenifer is when he can't stop fantasizing about her while having a bout of rough sex with his wife, which she clearly isn't enjoying.
• Averted in Pushing Daisies, where the two leads are unable to touch without one of them dying, but have a fulfilling monogamous relationship anyway. It's mentioned at one point that Ned, the male lead, has invented "contraptions" to enable them to have some sort of sex life, so their choices are essentially between "no sex" and "extremely kinky sex", and it appears that at least some of the time, they go for the latter option.
• Scrubs:
  • The Viagra example is played with in one episode. Elliot assumes the above about it and then, while in the cafeteria, Dr. Cox sets her straight by having everyone in the room close their eyes, then asks anyone who's ever used Viagra for recreational purposes to chime their glass. The room is filled with ringing.
  • Dr. Cox and Jordan's sex life is interesting. They're both usually not very nice people, and they look at their own relationship with a lot of scorn. They have both stated that they absolutely do not "make love" and Jordan even uses it as a threat to Perry once.
    Jordan: If you don't, I'm going to stop having sex with you and start making love.
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Played straight with Amy and Ricky — the insensitive, school man-whore/male slut — have terrible sex when he impregnates her at band camp, but subverted in other cases. Ben and Adrian appear to have enjoyed their romp (or at least she did), and they did it solely for revenge purposes. Not to mention Ricky and Adrian, the school sluts, have a fine old time together. Sex is the show, so this trope is either played straight or subverted all the time.

• Skins constitutes a rare example of this in teen dramas. Sex is never depicted as an intrinsically negative experience; in fact, it's great when it's with the right person. If it's ever bad, it's because you're not where you should be. (See Sid's quote about having "great sex for three days and guilty sex for the rest.") Although sometimes, bad people have good sex, too.
• Shows up in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine of all places. Kira Nerys' relationship with Bareil Antos is portrayed quite positively, while Sinister Minister Kai Winn and a disguised Gul Dukat is essentially rape by deception and used by Dukat to draw her to the Pah-wraiths' side. Turned on its head with Worf and Jadzia Dax, though: their relationship is certainly passionate and they're both good people, but because Worf is a Klingon they both tend to end up beat to hell afterwards.
• Supergirl (2015): Kara and Mon-El. Kara is so upbeat after their first night together that she wakes up early to fight a ton of crime, then brings him flowers.
  Mon-El: [waking up alone] Was it that bad? ...or was it that good?
• In Supernatural, when Dean Winchester apparently has sex with his women of the week, it tends to be slow-moving and passionate. His former love interest Lisa Braeden states that he was the best night of her life. When Sam has sex (particularly when under the influence of demon blood) it tends to be a lot more aggressive and well... falls into the "fuck" category.
• Played straight in Veronica Mars, of all places. Veronica and Logan have a happy, healthy sex life, whereas in the season two finale it is hinted that Beaver couldn't get it up with Mac, right before the revelation that he is the Big Bad serial killer of the season, who murdered an entire Bus Full of Innocents. Made even worse when you look at the back story: earlier in the show, Beaver once raped Veronica when she was lying unconscious. Also, he had chlamydia, which he passed on to Veronica.
• In Vikings, Ragnar and Lagertha are both firm anti-heroes but are shown to have a passionate, fulfilling sex life. Ragnar's nemesis in the first season, Earl Haraldson, a petty and paranoid ruler, is strongly implied to have gone impotent in his old age.
• The White Queen: The consummation of Anne Neville's marriages to her first and second husbands are polar opposites in terms of how negative (the former) and positive (the latter) the sexual experiences were for her. With her unwanted Arranged Marriage to Edward of Lancaster (whom she considers to be a monster, and he hates her because she's the daughter of the man who overthrew his father), she endures a terrifying and painful marital rape while he uses his weight to pin her down to the bed. The manner in which this scene is shot, lit, and scored indicates that it's a very harsh and clinical act. In sharp contrast, Richard of Gloucester, whom Anne later marries of her own volition and for love, is tender and patient with her. She sits on top of him so that she can control the pace of their lovemaking; she remains still at first (presumably due to nervousness), and he doesn't rush her. When she does start moving, they hold hands; she then moves her head down towards his so that their faces are close, and they both sigh heavily with pleasure. The lighting, camera angles, and music suggest warmth and emotional intimacy. Anne's wedding night with the dreaded Edward was hell, but her wedding night with her beloved Richard is heavenly.
• Theresa and Jerry of Wizards of Waverly Place, although they're only good about half the time.
• You're the Worst plays with this one. The eponymous "worst" (Jimmy and Gretchen) aren't exactly "good people", but they are the protagonists and their sex life is portrayed as healthy and positive. Just about every sexual encounter that isn't between the two of them is awkward or unpleasant in some way.

Music

• This is the point of the Lily Allen song "Not Fair," which is about dating an otherwise amazing guy who's just awful in bed. Allen indicates throughout the song that this does matter and that it speaks quite poorly of the boyfriend that he doesn't put in the effort to please her.
• "The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A." by Donna Fargo is about a woman who's in a relationship with a man who's very good in bed.
• Kids Praise: This is very subtly implied by the fact that Chaste Toons is averted: during a Time Skip, Psalty gets Happily Married and has triplets.

Religion

• Perhaps the ur-example, The Bible's Song of Songs uses a collection of love poetry exchanged between a married couple (by some traditions, Solomon and one of his wives), who are not shy about saying exactly what they love about each other, as a metaphor for the loving relationship between God and his followers.
  • The Book of Corinthians provides more details about what makes a good love, according to apostle Paul, it is recommended to have sexual relations only within marriage, and a relationship should last for the entire life because Love Redeems.

Video Games

• Dragon Age: Origins:
  • Played straight for a straight female Warden. Alistair is the shy, adorkable Betty to Zevran's slick, smooth Veronica. Alistair is also a virgin, while Zevran is a highly experienced former assassin. However, a female Warden who romances Alistair gets several potential dialogue options to imply that he's very good in bed, while few to no similar dialogue exists regarding Zevran. It's worth noting that Alistair takes a very Sex Equals Love approach to the relationship, while Zevran is more comfortable with treating it like a casual fling.
  • This trope is present to some extent in all the romances. Alistair and Leliana are two of the most outright moral love interests who insist on waiting, and the sex is implied to be duly wonderful. Morrigan and Zevran are more morally dubious, take a more casual approach to sex, and can be persuaded to jump into bed much sooner. While the sex is not bad, it's also treated as empty passion. If you gain more affection from them and help them grow into better people, their attitude on the relationship becomes much more reverent, and the sex is implied to improve.
• In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Catalina, by far one of the craziest characters of the game, turns out to be into S&M during the cut scene for the "Gone Courting" mission. We don't see anything of the act itself, but she proceeds to chain C.J. to a rack and then takes a whip to him before getting down to business.
• In Mass Effect 2, there are two points at which a male Shepard can have sex with the criminal Jack. The Renegade sex option is based solely on sex and rather violent; afterward, Jack doesn't want to talk, not wanting to play and any further progression is cut off. The Paragon sex option is based on your interest in Jack as a person and is not only intimate and gentle but therapeutic for Jack. Played with, however, as it's strongly implied that in the Paragon route, Shepard and Jack do not actually have sex. Though if they remain together in Mass Effect 3 it's apparent that they've got an enthusiastic and kinky sex life.
• Mass Effect: Andromeda:
  • Peebee can be a casual romantic relationship, with no strings attached. A romantic relationship with her is heavily suggested to be much more energetic, with Peebee and Ryder going at it constantly.
    Ryder: I love you more.
    Peebee: I need proof. Soon.
  • Likewise, Scott and Cora. Their sex scene apparently has them going for an entire evening, only stopping when SAM cuts in to tell them they've been banging all night.
• In Baldur's Gate II, the trope gets played painfully straight. Naive Aerie, the Good aligned love interest, tries offering herself to you, but if you respond enthusiastically it ruins your relationship whereas telling her that sex isn't the same thing as love leads to the two of you forming a strong emotional connection (and in the expansion pack, she becomes pregnant). Meanwhile, Viconia, the Evil aligned love interest, will have sex with you quickly but it's just empty pleasure. Once she starts developing actual feelings for you she panics and either ends up breaking off the relationship or her alignment changes to neutral and she's able to form an actual emotional bond with you.
• In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Volgin is a Depraved Bisexual S&M enthusiast that loves using electric torture. Let's just say that EVA's experience sleeping with him wasn't very pleasant for her. Now, Big Boss on the other hand, was a gentle, good experience for her.
• In the fan-produced A Dance with Rogues Neverwinter Nights module series, the character Vico is a psychotic Ax-Crazy blackguard. Unless your character insists, he will try to have anal sex with you at every opportunity. Anden and Bran, both good characters, tend to prefer missionary or reverse missionary. Curiously, Rizzen (the drow) has no major differences from Bran's style.
  • In the fan-produced The Bastard of Kosigan module series, most sexual encounters are treated as amoral or downright evil (it was specifically not written for paladins); so far every one except for the prostitute in Cologne or the 'good' option with Yannia has been rather unconventional (usually involving a tree, a wall, or a table).
• No More Heroes: Travis Touchdown locks himself in with Sylvia, and all we hear is shotgun blasts coming from inside. This despite the fact that both are very morally grey, Sylvia moreso than Travis.
• In Persona 3 and Persona 4 of Shin Megami Tensei fame, you (as the MC) are given the opportunity to sleep with almost any of the girls' whose S-Links you've completed. The scenes are not given explicit detail since this ain't an eroge, but it's heavily implied that both Main Characters are very loving and gentle.
  • It's also not even directly stated that you even have sex. The game's shorthand is "Christmas Eve continues..." You wouldn't realize they had sex if you're not paying really close attention to the lead-up (such as Chie mentioning that she lied to her parents and said she'd be spending the night at Yukiko's place, or Yukiko lying about staying at Chie's place, or Ai saying she'd rather spend Christmas Eve "next to you" instead of going home).
• Carries on in Persona 5 in similar fashion. Of the 10 possible girlfriends the protagonist can have, most of the romantic conclusions can be interpreted as largely innocent in nature, while a few are a bit more suggestive. Makoto suggests they "study some things we don't have experience in" and outright asks if she can be with him, Ohya invites the protagonist to her place for a meal and whatever happens afterward is "up to you," and Kawakami who says that although she quit her maid job, she'll still obey her master's requests (although he will simply put his head in her lap). One Confidant romance makes it quite clear sex happens, which is Takemi's. Prior to her final level, she sends a text asking if the cafe will be empty at night, caffeine stimulates the nervous system, and that he probably won't get much sleep that night. At the cafe, she confirms again it's just the two of them, offers to give him a "thorough examination" and leans in to kiss him as the screen fades to black. Double points for her English voice actress whose voice drops to a slow and sultry purr as she promises to take her time examining him...
  • In contrast, sexual crimes are part and parcel of the bad guys who abuse their power and influence. The very first antagonist is a scumbag teacher of the highest order who hits his male students and molests his female students, including Shiho who is strongly implied to have been raped. The third target is a mob boss who threatens to sell Makoto and her sister into sexual slavery, and his one-scene appearing "girlfriend" is clearly just a floozy who's more enamored with his money. The protagonist himself got in trouble for trying to stop a man from intimidating and assaulting a woman, and in Persona 5 Royal, it is also revealed that this same man fathered Goro Akechi after raping his prostitute mother.
• Played with Star Wars: The Old Republic. In true BioWare fashion, less moral characters you can have long-term relationships with jump to the sex sooner, though it's rarely treated as less enjoyable than with more moral ones. If the player is in a long-term relationship with a more moral companion, though, the sex is implied to be amazing for this reason. Probably played straightest with a Male Sith Warrior, who can only romance Vette (light side romance) if you remove her shock collar, treat her like a person, and (in theory) treat others decently. They're implied to have a rather kinky sex life, but still highly enjoyable. However, romancing Jaesa (dark side only) is mostly physical and focuses on power dynamics.
• Used as a buff in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. If the Dragonborn marries, they can share a bed with their spouse. After sleeping in this bed, they awaken and the game informs the player that "You awaken feeling your Lover's Comfort." This is a buff that allows the Dragonborn to learn skills at a faster rate than normal for a while - in other words, s/he is in such a good mood that it makes leveling up easier.
  • The same goes for another Bethesda property, Fallout 4, which has the same buff (though no marriage). But the same bonus applies whether your lover is the gentle and innocent Curie, the Anti-Hero Hancock, or the Blood Knight Cait.
• Wolfenstein: The New Order shows that BJ and Anya are very dedicated to each other, to the chagrin of others in the hideout.
• In Final Fantasy VII (1997), Tifa's willing to act as a Honey Trap to the Don after being 'auditioned' at the Honeybee Inn, but is still disgusted by it, instead willing to participate only so she can have her shot at being the girl Corneo picks. Her sexual experience with Cloud, on the other hand, is a little embarrassing to her but clearly enjoyable, with her being unwilling to wake up after a night of sleeping against him, saying "let me have this moment".

Visual Novels

• The protagonist of Daughter for Dessert seems to enjoy himself all around, and so do all the girls.
• Dengeki Stryker has sex scenes written this way.
• In Double Homework, not one bad sex scene with the protagonist is shown.
• Played with in Fate/stay night, in that it's not so much the moral uprightness of the characters that results in good sex, but rather their motivation for having sex in the first place. When the characters have sex for some reason other than its own sake, at least one of the participants doesn't enjoy it.
• Fate/hollow ataraxia could go so far as to poke fun at this a bit. A bit of exposition in a scenario mentions that each time Shirou and Rin have tried to have sex since the conclusion of the route something has gone completely awry with the situation. The scenario revolves around them finally getting it right and loving every moment of it. Rin's inhibitions disappear to the point she'd rather risk getting pregnant than letting Shirou pull out.
• Inverted near the end of Shizune's route in Katawa Shoujo. The-Player-as-Hisao gets a scene where they can choose to cheat on her with her best friend Misha. If the player does cheat: 1) the sex is really uncomfortable and 2) it leads to her Bad Ending. And if the player does not cheat, it's played straight: the "reward" is one of the most explicit and pleasant-to-go-through sex scenes of the whole game, in which Shizune shows off both her sexy underwear (plus keeping her thigh high socks and her glasses through the sex) and her kinky and topping side.
  • Katawa Shoujo actually plays all around with the trope. While some times the sex is both vanilla and good, with the characters being both good and having good reasons for physical intimacy (i.e, the scenes with Lilly, or the last scenes for both Rin and Emi), other times it's subverted, such as the first scene with Shizune, where she ties Hisao's hands behind his back (which, due to her deafness, is essentially the same as ball-gagging him from her POV), or the one scene with Hanako where despite them honestly loving each other and her wanting to both express that love and show him that she's less fragile than he thinks, the experience is uncomfortable for both of them due to complications from her burns' scar tissue and Hisao being incredibly nervous. And as said above, it's played straight with the scene between Hisao and Misha, where she's having sex with him as a proxy for her unrequited love with Shizune, and he's cheating on Shizune with her. Neither enjoys the experience, and it destroys Hisao and Shizune's relationship as well as Shizune and Misha's friendship.
• In Melody, every sexual encounter that the protagonist has is a positive and pleasurable experience for all parties involved. Also, the ones between the girls are the same.
• The vast majority of the sex scenes in Princess Waltz are like this. In fact, there's exactly one sex scene that isn't like this: the first sex scene between Arata and Chris, which is technically both of them raping each other because a nasty magical side effect skyrocketed their sex drives out of control.
• Believe it or not, School Days, sometimes: it depends on whether the player themself making good choices or not. If s/he is, Makoto and his girlfriend have very loving and mutually pleasurable sex, such as the sex scene with Sekai at the end of Episode 3, or the sex scene with Kotonoha at the end of Episode 4. If the player-as-Makoto is acting like a jerk, some of the sex scenes can come off awkward and uncomfortable (for example, on one path Kotonoha mistakenly thinks Makoto will be faithful to her if she repeatedly offers sex to him, so she gives him a handjob on a train and repeatedly comes to his home just to have sex with him. If the player doesn't refuse her the last time she goes for a blowjob, s/he is punished for their part in her delusion with the infamous Kotonoha-commits-suicide bad ending).
• Sekien no Inganock gives us a lovely sex scene with Ati and Gii, which comes late in the game but is expected given that Ati and Gii are close enough for Kia to mistake Ati as Gii's "wife." The real surprise is that the sex scene between Ruaha and Kerkan can also come off this way, depending on the player's interpretation and given what you later learn about Kerkan's true motives.
• Inverted by Shiki Tohno from Tsukihime during Arcueid, Ciel, and Akiha's routes, him being far too rough in one, pressuring the second into anal sex despite the girl being unconvinced, and acting as kind of a Jerkass to the last one. The other routes play the trope straighter, typically characterized by "initial round of sex for a specific purpose, second round for love"; meaning, ironically, Shiki only plays the trope straight by way of Deus Sex Machina. And even in Hisui's route, where his sexual behavior is more loving, he's a bit too fond of teasing her about her embarrassment at how good it feels. The route where Shiki comes off as the best person having the best sex is Kohaku's, and that's because he has a negative example of someone else's "asshole behavior" in bed to learn from: He discovers that Makihisa repeatedly raped Kohaku when she was a child, due to her powers as a Synchronizer and her begging him to not do the same to her sister Hisui; so after Shiki realizes that the first time Kohaku has sex with him she didn't actually feel anything, Shiki goes out of his way to make sex as wonderful for Kohaku as possible to show her what sex is like when it's coming from someone who loves her, as opposed to coming from Extremely-Painful-Rapist-Thrusting-Into-Way-Too-Small-Little-Kid-Makihisa.
• In Utawarerumono, the sex scenes with Eruru, Urutorii, Yuzuha are like this, because they're the only three sex scenes in the game that don't somehow consist of forcing themselves on Hakuoro (Kamyu goes into vampire mode and uses a spell to paralyze Hakuoro in place, Karura drugs Hakuoro into being aroused, and Touka forces herself on Hakuoro due to prank advice from Karura). Eruru's is an arguable example; they were both mutually drunk which is partially what put the idea of sex into their heads, but they're very loving and gentle during sex in spite of being drunk, so it counts. Urutorii's sex scene happens because Hakuoro is comforting her after she had to give up a baby to its real family, so Hakuoro is very gentle about it. And finally, Oboro, drunk out of his mind so he doesn't really understand what he's asking, begs Hakuoro to fulfill whatever Yuzuha requests. Turns out Yuzuha requests having sex so Hakuoro's baby can be proof of her existence, so Hakuoro is a perfect gentleman during the scene.

Webcomics

• Dominic Deegan: Miranda and Donovan Deegan are both in their 60s and still very much in love with each other.
• The page quote above comes from Jack, in which this seems to be an immutable law of the world. You could also replace "on Earth" with "in Purgatory."
• This trope is the basis for about half of Joyce and Walky!.
• In one Palindramas guest strip, the cartoonist and his wife show their love with the help of a palindrome (and a couple of DVDs).
• Marigold of Questionable Content will tell you that Hermione and Ginny "totally had sex, and it was the most amazing sex in the history of wizarding or muggles or even Space Wizards (who had a lot of sex but it was really bad sex because they were all evil)."
• In Sandra and Woo, according to Lily, Woo is "infinitely better" at sex than at billiards.
• In most of Ralph Hayes, Jr.'s webcomics — particularly Nip and Tuck and Goblin Hollow - only the Happily Married have good sex lives. Sex is only ever mentioned otherwise in the context of either "Good girls don't" and "Sleazebags do."
• In Everyday Heroes, Mr. Mighty and Jane still have a happy marriage after 17 years. Subverted by Dr. and Mrs. Goode, a normal couple who apparently like to spice things up a bit.
• In Satin Steele, Janet and Matt are shown to have good sex, and they are on the good side.
• In C Karrus it is averted with Ton Shi and Xylla, who don't seem to be good people at all but have a positive sex life.

Web Original

• The third season of Dragon Ball Z Abridged ends with Android 18 meeting Krillin at Kame House. Referencing 18's promise to herself of Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex with Krillin if they got through Cell, she tells him to drop his pants. The sound effects and reactions suggest Krillin is well-endowed, and a further stinger as their sex ends has both reacting positively. Specifically, it's implied they went at it 39 times in a row. (The first time brought Krillin's Owned Count down from 39 to 38. When it cuts back to them, the counter's at 1. And Krillin destroys it during the last time.)
• Hero House has Batman and Catwoman if their phone call is anything to go by.
• Played with in Ilivais X. Mille certainly isn't a bad person, as she represents the idealistic and heroic attitude a Super Robot Genre protagonist SHOULD possess. But she's also shown to be incredibly lustful and dominant, having her way with others solely to satisfy her needs. As such sleeping with Essen, an undoubtedly Neutral Good character, came across as awkward and made any kind of friendship strained from that point. But her more loaded interactions with the far more morally ambiguous Iriana are strangely romantic and tender, even if they're loaded with that undertone that Iriana feels too weak to be able to say no.

Western Animation

• Pam in Archer isn't exactly virtuous, but she's one of the nicest characters on the show and is portrayed as a Sex God.
• Used in Justice League's episode "The Great Brain Robbery." The quality of the sex is (heavily implied to be) one of the things that tips Tala off to Lex Luthor not being himself.
  Tala: Baby, you were so... different. So attentive. So caring. So... enthusiastic.
  Flash (in Lex's body): Uh...
  Tala: I like it! (resting her head on his shoulder happily)

When Lex is restored to his own body, Tala simply responds with a dejected "Aww."

• The Simpsons: For all of Homer's idiocy and his general Jerkass tendencies, he sexes up Marge but good. It's one of the little ways the show has of showing the strength of the connection between Marge and Homer.
• Bob and Pickles of The Oblongs. It's what keeps their marriage together, and it helps Milo sleep.
• Peter and Lois Griffin from Family Guy started out with them both being passionate with each other and the sex being mutually pleasurable. In later seasons, both of them became less attracted to each other with the sex being loveless and full of faults, ranging from Peter's size, the duration, and simply because both are no longer attracted to each other. Lois is also shown to have multiple affairs, likely due to sexual frustration and other things.
• Stan and Francine Smith from American Dad! appeared to have a romantic sex life but it's usually only pleasurable to Stan since he sees the deed as another sign of his manhood. Francine is seen as one of the most attractive characters in the show and her side of their sex life is seen as innocent and titillating. In "Poltergasm", Francine reveals she was faking her orgasms and the apparition of her orgasms started terrorising the family until Stan could satisfy her.

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