History Main / AllWomenArePrudes

* PlayedWith in, of all things, ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'' with the hero's girlfriend, seemingly a living example of this trope until the wish-granting beasties of the title reveal that [[MyGirlIsASlut his girl is an aspiring slut.]].

* The 1961 film ''Film/SplendorInTheGrass'' (set in 1928), is a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope. When teenager Deanie asks her mother if she ever felt "that way" about her husband, she explains that no nice girl has sexual desires, and she never enjoyed sex with her him: "I just gave in because a wife has to. A woman doesn't enjoy those things the way a man does. She just lets her husband come near her in order to have children." The rest of the movie deals with [[SexIsEvil sexual liberation]], and ends on quite a [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet note]].

A related stereotype arising from such a belief is that whereas a man's attraction towards women is mostly physical, a woman's attraction towards men is always strictly ''romantic''; the emotional fulfillment and intimacy that comes with a relationship appeal to the latter more than its sexual aspects, thus making them [[WomenAreWiser more attuned to genuine, wholesome love than the former]]. This was also thought to be the case with lesbians in the past, and may still appear as an undercurrent in fictional portrayals of them even thought it is nowadays discredited, often in the form of the assertion than relationships between two women are more "pure" and fulfilling due to the lack of problematic lustful urges that occur in heterosexual relationships (coming exclusively from the man, of course).

** Carla points out that one of the advantages of getting married is that she won't have to have sex anymore unless she wants to. The implication being, of course, that women use sex to get a man to marry her and buy her things. Carla will also take any excuse to [[LysistrataGambit deny Turk sex]], to the point that ''Elliot'' can deny him sex whenever she wants just because she's friends with Carla.

The corollary to this {{trope}} is that AllMenArePerverts: see also HandsomeLech, and ImAManICantHelpIt.

** Averted in a funny way, the men are in a tailor's when Marshall urges Ted not to attempt a LongDistanceRelationship with Victoria, saying "long-distance was invented by women. All talking and no sex? Kill me now". In a scene that is shown later but took place around the same time, Lily (Marshall's fiance) urges Victoria not to attempt a long-distance relationship with Ted, saying "all talking and no sex? Kill me now". Lily has also been shown in other episodes to have a fairly high sex drive.
** And then it and the DoubleStandard counterpart AManIsAlwaysEager are played straight when Stella, justifying her five-year streak of celibacy, says seriously "Men regret the women they don't sleep with. Women regret the men they do." Granted, she may have been referring to the fact that her last sexual partner left her with a daughter, which clearly affects her life a lot more than it affected his.

'''House:''' Just because everybody in this room[[labelnote:*note]]Everybody in the room is a man except for Thirteen, a bisexual woman.[[/labelnote]] wishes that all women were horny all the time, doesn't make it so.
* An interesting inversion in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Amy seems deeply interested in sex, but is dating Sheldon, who is himself an inversion of [[AllMenArePerverts the opposite trope]]. Amy did play it straight when she first appeared on the show, however.

:: At the end of the episode, Eric and Donna are making out, and Donna says that all women have the ability to just switch off their horniness at will, so Eric can't possibly hope to win the contest. Eric then breaks down and admits defeat, to which Donna says "[[SubvertedTrope Thank God, I was bluffing.]]" and jumps him.

* On Creator/MargaretCho's short-lived sitcom ''Series/AllAmericanGirl'', her teenage character was written to ''always'' turn down sex from her love interests, even though the show is based on Cho's real life and she has stated that she personally would have said yes in many of the scenes where her character said no. This was one of her biggest gripes with the producers since she is a proud EthicalSlut who has always advocated for healthy sexual practices and reproductive choice.