History Main / DefiledForever

* ''Literature/PeterPan'' plays this either UpToEleven or [[UnfortunateImplications with a metaphor]]: Tiger Lily has a vendetta against Captain Hook because he stepped on her shadow, in very specific circumstances, when she was six years old, thus leaving her Defiled Forever.

** Taken UpToEleven in their ''Evenicle'' series. Anyone who fails to obey the goddess Eve's law regarding monogamy is cursed with a MarkOfShame similar to that of Cain, branding them an outlaw and forcing any crops or livestock they try to raise to wither and die. This law [[JerkassGods includes rape victims]], meaning not only are rape victims traumatized and barred from TrueLove, but also dehumanized and forced into a social class of people with no hope of reintegrating into society within an artificial apartheid state. And if you think ''that's'' bad, we haven't even gone into the TorturePorn yet.

* In ''Manga/KOn'', the extremely timid Mio sobs, "No one will marry me now!" after tripping onstage and giving the audience a panty shot... and also after being forcibly stripped and put in a skimpy outfit. PlayedForLaughs, being a MinorInjuryOverreaction.

* In ''Manga/KOn'', the extremely timid Mio sobs, "No one will marry me now!" after tripping onstage and giving the audience a PantyShot... and also after being forcibly stripped and put in a skimpy outfit. PlayedForLaughs, being a MinorInjuryOverreaction.

* Creator/AliceSoft:
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/SengokuRance'' with [[spoiler:Kouhime]]'s rape. She's heartbroken that she can't get married anymore, but Rance tells her guys like that don't count, makes fun of the rapists' small penises, and promises to marry her himself if no one else will take her.
** Taken UpToEleven in their ''Evenicle'' series. Anyone who fails to obey the goddess Eve's law regarding monogamy is cursed with a MarkOfShame similar to that of Cain, branding them an outlaw and forcing any crops or livestock they try to raise to wither and die. This law [[JerkassGods includes rape victims]], meaning not only are rape victims traumatized and barred from TrueLove, but also dehumanized and forced into a social class of people with no hope of reintegrating into society within an artificial apartheid state. And if you think ''that's'' bad, we haven't even gone into the TorturePorn yet.

* [[Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe Goethe]] [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this]] in ''Theatre/{{Faust}}''. Margaret/Gretchen starts off as the typical SatelliteLoveInterest popular in Goethe's time. Rumors spread when Faust knocks her up and Gretchen's KnightTemplarBigBrother Valentino decides to kill her "defiler". He attacks Faust and Mephistopheles at her doorstep and promptly gets [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomped]]. As he dies, Valentino [[HonorRelatedAbuse spews abuse at his sister]], setting off Gretchen's personal TraumaCongaLine which [[BreakTheCutie breaks]] [[FreakOut the]] [[DrivenToMadness girl]] [[HeroicBSOD completely]]. By the time Faust returns, he finds her [[TheOphelia insane]] and imprisoned for having [[DespairEventHorizon drowned their child in shame]]. She no longer recognizes Faust and refuses to leave, DyingAlone [[TearJerker in the cold and dark]]. Goethe does, however, [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this when God declares Gretchen "saved".

* In ''Manhwa/HesDedicatedToRoses'' [[spoiler: Mi-Mi]] decides to invoke the trope via [[spoiler: setting up her rival I-Da to be gang-raped by her delinquent boyfriend Hak-Yoon and his gang, ''and'' making sure Ida's friend Juh-Na and Mi-mi's own cousin Shih-Nah (who's in love with I-Da) will be ForcedToWatch and thus refuse to associate with I-Da anymore]]. It backfires, though: [[spoiler: not only I-Da is rescued (though her savior, Na-Ru, takes a knife to the gut and almost bleeds to death), but Hak-Yoon is captured and taken to juvie, and neither Juh-Na nor Shih-Nah abandons I-da afterwards. Since Mi-Mi is [[WhatAnIdiot stupid enough]] to dump Hak-Yoon right after he's captured, [[HumiliationConga things go downhill for her from then on]].]]

* In'' Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', Ditzy Doo initially felt like she couldn't possibly be worthy of being a mother since she had gotten pregnant by having sex with a stallion who she knew was married to somepony else. In the end, she not only decides to be a mother to Dinky, but she also ends up becoming one of the Elements of Harmony.

* In ''Series/NewAmsterdam'', the episode "Honor" has an Indian-American rape victim being [[HonorRelatedAbuse killed by her father]] because she's no longer a virgin. The flashbacks to the immortal's past also revealed that the protagonist had previously held the same notion that a woman who loses her virginity is defiled until he discovered that she had in fact been raped.

** Subverted in ''Videogame/SengokuRance'' with [[spoiler:Kouhime]]'s rape. She's heartbroken that she can't get married anymore, but Rance tells her guys like that don't count, makes fun of the rapists' small penises, and promises to marry her himself if no one else will take her.

* ''Visualnovel/FateStayNight'':

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** German [[IncrediblyLamePun camp icon]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina_Soderbaum Kristina Söderbaum]] made an entire career out of playing such characters. After her third "rape victim driven to suicide" role, she was given the monicker "Reichswasserleiche" (roughly translated as "Reich's Main Water Corpse") by the cinema-goers due to her favored method of dispatch usually being drowning. Needless to say, her own career drowned without a trace after the demise of the Third Reich.

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Asuka was the "voluntary" sex toy of two warlords for three years. Daniel altered the past so neither of them actually ravished her, but she still feels filthy and sees herself as a slut who whored herself out to save her hide.* ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'':

---> '''Jeremy:''' It hurts to talk about my rotten smell with the person I like.\\

** Taken UpToEleven in their ''Evenicle'' series. Anyone who fails to obey the goddess Eve's law regarding monogamy is cursed with a MarkOfShame similar to that of Cain, branding them an outlaw and forcing any crops or livestock they try to raise to wither and die. This law [[JerkassGods includes rape victims]], meaning not only are rape victims traumatized and barred from TrueLove, but also dehumanized and forced into a social class of people with no hope of reintegrating into society within an artificial apartheid state. And if you think that's bad, I haven't even gone into the TorturePorn yet.

* Subverted in ''Videogame/SengokuRance'' with [[spoiler:Kouhime]]'s rape. She's heartbroken that she can't get married anymore, but Rance tells her guys like that don't count, makes fun of the rapists' small penises, and promises to marry her himself if no one else will take her.

* Some versions of the myth of {{Medusa}} has her getting raped by Poseidon, then, as punishment for being so tempting, she's transformed into a gorgon. Quite a lot of victims of divine rape in Greek mythology were transformed or blasted by gods who were angry but couldn't take it out on the divine partner.
* {{Zigzagged}} throughout the Old Testament of Literature/TheBible.
** Deuteronomy contains a law that states that a woman is not guilty of sexual misconduct if there is evidence that she was forcibly raped (for instance, she was heard crying for help) or if it cannot be proven that she ''didn't'' resist.
** Another law states that a man who rapes a woman has to compensate [[ValuesDissonance her family for the reduction of the bride price they deserve for her]], and, should she decide she wants this option, marry her without the option of divorce. [[BrotherSisterIncest The story of Amnon and his half-sister Tamar]], in 2 Samuel 13: After Amnon lures Tamar into his rooms while PlayingSick and rapes her, Tamar herself says to him that ''his rejection of her afterwards is even eviler than the rape.'' This implies that the law is meant to force the rapist to provide for his victim now that he has put her in such a terrible position culturally. The marriage option was simply one of many ways to make the man responsible for his actions, as was the payment of silver to the girl's father. Reading through the laws, the penalty for rape falls on the head of the attacker. The only reason the woman would be punished is if she willingly slept with the man (or was suspected to have done so) since that broke the laws of fornication.
** In Genesis 34, Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, is raped by Sechem of the Hivite. Then the rapist demands that his father Hamor (the local chieftain) get Dinah for his wife, apparently trying to invoke 'marry me or be defiled forever'. It doesn't work. Jacob's sons go overboard in [[RoaringRampageofRevenge revenge]]; Simeon and Levi, having led the slaughter, lose the possibility of being considered next in line for head of the tribe after Reuben (the eldest) loses ''his'' right.
** Exodus contains a law that states that anyone (male or female) who [[BestialityIsDepraved has sex with an animal]] is to be executed. The animal is also considered Defiled Forever and must be slaughtered.
* In the New Testament, this trope is averted; sexual immorality defiles, but not irredeemably. Paul says in the sixth chapter of 1 Corinthians that a believer's body is considered a temple of God, which is defiled when it's involved in sexual immorality. But it doesn't say defiled ''forever''--and Paul had just said in the same chapter that some of his audience used to be "sexually immoral" before they were "washed" and "sanctified".
** In St. Augustine's writings, this trope is averted in the case of rape. He says that if a maiden is raped and doesn't consent in spirit, then she is still a virgin just as if she wasn't raped because she did not bring the rape upon herself and she maintained her purity in mind throughout the experience.
* Averted with rape in [[Literature/TheQuran the Qu'ran]], where the victim isn't considered defiled, and the perpetrator is given a punishment ranging from lashing to execution. If the crime was adultery however, then both have commited a form of zina and must be executed.
* This may be the reason Lucretia of Roman mythology (and likely history) kills herself after naming her rapist. The other is that, in general, Roman nobles were ''required'' to commit suicide once their honor was sullied.
* {{Lampshaded}} by Creator/CSLewis in one essay in which he says that scandalmongers deserve it more than prostitutes.

* While a mild and instantly forgotten example, episode 2 of the first season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' had Ms. Haruna, Usagi's teacher, immediately believe that "no one will ever marry her" after a possessed Umino (Melvin in the dub) flipped her skirt. This scene is the most likely reason why [[MissingEpisode this episode was not dubbed into English.]] ([[StudioHop at least until [[Creator/VizMedia VIZ]] obtained the rights and redubbed the anime, missing episodes included.]])

* While a mild and instantly forgotten example, episode 2 of the first season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' had Ms. Haruna, Usagi's teacher, immediately believe that "no one will ever marry her" after a possessed Umino (Melvin in the dub) flipped her skirt. This scene is the most likely reason why [[MissingEpisode this episode was not dubbed into English.]] ([[StudioHop at least until [[Creator/VizMedia VIZ]] obtained the rights and redubbed the anime, missing episodes included.)

* While a mild and instantly forgotten example, episode 2 of the first season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' had Ms. Haruna, Usagi's teacher, immediately believe that "no one will ever marry her" after a possessed Umino (Melvin in the dub) flipped her skirt. This scene is the most likely reason why [[MissingEpisode this episode was not dubbed into English.]]

* Averted in ''Literature/TheWarGods'' at least among hradani. Bahzell rescues Farmah after she is raped in the first book and when she turns up again in the next book she is happily engaged with no stigma attached (although her fiancé is a little upset that Bahzell killed her rapist before he could).
* Played with in ''And I Darken''. Lada refuses to sleep with Mehmed because she believes this, but everyone else averts it. While premarital sex does do this in Ottoman society, Lada's still covered, since technically she is a part of Mehmed's RoyalHarem and therefore fair game under Islamic law.

* In the novelization of the movie ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', this is Kara's major concern after being raped by King Einon. (In the film it was an AttemptedRape, but implied to have been unsuccessful.) As she says to Bowen later, "What can wash away the stain of soiled innocence?" Bowen is a subversion of the trope, however; he's in love with Kara and insists that this doesn't change anything about his feelings for her. It's also worth noting that only four people are aware that the event ever took place - Einon, Kara, Bowen (to whom she related the matter), and Einon's mother Aislinn, who helped Kara escape afterward.
* In ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'', Petra is brutally raped by her owner's son and his friends, but she is [[SlutShaming declared guilty of leading them on and therefore it's her own fault she was raped]]. The judge sentences her to be auctioned off and she is turned into a prostitute, where she is repeatedly abused by the costumers. By the time she meets John Hamilton and becomes attracted to him, she doesn't believe he could be genuinely in love with her since she is just a "filthy whore". [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as he falls for her nonetheless and he proposes to her at the end of the book]].
* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Charly}}''. Sam thinks that she can no longer marry Charly because of her past sexual transgressions, but his bishop convinces him that if God can forgive her, so can he.
* In ''Literature/SecretsNotMeantToBeKept'', Martha Plunkett, who runs a toddler sex ring disguised as a preschool, invokes an age-appropriate version of this trope, telling the kids that their parents won't love them if the parents find out about the molestation. Of course, as such warnings from child molesters often are, this is a lie.
* Subverted in ''Literature/PatienceAndSarah''. After [[spoiler:an AttemptedRape]], Sarah feels disgusted and embarrassed. It takes Patience's gentle words to help her out of her self-loathing.
* ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'': This attitude exists toward women who lose their virginity outside wedlock (at least if they aren't magicians, who are not bound by normal rules), with no one else willing to marry them. Emily thus keeps on the female servants of the previous Baron (who apparently raped them) employed so they'll be able to make a living.
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' the Tuerasians brand the foreheads of those guilty of fornication or adultery so everyone will know their social shame. Hamahra fulfills the trope in a different way by viewing rape victims as damaged goods, a cultural element which the Tuerasians [[CultureClash condemn as backwards and barbaric]]. Sharra in particular worries that her family will throw her out after her brief time as a SexSlave, which prompts a particularly visceral response from Daylen.
-->'''Daylen:''' "That's a load of [[PardonMyKlingon drack]]!"\\
'''Sharra:''' "But who'll marry me now? My ... my parents won't want me anymore.\\
'''Daylen:''' "If your parents love you, that isn't true."
* Ariane, the heroine of the medieval bodice-ripper ''Enchanted'', was considered this by her father after she was raped. Even worse, he doesn't believe that she was and instead thinks that it's she who seduced her assailant.
* Happens to Rebecca in ''Literature/GirlsWithSharpSticks'' after Mr. Wolfe sexually assaults her at the academy's open house. She is blamed for leading him on and harshly punished, even though she and all the other girls had been given slinky and revealing dresses in order to [[SexSells better show off the "merchandise"]] to the academy's sponsors; in other words, they were there explicitly to look sexy. Mr. Wolfe, by contrast, gets the comparatively light punishment of a permanent ban from the campus grounds for "theft" (i.e. stealing Rebecca's purity).
* In ''Literature/TheArtsOfDarkAndLight'', female elves who are mistreated this way not only suffer all the ordinary trauma, but also [[VirginPower lose their ability to work magic]]. Because of this, the elves consider rape a particularly heinous crime, even as compared to how other peoples feel about it.
* Parodied in Creator/ThomasHardy's poem "The Ruined Maid", in which a working-class Yorkshire lass meets an old friend who now dresses, talks and acts like a high class lady, and her explanation for this is that she was "ruined". The implication is ''either'' that, contrary to appearances, her apparently sophisticated lifestyle doesn't make up for her loss of reputation and rejection by the society she grew up in, ''or'' that it ''does'', and said rejection was really more like an escape. Or maybe even a bit of both.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
** Detective Olivia Benson has been through all kinds of horrors, physical as well as psychological, without being shown to have suffered much psychological damage. In a later season, she goes undercover as an inmate and [[NearRapeExperience a prison guard attempts to force her into oral sex (and is stopped, not even touching her)]], which is pretty much her worst nightmare come true. She develops PTSD, and for the rest of the season, there's an ongoing subplot about whether she will be able to keep doing her job after experiencing such a trauma.
** Possibly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in a season 1 episode where a TV journalist goes public with her rape story in order to put it behind her. The city rallies behind her, and she is widely viewed as a hero for it. Unfortunately, a LoonyFan murders her ''and'' her attackers due to their belief in this trope.
** In another episode, Olivia refuses to believe a victim who claims to have recovered psychologically from being sexually assaulted -- the rest of the episode shows she ''hasn't'' (she ends up becoming a vigilante), but even before that plot twist happens, Olivia's disbelief is presented in a way that suggests that nobody ''ever'' comes to terms with being raped. This likely has a lot to do with the fact that Olivia's mother almost certainly never came to terms with being raped.
** In yet another one, a young immigrant woman is horrified of having to admit she was raped out of fear that her brother and herself will be deported, and because she's Muslim and therefore no longer capable of finding a husband. Olivia and Casey Novak tell her that her brother doesn't have to find out, as he's more rigid about their religion than she is, but he does anyway. Rather than attack his sister, he attacks Casey, thinking she's the reason his sister isn't "clean" anymore and that by savagely beating her he's saved his family's reputation.
** Martin Short plays a fake psychic in one episode who justifies his serial rapes by blaming his wife, whom he met long-distance for not staying "pure" before their marriage.
* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': Being raped is a stain that will stay with you forever in the eyes of the other prisoners. TruthInTelevision.
** Beecher manages to largely overcome it, mostly due to his vicious takedown of said rapist. After that, everyone's convinced he's nuts.
* There was an episode in ''Series/ThePretender'' where Jarod investigates the case of a woman who had a mental breakdown after the second time she was raped. Turned out one of her co-workers was secretly the man who raped her years ago in college. Upon meeting her as an adult, he was furious to discover that this trope [[SubvertedTrope has not been played]] and that she has a completely normal life, so he raped her again and switched her medications with anxiety-inducing drugs to make sure that this time she won't recover.
* In the Brazilian historical SoapOpera ''Donha Beija'', the titular character is kidnapped and raped by a powerful man, but nobody believes she was forced and instead accuses her of doing that voluntarily. Her fiancé even left her because he didn't want a "fallen woman." She ends as a prostitute as a result, a profession she uses as a way of revenge against the world. While this worked fine and dandy in the original version, when a ForeignRemake decided to "actualize" the story by just placing it in modern times... well, let's say that the backslash because of the ValuesDissonance hit it hard.

* In ''Series/IClaudius'', Lollia, a Roman matron, commits suicide in front of her husband and friends after being defiled by the emperor Tiberius.

* One episode of ''Series/{{ER}}'' concerned a teenage girl who was gang-raped by three of her boyfriend's friends. She continually blames herself for the crime and suspects her boyfriend will blame her as well and likely break up with her now that she is "defiled". [[spoiler:He does.]]

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'':
** It's unclear exactly what happened-- the episode is deep in QuestionableConsent territory, and the assaulter assures her that she'll [[VirginTension "still be a virgin for your wedding night"]]-- but when Mary is implied to be sexually assaulted by a visiting Turkish minister, she and her mother treat it as though she had willingly "taken a lover" and is Defiled Forever and unsuitable for a proper marriage. LoveInterest Matthew [[SubvertedTrope disagrees strenuously with this interpretation of events]].
** After being raped, Anna says several times that she feels unclean and fears that her husband won't want her anymore. It's ultimately subverted. Her husband is more worried about her well-being when he finds out and Anna is able to recover.
* On ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'':
** In "Another Woman", a young white woman is rescued from the Indians during an Army raid. The townspeople naturally assume that she was raped by them and initially react with sympathy, only to be sickened by the revelation that she actually married one of them and therefore had consensual sex with him, to the point where they all but run her out of town.
** "The Abduction". Dr. Quinn herself is kidnapped by dog soldiers. When the townspeople discuss her plight and Sully's quest to find her, Hank snarks, "He ain't gonna find her. And if he does, he won't want what's left", obviously assuming that she will be raped (she isn't).
** "An Eye For Eye". The brother of a young girl who was raped is convinced of this, asking, "What man is going to want her now?"
* Series/{{Castle}} uses this with a rare male example, although it has less to do with the fact he had an affair as much as ''who'' he was... well, kinda. [[spoiler: A member of the New York City Council got caught having an affair with a prostitute. This would've been disastrous for his career, so much that his political opposition kept copies of photos proving the affair as their trump card. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the private detective who got hired to find this secret kept copies for himself and threatened to blackmail the councilman. Long story short, the councilman tried to buy off the blackmailer in one major payoff with money stolen from his own campaign fund and his wife's trust fund, thereby exposing his affair to his wife and his campaign manager. However, he wasn't killed for being 'damaged goods' as much as a 'Political shit storm' and had to be removed from the picture.]] However, each person involved has a different reason why he was defiled forever, some more personal than others.
** His wife uses this as [[spoiler: a MotiveRant when exposed as having been involved in the killing. The wives of those caught having affairs always get dragged into the mud because their husbands couldn't keep their dicks in their pants and she couldn't live with her family's name being ruined. It's also why she ran in her husband's place when he died - if the photos ever came out, it'd help with her sympathy vote.]]
** His friend [[spoiler: works at keeping his reputation as pristine clean as possible - the second the news about the affair hits, his career is over. This is why he kills the councilman.]]
** His enemies would've benefited for different reasons - [[spoiler: The blackmailer could've gotten a large sum of money for easy work had he not gotten his mark murdered]] while [[spoiler: his opponent would've won the election by a landslide had he not been {{outgambitted}} by his own PI and the councilman's wife]].
* In ''Series/NewAmsterdam'', the episode "Honor" has an Indian-American rape victim being [[HonorRelatedAbuse killed by her father]] because she's no longer a virgin. The flashbacks to the immortal's past also revealed that the protagonist had previously held the same notion that a woman who loses her virginity is defiled until he discovered that she had in fact been raped.
* ''{{Series/Outlander}}'': Jamie warns Claire not to let anyone know of Mary's rape, or she'll never be married, which she finds outrageous.
* ''Series/GentlemanJack'': Ann Walker is utterly horrified when her rapist's wife dies because she knows he'll want to marry her -- and since he already had "relations" with her outside of wedlock, she feels she can't refuse. Fortunately, she eventually opens up to her lover Anne Lister about what's going on, and Miss Lister tells her that the idea that a woman is sullied after being raped is utter nonsense. Miss Walker breaks down in her arms but resolves not to marry him, and Miss Lister decides then and there that someone needs to "do something" about him.
* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Ted is consistently shown to lose interest in any GirlOfTheWeek who has slept with [[LovableSexManiac Barney]]. While it might have more to do with him not wanting to date a girl who is dumb enough to fall for Barney's schemes (long-term love interests [[spoiler:(including the Mother)]] are shown to be smart enough to see through them), there is an element of this trope at play, albeit PlayedForLaughs.

* Subverted in ''Videogame/SengokuRance'' with [[spoiler:Kouhime]]'s rape. She's heartbroken that she can't get married anymore, but Rance tells her guys like that don't count, makes fun of the rapists' small penises, and promises to marry her himself if no one else will take her.

* RareMaleExample: WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's history of sexual abuse has given him an insane amount of problems, and he only comes out of spooning-induced muteness at the end of ''[=SWSII=]'' to sob that the experience felt like prom night all over again.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' features an episode that reveals that Hank's dad, [[MagnificentBastard Cotton,]] had a lovechild with a Japanese nurse at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and was forced to leave her despite wanting to stay with her. When he returns to Japan years later, he finds that she had to marry an unsuccessful businessman because no respectable man would touch her due to the dishonor of bearing Cotton's illegitimate son.

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* In ''I'll Sleep When I'm Dead'', Will's brother Davey commits suicide after being raped by an older man.

* ''Film/TheLodgers'': An unusual variant stemming from a sinister curse and enforced by the eponymous Lodgers (mysterious, otherwordly presences who dwell beneath a trapdoor in the mansion). Should Rachel lose her virginity to anyone but [[spoiler: her twin Edward]], her "impurity" will make it impossible to fulfill the curse, thereby inciting the wrath of the Lodgers.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[AvertedTrope averts]] this with Rosalie, who has no angst about being raped. Some detractors have claimed her cavalier attitude is unrealistic. The reason for this is that the rape happened more than seventy years ago, so she's had time to get over it (and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kill her rapists]]).

* ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'', good high heaven yes. Tess was raped by her employer while sleeping, and it's implied that she was raped again in the month in his service that followed before she slipped away in the dead of night. Because of this, her family and even her previously adoring and doting husband -- [[IronicName Angel]] -- consider her a ruined woman. Angel's reaction upon learning her dark and troubled past is especially egregious -- he rejects her utterly, considering her an impostor and a monster that destroyed the Tess he was in love with (shockingly, he addresses she is not to blame for the rape). This comes on the back of his admission that he'd had a fling with either a prostitute or a desperate ChristmasCake, and his being forgiven by her for it. To cut a rather depressing 'It Got Worse' story short, this sort of behavior continues until the only way she can support her family is to [[spoiler: become the mistress of the man who raped her in the first place. When she asks the atheistic Angel if they will be together in heaven, he can't even bring himself to say yes.]]
** Worthy of note, however, is the fact that this viewpoint is only espoused by characters within the novel. The novel itself was actually considered groundbreaking for ''not'' playing the trope straight in the narrative voice. The full title is, "Tess of the D'urbervilles - A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented".

* Fantine in ''Literature/LesMiserables'', who never had any parents to guide her, or friends who cared enough about her to warn her, ended up abandoned by her very first love and left to take care of their child. When word breaks out, people treat her like a prostitute until finally that's the only job she can take to save her daughter's life. As with the examples of Tess Durbeyfield and Hester Prynne, the novel is harshly critical of society's treatment of unmarried, non-virginal women (including prostitutes).
* Averted in the Literature/WickedLovely series -- Ink Exchange is, when you take out the faeries and magickal tattoos, about Leslie reclaiming her life and body after being raped.

* ''Literature/MyForbiddenFace'' (an autobiography written under a pseudonym) discusses this trope, though none of the characters in the novel get raped. The main character reflects that under the UsefulNotes/{{Taliban}}, a woman being raped would be forced to marry her rapist.
* [[Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe Goethe]] [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this]] in ''Theatre/{{Faust}}''. Margaret/Gretchen starts off as the typical SatelliteLoveInterest popular in Goethe's time. Rumors spread when Faust knocks her up and Gretchen's KnightTemplarBigBrother Valentino decides to kill her "defiler". He attacks Faust and Mephistopheles at her doorstep and promptly gets [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomped]]. As he dies, Valentino [[HonorRelatedAbuse spews abuse at his sister]], setting off Gretchen's personal TraumaCongaLine which [[BreakTheCutie breaks]] [[FreakOut the]] [[DrivenToMadness girl]] [[HeroicBSOD completely]]. By the time Faust returns, he finds her [[TheOphelia insane]] and imprisoned for having [[DespairEventHorizon drowned their child in shame]]. She no longer recognizes Faust and refuses to leave, DyingAlone [[TearJerker in the cold and dark]]. Goethe does, however, [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this when God declares Gretchen "saved".
* Completely averted in the Literature/MercyThompson books. Both Mercy and Anna have been raped, and while it is treated as a serious obstacle, both go on to have healthy enjoyable sex lives with their chosen mates.
** Mercy notes that beating the hell out of her rapist helped a lot. She wonders if it will ever be a recommended therapy technique.
* Invoked in ''Literature/TheMonk'' with Antonia; her rapist's enabler cites this as a reason to kill her, and Antonia tells her suitor that she doesn't mind dying since being raped means she couldn't have married him. However, other female characters like Marguerite (who was raped by her second "husband") and Agnes (who became pregnant not only out of marriage but while she was a nun) defy this trope and manage to have happy lives afterward; in fact, Marguerite's parents are specified as overjoyed to have her back and dissuade her from entering a convent.
* In ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', Mitsuko didn't think this way after the first time she was raped. Unfortunately, the teacher she confided to ''did'', and decided that since she was already ruined, he might as well rape her as well. At the book's start, she's an essentially broken individual and a danger to everyone around her.
* ''Literature/TheJoyLuckClub'':
** One storyteller's mother is forced to become the mistress of a wealthy man after he rapes her and an evil employee of the house (who set up the rape in the first place) tells everyone what has happened and ruins the woman's reputation.
** Subverted in Lindo's story when she was forced into an arranged marriage. She escapes it by telling her mother-in-law that she was not the woman fated for her husband and that one of the household servants was. She "proves" this by insisting that the child she should have been impregnated with is actually being carried by said servant, claiming that she was impregnated by a ghost of an ancestor. In reality, the servant had just had an affair. The mother-in-law buys the story though, and the story ends with Lindo being sent off to live her own life while the servant marries the guy and is honored by the family, instead of ending up disgraced with an illegitimate child.
* Creator/AnneRice's ''The Feast of All Saints'' (and the miniseries based on it) play this trope deadly straight with Marie Ste. Marie. After her brutal gang rape, [[spoiler: orchestrated by her sister]], she returns home only to have her mother scream at her repeatedly that she is "ruined" and then attack her. When she flees the house, she goes to the only place she can think of where she will be accepted: Dolly Rose's brothel. As Dolly later says "Sometimes they go to church, and sometimes they come here." Marie herself expresses this attitude to Anna Bella, saying she belongs in the brothel and that she deserved what happened to her.
* Invoked by Mary and Mr. Collins in ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' when Lydia elopes and endangers not only her own reputation and future but that of her entire family; Mr. Collins even goes so far as to say Lydia's death would have been a blessing in comparison. Neither of them seems to realize that pointing this out isn't helping anybody.
* Mary Vaughn from ''The Neanderthal Parallax'' trilogy manages to avert this. [[FirstEpisodeTwist While she is defiled at the start of the first book]] by the second one she has already consummated the relationship with her love interest, and by the third book, they are onto making babies.
* In ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'' Rhett Butler took a girl out in his carriage without a chaperone and they got held up. Even though nothing had happened between them, the mere possibility that they might have done something naughty was enough for the girl's family to demand that he marry her. He refused and she was "ruined."
* Explicitly subverted with Barra from ''Iron Dawn'' and ''Jericho Moon''. Although she was gang-raped after running off to see the Trojan War, it's specifically stated that this wasn't the event that codified her adult life: it's when she started ''crafting the ax she used to hunt her attackers down'' that she embraced her identity as an implacable mercenary warrior.
* Pops up in the Arthurian legend in strange places. Malory occasionally invokes this trope either through the rape of women or their willful adultery, and there is quite a bit of both. Most striking, however, is the rape by deception that Morgause uses to sleep with Arthur and beget Mordred, which is counted among Arthur's sins and failings that lead to his kingdom's collapse and his death.
** It's even worse in ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing,'' where Morgause's rape is counted as Arthur's only sin, as he is otherwise pure, upright, wise and cosmopolitan beyond anyone else in his time; the narrator outright states that it is this sin that seals Arthur's doom, even though he did not know he committed it (though the drowning of infants he attempts to solve the problem doesn't help). It's a really disturbing case when you stop and think about it.
** Interestingly, this may be HypocriticalHumor if [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malory#Thomas_Malory_of_Newbold_Revel one account]] of Malory's life is correct.
* More complicated than one might expect in the ''Literature/JudgeDee'' books, considering that they're set in Tang China. It is expected that women will remain virgins until married (Dee scolds one man for his laxity in policing his household when it is discovered that his daughter - a murder victim - had been carrying on an affair for some months), and commit suicide if raped, especially after marriage (even if their husband is dead; one woman hangs herself because she feels an "unchaste widow" has no other option). On the other hand, prostitutes are not considered to be ruined by their "unfortunate profession", and can expect to find a marriage with an "honest farmer" if they can get out of said profession with a suitable dowry. Furthermore, Judge Dee himself disagrees with the tradition of suicide for rape victims, and in fact ends up making one such woman his third wife.
* Invoked and then subverted in Juanita Coulson's ''The Death God's Citadel''. [[spoiler:[[UpperClassTwit Aubage]], who was marrying [[PrincessClassic Ilissa]] for position, [[MoralEventHorizon considers her defiled and unworthy]] after [[VirginTension finding out she was raped]] by [[BigBad Vraduir]]. By contrast, [[CursedWithAwesome Erezjan]] cares only about how it traumatized Ilissa (with whom he's genuinely in love).]]
* Diyet/Hariba of Maureen [=McHugh's=] "Nekropolis" views herself as this. First because of her brother's adultery, then because she sold herself into sci-fi indentured servitude, then [[spoiler: because she falls in love with a biological construct instead of a real human]], then [[spoiler: because she ran away from her home country and feels alien in her new country]], and finally [[spoiler: because she has sex with the aforementioned biological construct]]. The reader may be a little frustrated with her at the end (and [[DownerEnding depressed]]) but the original setting was an ultra conservative near future Muslim country, so it makes sense.
* ''Literature/TheActsOfCaine'' gives us an interesting example. There's a religious sect of priestesses who are completely chaste virgins, to the point of dressing like men to stave off advances. If they ever give into temptation, they lose their power. If they are ''raped'', however, they basically turn into a magic nuke. Unfortunately, they rarely survive the massive influx of power, not to mention the resulting destruction.
* After Artemisia in ''Literature/{{The Privilege of the Sword}}'' is date-raped by her betrothed, she tells her parents and brother what happened and that she doesn't want to marry him anymore. Their response is basically, "If you break the engagement and this gets out, you'll never get another husband."
* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', a man who has had premarital sex - or been raped - is considered this. Even if his family still accepts him, he's no longer pure, so they can't [[DeliberateValuesDissonance sell or swap him for a man from another family]]. The roots of this purity obsession come from the setting's complete subversion of STDImmunity; an [=STD=] in a married family quickly spreads to everyone and children are born dead or horribly malformed, to the point where entire families have been wiped out. A man who's been "defiled" usually ends up sold to the [[SexSlave cribs]], where he's rented out to women too poor to marry in hopes of impregnating them. A woman who's gone to a crib and/or had extramarital sex, aside from with other women, is also stigmatized for exposing herself to [=STDs=] - a noblewoman can't get marriage offers and mentions that people don't want her sitting on their chairs - but this is far more acceptable.
* Subversion in ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': Gretchen is kidnapped to be an unwilling CampFollower and SexSlave. When she is rescued by Jeff Higgins she is surprised not only that he is willing to accept her but that he loves her.
* ''Literature/SongAtDawn'' has two contrasting examples:
** [[spoiler: Alis]] believes of herself after Raymond de Toulouse rapes her and puts her naked body on display for his vassals.
** [[spoiler: Estela]] doesn't believe this of herself after a traumatic first time with a stable hand because [[spoiler: Dragonetz]] is still romantically interested in her and shows sympathy for her.
* In Creator/StephanieBurgis's ''[[Literature/KatIncorrigible A Tangle of Magicks ]]'', Viscount Scarwood eloped with a young woman. She's ruined forever; he's still a perfectly eligible young man, having wounded her brother and suffered no injury in a duel.
* Creator/TimMarquitz has the Prince of Lathah consider his sister to be this ''Literature/TheBloodWarTrilogy'' when she becomes pregnant by one of her guards. It's subverted by the fact she's still a Princess and has an endless number of suitors eager for her hand.
* In the ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoom series]]'', this trope is subverted: females are lauded for killing themselves rather than endure such a shame. On the other hand, those that who are unable or willingly to do so suffer no diminished reputation. Princess Thuvia of Ptarth was a [[SexSlave slave concubine]] to White Martian slavers for 15 years, yet she still has suitors such as Carthoris and [[VillainousCrush Prince Astok]], who pay no mind to it.
* While the continent of Westeros in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is no stranger to this concept, in the case of Robb Stark, despite already being in a marriage agreement, he weds Jeyne Westerling, with whom he [[SexForSolace slept upon hearing of his siblings' deaths]], in order not cause her any dishonor. The consequences of breaking his word end up being very dire for him though.

* A very common trope in {{yaoi}} works, especially older UnfortunateImplications and ValuesDissonance laden ones, and occasionally in newer works. Thankfully, though, many newer works are just as likely to subvert or outright defy the trope. Just a few of the BoysLove / {{yaoi}} examples would be:
** [[spoiler: Soubi]] from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' after having been [[spoiler: raped by his teacher]] as a teenager, and now he's pretty much an ExtremeDoormat. Yeah, thanks a lot, [[spoiler: Ritsu]]. Also used to deconstruct the idea of SexAsRiteOfPassage.
** ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi's'' Riki, who explains to his ex-lover that they can't get back together because another man's [[UnusualEuphemism poison has seeped into his body]] and he is now permanently tainted.
** Discussed [[spoiler: and ultimately defied]] in ''Manga/KusattaKyoushinoHouteishiki'', with a RareMaleExample. [[spoiler: Masayoshi's brother Masami was sexually abused as a teenager and has many [[StepfordSmiler hidden issues]] about it. He finally explains them to his boyfriend Tooru and says he considers himself soiled. Tooru then defies the trope via supporting Masami and telling him he's not defiled and that it's not his fault.]]
** ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'': In a RareMaleExample, Jeremy INSISTS that his body is rotting and that he gives off a bad smell as a result of the sexual abuse he is receiving from his stepfather. In a slight inversion of the trope, it is Ian, who is both the offender's son and Jeremy's love interest, that tries to convince him otherwise.
---> '''Jeremy:''' It hurts to talk about my rotten smell with the person I like.\\
'''Ian:''' You don't smell strange. You don't smell rotten, Jeremy.\\
'''Jeremy:''' Did I make you dirty?

* In ''Manga/AfterSchoolNightmare'', as a kindergartener, [[spoiler: Kureha]] was brutally raped on her walk home from school; it's implied that this alone might not have been so bad, except that her father didn't give half a damn that his five-year-old daughter had been beaten and sexually violated, only complaining that she was now "damaged goods" that no man would want, and her own mother ([[DomesticAbuse who, incidentally, was frequently beaten by the father]]) didn't even object.
* In ''Manga/BitterVirgin'', female lead Hinako is plagued by this way of thinking after she was abused by her stepfather and became pregnant in middle school. Much of the story is made up of [[NiceGuy Daisuke]] trying to get through to her despite her thinking this way about herself. The trope is very much defied by Daisuke's sister Izumi, who makes it perfectly clear to their somewhat old-fashioned and moralistic mother (and anyone else that tries to judge her) that she has no less self-respect for herself just because she got pregnant out of wedlock.
* Invoked and discussed in ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'', while [[spoiler: Akiko Aoshika, the lead female, is gang-raped. The guy who staged her gang-rape, Haguro Dou, filmed said incident and is about to [[MoralEventHorizon release it on the Internet for everyone to see to have her life ruined even further]]. And for worse, Aoshika ''already'' considered herself defiled beforehand, having been sexually abused in her younger years.]]. [[spoiler: Ultimately defied: when she explains her backstory to lead male Akira Inugami (who was [[HeroicBSOD driven to tears]] when he was ForcedToWatch the gang rape through a video), he tells her that no, not only she's not defiled, but '''he''' is the one who doesn't deserve her at all. This is reaffirmed via his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove a few episodes later.]]
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** Guts is a RareMaleExample. As a boy, Guts is [[spoiler: raped by a fellow mercenary when his adoptive father sells him for three silver coins for one night.]] This experience pretty much ruins Guts' life and [[HatesBeingTouched turns him into the man he is in the present]]. Then, he meets [[LoveInterest Casca]], and eventually, [[TheyDo they consummate their relationship.]] But then Guts has an emotional breakdown right in the middle of the act and tries to leave because he thinks he's ruined and that [[WhatHaveIDone he's driven Casca away]]. [[SubvertedTrope But Casca doesn't]] think this at all.
** And then it gets worse: [[spoiler: Their gang leader Griffith goes insane and rapes Casca.]] She never gets over it, partly because by this point he's supernaturally crazy and anointed by GOD [[spoiler:(said god is actually a manifestation of people's self-denial/ignorance of their evil)]]. Not only does she revert to a childlike personality, but when she gets pregnant the baby is corrupted by the supernatural and turned into a tragic monster. That gets sacrificed for the rapist's sake. Yeah, this is one hell of a crapsack setting.
* [[SugarAndIcePersonality Mizore Shirayuki]] from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' reacts this way to [[AmbiguouslyGay Miyabi]], [[spoiler: even though he only went as far as stealing a kiss and handling her a bit forcefully]]. Still, that alone would have been a very traumatic experience, especially since she was so emotionally fragile to begin with. She proceeds to [[DrivenToSuicide jump out of a window]], only for [[TheHeart Kurumu]] to save her.
* ''Manga/PhantomThiefJeanne'' attempts to invoke this, but ultimately defies it.
** Jeanne d'Arc invokes this herself, telling Marron that she lost her ability to exorcize and capture demons because a prison guard raped her. And Noin attempts to invoke this by trying to rape Marron, believing that [[VirginPower 'purity' and being a virgin]] really is what allows her to perform her duties. He's stopped before he can go too far.
** Ends up defied when Marron [[spoiler: loses her virginity to [[OfficialCouple Chiaki]] the night before the final showdown]], revealing that her presence or lack of virginity has nothing to do with 'purity' in that sense. That she can still turn into Kaitou Jeanne as long as she remains true to herself.
* Referenced and PlayedForLaughs in the penultimate chapter of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' when a character being attacked by a SkinshipGrope enthusiast is described by narration as almost being made unmarriable.
* While a mild and instantly forgotten example, episode 2 of the first season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'' had Ms. Haruna, Usagi's teacher, immediately believe that "no one will ever marry her" after a possessed Umino (Melvin in the dub) flipped her skirt. This scene is the most likely reason why [[MissingEpisode this episode was not dubbed into English.]]

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' when Mikuru asks Kyon if he'll take her if she becomes ruined for marriage by Haruhi's treatment.
* A comedic example occurs with Aoi from ''Manga/PsychicSquad'', who has this reaction to things that aren't really sexual.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' when ShrinkingViolet Kiri Komori declares herself this after [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Commodore Perry, in his frenzy to open anything and everything]], parts her BlindingBangs and gets a look at her eyes.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', where Rossweisse declares she can't ever get married after Issei uses [[ClothingDamage Dress Break]] on her. It's immediately forgotten about; the joke is that it took her a solid minute to react to suddenly being seen naked - she was more concerned with her clothing being expensive to replace.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'' also used it for comedy. At the start of chapter 16, Kai finds himself staring directly at Ms. Aki's thong while she's on top of him in the 69 position. Which was [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a needlessly risqué method]] for [[SchoolNurse a nurse]] to treat a patient, but she proceeds anyway. One {{scream discretion shot}} later, it's done and Kai mumbles that [[http://www.mangatown.com/manga/maken_ki/c016/3.html he won't be able to marry Azuki now.]]

* ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'': Artemis was a virgin and [[PurityPersonified a paragon of cleanliness.]] That ended once [[BigBad Zenovia]] captured her. The ''"MILF of Steel"'' epilogue story, shows Artemis was repeatedly gang-raped by Zenovia's minions, 'til her mind finally broke once she realized she was starting to enjoy it, [[BrokenBird despite her tears.]] By the time Artemis was rescued, the damage had already been done. She adopts a new persona and wears a mask [[DontLookAtMe out of shame.]]
* Another male example occurs in ''Manga/GakuenOuji'' with Mizutani, where the visiting prince claims that Mizutani has been "tarnished forever" after finding out that he used to sell himself in order to get food. After hearing this Rise, the female lead, responds by giving the prince an ArmorPiercingSlap.
* ''Anime/LegendOfTheBlueWolves'': Jonathan is raped by the monstrous [[DepravedHomosexual Captain]] [[FatBastard Continental]] and has a reaction of despair and looks down in shame after Leonard walks in to see him being forced to give the Continental oral sex. Leonard castrates Jonathan's rapist in revenge. Jonathan asks Leonard if he wants to have SexForSolace and Leonard, being the NiceGuy he is, asks Jonathan if it's okay knowing what he does about Jonathan's treatment at the hands of the Continental. He also asks if it's okay during sex if he can give him oral sex, knowing what the Continental did to him.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'''s Universe Survival Arc plays with this trope. The Muten Roshi has suppressed his sexual desires in his training for the tournament of power. When a female warrior employs her sexual wiles to gain the upper hand against the Muten Roshi she gets a more extreme response then she anticipated. [[spoiler:She brings her entire universe closer to erasure by jumping off the fighting stage while screaming "He will make me undesirable as a wife!"]]
* PlayedForDrama in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'' with Sanjouno Haruhime. The poor girl was disowned by her family and ended up sold as a sexual slave, and for years she hoped someone would come and save her. When she meets Bell, at first she refuses his offer to rescue her because, from her perspective, not being "pure" anymore makes her unworthy of being saved by a hero. [[spoiler:It takes a hilarious turn when we learn that ''she's still a virgin'', [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality due to always fainting before even being touched by her sexual customers]]]].

* In the [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special Miniseries]], ComicBook/LoisLane investigates child molestation, abuse, and murder. One woman whose five-year-old daughter was sexually abused bemoans the fact that she "ain't a virgin no more" and "what man would want her now?"
* Jack Chick goes really overboard with this trope in the ComicBook/ChickTract called [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1070/1070_01.asp "Uninvited"]]: The tract features [[HeteronormativeCrusader a nurse who harasses dying AIDS-patients for their "crime" of being gay]]. Of course, [[SoulsavingCrusader her actions are fully justified within the verse of the tract]], since this is an {{anvilicious}}ly bigoted AuthorTract. The real kick? It turns out that all the homosexuals [[RapeAndSwitch became homosexual because they were sexually molested]] as children. More to the point, when a child gets sexually molested, she automatically becomes unclean, possessed by a demon of defilement. The trope is played straight for everyone who isn't both TheFundamentalist ''and'' a Christian. Averted for all characters who are (or become) HolierThanThou: [[http://www.cafepress.co.uk/thegamer.17703956 Jesus Saves, everybody else takes 5d6 points of damage]].
* Invoked and defied in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. The prehistoric African virgin queen Nada wants the amorous title character to leave her alone, so she [[GroinAttack breaks her own hymen with a sharpened stone]], reasoning he won't be interested in her after she's already been "deflowered". This would be an entirely valid tactic for the time and place, though Nada understandably didn't count on the fact that Dream is responsible for the dreams of an entire universe's worth of sentient life and has already picked up some rather cosmopolitan ideas about sexuality from the planets that are at a different stage in their cultural evolution.

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Asuka was the "voluntary" sex toy of two warlords for three years. Daniel altered the past so neither of them actually ravished her, but she still feels filthy and sees herself as a slut who whored herself out to save her hide.
* The ''Series/{{House}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4301633/1/ Used]]'' invokes this against a man. [[spoiler: After House is gang-raped by Tritter and his goons, Tritter tells House that he is a "filthy little whore that no one will ever want to touch again".]]
* ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'': Asuka felt filthy and defiled after the events of the series (which included an EldritchAbomination [[MindRape mind-raping her]], [[ADateWithRosiePalms Shinji masturbating over her naked comatose body]], more Eldritch Abominations tearing her apart and eating her alive and [[AssimilationPlot her mind being completely exposed to literally everyone]]. She was so furious, unstable, and paranoid that she lashed out at Shinji, often not even being aware of what she was doing. And Shinji was so broken and felt so guilty for never helping her when she needed him, defiling her and letting her die that he really believed he deserved it. A few months after Third Impact, she [[spoiler: barged into his room when they were alone at home and said "pants off, bastard"]]. Shinji was crying through the whole thing but didn't resist and didn't tell anyone that happened, even if it happened repeatedly. On the other hand, Asuka also felt sick every time for what she was doing to him, but she could not stop herself. Fortunately [[HeelRealization she got a wake-up call]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone after going too far]], [[TheAtoner she resolved to change]] and they started to get better.

* ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'':
** Played with for Yukari in that she views herself as this after the events of Gensokyo 20XXII, which isn't far-fetched, considering exactly what had happened to her.
** In Ran's case, it is a rather strange and complex variant, in that she is no longer a virgin (he knows about her previous sexual encounter), she was looking to get married to someone who isn't put off by her and, as far as she knows, any other kitsune that tries to have his way with her by force will ruin her, which in simple terms: almost and just about being forced when she was engaged ruined her. However, according to Amoridere, there is a far deeper reason and that is because, in addition to someone forcibly having their way with, especially when she is engaged, she feels she has been unfaithful, blaming herself for something that isn't her fault.
* In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfAnElderGod'', Asuka feels like this after [[spoiler: getting raped by an EldritchAbomination who had possessed Rei.]]
* In'' Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', Ditzy Doo initially felt like she couldn't possibly be worthy of being a mother since she had gotten pregnant by having sex with a stallion who she knew was married to somepony else. In the end, she not only decides to be a mother to Dinky, but she also ends up becoming one of the Elements of Harmony.
* Zigzagged in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11927332/1/A-Caged-Bird A Caged Bird]]''. Laurel spent three months as a SexSlave to Count Vertigo. Her friends and family treat her nothing but the utmost respect and compassion, and Oliver repeatedly stresses the fact she's the strongest person he knows. Laurel herself is deeply traumatized and doesn't think she'll ever recover, sees herself as weak, and at one point bitterly muses that her rape will be the first thing strangers will think of when they met her.

* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': {{Subverted|Trope}} and {{parod|y}}ied. In strip #905 (June 28, 2014; NSFW), the semi-deranged DramaQueen Yuki wakes up naked in bed with her arch-enemy and bandmate Sonya, and neither of them can remember what they're doing there. Yuki promptly accuses Sonya of doing "{{ecchi}}" things to her in her sleep, and goes into mourning for her "precious innocence". Sonya snarkily points out that, given Yuki's sexual history, this is less than rational. That triggers Yuki's HairTriggerTemper -- and then [[SlapSlapKiss things get slightly weird.]] [[spoiler:Yuki subsequently accuses Sonya of ''re-taking'' her precious innocence.]]

* Parodied in Creator/ThomasHardy's poem "The Ruined Maid", in which a working-class Yorkshire lass meets an old friend who now dresses, talks and acts like a high class lady, and her explanation for this is that she was "ruined".

* [[SugarAndIcePersonality Mizore Shirayuki]] from ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' reacts this way to [[AmbiguouslyGay Miyabi]], [[spoiler: even though he only went as far as stealing a kiss and handling her a bit forcefully]]. Still, that alone would have been a very traumatic experience, especially since she was so emotionally fragile to begin with. She proceeds to [[DrivenToSuicide jump out of a window]], only for [[TheHeart Kurumu]] to save her.