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* VirginityMakesYouStupid: Between the assumption that all asexuals are virgins and the fact that a number of them actually are, the association between virginity and stupidity/naïvety results in a good excuse for others treat asexuals are if they are some combination of dumb and sheltered.

* BetterThanSex: Properly handled, it can create a moment relatable to asexuals who have sex (or experienced it at some point in their lives), but genuinely find other activities more enjoyable. Poorly handled, it can either imply or outright states that if someone finds another activity more enoyable than sex, there is some kind of problem with either the other activity or the person's sex life.

* BetterThanSex: Properly handled, it can create a moment relatable to asexuals who have sex (or experienced it at some point in their lives), but genuinely find other activities more enjoyable. Poorly handled, it either implies or outright states that if someone finds another activity more enoyable than sex, there is some kind of problem with either the other activity or the person's sex life.

* BetterThanSex: Properly handled, it can create a moment relatable to asexuals who have have experienced sex, but genuinely find other activities more enjoyable. Poorly handled, it either implies or outright states that if someone finds another activity more enoyable than sex, there is some kind of problem with either the other activity or the person's sex life.

* SourPrudes: People who don't engage in much sex are portrayed as looking down on people who have significantly more sex than they do. This results in a "asexuals hate sex" stereotype, when in reality even asexuals who don't engage in sex at all can be favor of other people having the amount of sexual activity they wish.

* AllWomenArePrudes: Several asexual traits are portrayed as universal among women, which erases the fact that there are differences between asexual and allosexual women.

* SourPrudes: People who don't engage in much are portrayed as looking down on people who have significantly more sex than they do. This results in a "asexuals hate sex" stereotype.

* GayPanic: In Wiki/TVTropes, this is when queer plotlines and/or characters that were airing are suddenly changed or dropped entirely, it suggests moral disapproval is behind their disappearance. In RealLife, the phrase refers to a legal defence used to partially or completely excuse crimes such as murder and assault on the grounds that the victim's sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant's violent reaction. [[note]]In August 2013, the American Bar Association passed a resolution condemning the use of such defenses in court, however as of 2018 only two US states have outright banned it (one of which specifically amended the bill to still allow the trans panic defence before passing it).[[/note]]

* VirginShaming: Social stigma against virgins becomes even more a problem when an orientation that often results in little to no interest in sex exists.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: Sex as a stress reducer can range from ineffective to conter-productive for asexuals. It's also frequently suggested as a "solution" to the asexuality itself.

* VirginShaming: Social stigma against virgins becomes a problem when an orientation that often results in little to no interest in sex exists.

* VirginShaming: Social tigma against virgins and the orientation the most likely to result in life-long virginity go together as well as one would imagine.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: Being unable to sexually satisfy a partner is portrayed as a major character flaw that can only be redeemed via being improved upon and implies the absence of other character traits that are desirable in a romantic partner. This one can actually hurt both sides of a relationship involving at least one asexual person, as asexuality can cause an inability to enjoy sex in addition to a limited to non-existent ability to perform it. Asexuals identifying as such to cover up that they are lousy lovers and/or because they have yet to have sex with a satisfying partner are also common misconceptions.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: Being unable to sexually satisfy a partner is portrayed as a major character flaw that can only be redeemed via being improved upon and implies the absence of other character traits that are desirable in a romantic partner. This one can actually hurt both sides of a relationship involving at least one asexual person, as asexuality can cause an inability to enjoy sex in addition to a poor to non-existent ability to perform it. Asexuals identifying as such to cover up that they are lousy lovers and/or have yet to have sex with a satisfying partner are also common misconceptions.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: Being unable to sexually satisfy a partner is portrayed as a major character flaw that can only be redeemed via being improved upon and implies the absence of other character traits that are desirable in a romantic partner. This one can actually hurt both sides of a relationship involving at least one asexual person, as asexuality can cause an inability to enjoy sex in addition to a poor to non-existent ability to perform it. Asexuals identifying as such only because they have yet to have sex with a satisfying partner is also a common misconception.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: Being unable to sexually satisfy a partner is portrayed as a major character flaw that can only be redeemed via being improved upon and implies the absence of other character traits that are desirable in a romantic partner. This one can actually hurt both sides of a relationship involving at least one asexual person, as being asexual can both mean both having a poor ability to perform and a poor ability to enjoy sex.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: Being unable to sexually satisfy a partner is portrayed as a major character flaw and implies the absence of other character traits that are desirable in a romantic partner.

[[folder:Tropes That Generally Apply to LGBTIA+ People]]

[[folder:Tropes That Apply to Many Groups, Including LGBTIA+ People]]

[[folder:Tropes That Apply to Many Groups, Including LGBTI People]]

These tropes can involve negative attitudes towards or stereotypes about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and/or gender non-conforming people, and they run the gamut from relatively minor limitations (on clothing choices, mannerisms, jobs or careers and the like) to [[HomophobicHateCrime hostility and violence]]. The prevalence of queer stereotypes in media at times paints a whole category of people with a very broad lavender brush. While some of them can be seen in other contexts, they have particular [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] for [=LGBTI=] people. Some of them are [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]], or are becoming so, but they're present in works made and/or set in earlier periods.

[[folder:Tropes That Generally Apply to LGBTI People]]

* VillainousAromanticAsexual: An aro-ace character is villainous, with their lack of interest in romance and sex being a sign of their villainy.

These tropes can involve negative attitudes towards or stereotypes about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and/or gender non-conforming people, and they run the gamut from relatively minor limitations (on clothing choices, mannerisms, jobs or careers and the like) to hostility and violence. The prevalence of queer stereotypes in media at times paints a whole category of people with a very broad lavender brush. While some of them can be seen in other contexts, they have particular [[UnfortunateImplications implications]] for [=LGBTI=] people. Some of them are [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]], or are becoming so, but they're present in works made and/or set in earlier periods.

Of course, trying to avoid one can easily lead you to another, like trying to avoid the hypersexuality so much that queer characters have no sexuality (which tends towards erasure). It's rather like steering a boat among shoals--overcompensate and you just run aground somewhere else.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Two characters are subject to heavy and deliberate HomoeroticSubtext, but are never explicitly confirmed as sexual partners, and one or both of them is in a heterosexual relationship by the end of the show. Despite the title, there are an increasing number of male examples. Tends to trivialize the same-sex romance, as if [[GirlOnGirlIsHot it's only there to entertain]] the [[GuyOnGuyIsHot demographic titillated]] by the idea of people of the same sex behaving homoerotically together. Since in female examples the mere appearance of an available male often leads to the switch, it can imply that the women are only interested in each other until a man comes along. Commonly associated with RomanticTwoGirlFriendship, in which case it may also imply that they're engaging in lesbian-ish behaviour only because they don't know any better.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Generally, this involves any editing of language and sexual themes from an existing work and is generally performed by MoralGuardians, or at their request. Specifically for [=LGBTI=] people, it means removing queer content from existing works because it is queer, such as removing instances of BoysLove and SchoolgirlLesbians from {{anime}} works, effectively turning a {{seinen}} anime into a {{shonen}}--[[ThinkOfTheChildren to "protect" the children in the audience]].