History Main / HornySailors

* "WesternAnimation/BoysNightOut'': Linberg is take to a nautical themed strip club by his stepfather, which has most of the other men wearing sailor outfits. A group of them even fight for the possession of a performer’s panties.

* In ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'', the crew of the spaceship is all-male and stir-crazy from a long flight, and respond energetically when they come across the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter. Two of the ship's officers start a CockFight over her. %%There's at least one WolfWhistle involved, but don't uncomment this until more context is added.
* In the original 1984 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' film, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is a mascot character dressed in an old style navy outfit. Peter Venkman snarks that it's one way they may be able to defeat him: "He's a sailor, he's in New York-- we get this guy laid, he won't be any trouble!"
* In ''Film/HailCaesar'', a bunch of sailors celebrate the night before going onto an 8-month-journey. They mourn the fact that they won't see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQ0JFzXMgY no dame]] during that time.
* ''Film/OperationPetticoat'': The whole premise of the film is that a [=WW2=] submarine crew can be thrown into hormonal chaos just by adding a few female nurses. At one point the entire crew complement save the Captain decide to present for sick call in order to have the nurses treat them.
* Exploited in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. After Elizabeth Swann sneaks on board a ship, the captain finds her dress after she [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a male sailor]]. He motivates his crew to look for the stowaway by telling them that she's likely naked, making the crew suddenly surge into action.
* ''Film/PoolOfLondon'': Harry, one of the sailors on the ''Dunbar'', is juggling two girlfriends in London, and is implied to have 'a girl in every port'.
* The title song of the movie musical ''The Fleet's In'':

* In ''Film/AStudyInTerror'', two sailors attempt to procure the services of prostitute Liz Stride, mentioning that have returned from a long voyage and want her for the entire night. A constable moves them on and Liz goes in search of another client and winds up becoming the next victim of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.

** Alliance Merchanter ships are owned and crewed by Families with a strong incest taboo who do all their sex and reproducing on stationside shore leave. Their role in keeping isolated stations from becoming inbred or flat-out evolving into a different species is at one point euphemistically referred to as “pollination, and the stations have developed a strong bar-and-hotel industry to accommodate (and extract money from) them.

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* The French comic ''ComicStrip/LesPassagersDuVent'' has one story set on board a slave ship, where the sailors regularly go into the hold to rape a female slave whenever the opportunity presents itself. One sailor forgets to remove his knife from his pocket (despite the quartermaster warning everybody about it earlier) and the slaves steal it while he's busy, resulting in the slaves cutting their bonds and revolting.

[[caption-width-right:350:A whole new meaning to ''Literature/TheSeaWolf'']]

Ah, the sea! The ideal setting for adventure, danger, and...constant sexual longing?

At least, so you'd think from some fiction, where ''every single crew member'' on a nautical adventure seems to be in a constant state of hunger for, well, naughty adventure. In such works, sailor types are never shown as being apathetic about romantic horseplay--not even if they're exhausted from overwork, or stranded on an island.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': One of the occasional jokes regarding Captain Mac Allister (the Sea Captain) is that his long stays at sea make him so lonely that he becomes sexually attracted to AnythingThatMoves. ''Anything''.

* In the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is a mascot character dressed in an old style navy outfit. Peter Venkman snarks that it's one way they may be able to defeat him: "He's a sailor, he's in New York-- we get this guy laid, he won't be any trouble!"

* The traditional drinking song "Good Ship Venus" is about a ship whose crew consists ''entirely'' of these. Music/SexPistols put their own twist on it, called "Friggin' in the Riggin'", in which it's even more obvious.

* Three sailors and a woman find themselves marooned on a desert island. After a week, the woman is so ashamed of what she'd been doing she kills herself. After another week, the sailors are so ashamed of what they'd been doing that they buried her. And after another week, the sailors are so ashamed of what they'd been doing that they dug her back up.

* In the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is a mascot character dressed an in old style navy outfit. Peter Venkman snarks that one way they may be able to defeat him: "He's a sailor, he's in New York, we get this guy laid he won't be any trouble!"

-->"And what are you doing here?"
"One of the sailors is screwing me in exchange for crossing the ocean."

Now that the gender imbalance is less pronounced in most places, the whole concept is largely in DeadHorseTrope territory, but you can still expect to come across it in historical fiction (and, of course, older works). HelloSailor is often the result of this trope plus SituationalSexuality. See also EnthrallingSiren.

This trope particularly runs rife in a WoodenShipsAndIronMen setting. {{Pirate}}s are often involved as well, since they have the loot to spend lavishly on drinks, prostitutes, and AGirlInEveryPort. But it can be applied to all kinds of seamen ([[HehHehYouSaidX heh heh, "seamen"]]), and pretty much has been.

Now that the gender imbalance is less pronounced in most places, the whole concept is largely in DeadHorseTrope territory, but you can still expect to come across it in historical fiction (and, of course, older works). HelloSailor is often the result of this trope plus SituationalSexuality.

* In ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'', the crew of the spaceship is all-male and stir-crazy from a long flight, and respond energetically when they come across the MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter. Two of the ship's officers start a CockFight over her. As the phrase goes, SpaceIsAnOcean. %%There's at least one WolfWhistle involved, but don't uncomment this until more context is added.

* In ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'', Jigger (at least ostensibly a sailor) throws himself at Carrie out of unbridled lust, despite her being engaged to wed.

* In the original ''Ghostbusters'', the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is a mascot character dressed an in old style navy outfit. Peter Venkman snarks that one way they may be able to defeat him: "He's a sailor, he's in New York, we get this guy laid he won't be any trouble!"