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* ''Film/TheBounty'': The men of the ''Bounty'' are very, very excited when they land on Tahiti after a long and grueling voyage, and discover a whole island full of [[InnocentFanserviceGirl gorgeous]], [[NationalGeographicNudity topless]] native women. Their unwillingness to go back to a grueling sailor's life after leaving Tahiti is a root cause of TheMutiny that follows.
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* 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!"
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* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', "The Duchess and the Devil": Hornblower doesn't appreciate that his sailors stare at the Duchess who is supposed to be given passage when she comes aboard. Styles points out he hasn't seen a woman in six months.
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'''Hornblower:''' Don't froth at the mouth, Styles. You've seen a woman before, man.\\
'''Styles:''' Not in six bloody months, I haven't.
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* Music/StephenSondheim is a multiple offender...''Theatre/PacificOvertures'' has a whole song about young prostitutes being trained to appeal to sailors, as well as a trio in which three English sailors hunger for a young Japanese woman they glimpse in a garden ("I've sailed the world for you..."). Anthony in ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'' seems to be cut from exactly the same (sail)cloth.
* ''Theatre/SouthPacific'''s chorus of sailors all agree--in song, no less!--that "There's Nothing Like A Dame". Music/StephenSondheim took the musical to task for this, but see above for his own history with the trope.
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** Anthony in ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'' seems to be cut from exactly the same (sail)cloth.
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Already mentioned soldiers being apathetic, and asexuals are such a tiny minority the lack of representation isn't surprising. Also not showing homosexuality/situational sexuality would be an aversion of the horny sailor trope.
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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, not even if they're stranded on an island--and asexuality apparently doesn't exist. (In some older examples, like ''Theatre/SouthPacific'', homosexuality apparently doesn't exist either.)
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* The title song of the movie musical ''The Fleet's In'':
-->Hey there, rookie!\\
You'd better call your cookie\\
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The fleet's in!\\
They'll take anything if it isn't nailed down.\\
She may be dark or fair,\\
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Keep under cover--\\
The fleet's in town!
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* ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'': At the end of their parody of ''Series/TheOnedinLine'', Baines is captured by pirates who've "been at sea for months without setting eyes on a member of the opposite, as you might say". What he neglects to mention is that the pirates are also [[MsFanservice young, attractive and female]].
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*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.
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-->-- '''Creator/GilbertAndSullivan''', ''Theatre/TheMikado''
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, not even if they're stranded on an island--and asexuality apparently doesn't exist. (In some older examples, like ''Theatre/SouthPacific'', homosexuality apparently doesn't exist either.)
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.
For a long time, this was TruthInTelevision to some extent: historically, women were not allowed on naval ships in many countries, which meant that sailors spent months on end without seeing a member of the opposite sex. Naturally, upon reaching shore, many of them would be starving for female companionship. (Docks were long known as crucibles of prostitution.)
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.
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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.
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* 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. As the phrase goes, SpaceIsAnOcean.
* 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.
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* ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Malloreon]]'': In a one chapter in the third book, a sailor who had been at sea for months and stealing from his captain after landing, gets relief at the tavern and spends his loot by drinking is ass off and sleeping with a local barmaid. When he wakes up, he finds the girl dead with a SlasherSmile in her face, and, out of fear that he thought he killed her, escapes to Mal Zeth, carrying nothing but the clothes on his back and the deadly plague he caught.
* This trope is one way of reading the Siren scene in ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' - the whole crew can't resist the sight and song of the Sirens, even though it means shipwreck. A less sexualized reading, of course, is that the song itself is magically enchanted to be irresistible.
* In the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' book ''Red Seas Under Red Skies'', Zamira Drakasha's pirate crew has co-ed membership and a tolerant attitude towards liaisons of all kinds, including when one new recruit turns out to be another's ClosetKey. Relationships only become an issue when one crewman realizes he's been tricked into taking a bunk next to a notoriously noisy couple.
* Discussed in ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'' where Screwtape [[{{Jossed}} josses]] the idea that exercise is useful for chastity by pointing out this trope...while suggesting that Wormwood should ''invoke'' this trope on his patient to trick him.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' references this, alongside the theory that manatees and dugongs were the inspiration for [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]]. Barney thinks the only reason sailors mistook manatees for beautiful women is because it had been so long since they'd last seen a woman, and they were desperate.
* Parodied in ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'''s musical ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' spoof, featuring three American sailors on shore leave, looking for "exciting, vicious, naughty gals" in the quiet English town of Tunbridge Wells.
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* ''Fancy Free'', the ballet that inspired ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' (see below), has a similar premise that can be summed up in two stage directions: "Enter Three Sailors" and "Enter Two Girls."
* Played with by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan:
** ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' carry off a whole chorus of picnickers, intending to "marry them on the spot".
** ''Theatre/TheMikado'' includes a rollicking sea shanty about how landlubbers love sailing...and sailors love being inland cuddling girlfriends.
** ''Theatre/TheGondoliers'' has all the boatmen in a Venetian neighborhood sail off to rule a small kingdom (ItMakesSenseInContext), and as one of them says, "it is dull without female society." Their lady friends, feeling the same way, make the trip across the sea themselves to rejoin the men.
** ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'': Rose Maybud has several qualms about her betrothed, the dashing sailor Dick Dauntless, but the one she keeps coming back to is the probability that he has AGirlInEveryPort:
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--> And weep at your cruel deceit, complete;
--> While you'll be asserting
--> Your freedom by flirting
--> With every woman you meet, you cheat!
* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the number "Lovely Ladies" begins with a bunch of sailors singing about how much they want to have sex. The song in general is about prostitutes who cater to sailors, told from various perspectives.
* ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' runs on this premise, with three sailors all seeking to hook up in an ExtremelyShortTimespan.
* Creator/StephenSondheim is a multiple offender...''Theatre/PacificOvertures'' has a whole song about young prostitutes being trained to appeal to sailors, as well as a trio in which three English sailors hunger for a young Japanese woman they glimpse in a garden ("I've sailed the world for you..."). Anthony in ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'' seems to be cut from exactly the same (sail)cloth.
* ''Theatre/SouthPacific'''s chorus of sailors all agree--in song, no less!--that "There's Nothing Like A Dame". Creator/StephenSondheim took the musical to task for this, but see above for his own history with the trope.
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->''With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho,''
->''And his arm around her waist!''"
-->-- '''Creator/GilbertAndSullivan''', ''Theatre/TheMikado''
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, not even if they're stranded on an island--and asexuality apparently doesn't exist. (In some older examples, like ''Theatre/SouthPacific'', homosexuality apparently doesn't exist either.)
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.
For a long time, this was TruthInTelevision to some extent: historically, women were not allowed on naval ships in many countries, which meant that sailors spent months on end without seeing a member of the opposite sex. Naturally, upon reaching shore, many of them would be starving for female companionship. (Docks were long known as crucibles of prostitution.)
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.
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[[AC:{{Comics}}]]
* 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.
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* 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. As the phrase goes, SpaceIsAnOcean.
* 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.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Malloreon]]'': In a one chapter in the third book, a sailor who had been at sea for months and stealing from his captain after landing, gets relief at the tavern and spends his loot by drinking is ass off and sleeping with a local barmaid. When he wakes up, he finds the girl dead with a SlasherSmile in her face, and, out of fear that he thought he killed her, escapes to Mal Zeth, carrying nothing but the clothes on his back and the deadly plague he caught.
* This trope is one way of reading the Siren scene in ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' - the whole crew can't resist the sight and song of the Sirens, even though it means shipwreck. A less sexualized reading, of course, is that the song itself is magically enchanted to be irresistible.
* In the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' book ''Red Seas Under Red Skies'', Zamira Drakasha's pirate crew has co-ed membership and a tolerant attitude towards liaisons of all kinds, including when one new recruit turns out to be another's ClosetKey. Relationships only become an issue when one crewman realizes he's been tricked into taking a bunk next to a notoriously noisy couple.
* Discussed in ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'' where Screwtape [[{{Jossed}} josses]] the idea that exercise is useful for chastity by pointing out this trope...while suggesting that Wormwood should ''invoke'' this trope on his patient to trick him.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' references this, alongside the theory that manatees and dugongs were the inspiration for [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]]. Barney thinks the only reason sailors mistook manatees for beautiful women is because it had been so long since they'd last seen a woman, and they were desperate.
* Parodied in ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'''s musical ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' spoof, featuring three American sailors on shore leave, looking for "exciting, vicious, naughty gals" in the quiet English town of Tunbridge Wells.
[[AC:{{Radio}}]]
* ''Radio/TheNavyLark'': One of the stock plots is Sub-lieutenant Phillips' romantic pursuit of WRNS Heather Chasen. He's also not opposed to a bit of freelance womanising and innuendo if some other female is around.
[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
* ''Fancy Free'', the ballet that inspired ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' (see below), has a similar premise that can be summed up in two stage directions: "Enter Three Sailors" and "Enter Two Girls."
* Played with by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan:
** ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' carry off a whole chorus of picnickers, intending to "marry them on the spot".
** ''Theatre/TheMikado'' includes a rollicking sea shanty about how landlubbers love sailing...and sailors love being inland cuddling girlfriends.
** ''Theatre/TheGondoliers'' has all the boatmen in a Venetian neighborhood sail off to rule a small kingdom (ItMakesSenseInContext), and as one of them says, "it is dull without female society." Their lady friends, feeling the same way, make the trip across the sea themselves to rejoin the men.
** ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'': Rose Maybud has several qualms about her betrothed, the dashing sailor Dick Dauntless, but the one she keeps coming back to is the probability that he has AGirlInEveryPort:
--> '''Rose:''' I shall be left all alone to moan,
--> And weep at your cruel deceit, complete;
--> While you'll be asserting
--> Your freedom by flirting
--> With every woman you meet, you cheat!
* In ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', the number "Lovely Ladies" begins with a bunch of sailors singing about how much they want to have sex. The song in general is about prostitutes who cater to sailors, told from various perspectives.
* ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' runs on this premise, with three sailors all seeking to hook up in an ExtremelyShortTimespan.
* Creator/StephenSondheim is a multiple offender...''Theatre/PacificOvertures'' has a whole song about young prostitutes being trained to appeal to sailors, as well as a trio in which three English sailors hunger for a young Japanese woman they glimpse in a garden ("I've sailed the world for you..."). Anthony in ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'' seems to be cut from exactly the same (sail)cloth.
* ''Theatre/SouthPacific'''s chorus of sailors all agree--in song, no less!--that "There's Nothing Like A Dame". Creator/StephenSondheim took the musical to task for this, but see above for his own history with the trope.
[[AC:UrbanLegends]]
* The "true stories" section of a Filipino men's magazine told the story of a sea captain who had a blowup doll in his bed, in fear that he might get an STD outside. One day while the captain was out, a janitor walked in, found the doll, had his way with it, and forgetting to clean the doll, walked away. Days later, the captain got gonorrhea and got mad, remarking that even a doll can get it.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'', the docks of Betancuria is the location with the single highest concentration of {{Optional Sexual Encounter}}s, and the generic sailor [=NPCs=] will actually chase after the PlayerCharacter with very indecent proposals. The docks is also the most likely place in the game to catch [=STDs=].
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''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''.
