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* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'': A male character claims if he doesn't have lots of sex his jaw will go out of whack.

* Averted in ''Film/{{Twilight}}''. Bella is throwing herself at Edward, but he's afraid of hurting her (because he's a vampire and all) so he refuses.
* Rhett Butler in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' visits brothels while married but is never considered a bad husband because his wife doesn't have sex with him so it's her fault. However when there is the slightest hint his wife might have had a moment with another man she is treated as a terrible person.
* In ''Film/TheWomen'', Mary's mother tells her that her father had a mistress but she stayed with him anyway, and seems to blame the other woman more since she refers to her as a whore. She also outright tells Mary that she needs to expect men of a certain age to start having affairs.
* The boys of Series/BlueCollarComedy fame make note of this from time to time:
** Ron White stated this, though he went on to admit after-the-fact feelings of deep guilt and owned up to his infidelity, so might mix in just a smidge of TheUnfairSex.
--->'''Ron White:''' My wife hadn't let me ''touch'' her in three months. You can't just keep a dog under the porch for three months without petting it occasionally. If you deny me sex for three months, I'll go sleep with someone else. I know, I've seen me do it.
** Bill Engvall has stated, "Sorry, I'm just a guy!" in his act as an excuse for all sorts of situations. Surprisingly few of these involve sex--he uses it as an excuse for everything from insensitive remarks to crowning achievements in stupidity (90% of his "I'm just a guy" jokes fit under this), but from Bill, sex usually gets more than just a clever catchphrase.
* ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'' attracted some negative attention from feminist groups for its apparent position that if a boy's girlfriend won't put out after a certain time he's perfectly justified in seeking satisfaction elsewhere. As well, throughout the entire series Billy's father is never criticized for his affair with Sydney's mother; everyone, including Sydney herself, acts like it was all her mother's fault.
* Although the character of Eddie in ''Something To Talk About'' is blamed for his cheating, he says it is partly his wife's fault for not being interested in sex anymore and she eventually agrees with him.
* In ''Mirror Images 2'', a man seduced by a woman he believes is his employer's wife-- lit's actually her twin posing as her to frame her for adultery--blames the woman for the whole affair and everyone seems to agree with him. This is despite the fact at he was a ''consenting'' adult who participated enthusiastically in the sex. In this case though, she's less of a slut than a [[BedTrick rapist by deception]].
** There was a similar soft porn film where the con artist girlfriend of the main character seduces his business partner to rip him off as well and the business partners blame her for the initial seduction. The protagonist, however, gets a free pass from his partner and wife.

* Edward Ashburnham in ''The Good Soldier''. Even his own ''wife'' buys into this trope.
* Mentioned in ''Film/CitySlickers'' and not played for laughs, even though it's a comedy. The girl Phil was having sex with shows up at Mitch's birthday party after a [[LawOfInverseFertility missed period]] and reveals the affair to everyone there, including Phil's wife. They have a very bitter shouting match that ends with the following exchange:
-->'''Arlene:''' You're crazy!
-->'''Phil:''' Yeah, not having sex for ''twelve years'' will do that to you!
* The ringleader of the gang rape in the original ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'' uses this excuse. The victim doesn't buy it. [[spoiler:She lures him back to her house, castrates him, and locks in him the bathroom to bleed to death.]]

* ''Film/InAWorld...'': Moe's clumsy attempt to seduce an attractive neighbor is PlayedForLaughs. It's unclear how far he would've been willing to go if she'd been at all interested.
* While being tortured, one of the victims in the RapeAndRevenge film ''Bad Reputation'' claims, "You were lying there, just... available like that. Any man would have done it! You don't understand! Women aren't the same!"

* In the Soviet adaptation of ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', [[spoiler:Lombard]] invokes the trope to excuse his rape of [[spoiler:Vera]], saying that coming to a man's room at night and then screaming for help was downright silly (Actually, the woman was frightened out of her wits by hallucinations of [[spoiler:the child she killed]] and wanted some real-life person to protect her).

* ''Film/{{Colette}}'': Willy tries to excuse himself having sex with other women to his wife Colette through pleading male weakness, claiming that men are just naturally weaker in terms of sexual desires than women. Colette doesn't accept this for a moment and leaves him (temporarily).

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Will has sex with the mother of the woman he is dating she gets all the blame from his family. Will's defense to his girlfriend is that her mom has a hot body and to his uncle he puts his actions down to being young and making mistakes.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': This is Gendry's explanation for why he let [[HotWitch Melisandre]] have her way with him, and Davos admits he can sympathize.
* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': Munch uses this as an excuse after sleeping with his girlfriend's roommate.
* In a rare use of this trope within a gay context, in ''Series/IMayDestroyYou'' Malik offers this as his excuse for raping Kwame after the latter had refused to have bareback sex with him:
--> What can I say? I'm a bad boy.
* Frank Gallagher in ''Series/ShamelessUK'' tries to invoke this to blame the other woman for his infidelity. [[Series/ShamelessUS His counterpart from the American remake]] also invokes this on occasions.
* In ''Footballers Wives'' several characters use the "men can't help it" argument. Tanya Turner blames her husband's mistress saying that men only cheat because of the sexual availability of football groupies like her. The character Ian Walmsley also tries to excuse himself for having a threesome despite having a wife and children by saying the women were all over him.

* In one episode of ''Series/NewsRadio'', Lisa discovers issues of Penthouse Magazine in Dave's desk (who was simply keeping them hidden until he can figure out who left them on his desk). When she frets over why Dave would keep such things around, Beth tells her that a man can get sick if they don't look at porn frequently enough. That's what her boyfriend told her. In the end, they turned out to belong to Beth, who was doing research for a Penthouse letter she was writing that "Starts out about golf, but then it ''meanders''..."
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': According to Turk, responding to J.D's irrational hookup, if a man hasn't had sex in a certain amount of time, he's not accountable for who he sleeps with.
* ''Series/HannahMontana'': {{Inverted}} with this explanation as to why Hannah did not want to bring her overprotective bodyguard with her on dates:
-->'''Hannah''': I'm a girl. I have needs.

* In ''Series/HomeAndAway'' the character Noah is forgiven very quickly by his brother for having sex with his girlfriend and another character comments that it "would have been really hard to say no". The girlfriend even says it was her fault not his.
* In ''Series/EastEnders'' the character of 'Aunt Sal' goes back to her cheating husband after only a few days because she decides that she is partly to blame for not "making more of an effort".

* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' In the episode, "The Girl With Two Breasts", Jeff is asked out by his hot coworker, Wilma, and since he's not the best at speaking, he wears a wire so the other members of the group can listen in and give him advice. Wilma propositions him for sex which Jeff is resistant to, since he's dating his boss, Julia. However, Wilma says she's also seeing someone and is just looking for some fun on the side, asking, "How can you say no to a night of unconditional sex?". Susan is furious when she hears this and demands that Steve tell Jeff the reason he can say no, but Steve is unable to think up a reason, eventually blurting out, "Jeff, don't. It might be a trick", leaving Susan quite angry with him.

* An episode of ''Series/TheMentalist'' plays this with a twist. The wife of a professional athlete says she's well aware that her husband has cheated on her in the past, and she claims her grudge is against the women he cheats with since he, as a man, doesn't "know any better." This not only paints their relationship in a disturbing light but makes her look more suspicious in the murder investigation, since she suspects the victim was sleeping with her husband.
* In ''Series/TheTudors'', Queen Anne Boleyn refuses to have sex with her husband, the king, when she is pregnant. He immediately has sex with another woman. When Anne complains to her father, her father explains that it is natural for a man, and ''expected'' for a king.
* The detectives of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' generally act as if this is a universal truth that's written in stone and handed down by God itself. More than one of their "early-in-the-episode red herring suspects" are only suspects because they said something along the lines of "Yes, believe it or not I actually turned down a chance to have sex when such a chance became available to me", and the detectives react with a "Pshh... right... sure you did, you lying bastard."

* On ''Series/{{Amen}}'', when Thelma blasts husband Rueben for ogling his father-in-laws gorgeous new girlfriend (played by Creator/HalleBerry, so you really can't blame him), he shrugs and nervously declares, "Sure I did. It's only natural. I'm a man!"
* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': Waterford offers a variant of this as an explanation as to why Jezebels exists.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Jason Quartermaine warns his brother AJ that he's noticed the way he's always eyeballing his girlfriend Keesha. AJ dismisses his concern, "She's a beautiful woman. Of course I'm going to look at her."

* In Music/RebaMcEntire's "Whoever's in New England," the lonely wife accepts that her husband is cheating on her extensively. As she says, "[he'll] always have a place to run back to." The implication from the song and the video is that, while she's certainly not ''happy'' about his cheating, it's just something a man will do.

* Music/TracyByrd's "The Truth About Men" is the same premise as Paisley's song, but released about 10 years earlier.

* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "It's Normal For A Man" is all about this trope.
* ''Music/{{Psychostick}}'' explains it right in the title of their song ''"Because Boobs"''.
--> ''"And some chicks too!"''

* Phoebus from the ''Theatre/NotreDameDeParis'' musical names precisely this as the reason he's "torn apart".

* Invoked but consistently averted in ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}''. While Tomoya is often called out on his apparently obvious lecherous thoughts, given the opportunity he always acts in a gentlemanly manner. He's given rather clear opportunities several times in Tomoyo's route, one with Ryou in Kyou's route and either Kyou or Tomoyo when locked in the storage locker. He doesn't even sleep with Nagisa for several months after getting ''married'' despite his apparently perverted nature.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': This comes up in the quest, "The Siren's Deception". The player has to track down a gang of female thieves who use this trope and lure men out to remote locations, promising them sex, and then rob them. Additionally, part of the quest requires you to get information from Gogan, their latest victim, who's married. He uses this as his excuse. However, [[spoiler: it turns out he's an undercover cop, so may not have been a victim at all]].

* ''ComicBook/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': Orlando, after spending several months of his adolescence on a ship with a gang of [[AnythingThatmoves horny Bronze Age sailors]], discovered, once they made landfall in the jungle, that he has turned back into a female. His, uh, her immediate response was to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides make like Pheidippides]], though she does mention that, had she run into such a woman back when she was a he, she probably would have raped herself, too.

* A male character in ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'' claims if he doesn't have lots of sex his jaw will go out of whack.
* ''ComicBook/ChaosWar: Dead Avengers'': In issue #2, Swordsman explains why he flirts even as the world comes to an end:

--->'''Ron White''': "My wife hadn't let me ''touch'' her in three months. You can't just keep a dog under the porch for three months without petting it occasionally. If you deny me sex for three months, I'll go sleep with someone else. I know, I've seen me do it."
** Bill Engvall has stated, "Sorry, I'm just a guy!" in his act as an excuse for all sorts of situations.
*** Surprisingly few of these involve sex--he uses it as an excuse for everything from insensitive remarks to crowning achievements in stupidity (90% of his "I'm just a guy" jokes fit under this), but from Bill, sex usually gets more than just a clever catchphrase.