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*** That's because he may have [[RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale tried to rationalize it]] by telling himself the mom is hot, in accordance with this trope. A lot of men have difficulty admitting to being raped--or abused, for that matter, and may blame themselves.

* ''SenseAndSensibility'' has Willoughby trying to explain his appalling behavior to Colonel Brandon's ward with this excuse. It doesn't work, but it does make this OlderThanRadio.

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* Deconstructed in the webcomic ''ElGoonishShive''. Having believed for years that her father had an affair because men couldn't control their urges, due largely to her [[DoesNotLikeMen misandric]] mother, Susan took the opportunity to [[GenderBender swap genders]] for one evening to test the theory out. Initially, this trope was played straight and Susan was suddenly full of perverted thoughts immediately after transformation (as forewarned by Tedd). However, after being male for several hours, she concluded there was hardly any difference and could no longer blame her father's actions on his gender.
* Clearly what's being implied in [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100127 this]] ''SluggyFreelance'' strip. Torg tells Sasha to stop changing her clothes in front of him. She tells him to just look away until she's finished. Torg considers this utterly unreasonable.

* A male character in ''Shade the Changing Man'' claims if he doesn't have lots of sex his jaw will go out of whack.

* Averted in Dragnet (the 1987 movie version.) Friday is depicted as incredibly uptight and when a woman hits on him, he turns her down.

* Frank Gallagher in ''Shameless'' tries to blame the other woman for his infidelity.

* [[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.

* Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali and his infamous [[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/muslim-leader-blames-women-for-sex-attacks/story-e6frg6nf-1111112419114 "cat and uncovered meat"]] parable wherein he blamed cases of sexual assualt solely on women themselves because of their immodest dressing habbits and alluring behavior. Intentionally or not, he basically implied that men shouldn't be expected any kind of restrain from whatsoever.

* Invoked but consistently averted in {{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.

* IncarnationsOfImmortality takes this even further BeyondTheImpossible: when a pair of female characters are turned male, they are barely restrained from ''raping the first woman they see''. They, too, come to the conclusion that all the men they've ever known had almost superhuman levels of self-control for keeping that urge in check. Um, yeah.

Has ''many'' UnfortunateImplications: AllMenArePerverts; a woman are required to provide a man with sex because she [[PropertyOfLove is his]]; if a woman is cheated on or raped, [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming it's her fault]].

** Of course, that stereotype is somewhat modern. Used to be, people thought it was ''women'' who couldn't go for long without sex. See the play ''{{Lysistrata}}'' by {{Aristophanes}}, in which the women collectively go on a sex strike until their husbands agree to stop warring with each other: Before the first night is out, it's the girls who are trying to "engage enemy forces," and only the strong-willed leaders manage to stop them from ruining the entire operation.

* ''{{Scream}}'' 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 (a few months IIRC) he's perfectly justified in seeking satisfaction elsewhere. As well, throughout the entire trilogy Billy's father is never criticized for his affair with Sydney's mother; everyone, including Sydney herself, act like it was all her mother's fault.

* The boys of BlueCollarComedy fame make not of this from time to time:

Women who want to take advantage of this trope[[hottip:* :Not [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean that kind of "advantage"]], sicko.]] can either attempt a LysistrataGambit or say "IHaveBoobsYouMustObey". See also AllMenArePerverts, EverybodyHasLotsOfSex, SexIsGood.

*** Indeed, back in ancient Greece, medical knowledge stated that [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean the womb had to be regularly moistened]] or it would dry up and attack the other organs.

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* In the magical land of {{Xanth}}, this trope is heightened to a ridiculous extreme, but then again, most things there are. Humanoid males there (and sometimes creatures of other body types too) literally cannot look away from attractive exposed flesh or movement of a humanoid female, become weak and even paralyzed the more turned on they get, and become completely freaked out in mind and body if they expose their undergarments (but not when they're naked, unless they're REALLY hot). Occasionally, this trope is subverted as it can apply to females as well, but only if they're REALLY turned on or REALLY grossed out by a male.

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