History Main / IntimateHealing

Oftentimes the ''only'' way to treat someone is to engage in some rather intimate activity. Some of these techniques are derived from actual methods, but often they're played up. [[ShipTease You know why.]] Frequently done to a PlotInducedIllness.

* Used in ''Faker'', a SF comic by Creator/MikeCarey involving college kids who get exposed to an experimental liquid data storage medium, and explicitly referred to as "sexual healing". Also provided the following quote:

* In the original ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'' comics by Jean-Claude Forest, Barbarella has her [[ClothingDamage clothes torn off]] ([[FanService as usual]]) on an ice world, so a handsome rescuer offers alcohol to warm her up. It's not enough however, so ([[ReallyGetsAround as usual]]) she ends up in his bed.
* In ''ComicBook/LadyRawhide: Other People's Blood'', Lady Rawhide is left dying a gangrenous wound inflicted by Scarlet Fever. She is found by vampire Carmelita Rodriguez who cures her by sucking her blood: drawing out the poison and healing her wounds.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

* ''Franchise/XMen'': Charles Xavier once knew a mutant who went on to become a doctor with his powers. His treatment carries a caveat of signing a sexual harassment waiver. How intimate it is depends on how severe the injury.

* [[IntimateHealing/{{Film}} Film--Live-Action]]

** Elijah and Elisha also performed resuscitation miracles by lying down over the people they resuscitated. (1st Kings 17:22 and 2nd Kings 4:34)
** Not exclusively about this trope, but Ecclesiastes 4:11 says, "Also if two lie down together, then they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm by himself?"

** Throughout the 'verse, sex is used to establish magical contracts for the purposes of mana replenishment. It should be noted that [[ShownTheirWork this is quite accurate to many real-life magical traditions]]. ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' uses this the most, as it involves Servants who use a lot of mana when fighting and will disappear if they don't recharge. The villains, of course, [[HumanResources just kill people for power]].
** In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' there's also the {{meido}} [[CreepyTwins twins]] who have this as their super-power. Quite literally, they have the ability to restore life-force by swapping bodily fluids. Though this is taken to a bit of an [[{{Squick}} extreme level]]. Also done in Ciel's route.

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* The French RPG ''Qin'' has a magical ability ("The Union of Yin and Yang") which allows you to have sex to recharge your Chi.

* If hot baths are not available, sharing body heat [[AluminumChristmasTrees actually works on hypothermia]]. Yachtsmen in Finland are taught to put a person rescued from sea in a sleeping bag together with a healthy person and share the body heat until professional rescuers arrive. The same works for a person rescued from an avalanche as well.

* According to William L. Shirer's ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'' and other sources, a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi scientist]] named Sigmund Rascher actually experimented with such a method [[WellIntentionedExtremist to find out how to treat Luftwaffe pilots downed into the icy polar waters]]. He induced hypothermia in concentration camp prisoners, then put them into bed with one or two naked women. He came to the conclusion that hot baths are more effective. It had something to do with Nazi admiration towards [[HornyVikings Vikings]] - old tales told how a Viking rescued from icy Nordic waters had to be quickly rewarmed to life, and in the wilderness they placed him as intimately as possible with one or two volunteer women from the party (the fattest of them) and covered them tightly in whatever blankets or furs available.

!!Examples:

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* In ''LightNovel/AestheticaOfARogueHero'', Akatsuki fights off Phil, but gets slashed by Phil's [[PoisonedWeapons poisoned sword]] and collapses with a terrible fever. Myuu strips them down and shares her body heat to break the fever. Afterwards, Akatsuki reveals he could have used his powers to neutralize the poison, but stopped since being hugged by Myuu while they were both in their underwear was much more appealing. Naturally, she gets pissed about him being a pervert.
* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'':
** In the movie. Though that was more of a bastardly [[SlippingAMickey Mickey Finn]] trick.
** In the anime, to pass the wind crystal cure to Belldandy.
** There's a scene in the manga where Urd locked lips with Belldandy to pull an ailment (an "Ahem Bug" causing laryngitis) out of her. Keiichi walked in just in time to be paralyzed by the sight.
* In ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'' Aoi holds Kaoru close in a very early episode to help Kaoru get over his cold. It could be said that she performs acts of intimate ''psychological'' healing as well, over the course of the series. His AcheyScars hurt less because of her influence.
* ''VideoGame/AliceInTheCountryOfHearts'': Peter White force-feeds a magic potion to Alice via mouth-to-mouth.
* In ''Manga/ArataTheLegend'', volume 12 has two instances happen in quick succession of each other. When Hinohara is poisoned and rendered unconscious, Kotoha lies on top of Hinohara in just her underwear in order for her [[HealingHands powers as an Unemezoku]] to take full effect. Shortly afterwards, Mikusa gives Hinohara medicine through mouth-to-mouth transfer.
* One scene in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' after a battle has Suzu walking in on Reo rubbing ointment all over Matsuri's naked body.
-->'''Reo''': I have a special ointment that works great on bruises.\\
'''Shirogane''': You don't have to apply it like '''that''' though!
* In Episode 8 of ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'' Nobunaga gives an unconscious Hideyoshi medicine by kissing her.
* Averted rather horrifically in the manga version of ''Manga/BattleRoyale'', where [[TheVamp Mitsuko Souma]] rapes a mortally wounded classmate while genuinely believing that this trope is in effect. Unfortunately, all she accomplishes by doing this is making his death even more agonizing than it already was.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': Casca is forced by her commander to lay with Guts like this after his first clash with the Hawks, which leads to a great deal of resentment on her part for much of the series. Guts returns the favor about halfway through the series after she gets hurt in their first fight with the Blue Whale Knights.
* ''Manga/BlackBird2006'':
** Female lead Misao is plagued by demons trying to kill and maim her. The lead male and local FetishizedAbuser Kyo can heal with his tongue. Do the math.
** Misao's KissOfLife gives energy to whomever she's kissing, so she oftentime does this to Kyo to help heal him if he's injured in a fight.
** In a later chapter Misao falls ill and can't warm up even with four blankets on her. Kyo finally strips down and warms her with skin-to-skin contact.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** When Ichigo is rescued and revived after his first confrontation with Byakuya, he wakes to find Urahara's burly assistant Tessai lying on top of him. HilarityEnsues.
** Later in the series, [[MadScientist Mayuri Kurotsuchi]] revives his dead [[SexySecretary assistant]] / [[TrulySingleParent daughter]] Nemu by doing something off panel that horrifies and embarrasses both Renji and Ishida--we don't see what happens, aside from one panel with Mayuri wiggling and a lot of sound effects involving Nemu panting and screaming. Ishida protest loudly about this much to Mayuri's confusion. Mayuri then says Renji and Ishida must be total perverts to think that's what was happening. Nemu, meanwhile, is restored to full, beautiful health--blushing deeply. The anime later goes on to have a [[HilarityEnsues field]] [[BreakTheFourthWall day]] with this.
* Used by Saya and Haji to give each other their blood in different situations during ''Anime/BloodPlus''. The fact she lets out a [[KissOfTheVampire little moan]] the first time he does it says all the rest...
* In ''Manga/ABridesStory'', Amir does this with her young (and very embarrassed) husband during a cold night in a yurt.
* In ''Manga/BlueRamun'', members of the Blue Ramun tribe can [[HealingHands heal most injuries and ailments]] with their [[ThePowerOfBlood magical blood]], but even close physical proximity to a tribesmember can promote healing. In Chapter 15, a tribal elder suggests a tribe member sleeps next to [[spoiler: Guard Captain Eagle]] while he recovers from being stabbed and poisoned. [[spoiler: Jessie ends up taking that responsibility, after being the one to heal him of the poison with a bloodied kiss.]]
* In episode 15 of ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'', Marin consumes a [[MushroomSamba mind-altering chocolate]]. Melan is able to neutralize the reaction by feeding her the antidote orally (that is, mouth-to-mouth style). This leads to some Japanese wordplay, since the words for "kiss" and "neutralize" sound very similar. Marin is considerably more flustered about the whole thing than Melan is, since kissing is a totally foreign concept to him.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' the titular warriors are resistant to external magic, including healing and knowledge transfer. As such the only way Godou's girls can heal him or transfer knowledge of a god is via kissing which usually ends up rather more passionate than seems strictly necessary. Similarly Godou's protection Authority can only be bestowed on the girls via an intense make-out session.
* The anime of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' has Chrono coming down with a fever after he uses too much astral energy. Rosette goes to a FortuneTeller to find out how to heal him--and she whispers a "folk remedy" into Rosette's ear. Of course, it's a kiss. Towards the end of the episode, Rosette tries it out of desperation, and the next morning Chrono's right as rain. (Of course, [[DudeShesLikeInAComa he had passed out right before she tried it]], so he had no idea that Rosette used a "magical" cure.)
* ''Manga/CrimsonSpell'':
** Prince Vald passes an antidote to the magician Halvir this way. Unbeknownst to Vald, Halvir's been having sex with him while he's controlled by [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the demon from his cursed sword]], so he can't help feeling there's something... ''familiar'' about Halvir's lips.
** Halvir decides early on that it would be a good idea to have sex with Vald in demon form, as this will both drain the demon's energies and feed his own magic; this causes complications later on, though not all of them negative.
* A couple of Contractors in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' have to kiss people as the remuneration for using their powers. One of them is the ([[LackOfEmpathy not-so]]) InnocentFanserviceGirl, [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance appropriately enough]], and the other is Mina Hazuki, who specifically has to kiss men and [[DoesNotLikeMen is not exactly pleased with this fact]].
* In ''Manga/DearBrother'', an ill and drugged up [[TheOphelia Rei]] takes an ''icy'' ShowerOfAngst. Her best friend [[{{Tomboy}} Kaoru]] stops her, drags Rei to her bedroom, and then strips both of them naked before the two get into bed so Rei can warm up via body heat.
* Laios of ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon''. His abilities as a healer are very basic and he doesn't have a tool like Marcille's staff, so if he is gonna perform any curation he has to touch all over his target with those big hands of his. Laios is fairly embarrassed by this, which as Marcille explains, is a very common issue for rookie healers.
* ''LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao'': In one of the specials, Akuto ends up trapped in one of the school warehouses during a snow storm along with Junko, Fujiko and Keena. Fujiko uses the body-to-body warmth excuse to strip naked and jump on Akuto, which [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Keena]] quickly joins in. Junko is a bit more reluctant, but between that and freezing, she ends up complying too, until the door opens and Korone comes in.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', an injured Future Mai is unconscious, so Future Trunks feeds her a [[HealingHerb Senzu Bean]] by chewing it and locking lips with her.
* In ''LightNovel/DragonCrisis'', dragons can apparently heal humans by kissing them. In one episode, when Ryuji is severely injured in battle, Rose kisses him and he instantly heals.
* The manga ''Eden's Bowy'' has a uniquely deliberate example of this. The heroine Elississ has the ability to heal anyone simply by holding her hands out above their body; but when hero Jorrne is hurt, she opts to heal by licking his wounds. Other characters have noted this on multiple occasions, some with knowing amusement, some with bitter jealousy.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has Lucy and Kouta in their childhood, who played together in a river, then, after removing their clothes to dry, shared back-to-back body heat.
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'':
** Parodied in one episode where Excel prepares to share her body warmth with a frozen-solid Hyatt in a way that obviously plays up the sexual aspect. The heat created was apparently sufficient to not only remove Hyatt from a block of solid ice, but also cause an ''explosion''. Hyatt winds up fine after the treatment... but Excel, doing the treating, suffers full-body frostbite.
** In the manga, Iwata is ecstatic at the possibility of having to administer CPR on Matsuya while they're searching the sewers of Fukuoka. She wakes up in time to stop him in his tracks -- but he does have to perform CPR by the end of the story. On [[{{Gonk}} Sumiyoshi]].
* In the latest arc of ''Manga/FairyTail'', Lucy is told by Porlyusica that, as a last resort to keep Natsu's body warm, she might have to strip naked and lie on top of him. Lucy feels very reluctant to do this, but she ultimately complies.
* It was done by Louise in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', who opposed it in the first place, to Saito. But when Derf the talking sword tried to tell Saito what happened, she buried the sword.
* In the ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' movie, [[MysteriousWaif Sulia Gaudeamus]] heals Terry Bogard by first stripping to her underwear and then initiating full body-to-body contact before [[HealingHands turning on her healing powers]]. Of course, Terry being a CelibateHero (for a rather... [[CartwrightCurse understandable reason]]), he doesn't do much afterwards except hugging her and [[YouMustBeCold warming her up]] when she doesn't have the strength to get up afterward.
* In ''New Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', this trope is invoked in a way that makes the entire series not very believable. Near the end of the series, Kenshiro is trapped by Seiji and put in a barred room. He continually tries to kick his way out of the bars, but it's ineffective. The only way he can get out is to use a technique that requires him to meld his chi with Sarah in order to produce the power needed to shatter the bars. They get pressed together in a very suggestive manner, as they gather the energy needed. It's Kenshiro, the man who has walked through collapsing skyscrapers, burning buildings, the DESERT, and beat up tens of thousands of mighty men with ease that would probably be outright fatal to master martial artists like Franchise/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and Iron Fist in the zero prep time + no weapon but your body confrontations that he would often find himself in. And this cage that Kenshiro is in: it's not any supermetal or anything designed before the war, it's not specially designed to absorb extreme shocks or anything, there are no force fields or nano fibers or any of that shit involved. It's just made of cast iron, something Kenshiro was more than capable of handling in the ''very first episode of the series''.
* Spoofed in a ''Manga/{{Freezing}}'' omake. While stranded on an iceberg, Satellizer and Holly strip and hug Kazuya and Louis, then rub against them at super speed. The two girls then decide to compete to see how fast they can move and how much they can warm their respective partner. Eventually, this generates so much heat that the iceberg breaks, sending them all tumbling into the ocean.
* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' Sousuke, while pretending to be dating Mizuki, kisses her in order to maintain the illusion that they were going out after asking "Is that when you put your lips to theirs?" After being yelled at for kissing he says " [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I have kissed]] [[HoYay all sorts of men]] before. [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable Some survived]] and [[DeathIsASadThing some died.]]" After Kaname realizes what he means all is forgiven.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'':
** The (in)famous Suboshi-Amiboshi kiss.
** Soi and Nagako's "sexual regeneration" sequences.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'':
** At the beginning, Takiko finds a girl all tied up. She rescues her from demons and takes her to an inn. The girl has a fever, so Takiko decides to "absorb her fever," by [[{{Fanservice}} stripping to the waist]] and climbing into bed with the girl. Who turns [[GenderBender into the male Uruki]]...causing Takiko to [[DefiledForever freak out]] when she finds out.
** Some time later, Takiko almost gets encased in magical ice and after her Genbu no Miko aura keeps her from being trapped, she gets severely ill. Uruki returns the favor by stripping to the waist and sharing body heat with her, which greatly embarrasses Takiko [[spoiler: but soon almost leads to a LoveConfesion.]]
* Ren delivers medicine to Kazuki like this in ''Manga/GetBackers''. Later, the trope is mocked to an extent when she is told to do the same to Emishi who promptly sticks his tongue in her mouth.
** In the Divine Design arc, it is revealed in the middle of a resurrection ceremony that, for it to work, Ban has to kiss the spell's target full on the mouth. This produces some annoyance with Ban's male co-lead, Ginji, as the manga plays up a healthy amount of HoYay between the two. Might also count as a medicine kiss, as Ban had a mouthful of blood and that was previously established as a key component of the ceremony.
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' gets into a sleeping bag to share his body heat with Urumi after saving her from [[spoiler:her suicide attempt]]. Unfortunately for him, he's too unconscious to enjoy the act.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'':
** Devil healing magic works this way. So, when Issei is gravely injured after becoming a Devil, Rias takes off all of their clothes and sleeps next to him the entire night.
** Asia's Twilight Healing Sacred Gear requires her to place her hands above (or touching) the injured zone in order to heal it.
** After Issei's EngagementChallenge against Riser, he's left with a dragon-like left arm that cannot be restored to normality with Twilight Healing. The solution? Rias and Akeno sucking the excess draconic energy every once in a while through his fingers. Literally.
** After his first berserk juggernaut drive causes a serious drain to his life, Koneko begins to engage in a similar healing method, pouring energy into him while wearing nothing but a flimsy robe. On top of this, she frequently offers to use an even more effective method in which she transfers energy while having sex with him.
* In the Brazilian manga based on an RPG setting ''ComicBook/HolyAvenger'', Lisandra's procedure to apply healing spells is through kissing the targets. The explanation is that, as she was raised by animals, that's just how she interprets the motherly figure of a wolf licking her cubs' wounds.
* Creator/MichiyoAkaishi's ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'': After escaping from the Count's castle via jumping into a river and hiding in an abandoned shack, an injured and soaked wet Lundi is this close to suffer hypothermia. His girlfriend Jeudi lays him down on a pile of hay, strips both of them naked and lays with him to warm him up. It works, and the next day Lundi is a little weakened but basically fine.
* In ''Manga/IkkiTousen'', Ryoufu does this to her bedridden ex-boyfriend Saji, giving him a pill through a kiss.
* Infamous lech Miroku from ''Manga/InuYasha'' once requests this. Kagome says "Yes, of course!"... then turns to the little fox boy Shippo and says "Take care of him, will you?" Suddenly Miroku thinks he can take the medicine okay by himself....
* ''Anime/JubeiChan'': This is apparently the only way that Jiyu's magical fever can be cured. It's done by her ''dad'', who [[UndressingTheUnconscious takes off her clothes while she's unconscious]], immerses himself in ice water, then lies on top of her (clad only in boxers) as the water steams off and he gets burned. Then runs back for more ice water. This repeats until her fever breaks, at which point he collapses, still lying on her. She wakes up and sleepily mumbles that he's a pervert, but doesn't push him off.
* Karin and Kazune in ''Manga/KamichamaKarin'', which is slightly creepy because the two characters [[PuppyLove are children]] in junior high, and later revealed to be OlderThanTheyLook.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'', both Chizuru and Nozomu do this to the resident cute little boy and odd woman magnet after the entire school gets frozen. But, Kanokon being Kanokon, they up the ante by taking every chance to fondle, rub up to and generally molest him, up to and including a (heavily implied) handjob. From both of them. At the same time.
%%* Used in ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'' when super-powerful wind mage Kazuma Yagami uses an elixir to revive Ayano Kannagi.
* When Ayumu faints of smoke inhalation in ''Manga/Life2002'', her best friend Miki is forced to give her water mouth-to-mouth to help her recover.
* Subverted in ''Manga/LilimKiss''. The titular boy accidentally released [[strike: SealedEvilInACan]] [[HornyDevils a scintillating succubus]]. The Succubus requires life force to perform and usually forcibly gets it by kissing the protagonist. Said act almost always leaves said protagonist not being able to move for ''at least'' a day from exhaustion.
* In the 1981 anime adaptation of ''Literature/LittleWomen'', Mr. March is so sick, Mrs. March has to give him his medicine via mouth to mouth.
* Used in ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'': given the fact that the connection between Sacrifice and Fighter is crucial to winning the magical battles it follows that Soubi should kiss Ritsuka in the middle of a showdown. This device is probably a means of allowing for intimate contact that isn't ''too'' intimate, after all Ritsuka is only 12.
* In ''Franchise/LupinIII'' ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus'' a hypnotized Fujiko got naked and warmed Lupin with some good ol fashioned female nurturing and warmth.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'':
** The first instance occurs near the beginning of chapter 16, when Ms. Aki treats Kai [[SchoolNurse at her office.]] She dons [[NaughtyNurseOutfit a fetish style nurse's outfit]], then [[spoiler: mounts him in the '69' position]]. Despite Kai's inquiry, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment no explanation is given]] for why she did it that way and it's never discussed again.
** Chapter 57 contains a straighter example [[HideYourLesbians between Yuuka and Takaki.]] A flashback panel at the beginning shows Yuuka spooning against Takaki, with one of her hands [[spoiler: between her legs]]. Takaki is seen with her back arched, while blushing and biting down on her finger, as light radiates [[StockVisualMetaphors from where Yuuka is touching her.]]
* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': In the final episode, [[spoiler:in order to combine their nanomachine fields and get enough reaction to boson-jump the entire ship]], Ms. Fressange proposes that Akito and Yurika kiss. [[LittleMissSnarker Ruri]] suspects after the fact that any sort of physical contact would have worked and Fressange was just trying to end the WillTheyOrWontThey dance.
* Lucia kisses Kaito in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' while he has amnesia. This kiss brings his memories back.
* Performed by [[spoiler:Suu]] of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' to cure the main character of his fever. Specifically, [[spoiler:she uses her unique biology to filter her own water and breast-feed Kurusu with it.]]
** By the same author of the above example, a well-intentioned but misguided [[spoiler:Aero]] attempts to perform this on [[spoiler:Mamoru]] in ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner''. [[spoiler:She]] doesn't seem to understand that doing this to a person who [[spoiler:[[BandageMummy has broken almost every bone in his body]]]] is a bad idea. Fortunately, [[spoiler:the rest of his harem arrives to stop her... if only because they don't want her getting ahead of them.]]
* Akira Okuzaki does this to Takumi Tokiha in both ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MyOtome'', when he has a seizure that doesn't let him swallow his pills. She puts them in her mouth and then presses their lips together so she can give the meds to him properly.
* Rue uses this technique to give water to a dehydrated Mytho in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', in a flashback sequence meant to cement their relationship. Considering that she was only a little girl at the time, though (and Mytho [[TheAgeless might be]] Really700YearsOld), it can come off as a little squicky.
* ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'':
** In the manga when Ikuto [[spoiler: is poisoned during a visit to Kunai's house, Shinobu feeds him the antidote with mouth to mouth. It annoys Machi, surprise surprise.]]
** A giant snowball chases Ikuto and Michiru helps him escape. It turns out to be a snow fairy named Konayuki who's trying to bond with him, but only freezes him because he's just a regular human. To warm him up until Koyuki can get Tsurara's help, Michiru takes off their clothes and hugs him tight. Suzu, who was worried about him, is furious when she finds them.
* Karin from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' can heal people, but only if they ''bite her'' (during which she seems to get [[FantasticArousal a rather elated look]]). Unfortunately for her, this also leaves a permanent bite mark any time she uses it. While you might interpret it in the manga to just be pain, the anime makes it extremely blatant that she's aroused.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** In both series series, the "only convenient way" for Negi to enact a magical pactio contract with someone is to kiss them (alternative methods aren't gone into, although one implied method was "open veins, swap blood"). This has been done for healing purposes as well as power-up, including when [[spoiler:Konoka kissed Setsuna in order to save her life in the end of the first series.]]
** Later in the manga, Konoka did a [[{{Fanservice}} naked]] TransformationSequence in which she [[spoiler:held Negi closely from behind in order to seal up the wound through his chest.]]
* ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'':
** In the manga, Shuzuku (a water demon in the form of a little girl) rubs her naked body against the unconscious male lead's back to heal his stab wound, then admits after the fact that she just did it that way because it felt good, when a more mundane form of contact would have worked just as well.
** In the anime, it is his chest, although she does keep her panties on.
** In a later chapter, Himari gets in a battle at a ski lodge and ends up covered in snow. She claims to be extremely cold after the fight is over in the hopes that Yuuto will use his body to warm her up. She is extremely disappointed when [[AboveTheInfluence he helps her get to the lodge's natural hot springs instead]].
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy is brought to the brink of death because he ate the skin of a very poisonous fish that normally causes instant death; while Luffy ''does'' have AcquiredPoisonImmunity, the venom is ''way'' too strong even for him and he's in extreme pain. He's saved by the Princess Vinmoke Reiju, who comes aboard and [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/7204baab96a78e0a2f9bb24eac8678d1/tumblr_inline_o7ffqwYCmx1rniz75_540.jpg lovingly]] [[SuckOutThePoison sucks the poison out of his body]] [[KissOfLife via a kiss]]. With no ill effects [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity due to her own poison powers]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything but with plenty of pleasure since she calls it a "treat"]].
* In the ''Manga/OutlawStar'' episode "Forced Departure", Melfina cures Gene of poisoning from darts by taking him into the navigation chamber of the show's titular ship. In the chamber Melfina is always naked and Gene is seen wearing [[strike: boxers]] just as much as her. They float together in an embrace as she cures him.
* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' Retrace 23, Vincent feeds an [[HealingPotion antidote]] to his servant Echo like this to prove that it works. Break probably didn't give that antidote to Sharon this way, though.
* The manga ''Manga/PQAngels'' required the heroines to kiss to transform.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Densuke will only take his vitally-needed medication if it's given by a pretty nurse. Weird circumstances make this nurse out to be Ranma. And Densuke does his level best to get the medicine delivered by this method. He fails with Ranma, but the medicine is delivered by this method (by a male {{gonk}} of a doctor).
* ''Anime/ReCutieHoney'':
** It's a Medicine Kiss used to restart the android during the showdown with the BigBad.
** Natsuko's solution to Honey's [[HeroicBSOD blue-screening]] in the previous episode, after realizing that the RobotGirl's skin is reacting to her touch in her otherwise lifeless body, is to strip completely naked and embrace Honey as intimately as she possibly can without actually having sex with her.
* ''LightNovel/ReMonster'' has a strange case of this in chapter 43. The main character, a powerful ogre with human-level intelligence and comparable morality, has impregnated two of the human women in his harem. By the time they start showing, their unborn babies have grown to the point that they're absorbing nutrients too fast, threatening the mothers' lives. Normal food is no longer sufficient, so the ogre ''tears his arm off'' to feed them. The human women are understandably reluctant, so he chews his own arm up to force-feed them mouth-to-mouth.
* Tsukune does this to Kokoa in the second ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' season.
* In the manga of ''Anime/{{S cry ed}}'', Cherise at one point heals Ryuho by having sex with him using her Alter "[[HealingHands Eternal Devotion]]"
* Used in the ''Anime/SailorMoon R'' [[NonSerialMovie movie]], when Mamoru drinks the sap from Fiore's Flower of Life and administers it to Usagi.
* In ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'', Judas can heal with his lips making any healing fairly intimate by default.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': After Cygnus Hyouga is [[HumanPopsicle released from an ice coffin]], he's still nearly dead and frozen solid. His teammate and friend Andromeda Shun thaws him out by burning [[LifeEnergy cos]][[BattleAura mo]], which winds up looking like [[http://spd.fotolog.com/photo/29/52/7/ro_saint/1246461330927_f.jpg this.]] In the manga, the scene lasted about a page, while the anime [[AdaptationExpansion stretched it out]] to [[{{Filler}} half an episode]], [[{{Fanservice}} much to the delight]] of YaoiFangirls.
* In chapter 74 of ''Manga/SchoolLive'', [[spoiler:Yuki]] gives [[spoiler:a seriously ill Kurumi]] water mouth-to-mouth.
* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' require a kiss from their Ashikabi to use the full extent of their powers.
* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' has both Ban and Elaine fatally wounded by a Red Demon, and only the FountainOfYouth (which Elaine was guarding) can save them, but there's only enough for one of them. They both want each other to drink from the fountain and save themselves, so Elaine takes it into her mouth, then kisses Ban to force it down his throat.
* ''Manga/SevenSeeds'' uses the sharing a blanket in order to warm up a few times. Once between Ango and Arashi during the Minor Heat arc. And another time between Koruri and Haru during the Ocean/Mountain arc, with them stripping down to share body heat.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'':
** In one episode, during the Hinata family's stay on Momoka's private beach resort, Momoka tries to get Fuyuki's attention by pretending to drown so he'll perform CPR on her.
** Momoka invites Fuyuki his family to the Nishizawa family's private snow resort in the mountains, where with the help of a few high-tech snow-making machines, she plans to stage a blizzard and get stranded in a cabin with Fuyuki, where he'll hopefully perform the "nude body-warmth sharing" trick with her. Of course, between Fuyuki's SelectiveObliviousness about Momoka's crush on him and the meddling of the Keroro Platoon, things don't go quite according to plan.
* In the ''Manga/ShamanKing'' manga, Ren has to be cured through that by Jeanne. Due to [[MistakenForPedophile Ryu's misunderstanding]] (he thought that Jeanne was going to have her first kiss with Ren), the poor fin-haired boy couldn't be completely healed, and became scarred. Actually, it was ''Shamash'' who was healing him with a kiss... [[spoiler: Not that Jeanne doesn't end up married with Ren in the end, anyways. Or at least, as the mother of his kid.]]
* In ''Anime/ShatteredAngels'', or ''Kyoshiro To Towa No Sora'', the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Absolute Angels]] survive by draining {{mana}} from humans by way of a kiss. Kazuyacan drain {{mana}} from [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Absolute Angels]] via a kiss as well.
* ''LightNovel/SoICantPlayH'':
** Seen during the climax of Lisara's battle with Ilia, in episode 4. Her partner, Ryosuke, [[EnergyDonation restores her energy]] by [[spoiler: thrusting his pelvis [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything directly into her face]]]], which causes her to become visibly aroused by it. Lisara proceeds to 1-shot Ilia.
** {{Subverted}} in episode 7, when two of Lisara's maids (Hild and Ulus) try to heal Ryosuke by having sex with him. Hild straddles him and is seen grinding him, [[SceneryCensor beneath]] [[ModestyBedsheet the bed sheets.]] But he forces them off of him before they could heal him completely.
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'':
** Neko-Ichigo has to kiss someone, anyone, to turn back to normal. This causes a problem as the only one she actually ''wants'' to kiss is the one that she's trying to keep in the dark about her identity.
** In one episode, Retasu kisses an [[DudeShesLikeInAComa unconscious]] Ryou to activate the Mew Aqua required to save him.
* In Creator/MichiyoAkaishi's manga ''Manga/TowaKamoShirenai'', the {{Miko}} Kosumo debrainwashes her guardian Hitsuji through a TrueLovesKiss combined with this. In her case, she used said kiss to initiate skin contact with him and activate her powers to undo his BrainwashedAndCrazy state.
* ''Anime/TurnAGundam'': Harry Ord gives Lt. Poe Eiji some anti-radiation sickness medicine this way. What makes it strange is that she was conscious (if sick) and still fully capable of swallowing a pill herself.
* Ichika of ''Anime/WaitingInTheSummer'' has a high-tech alien healing device; it ought to avert this trope, except she apparently has to kiss the person she wants it to heal.
* Maya Shimon, the principal's younger sister, gives Moroha a kiss to restore his mana in episode 2 of ''LightNovel/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman''.
* This is how the Misago gets Takahiro to stop fearing her in the ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' manga.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Attempted by Spock to save Kirk's life in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27993681 Hold On]], where he uses what is a type of life-force-transfusion. Vulcan psychic healing involves MentalFusion. You can't get more intimate than that.

--> Spock took a deep breath, steeling himself, then gently placed his hands against Jim’s temples. His lips moved, mouthing the words almost too soft to hear “My mind to yours…My strength to yours…My life to yours…” The junior officers watched with a hushed awe as slowly color flooded back to Kirk’s face. The captain’s breathing grew less harsh, less labored, his pained expression relaxing back into the calmness of deep sleep.

* In the fanfic ''[[http://www.improfanfic.com/ffleg/ Final Fantasy Legacy]]'', the healers of Rupantao help heal patients by raising their "prana." What this process involves exactly is never revealed, but it starts with the healer disrobing completely.
* In ''Fanfic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', Rarity has sex with her boyfriend after he gets hit in the head with an iron bar. It doesn't do much for the head wound, but does do an effective job of removing his headache.
* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3610255/7/Drabbles-for-FF3 This]] series of drabbles for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' has Luneth split the last Hi-Potion with Arc by kissing him with a mouthful of it. With some precarious LeaningOnTheFourthWall, to boot.
-->'''Luneth:''' See? All better.
* Subverted in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''/''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' crossover story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10052136/1/Dis-Guy-Eh Dis Guy, Eh?]]. All the healers Xander visits use "tantric magic" (aka sexual healing) but it's later revealed they just use it as an excuse to have sex with him.
* As a cleric of Aphrodite and Eros, Xander can do this and have it done to him in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3776911/1/Walking-in-the-shadows Walking in the Shadows]]''. Anything from hugging to having sex with him is described as working like years of therapy, and a [[SlapSlapKiss kiss from Hawkgirl healed up his injury from her punching him in the stomach]].
* In the 11th chapter of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/OldWest'', Grace Glossy is saved from drowning by [[AntiHero Rattlesnake Jake]], but her body is left cold, [[ShownTheirWork which is extremely dangerous for snakes]]. With no other options, Jake holds Grace in his coils to give her warmth until she recovers and can be escorted to proper warmth. The event serves as one of the catalysts to draw [[BelligerentSexualTension Jake and Grace]] closer.
* Sion in ''Fanfic/PassingDays'' for ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' suggests a mana transfer via sexual intercourse in Extra Day 4 for the weakened Robin Hood to regain his strength from his treatment in the Ooku. Due to Vy's TraumaButton around sex, though, the suggestion falls through and [[MagicKiss French kissing]] comes up in the conversation instead.
* Spoofed in ''WebVideo/VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'', where the healing arts pretty much consist of touching the patient inappropriately.
-->'''Milerna:''' Okay, I am now going to attempt to heal him with the Laying On of Hands.\\
'''Allen:''' There is no part of that sentence that I ''didn't'' like!\\
'''Hitomi:''' That's not where he's hurt, you perv!
* Inverted in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7294328/1/Wandering-Pilot Wandering Pilot]]''. Shinji's HealingHands don't require anything more intimate than contact with the wounded area, but have the unusual side effect of causing arousal in anyone healed by them, including Shinji himself.
* Played for laughs in ''Fanfic/{{Frostbite}}''. Part of the away team is separated from the campsite after Breen land on the planet, and they huddle together for warmth, leading to a joking exchange between Biri Riyannis and a Betazoid petty officer.
-->'''Petty Officer Glav:''' Hope you won't consider this too forward, sir.\\
'''Biri:''' Cop a feel and I'll break your neck.
* [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Edward and Mustang]] are forced to share body heat in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6421617/1/Shadow-Of-A-Doubt Shadow of a Doubt]]'' when they're trapped in a cold mine. Being embarrassed was deemed preferable to the hypothermia that was setting in.
* In Chapter 31 of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash and [[spoiler: Anabel]] (who takes her sweaty shirt off to focus) learn to use [[HealingHands Heal Pulse]] after a tiresome training session, and use to replenish each other's energy. All the while, Ash feels incredibly awkward to touch her directly, but they both clearly enjoy it.
* One of [[Fanfic/TheLoneTraveler the Lone Traveler's]] trips takes him to [[Series/JoanOfArcadia Arcadia]]. He surruptitiously uses some magic that, over time, allows Kevin Girardi's damaged spine to heal. The first time anyone notices this is immediately after he and his fiancée...finish.
-->'''Kevin:''' I guess Music/MarvinGaye was right. All I needed was some sexual healing.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Pawprints}}'', Blake kisses an injured Weiss to help draw blood out of her mouth.
* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': When Rider's mana is low, Shirou innocently asks if there's anything he can do to help. Saber, who knows that the best way for Shirou to transfer mana to Rider is to have sex with her, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere promptly leaves the room]]. Shirou is embarrassed when the process is explained to him, and more embarrassed when his girlfriend says it's fine. Later, Saber's own mana is low and she gets a similar mana transfer.
* ''Fanfic/FateBlackDawn'': After Morgan le Faye uses a lot of her magic to make Shirou a weapon, she needs a recharge, so she goes to Shirou for a sex-as-mana-transfer. Of course, it's quite obvious that she could have chosen some other way to restore her mana, but decided this way would be more fun. Shirou, who is in love with someone else and still not used to her [[TheVamp vampy]] tendencies, is very hesitant.
-->'''Shirou:''' There's no way I'm getting out of this, am I?\\
'''Morgan:''' If you want [[CoolSword what I'm going to give you]], then no.
* A mostly platonic version in ''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised'': Lily finds Severus having terrible nightmares, and hops into bed to cuddle him. It helps soothe him, but he's quite startled to find her there in the morning.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13823122/1/Crushed-Spirit Crushed Spirit]]'', [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Emily]] gives Percy (whom she sees as a son) several kisses and a buffer massage ([[MST3KMantra don't ask how that works]]) in order to help him recover from the mental trauma he's been suffering from ever since he accidentally killed a family. She even lets him kiss her on the lips (although she tells him that she will only allow him to do so this one time).
* ''Webcomic/ThisPlaceWasHome'': In Part 6, Jango cuddles Zam to keep her warm while they're on a frost planet.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Played completely straight in ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''. Laura gets Sam out of the wet clothes after a DrowningPit situation and then embraces him because "if the blood rushes back too fast, your heart could fail". He doesn't mind. She's his crush.
* In ''Film/TheSaint1997'', the title character (played by Val Kilmer) hides from the villains by diving into the nearly frozen river Moskva and staying submerged for a prolonged time. After the villains drive off, his LoveInterest leads him to a nearby housing block. Due to a gas and oil shortage, the house is unheated, so she strips down to her undergarments and cuddles with him to warm him up.
* Featured in ''Film/TristanAndIsolde'' (2006). Isolde and her maid discover Tristan washed up on the beach; guess what they do to keep him warm?
* ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Anya suggests this to Film/JamesBond to keep warm while they're on the boat to Cairo.
* Sleeping together for warmth appears in ''Film/TheGreatRace'' (with no nudity though).
* Seen in ''Film/ShogunAssassin.'' Ogami Ito and his son, pursued by a female ninja, swim from a burning ship to find shelter on land. (He fights and subdues her underwater before landfall, however.) Once inside an abandoned shack, Ogami ends up overpowering the ninja and stripping her. He likewise disrobes and pulls the ninja and his son closer so they won't freeze to death.
* In the Creator/JackieChan movie ''Film/TheMyth'', Jackie was an Imperial soldier in a past life who nearly drowns, and gets dragged to safety by a Korean princess, who does this to revive him.
* The main characters in ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'' have to attempt this to avoid catching hypothermia, to their great reluctance.
* In ''Film/BrokebackMountain'', Ennis is brought in to share Jack's tent after he's been sleeping outside in the frigid cold. Of course, they sleep fairly normally and clothed for a while before Jack decides to jump him.
* Series/MacGyver1985 finds himself as a recipient of one from Natalia in ''[=MacGyver=]: Trail to Doomsday'' TV-movie after he is caught in a poisoned boobytrap and loses consciouness.
* Seems to be inverted in ''Film/CabinFever'' with intimacy making a character sicker. Marcy already had the disease, but it was barely showing when she had sex with Paul. But within an hour of their racy affair, her health deteriorates to a level that it took her friend almost a whole night to reach. [[WildMassGuessing A reasonable theory to explain this]] is that her accelerated heart rate during the tryst pumped the disease through her body much faster than normal, which sped up its progression. There are sickly welts emerging on Marcy's back because Paul had been fondling her there while they had sex.
* In ''Film/ShootToKill'' (aka ''Deadly Pursuit''), the two male characters in pursuit of a killer get stuck in the mountains with a snowstorm raging on them. They dig a hole on the snow, where they are forced to take off most of their clothes and stay close together to survive the night.
* In ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'', Mulder saves Scully, who was infected with alien virus and transported by the government conspiracy to a secret space on the south pole. She was naked and covered in some kind of alien goo, so Mulder got her dressed in some of his clothes. When they get out, Mulder is absolutely exhausted and drops his head into the snow. Scully, also exhausted to death, somehow manages to roll her body over him. She cradles him in her lap and arms and tries to cover him from the freezing cold.
* ''Film/ShandraTheJungleGirl'': When Shandra starts to slip into a coma, Ellen and Cord are able to revive her by having sex with her.
* In ''Film/OnceUponASpy'', Chenhault and Tannehill share body warmth (albeit still fully clothed) when forced to spend the night outdoors in the mountains. This marks the point at which they shift from being on a LastNameBasis.
* ''Film/SandsOfTheKalahari'': When the injured Bain is shivering by the fire at night, Grace lies down next to him and wraps her arms around him to keep him warm.
* In ''Film/TheProposal'', Margaret fell overboard from the speedboat that she and Andrew were in because of him turning the boat so suddenly. After he saved her from drowning, Andrew covered Margaret with warm clothing and then embraced her to warm her up.

[[folder:Literature]]
* The military sci-fi novel ''Literature/{{Armor}}'' by Creator/JohnSteakley has the combat suits built with an energy transference function that occurs when they surface-to-surface contact. Though it isn't exactly as intimate by most standards, ie. flesh to flesh, the necessity to be in physical contact does make it intimate, and though siphoning energy from one suit to another isn't exactly healing, it does allow the suit to continue functioning and thus keep the protagonist alive, otherwise he would have died on any one of several occasions against his alien bug enemies.
* Creator/JimButcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent White Court vampires]] ''can'' heal from deep wounds via sex, but this drains the life force of their partner, sometimes to the point of killing them. They prefer to draw only a little energy at a time, but given the sort of mayhem that follows Harry everywhere...
** ''The Dresden Files'' is also notable in that, when someone is given mouth-to-mouth, that whole vomiting issue isn't ignored in the slightest.
** Elaine's Reiki, which is a type of energy transfer, performed while massaging Harry, used to stimulate Harry's healing. Made more intimate by Harry and Elaine's past relationship.
** A sort-of example occured in the book ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', when Harry [[spoiler:becomes the Winter Knight]]. Harry suffers a severe injury that leaves him permanently paralyzed from the waist down, and one of his options was to cut a deal with [[spoiler:Queen Mab]] to heal himself. Sealing it was a rite in the spirit world that was very "intimate" moment between them to seal the deal. Once it was done, Harry's partner honored her end and healed his physical body.
* In Creator/DKBroster's ''Literature/TheWoundedName'', [[TheNotLoveInterest Laurent]] cradles a wounded, sick, delirious, and freezing Aymar while they huddle in a tiny shelter that's being pelted a thunderstorm, and the scene is one of ''many'' that shows how deeply [[HoYay devoted]] Laurent is to Aymar.
* In ''Literature/BrokenAngels'', Takeshi uses his special psychodynamic rehabilitation techniques on Tanya, a recent internee at a wartime prison. Tanya decides that she needs to have sex with Takeshi to change her feeling of being 'fixed'. Said fornication causes the conditioning to break down.
* In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/{{Prey}}'', [[spoiler:Julia]] also transfers nanomachines by kissing. Unfortunately, these are '''not''' the good kind. It gets even worse later, with one unwilling victim being ''held down'' for the kiss.
* In Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' Nell uses this to transfer hunter-killer {{nanomachine}}s to save [[spoiler: her adoptive mother]] from a deadly {{nanomachine}} computation.
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* ''Literature/AnitaBlake'':
** Anita main ActionGirl of Laurell K. Hamilton's ''Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter'' series uses sexual energy to call various kinds of [[YouKeepUsingThatWord preternatural]] power, most often healing power.
** Early in the series, deeply religious and strictly monogamous Anita only uses this as a last resort, to [[GodModeSue save friends from grievous injuries]]. In the later books the vampiric ''arduer'' turns Anita into a HornyDevil. So she may act [[MyGirlIsASlut like a slut]], but she's clearly [[MyGirlIsNotASlut not a slut]] because it's NOT HER FAULT.
** There's a lot of healing via licking or worse. Apparently medical magical saliva works only when it's tongue to troubled area. Putting it on a napkin ruins the whole thing.
* In the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology, there is a rather unusual example: Ward and Oreg have to tend to the wounds of a severely injured [[spoiler: Tisala]]. The fact that they have to strip her clothes off is treated as a non-issue. Oreg has HealingHands, which is also a non-issue, as the part of her that needs to be magically healed is her hand. However, Ward can feel Oreg's healing magic, if it's worked nearby, and finds the intimacy of this somewhat [[HoYay erotic]] and slightly disturbing.
* Rand of Creator/RobertJordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' does this after being caught in a blizzard with Aviendha, despite the wide variety of magical powers at his disposal. The problem wasn't the warmth, it was that he couldn't stay awake. He could use magic to keep the warmth, but he was afraid that if he fell asleep the temperature would keep rising. Once her temperature is stable a SexyDiscretionShot ensues, followed by Aviendha being disappointed in herself as she believes Rand belongs with Elayne and had promised to make sure he didn't stray.
* Mord-Sith in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' have the [[KissOfLife breath of life]], where a recently-dead victim with their trachea and lungs intact can be revived. It's never explained how. Made fairly squicky because usually it's used so that the Mord-Sith can ''kill and revive their torture victims over and over''. Yeah. They are not fun people.
** Wizards heal someone by psychically entering their patient, taking the pain onto themselves, and then mending what's broken. It's apparently shockingly intimate and very tiring. In fact, one patient saved in this way described it in more intimate terms than when said wizard told her to pull down her shirt and proceeded to feel her breasts. To be fair to that wizard, there was a particular sorceress who was (spoilered for massive squick) [[spoiler: cutting off a nipple of women close to that wizard and using the nipple to mind-control them from afar]]. Said patient teased him mercilessly in front of his ''wife'' for it, but is only ever really taken aback at the intimateness when he heals her.
*** To make it even more impressive, that patient was a Mord-Sith. Yes, a wizard did something so intimate to one of Lord Rahl's [[TortureTechnician torturers]], who are ''made'' by [[BreakTheCutie torture]], who would serve as a consort to the Lord Rahl the instant he asked (and many have), that she was embarrassed by the intimacy. On top of that, they ''hate'' magic.
* In Creator/MercedesLackey's works:
** The "sharing body heat" version occurs between the titular characters in ''Literature/TheLarkAndTheWren'', complicated by their UnresolvedSexualTension. [[spoiler: Which then resolves itself rather thoroughly.]]
** The "Osage blanket ritual" mentioned a few times in ''Sacred Ground''.
** The Kestra'chen of the Hawkbrothers specialize in healing people emotionally, frequently through sex, massages and other forms of physical comfort.
* In Marc Laidlaw's ''The Neon Lotus'', a female practitioner of the Tibetan self-heating art of ''respa'' who was trying to be celibate ''had'' to have sex with a friend so that enough heat would be generated to keep him alive... just ''had'' to.
* In Creator/StephenieMeyer's ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Eclipse]]'', [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] Jacob Black (whose healthy body temperature is about 43 °C) zips up in a sleeping bag with Bella while he's wearing only a pair of slacks. When he suggests trying the naked version, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] boyfriend Edward is less than pleased.
-->'''Bella:''' C-c-cut it out, Jake. N-n-n-nobody really n-n-n-n-needs all ten t-t-t-toes.
* Emily does this to Genji in ''Literature/CloudOfSparrows'' when they are ambushed in a blizzard. Naturally, Emily is terrified that it will count as a sin. Then when Genji regains consciousness, he thinks he's been taken prisoner...
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila in ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder Edge of Victory II: Rebirth]]'', in the rapidly-depressurizing Yag'dhul station (yes, yes, [[SpaceIsCold we know]]...). They were side by side, though that may have been the result of the size of the locker they were in (because, well, the station was depressurizing). They also had their FirstKiss, [[NowOrNeverKiss since they weren't exactly laying long odds on survival]].
** In the ExpandedUniverse backstory literature features Ephant Mon (the large, elephant-like alien from Return of the Jedi) and ''Jabba the Hutt''. It's a bit of PetTheDog for Jabba, since Ephant Mon became his only truly loyal friend after they saved each other.
** In ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'', Luke, armed with the [[AmplifierArtifact Force-enhancing]] Kaiburr Crystal, heals Leia after her fight with Darth Vader by touching and tracing all the wounds on her face and body. The comic book adaptation, released ''after'' Return of the Jedi, opts to portray this as red lightning emanating from the crystal while he holds it above her body so there's less {{brother sister incest}} feelings implied.
* In Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/AmericanGods'' the protagonist's wounds disappear after he dreams of having sex with a goddess (who was disguised as a cat in his bedroom when he went to sleep - A dream?). Though he does find some fresh claw marks.
* In Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow, Glass, Apples", a retelling of "Literature/SnowWhite" from the evil stepmother's view, Snow White gets revived with a kiss. In this version, Snow White is a vampire and she was incapacitated by the poisoned apple. The prince is a necrophiliac and from the stepmother's view she can only guess that while having sex with Snow White's body the apple was dislodged from her throat, or during the act of sex she was slowly revived and after biting the prince she started drinking his blood which undid the apple's magic, washing down the poison with the lifegiving blood.
* In Fred Saberhagen's ''[[Literature/BookOfSwords Third Book of Swords]]'', Kristin gives up [[VirginPower her virginity]] to Mark to heal him from the Mindsword's poison.
* In ''Literature/{{Olympos}}'', a character must awaken a women from suspended animation by having sex with her unconscious body.
* Happens a few times in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', and - of course - twisted in horrifying ways.
** Robb Stark is "comforted" by Jeyne Westerling after he is injured and in mourning for his supposedly dead brothers. He ends up marrying her to preserve her honor, which directly sets in motion the events leading to [[spoiler:his death]].
** An event taking place before the beginning of the series has Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is wounded in a duel and allowed to recuperate in the home of his beloved's family. Said beloved's younger sister takes this opportunity to essentially rape him in his drug-infused state under the guise of tending to his wounds. Needless to say, there are some nasty repercussions later on, including the sister's descent into madness and an entire war brought about by Littlefinger's manipulations, ones that he could only accomplish thanks to the position of power she gave him in hopes of making him love her.
* In Robin [=LaFevers=]' ''Literature/GraveMercy,'' this is how MasterPoisoner Ismae saves Duval, who has been poisoned. She is one of [[TheGrimReaper Death's]] daughters, and she has the ability to neutralize poison via skin-on-skin contact. While sex isn't strictly ''necessary'', Duval certainly wasn't about to object.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''Ice Trap'', at one point Security Chief Chekov gets poisoned and becomes ill and comatose, which puts him at risk of losing body heat due to the ice planet his mission is on. Uhura and Sulu thus talk one of his male security ensigns into helping him keep warm by sticking both into the same sleeping bag with each only wearing a body slip. PlayedForLaughs a bit in that neither has ''any'' interest in the other aside from professional loyalty, so the ensign is decidedly feeling awkward at the whole situation. When Uhura tells the ensign to "yell if he wakes up", the ensign dryly quips, "Don't worry, if I don't, ''he'' will."
* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'' ends with Agatha bringing her friend Sophie back from the dead with a kiss, after Sophie, who'd done a FaceHeelTurn, had redeemed herself with a HeroicSacrifice.
* ''The Bronze Horseman'' by Paullina Simons. Alexander digs Tatiana out of a bombed train station, removes her bloody clothes, then [[AfterActionPatchUp cleans and dresses her wounds]]. There are no beds available, so Tatiana asks him to spend the night lying next to her instead of on the wet grass. Which Alexander does, wrapping his greatcoat around them both. They FirstKiss the next day, and much later Tatiana admits she'd been doing everything she could to bring this about.
* Lampshaded at a moment in the second series of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', where the Pattern has abducted Coral and holds her captive and comatose in the center of a broken reflection of itself. In order to rescue her, Merlin is forced to walk the broken Pattern, only to find her comatose and impossible to wake. He asks the Pattern what he should do to heal her, and it answers with the image of him and Coral having sex. Merlin is furious, tells the Pattern that he is not starring in any kind of occult porn and that if what it wants is some stupid tantric ritual he can calls specialists. (He eventually ends up doing it.)
* Subverted in ''The Zone'' series by James Rouch. A soldier cuddles up to SociopathicSoldier Andrea in the snow, only to back off when he feels the point of a knife pressing against his ribs.
* In ''Literature/TomcatBlueEyesDiaries'', Blue Eyes has a serious (live-or-die serious) fight with a mean yellow cat who wanted to hurt Kiki, a young kitten. Blue Eyes tries to lick his wounds, but it hurts terribly. Kiki comes to help him, and Blue Eyes notes that her tongue is much softer and her purring is soothing as well. He also mentions that Kiki looks exceptionally well and realizes that SheIsAllGrownUp now.
* ''Literature/TheGanymedeTakeover''. LaResistance huddle together for mutual warmth when hiding in the mountains in winter. Their leader lampshades the trope, saying how it makes them a BandOfBrothers (given that men wouldn't normally snuggle up to each other for fear of being seen as gay).
* In ''[[Literature/MythAdventures M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link]]'', Massha successfully and instantly sobers up the Geek by giving the drunken Deveel a big long kiss. In this case, it's not eroticism or true affection that has the sobering effect, but the fact that being smooched by a woman as fat and ugly as Massha will subconsciously override even the thickest of BeerGoggles.
* In [[Literature/TheDarkArtifices Lady Midnight]] Emma heals Julian, her supposed [[PlatonicLifePartners platonic life partner]] from a fatal injury while they're cramped together in the back seat of a car. She even notes that she's straddling him. [[spoiler: It turns out to be intimate in more way than one, as it was her romantic feelings for him that made the healing runes strong enough to save his life.]]
* A component of some types of elven healing in the Raine Bennares series by Creator/LisaShearin.
* In ''[[Literature/TheirBrightAscendancy The Tiger's Daughter]]'' by K. Arsenault Rivera, Princess Shizuka comes down with a nasty fever and, afraid she might not live through the night, has sex with her childhood friend Shefali -- who notes that Shizuka shouldn't be engaging in such activities in her condition. When Shefali's mother enters the ''ger'' the next morning, Shefali tries to pass off Shizuka's nakedness as this.
* ''Literature/LilithsBrood'':
** Among the {{Cthulhumanoid}} Oankali, the [[BizarreAlienSexes ooloi]] use their sensory arms both for healing (by performing microsurgery and genetic manipulation) and for the species' version of sex (by transmitting pure pleasure to the nervous system), and like to add a bit of the latter to the former.
** In an intimate but starkly non-sexual instance, Lilith helps the ooloi Nikanj heal [[spoiler:the loss of a sensory arm]] with some naked spooning, so he can use all of his sensory tentacles to copy helpful genetic information from her. He's in no condition to make it pleasant, so she has to endure the feeling of being perforated by hundreds of needles.
* In ''Chronicles of a Strange Kingdom'' immature nymphs[[note]]Nymphs appear out on nowhere as prepubescent girls. They grow up an the same rate as humans, become sexually active at mid-teens, then mature and settle down at early to mid-twenties.[[/note]] are nymphomaniacs that ''need'' to sleep with several different men every week. The one-night lover is invigorated and one of his ailments — physical or emotional — is cured. What do nymphs get out of that, nobody quite understands, not even nymphs themseves. Eventualy, a nymph matures and settles down with her chosen husband. From this point on, she only keeps him in good health. It is said that the love of a nymph cures, but just spending time in the same room seems to help, although the increments decrease greatly after the first night. They may be elementals of Life, their power may be connected to deities of love and fertility, but nobody can be sure.
** In the backstory the nymph Azille had sex with an ex-wizard Orlando suffering from SuperpowerMeltdown. His powers were restored right in the middle of the act.
** Later Azille felt that the hero, who once saved her from rapists, prince Elmar, had been rendered paraplegic. She travelled to him, declared him her future husband, and spent several weeks next to him, curing the paralysis. When the story starts, they live together, but she is still immature and spends almost every other night with other men.
** When Elmar is hit by a MindManipulation that compels him to protect the witch, give her all his money and then [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]], Azille cures him again.
** In a one-night-stand she cures emotional scars of Espada, a warrior, who lost his family to prison camps.
** Cantor, a singer-cum-soldier, who lost his voice because of tortures, keeps avoiding her. He assumes, that her cure will work only once, and tries to fix as many things as possible, hoping she'd repair his vocal cords when all else is fine. [[spoiler:She doesn't, instead curing his sterility]].
** Then a vampire, that tries to take Elmar hostage, ends up dead. Seems to be a case of ReviveKillsZombie, although the exact circumstances stay secret.
** Then she is captured by [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry invaders]] and cures one soldier, removing his detrimental mutations.
** Then she teaches love to TheDragon, resulting in [[spoiler:HeelFaceDoorSlam and him being DrivenToSuicide]].
** Then she spends a night in a room with a super-lich, [[spoiler:irreversibly killing him]].

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* On ''Series/AllMyChildren'', Tanner claims to have done this for Hayley following a plane crash that left them stranded (her memory is fuzzy, but she remembers him taking off her shirt and confronts him about it). In truth, he undressed her in order to sexually assault her.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In Season 2 Oliver Queen and Slade Wilson have [[LoveTriangle both fallen for the young and beautiful Shado]]. She has sex with Oliver to snap him out of a HeroicBSOD and in a later episode shares her bodily warmth with Slade who is severely burned, refusing to abandon him to save herself.
* In the KoreanDrama ''Series/BestLove'', Dokko Jin uses his need to 'recharge' by cupping Ae Jung's face in his hands or by pressing their foreheads together.
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when the guys went to the Arctic, and one night the heat went out, they had to sleep together, naked.
* In the 1990s sitcom ''Pig Sty'', one of the five guys sharing an apartment got frozen while he was barbecuing for a party being held in the middle of winter. The resident physician who examined the frozen guy said that someone has to sleep naked with him in order to restore his body temperature. The other men in the apartment didn't seem so willing to volunteer for this.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Cadfael}}'', perpetual ButtMonkey Brother Oswin and a young lady are stuck in a shack during a snowstorm. Poor Brother Oswin spends the rest of the episode fretting over whether doing this has broken his vow of celibacy until Cadfael reassures him that it doesn't.
* In ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Chuck tries this with Casey once, because he thinks the antidote will be transferred through saliva. Hilariously, it doesn't work that way.
* On ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', Bo is so desperate to get off the island where he and ex Billie are stranded (he'd raced out there to rescue her from her abusive boyfriend, only to end up stranded when the jerk took the only boat to head back to the mainland) that he tries to swim it. He can't make it, leading Billie to swim out and rescue him. They both end up suffering from hypothermia and have to strip in order to share body heat. Unfortunately, by the next morning, his infuriated fiancee walks in on them and naturally assumes that they're post-coital.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Played straight in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]] when [[spoiler:the 9th Doctor kisses Rose to take the heart of the TARDIS from her so it doesn't kill her.]]
** Parodied in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]]: the Doctor concocts an impromptu cure from regular foodstuffs to help rid his [[BizarreAlienBiology (alien) body]] of [[BitterAlmonds cyanide poisoning]], and the final element is "a shock". So Donna kisses him.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler "Let's Kill Hitler"]], River Song kisses the dying Doctor, giving him all of her remaining regenerations to save his life.
%%* "Victoria's Secret", episode of ''Series/DueSouth''.

* In ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Frank reluctantly admits that during the Korean War, he and a commanding officer were stuck in a cave during a blizzard and were forced to share body heat.
* ''Series/{{Frontier}}'': While Michael and Sokanon are tracking a hunter through the winter woods so he will lead them to their boss, they have to stop for a moment when he builds a campfire. They can't build a fire themselves because the smoke would give them away, so she tells him to cuddle up to her for warmth. Doubles as a ShipTease.
* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Jon Snow and Ygritte, the barbarian woman he takes prisoner, do the "sharing body warmth" thing when forced to sleep in the middle of freezing wilderness. She keeps grinding against him, and he gets annoyed by the teasing.
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': When Hornblower rescued men from a shipwrecked Spanish ship, Kitty Cobham was travelling with them as well and she's among the rescued. She's wet and cold, and cuddles with Horatio to warm herself a bit in their boat.
* In "Arrivederci, Fiero" of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Marshal and Ted got lost on their road trip and had to cuddle to stay warm when a snowstorm hit. They found out in the morning that they were in the middle of a little town in front of a motel.
* ''Series/IronFist2017'': Danny Rand and Colleen Wing first have sex shortly after she finishes stitching him up. It's implied they have sex again after Bakuto has Danny use the Iron Fist to cure Colleen after she gets poisoned.
* Done in an episode of the 2008 version of ''Series/KnightRider'' between Michael Knight and a British intelligence agent.
* The protagonist of ''Series/LostGirl'' is a [[HornyDevils succubus]] who can heal herself by "feeding". And while a kiss alone seems sufficient for her to feed, [[FanService the writers seem determined to make those scenes as intimate as possible.]]
* ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'': Mac finds himself as a recipient of one from Natalia in "Trail To Doomsday" after he is caught in a poisoned boobytrap and loses consciousness.
* ''Series/MadMen'': When Sally starts her period, she doesn't feel and lies in her bed. Her mother Betty comes to her and lies down as well and keeps her warm.
* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':
** Prince Arthur is under the effects of a love spell which only True Love's Kiss will cure. Merlin asks Guinevere to kiss him. It works.
** Guinevere is shot in the upper thigh with an arrow. Whilst she's unconscious Merlin pulls the arrow out and heals her with a spell that involves placing one hand on her thigh and the other on her forehead. Given that she was rather scantily-clad at the time, and the assortment of moaning, muttering, shivering and sighing from both of them, the scene was giving off signals that the producers probably ''didn't'' intend.
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'':
** Defied in the sixth episode of the second series by Daisy who refuses to use the power to lay on hands on [=STIs=].
** In the fifth series, Alex gains the power to remove other people's powers by having sex with them.
* In the 4th-season finale of ''Series/OrphanBlack'', when [[spoiler:Cosima and Delphine are reunited, Delphine strips down to her underwear and gets under the covers with a severely weakened Cosima]] to provide body heat. They are, after all, on a Canadian island in the middle of winter - but it's not as if [[{{Fanservice}} the fans hated seeing]] a substantial amount of [[spoiler:Evelyne Brochu's]] physique.
* A variation occurs in an episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', "Caught in the Act", where the way to get an alien that kills men through sex out of the female host's body is by having sex (well, starting to, anyway) with her boyfriend. The explanation is that [[ThePowerOfLove "love" was what the alien was really looking for in the first place]] so when it experiences that through the host's contact with her boyfriend, it can finally leave her body.
* In the dying days of SupernaturalSoapOpera ''Series/PortCharles'', the only way Ian could suppress his vampire tendencies and keep from feeding off people was to have sex with Lucy, who was a slayer.
* ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'': Toby does the 'shared body warmth' version to keep Happy alive when she is at risk of hypothermia after she gets separated from the group during a blizzard in "White Out".
* In Creator/TheBBC adaptation of ''Series/SenseAndSensibility,'' when Marianne gets a case of hypothermia, Colonel Brandon carries her indoors and shouts, "She must be stripped and chafed all over!" A second later [[AccidentalPervert he realizes that that isn't exactly appropriate for him to do]], and leaves the work to her sister.
* In the 2008 ''Series/SenseAndSensibility'', Colonel Brandon carries Marianne in after she collapses from hypothermia in a rainstorm and is so frantic that he immediately begins to unlace her dress before catching himself and jumping back to let Elinor do it.
* ''Series/ShadowAndBone''. In "The Heart Is An Arrow", [[TheWitchHunter Matthias Helvar]] and [[HotWitch Nina Zenik]] survive a shipwreck and make it to a snowbound shore, but fortunately find a whalers hut. Mattias was raised in a very fundamentalist society where women are meant to be submissive and chaste, and so ''doesn't'' handle being [[InconvenientAttraction trapped in an enclosed space with a beautiful woman]] insisting that they strip naked to share body heat particularly well, leading to much BelligerentSexualTension.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** A clothed version is used by O'Neill and Carter in "Solitudes". The actual healing bit has actually already taken place; that line is given just because it is very cold (it was supposed to be Antarctica... and the set was made with ''real ice'') and they are huddling together for warmth while they slept. Creator/AmandaTapping and Creator/RichardDeanAnderson ad-libbed the next lines, and it's worth noting that was around the time this episode aired that the fans started shipping their characters (which became AscendedFanon).
--->'''Carter:''' Colonel...?\\
'''O'Neill:''' ''[quickly]'' It's my sidearm, I swear.
** In "Menace", when trying to figure out how to activate the android girl, Jack suggests that Daniel kiss her. She then wakes up on her own.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In an episode with heavy ShipTease between them, Tom Paris breathes on B'Elanna's hands to warm them (so she can repair a phaser) while they're in a subzero environment. She then collapses from hypothermia and Tom tries to haul her with him, whereupon they're beamed into the midst of their grinning colleagues, [[NotWhatItLooksLike clutching each other tightly]].
* An episode of ''Series/StepByStep'' had J.T. and Sam, his ex trapped in a car in a snow drift. Sam tells him that she used this technique (fully naked) to help keep him alive, but [[strike:it turns out]] she tells him she was just screwing with his head. It is implied this might have been to get him to shut up about it.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'' does this twice:
** One, after a fight against the Alpha Pack, Derek is found by Jennifer half-dead. They have sex (because of course you'll have sex when he's oozing black goop from his wounds) and the wounds magically heal. Though... [[spoiler:This is very likely foreshadowing that Jennifer is the Darach and has that kind of power (and also needed Derek alive for her plan to be successful)]]
** Two, Hayden and Liam only seem to be able to take each other's pain through kissing. This strange form of romantic connection may be a way to give the couple something unique to them, since they easily head into the territory of BetaCouple throughout the series.
* Implied, especially by Slashers, that this was one of the methods Glitch used to revive a hypothermic Cain in ''Series/TinMan''.
* Jack kissing Ianto in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Cyberwoman" is either this or KissOfLife. They never actually say whether Ianto was dead or just injured at the time.
* This happened in one part of the miniseries ''Series/TheVoyageOfTheMimi'', when the ship's captain had hypothermia. The captain was an old man and his crewmembers were loyal to him. Non-romantic example.
* In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' Gabrielle cuddles Xena to make her feel better in the series finale.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'':
** In "Detour", agents Mulder and Scully are stranded in the wood and Mulder is wounded. Scully holds Mulder in her lap to keep him warm. And Mulder jokes about it, too.
--->'''Mulder:''' I was told once that the best way to regenerate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with somebody else who was already naked.\\
'''Scully:''' Well, maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky.
** In "Requiem", Scully feels dizzy and gets chills. She comes to Mulder's motel room and climbs into his bed, telling him that she needs to get warm. He tucks her in and lies behind her, and then they cuddle, warm spooning style.
* In ''Series/TheTribe'', Amber references the trope as a way of propositioning Bray. Symbolically, it distinguishes her from his UnwantedHarem, who have spent the last season [[ClingyJealousGirl degrading morally and mentally]] because they think doing so will get them Bray's attention. In Amber, he's finally found someone who is strengthened by his affection, not corrupted.
-->'''Bray:''' ''(jokingly)'' You're wasting away.\\
'''Amber:''' Let's see what you can do about it.

[[folder:Music]]
* The song "Sexual Healing" by Music/MarvinGaye is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* The song "I Heal With My Steel" by Dragon Boy Suede.
* Less blatant but still very much there in "The Witch of the Westmereland" (most widely known version by TheWaybacks, originally by Scottish folksinger Archie Fisher). "There's none can harm the knight who's lain with the Witch of the Westmerelands..."
* The song "Calling Dr. Love" by Music/{{KISS}}, as shown in the lyrics:
-->''So if you please, get on your knees.''\\
''There are no bills, there are no fees.''\\
''Baby, I know what the problem is.''\\
''The first step of the cure is...a kiss.''

[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* OlderThanPrint: In [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse legend]], sorcery was derived from receiving male fluids, limiting it to women and homosexual males on the "bottom" of the coupling. If men were on the receiving end, as it were, they lost their manliness regardless of orientation or whether it was voluntary or not. There are famous instances where a man handing another man a pair of trousers was considered an insult that had to be washed away in blood. Lots of it.
* Daoism says that the sex act involved a transfer of mystical power. The woman can't lose power, but the act of sex generates power, and the man can lose power by ejaculating. So the man was encouraged to have and satisfy multiple partners in order to keep from going in the red. This might be a cultural basis for some of the {{mana}}-transfer tropes about sex.
* In Literature/TheBible it is reported that as King David became old and feeble, his servants had a young virgin named Abishag the Shunammite brought to assist him by easing his pains, lying next to him as he slept, and helping him keep warm. Though like the Ghandi example below, the intimate proximity never gave way to sexual encounters.
** Elijah and Elisha also performed resuscitation miracles by lying down over the people they resuscitated. (1st Kings 17:22 and 2nd Kings 4:34)
** Not exclusively about this trope, but Ecclesiastes 4:11 says, "Also if two lie down together, then they will keep warm; but how can one keep warm by himself?"

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* The French RPG ''Qin'' has a magical ability ("The Union of Yin and Yang") which allows you to have sex to recharge your Chi.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The third-party ''Book of Erotic Fantasy'' introduces a character class known as the "Sacred Prostitute", whose powers involve doing this to restore various stats. And a resurrection spell that requires you to kiss the target, appropriately entitled ''kiss of life''.
** Sharess, a minor goddess in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, has lust, sex, and sensual fulfillment in her portfolio. Hence, her way to heal is to "lay on hands" on erogenous zones.
* ''TabletopGame/MaidRPG'' lets you remove Stress by doing intimate things with your partner.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage'', Goemon's injury prevents him from being able to drink the required medicine, leading to the use of this trope. The game makes it seem like the beautiful kunoichi Yae will be the one to perform the act, but she instead asks pudgy, AmbiguouslyGay Ebisumaru to do it. Goemon is ''not'' pleased with this.
* This isn't exactly a 'magical' instance, but in the video game ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', unless you feel like running around like an idiot for a while the favoured way of most players to regain main character Jimmy's health is as the result of passionately kissing the nearest sympathetic student, be they boy or girl. Hence, a LOT of yaoi moments, and a LOT of [[YaoiFangirl very happy female players]].
** Of course, one can't forget prostitute-powered healing in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''. When Bully's protagonist grows older it seems he can still recover using the same tactics, if taken to a more extreme level.
* Older than 3D: The main ways of healing in the NES game ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}: Top Secret Episode'' are to kill enemies or to just die and continue, but at a few points in the game Golgo gets nookie. As the lights of the hotel window dim, his health meter fills to full. This might on the other hand just be a sexy, sexy TraumaInn, since we never see him sleeping alone.
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' shows that ASCII graphics get in on this. The "Nurse" NPC type will state "Please undress so I can examine you." and cause damage if she encounters you wearing armor or clothing, but when you comply, her 'attack' will heal you instead. Since this can bring you above maximum HP, this has resulted in the common pastime of [[https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Nurse_dancing "Nurse Dancing"]] to raise the HP cap.
* Rescuing a DamselInDistress and receiving a kiss during the between-levels sequence is the most common way to regain health in ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' heavily implies that direct-tethering (giving Mana) between a human and a spirit is this. Jude doesn't get why it's treated like a big deal, when he shared his mana with a weak Muzét. The [[VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2 sequel]] makes the implication even heavier, though now Jude gets it and ''insists'' it didn't mean anything.
* In ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game]]'' Kim Pine can call Knives Chau to [[LesYay give her a kiss]] that heals her for a fair amount of health.
* Practiced by Sorceress Philippa Eilhart on Saskia the Dragonslayer in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'', as part of the healing spell against a rare poison she presses a rose petal on her lips with her own lips. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by a crude onlooker: ""My favourite type of magic: Lesbomancy."
** [[spoiler:Subverted in that this was actually part of a different spell to control Saskia (through intense love) tacked onto the healing spell]]
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor,'' Ms. Mowz's Ultra-rank skill is a kiss move that allows her to restore health to Mario. This isn't surprising, given that Ms. Mowz loves to flirt with Mario. Even before she joins the party.
* This was used [[spoiler:[[InterspeciesRomance by Princess Elise to revive Sonic]]]] in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''.
* Used a lot in various ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games that give you allies - after consuming a healing food item you can kiss (or hug, in some games) your teammates to heal them. The manga goes back and forth on whether this is an actual kiss or [[{{Squick}} the healer throwing the food up in the patient's mouth,]] [[RuleOfFunny whichever is funnier at the time.]] By the way, [[HomoeroticSubtext half of Kirby's allies are male.]]
* Alyx is badly wounded after the events of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', and the cure involves a Vortigaunt ritual, binding her and Gordon's life together with some Antlion larval extract.
* This trope is fans' favourite explanation for how the LadyInRed restores Link's health in ''[[VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink Zelda II]]''.
* A suggested explanation for how Lois Lane instantly restores Franchise/{{Superman}}'s powers after he loses them by touching a Kryptonite meteor in the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 game ''[[VideoGame/SupermanAtari2600 Superman]]''.
* Alluded to in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', when [[CoolOldGuy Gregor]] suggests this to [[PlayerCharacter The Avatar]] when she or [[HoYay he]] isn't feeling well during their supports.
* An Inquisitor who romanced Solas in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' will [[spoiler:have the Anchor removed with a kiss]] at the end of ''Trespasser'', instead of HealingHands like everyone else.
* In one of ''[[VideoGame/DeadToRights Dead to Rights: Retribution]]'''s {{Escort Mission}}s, you have to escort a wounded character to safety. Unlike other escorts, she bleeds out over time instead of having RegeneratingHealth. The only way to restore her health is for Jack to [[TakingTheBullet shield her with his own body]]...which effectively means Jack Slate can heal people by basically ''hugging'' them.
* ''VideoGame/PerfectWorld'' has an interesting take, probably based on the Daoist belief described above in the Mythology folder. Apart from health and mana, characters also have a meter for Chi, which basic attacks and some skills generate, while other skills consume it. Use of the game's "Embrace" function, which may be performed by any two opposite-sex player characters in any overworld area and in instanced dungeons that allow it, results in mutual Chi gain over time for the characters. This function is represented on-screen by the man involved holding the woman in a BridalCarry.
* At one point in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' Seven is unconscious and dehydrated, and the only person nearby is their LoveInterest. The latter character gets some water and gives it to Seven via mouth to mouth.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/AtlachNacha'', a giant spider has two ways of recovering her mana: [[ImAHumanitarian eating people]] or having sex with them.
* In ''[[Creator/AliceSoft Beat Blades Haruka]]'', sex is required to charge power and raise vital stats (yes, really).
* Played with in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework''. Finding Rachel in the locker room with a hurt ankle, the protagonist can end up giving her oral sex as well as a massage.
* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'':
** Throughout the 'verse, sex is used to establish magical contracts for the purposes of mana replenishment. It should be noted that [[ShownTheirWork this is quite accurate to many real-life magical traditions]]. ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' uses this the most, as it involves Servants who use a lot of mana when fighting and will disappear if they don't recharge. The villains, of course, [[HumanResources just kill people for power]].
** In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' there's also the {{meido}} [[CreepyTwins twins]] who have this as their super-power. Quite literally, they have the ability to restore life-force by swapping bodily fluids. Though this is taken to a bit of an [[{{Squick}} extreme level]]. Also done in Ciel's route.
** In ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', Chloe needs to constantly replenish her mana. She usually does it by kissing the heroine, though she's teased Illya about taking it further.
* In ''VisualNovel/PrivateNurse'', Maria uses this, among other techniques, in her attempts to cure Haroki of his mysterious ailment.
* ''[[Creator/AliceSoft Sengoku Rance]]'' does this when Rance idiotically went to a freezing mountain because he was following a panda and catch it to impress the ladies. Cue [[LadyOfWar Kenshin]] warming him up, except they actually go all the way. Strangely though, that part was actually off-screen even though it has the daaaaaaaaaawwww moment.
* An extremely creepy example in ''VisualNovel/YandereChan'': when the player character cuts his knee on a shattered calculator screen, Mia desperately insists that licking the wound clean is the only way to ensure it doesn't get infected. [[spoiler:She settles with licking the blood off the calculator when you firmly turn down her offer]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/CollegeRoomiesFromHell'': Three words: "Indian method of relaxation." (It always works.)
* ''Webcomic/ErikaAndThePrincesInDistress'' : Prince Aurel has the ability to heal wounds by [[MagicKiss kissing them]], although it is ineffective to treat non-physical afflictions.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** All princes and princesses of Prospit and Derse (or, in other words, all Sburb/Sgrub players) can revive other players with a kiss. Instead of reviving the kissee's actual body, however, it awakens their [[LivingDream dream self]] if it's still alive, causing it to take over as the 'real self'.
** This is first shown when [[spoiler: Sollux]] gets killed by the [[BrownNote Vast Glub]] because he had stayed behind to get Feferi into the Medium first. She repays him by bringing him back to life this way.
** Later, Tavros attempts it on Vriska, but her Dream-Self stops it just before it happens, having other plans.
** Karkat and Terezi also attempt it on Kanaya and Tavros, respectively. It doesn't work, since their dream selves are dead.
** Attempted on Rose and Dave, with more success.
** As it turns out, this kiss can even be successfully performed on a severed head.
** This element was likely introduced to poke fun at the old cliche of someone near death waking up after someone kisses them, by giving it an actual justification.
* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': In [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/167/ this strip]] Benny and Pella are required to have a sexy pillow fight in order to do a spell that would get them to a shaman's hut. Then in said shaman's hut they use Pella to channel Richard, whom had been banished, and [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/172/ physically separate him from her]] to get him back. The UnfortunateImplications of Richard's last line in that page are ... well ... let's say they fuel the Richard/Pella shippers.
* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': A sex change serum is reversed by swapping bodily fluids with somebody else that has taken the serum in the past. The easiest way to do this is through saliva, which can be done fastest by, well, you know.
-->'''Helen:''' It's not pleasant, but Dave and I will have to swap spit!\\
''(BeatPanel)''\\
'''Mell:''' Um... [[ThatCameOutWrong I don't think that came out the way you meant it--]]\\
'''Helen:''' Oh, yes it did.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** While it's not life-saving, in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0027.html this]] strip, Durkon has to cast "Cat's Grace" on Elan to make him put his clothes back on (through a misunderstanding, Elan believes that the fewer clothes he has on, the less he'll be seen). The problem? "'Cat's Grace' is a touch spell..."
** In a more straightforward example of the trope, there's the time that Roy refuses female paladin Miko's offer to heal him with a "Lay On Hands" spell out of embarrassment, opting for his dwarf companion Durkon to heal him instead. Not surprisingly, Belkar calls him out on this. Miko doesn't get it at all.
* Fairy ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' uses her "Baiser de la Fie" (sp?) to activate her magic. Actually, ''any'' physical contact will do, she just prefers kissing. Her romantic rival, a succubus, on the other hand...
* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'', Faye and her girlfriend Bubbles (a giant ex-combat droid) go to a bar to celebrate two of their friends getting engaged, but Faye, a recovering alcoholic, is disgusted to find that she can't last an hour in a bar without craving booze. As they walk home, Bubbles attempts to cheer Faye up with a few well-chosen words, [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4001 but Faye suggests they play soldier and commanding officer instead.]] Bubbles agrees to go home and "debrief" Faye. [[spoiler: Faye's response is to tell Bubbles that she isn't wearing any briefs.]]
* ''Webcomic/ResNullius'': After a suit heater failure on a cold planet, the human Sam had to resort to this to save the reptilian alien Hazel. For Sam it was something necessary to save her. For Hazel, [[http://resnullius.webcomic.ws/comics/62/ it was much more.]]
* ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' plays with some implications of the trope when the virginal Ruby, unconscious after nearly drowning in a swimming pool, is revived by [[CleanPrettyReliable mouth-to-mouth resuscitation]] from lifeguard Andy -- and [[{{Jerkass}} Dillon]] not only tells her about this, but [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/i_got_distracted produces a video recording.]] She is subsequently confused and stressed about the incident, believing that she's just had her first kiss while unconscious. Her more experienced sister Amber has to try and reassure her that [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/now_pucker_up "mouth-to-mouth isn't exactly a kiss".]]
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* In the Sex Mage World stories by Salamando, one of the side-effects of Sex Magic is automatically generating a healing aura which enables nigh-infinite stamina and prevents physical injury while engaged in extreme acts of physical intimacy. Beyond that, however, trained Sex Mages can direct the healing aura for use as an all-purpose healing magic. Supposedly, it can even be used to cure terminal illnesses in extended sessions with highly skilled Mages.
* From ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'':
--> 1272. My Paladin can be charged with sexual harassment if he doesn’t watch exactly where he lays on hands.
* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-doctors-who-just-gave-worlds-worst-medical-advice/ 5 Doctors Who Just Gave The World's Worst Medical Advice]] retells a [[http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/05/17/sacramento-doctor-reprimanded-for-suggesting-oral-sex-to-patient/ CBS13 Sacramento story]] about a doctor who saw a woman with an oversensitive gag reflex and prescribed giving fellatio to her husband.
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* ''WebVideo/VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'': Spoofed when Hitomi undergoes a PlotInducedIllness.
-->'''Van:''' That's right! How did you heal Allen back then?
-->'''Millerna:''' I don't know, all I did was touch him inappropriately...
-->'''Van:''' Worth a try!
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* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'': When an injured Bruce reunites with Andrea after eluding captivity and being given first-aid by Alfred, the pair sleep with each other for the night at his manor, and Bruce is fully healed the next morning.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''; in one episode where XANA causes snow storm on Paris, Sissi and Herve get trapped together inside a car, and try to find a way to keep warm. Herve suggests the trope, stating it's "scientifically proven". Sissi replies by slapping him.
* In the Thor segment of ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs'', Amora heals Thor with a kiss.
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* According to William L. Shirer's ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'' and other sources, a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi scientist]] named Sigmund Rascher actually experimented with such a method [[WellIntentionedExtremist to find out how to treat Luftwaffe pilots downed into the icy polar waters]]. He induced hypothermia in concentration camp prisoners, then put them into bed with one or two naked women. He came to the conclusion that hot baths are more effective. It had something to do with Nazi admiration towards [[HornyVikings Vikings]] - old tales told how a Viking rescued from icy Nordic waters had to be quickly rewarmed to life, and in the wilderness they placed him as intimately as possible with one or two volunteer women from the party (the fattest of them) and covered them tightly in whatever blankets or furs available.
* If hot baths are not available, sharing body heat [[AluminumChristmasTrees actually works on hypothermia]]. Yachtsmen in Finland are taught to put a person rescued from sea in a sleeping bag together with a healthy person and share the body heat until professional rescuers arrive. The same works for a person rescued from an avalanche as well.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sullivan_(singer) Tom Sullivan]] reported that his wife once treated him this way after he was accidentally locked outside once during a winter night. According to him, it worked pretty well.
* UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi often slept with young girls on his bed as a SelfImposedChallenge on his sexual abstinence. There were apparently times when this trope [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1264952/A-new-book-reveals-Gandhi-tortured-young-women-worshipped-shared-bed.html got involved too]]:
--> Sushila admitted that 'there was nothing special about sleeping next to Bapu . . . I used to sleep with him just as I would with my mother'.\\
She elaborated: 'He might say: "My back aches, put some pressure on it." So I might put some pressure on it or lie down on his back and he might just go to sleep.' She confirmed that this was not part of the chastity experiment, but more of a natural cure.
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* In ''Film/TheProposal'', Margaret accidentally fell overboard from the speedboat that she and Andrew were in because of him turning the boat so suddenly. After he saved her from drowning, Andrew covered Margaret with warm clothing and then embraced her to warm her up.

* In ''Film/TheProposal'', Margaret was accidentally thrown overboard from the speedboat that she and Andrew were in because of him turning the boat so suddenly. After he saved her from drowning, Andrew covered Margaret with warm clothing and then embraced her to warm her up.

* When Ayumu faints of smoke inhalation in ''Manga/{{Life}}'', her best friend Miki is forced to give her water mouth-to-mouth to help her recover.

* ''Manga/BlackBird'':

* In Neil Gaiman's short story "Snow, Glass, Apples", a retelling of "Literature/SnowWhite" from the evil stepmother's view, Snow White gets revived with a kiss.
** Actually, in that story Snowwhite is a vampire and she was incapacitated by the poisoned apple. The prince is a necrophiliac and from the stepmother's view she can only guess that while having sex with Snowwhite's body the apple was dislodged from her throat, or during the act of sex she was slowly revived and after biting the prince she started drinking his blood which undid the apple's magic, washing down the poison with the lifegiving blood.

** Female lead Misao is plagued by demons trying to kill and maim her. The lead male and local BastardBoyfriend Kyo can heal with his tongue. Do the math.

* Akira Okuzaki does this to IllBoy Takumi Tokiha in both ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MyOtome'', when he has a seizure that doesn't let him swallow his pills. She puts them in her mouth and then presses their lips together so she can give the meds to him properly.

* At one point in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' [[FanNickname Seven]] is unconscious and dehydrated, and the only person nearby is their LoveInterest. The latter character gets some water and gives it to Seven via mouth to mouth.

* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga, the one-shot character Densuke will only take his vitally-needed medication if it's given by a pretty nurse. Weird circumstances make this nurse out to be Ranma. And Densuke does his level best to get the medicine delivered by this method. He fails with Ranma, but the medicine is delivered by this method (by a male {{gonk}} of a doctor).

** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is wounded and exhausted during a battle, so a Tamaranean teammate quickly kisses Kara to transferring solar energy into her body, which efficiently heals her wounds and reenergizes her body.

* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms' "Literature/SleepingBeauty", version "[[https://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/sleeping_beauty Briar Rose]]]" is awoken [[DudeShesLikeInAComa from her magical sleep by a kiss]]. However, as the fated 100 years were up anyway, the kiss was not actually the ''condition'' needed to wake her.

* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', this is how Franchise/{{Superman}} saves a dying Lois Lane with The Bleed (the lifeblood of TheMultiverse itself). He held The Bleed in his mouth and transferred it to her via a kiss.
-->'''Superman:''' (''narrating'') They said that no one could bottle or contain or hold The Bleed except for The Monitors. But they were wrong. Superman can!
* [[Franchise/XMen Charles Xavier]] once knew a mutant who went on to become a doctor with his powers. His treatment carries a caveat of signing a sexual harassment waiver. How intimate it is depends on how severe the injury.

* In the [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms']] "Literature/BriarRose", Briar Rose is wakened [[DudeShesLikeInAComa from her magical sleep by a kiss]]. However, as the fated 100 years were up anyway, the kiss was not actually the ''condition'' needed to wake her.

* OlderThanPrint: In [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse legend]], sorcery was derived from receiving male fluids, limiting it to women and homosexual males on the "bottom" of the coupling. If you were on the receiving end, as it were, you lost your manliness regardless of orientation or whether it was voluntary or not. There are famous instances where a man handing another man a pair of trousers was considered an insult that had to be washed away in blood. Lots of it.