History Main / ParentalSexualitySquick

* Your parents could be in a same-sex couple, and thus lacking all of the.. er, required equipment for procreation - but then, someone had to be responsible for either providing needed genetic material, or carrying the pre-born you to term. Even then, it's still quite likely your parents have sex, even if it's not the exact acts required for procreation.
* You could be some kind of deity or demi-deity, arising out of a virgin birth - but statistically, that's so unlikely as to be impossible. And, as ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' pointed out, being the product of a virgin birth doesn't necessarily mean your parents didn't have sex after you showed up.

In fiction, it's common enough to see a child react with curiosity to their parents in a PrimalScene. As they get older, however, say into double digits, the very ''thought'' that their parents might be getting it on (or even their parents kissing in front of them, for the G-rated version) is enough to send them searching for the BrainBleach. Usually by the time a child reaches their twenties, and is able to fully comprehend and empathize with sexual attraction and activity, this reaction lessens - generally from "Eww, gross!" to "I really didn't need to hear that, Dad." - although for comedic effect, it might not fully go away, as Peter Quill in the page quote above can attest to.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry develop a subdued variant on this in regards to his father, Thor (formerly incarnated as James Potter) and Jane. He's happy that they're happy, once he gets used to Jane, but he doesn't want to know the details - though he does sometimes act oblivious to force his father to try and explain things, thus embarrassing himself.

** To explain how wrong he finds alternate Dick crushing on Zatanna - who's MUCH older in his home dimension - Damian says it would be like his eldest brother was dating his mother.

* On an episode of ''Series/JoanOfArcadia'', Joan (along with her brothers Kevin and Luke) gives her parents (Helen and Will) a pass for a weekend at a spa so they can have their "married couple" weekend - which she doesn't want to know the definition, or the details, of (she's freaked out enough when Helen reminds Will about playing "strip Scrabble").

* ''Series/That70sShow'' had an episode in which Eric [[PrimalScene walks in on his parents during sex]] (unbeknownst to them) and spends the rest of the episode entirely unhinged. It's the only time he ever receives sympathy from his sister. At the end of the episode, Donna tells him of a time when the same thing happened to her - [[spoiler:except they were doing it ''[[BrainBleach in the hammock]]''.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Liara's reaction to her father[[note]]as in "the one who didn't give birth to her" - Asari are a OneGenderRace. The mother and father telepathically link, and the mother's body uses the father genes to randomise the genes of an egg and fertilise it at the same time. No actual genetic material is transferred[[/note]] ([[spoiler:[[CoolOldLady Matriarch Aethyta]]]]) telling her that her mother had a "hell of a rack" is a grossed-out "You don't need to tell me ''everything.''"

** The first game reveals that when Sasha Nein was a kid, he asked his father about his [[MissingMom dead mother]], who had passed away when he was a baby. After his father refused to tell him anything, Sasha decided to read his mind for the answers, and while the first memories he found were rather tame, Sasha ended up [[DirtyMindReading stumbling across a memory of his mother naked]] - horrifying Sasha to the point where he ran away from home.

* ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017'' inverts this when Penelope believes that her 17-year-old daughter Elena has had sex for the first time. Elena's a lesbian, so Penelope can't use the risk of pregnancy as a concrete reason to object, leaving her with the more intangible discomfort of the whole thing.
-->'''Penelope:''' So what? I'm supposed to be okay that she's having sеx? I'm a mom. She's my kid. I can't condone this. [...]\\

-->'''Ramona:''' And what did your mom say [when you first had sex]?\\
'''Penelope:''' ''[scoffs]'' Are you kidding me? She doesn't know. I was sneaky. I didn't put her through the torture of thinking about this. [...] If you're gonna be a sexually active teenager, you need to do it responsibly and make sure your parents never find out. But now I know, and I have to have an opinion. And I don't want to be the mom that's all, "Sex is dirty. You're gonna go to hell." But I also don't want to be the mom that's like, "Use my bed. I'll get you water so you stay hydrated." ''[beat]'' Now I have to talk to her. ''[mock cries]'' I don't want to.

** Jeremy was in his room playing "Stairway to Heaven" on his guitar (he always liked the song for some reason) when his mother mentions that he probably likes the song so much because he was conceived to it. Within minutes, he's rinsing his ears out and boiling his guitar string.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has a more diluted example, but Desmond still feels disgusted when he sees his ancestor Altair getting frisky with his wife and realizes he just ''witnessed his own great-great-grandpa's conception''.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Liara's reaction to her father ([[spoiler:[[CoolOldLady Matriarch Aethyta]]]]) telling her that her mother had a "hell of a rack" is a grossed-out "You don't need to tell me ''everything.''"

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy, having wished he was adult, watches an adult movie and is squicked when he sees the characters on screen kissing. He then sees his parents making out a few rows down and is even more disgusted.

* Crops up a few times in ''Film/KevinAndPerryGoLarge''; in one scene, Kevin walks in on his parents, and later he alleges that they've only done it once, in order to give birth to him.

* ''Film/BlackWidow2021'': Despite the fact that they were only their fake parents for 3 years as a sleeper cell, Natasha and Yelena are both grossed out when their surrogate father Alexei talks about what he wants to do with their surrogate mother Melina. They also get put off when Melina gives a wolf-whistle to Alexei donning his Red Guardian costume again.

** In the episode "The Fat Guy Strangler", Lois discovers she has an older brother who had been committed to a mental hospital before she was born. When he was a kid, he had walked in on their mother giving a blowjob to [[Series/TheHoneymooners Jackie Gleason]] and found the sight so traumatizing that he had a severe mental breakdown. Even all these years later, he is still haunted by it to the point of developing a hatred of fat men. When Lois has him released since he appears sane enough (aside from the imaginary wife), he becomes the titular Fat Guy Strangler.

* An [[https://youtu.be/MCgUhuTrNTY IKEA commercial]] features a middle-aged couple gleefully chasing each other around the house to the sound of country music, she wearing lingerie and rubber boots and wielding a pitchfork, and he in his underwear and wearing a pig mask. They're abruptly interrupted by their adult daughter arriving home, accompanied by her boyfriend, and they all stare mortified at each other—until the parents and boyfriend crack up. The tag line inquires whether it may time to move out.

* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' had a story arc where Andy decided to [[TheTalk discuss "the birds and the bees"]] with her teenage daughter Paige. Paige is shown to be incredibly uncomfortable, but one comic implies that it's because Andy keeps referencing her own relationship with husband Roger ("So the boy might say 'C'mon, just one hickey'. That's what your father said...").

** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4552342/1/One-Stressful-Week-in-Sunyshore One Stressful Week in Sunyshore]]'', after learning about Riley's crush on Byron, Roark goes home and promptly has a nightmare where he walks in on the two of them having sex and completely loses it.

** In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5999638 That's Why I Love You]]'', Byron prepares a Valentine's Day gift for Roark and another for Riley, but [[HilarityEnsues gets the packages mixed up,]] resulting in Riley receiving a bag of candy and a stuffed Cranidos, while Roark gets a box containing imported dark chocolate and a man thong. He is not happy when he finds out who it's for.

* The Season 3 Epilogue of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has deleted scenes where Trunks talks to Bulma about how little she prepared him for Vegeta. She proceeds to, in this deleted scene, talk about how she and Vegeta had their sex and Bulma went along with it.

* ''Series/That70sShow'' had an episode in which Eric [[PrimalScene walks in on his parents during sex]] (unbeknownst to them) and spends the rest of the episode entirely unhinged. It's the only time he ever receives sympathy from his sister. At the end of the episode, Donna tells him of a time when the same thing happened to her - [[spoiler: except they were doing it ''[[BrainBleach in the hammock]]''.]]

** In Psychonauts 2's PlayableEpilogue, Raz can similarly interact with his Nona, who is found with Ford Cruller, since the two seem to be rekindling an old relationship. When Raz asks Ford about his future plans, Ford mentions he'd like to show [[spoiler: Lucy]] (Raz's Nona) Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. Raz has a Squick moment when Nona confides her suspicion that Ford thinks if he gets Nona in a canoe on the lake at sunset, she won't be able to keep her hands off him. Raz's reaction worsens when she adds, "He's right!"

* This occurs during a boss battle in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth''. The player is shrunk down by Underpants Gnomes and must battle them while watching the player character's parents having sex in the background. The boss battle even has a quicktime event where you must dodge [[spoiler: your dad's scrotum.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' Tessa's adoptive parents are embarrassingly open about sexuality, in particular [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20100720.html their own open marriage]].
* The page image comes from an ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/830/ comic]], where parental sex is treated like some sort of awful disease.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' Mike basically banked on this trope to try to get Amber to leave him once and for all, by manipulating events so her mother had sex with the sex addict Jacob, recording it, and playing the tape for Amber. While Amber ''did'' throw up after hearing the tape, she later expressed disbelief that Mike thought she'd leave him because she heard her mother (who's middle-aged and had been abused in her marriage) ''finally'' have a fulfilling sexual experience. As for the vomiting? [[spoiler: Turns out that was MorningSickness.]]

* ''Series/{{Fargo}}''. When Gina Hess realises Lester Nygaard fooled her into giving SexForServices, she barges into his office with her two sons to confront him. The sons are eager to beat Lester up on her behalf, but get uncomfortable whenever she starts ranting in intimate detail about the services she provided for him.

** In Psychonauts 2's PlayableEpilogue, Raz can similarly interact with his Nona, who is found with Ford Cruller, since the two seem to be rekindling an old relationship. When Raz asks Ford about his future plans, Ford mentions he'd like to show [[spoiler: Lucy]] (Raz's Nona) Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. Raz has a Squick moment when Nona confides her suspicion that Ford thinks if he gets Nona in a canoe on the lake at sunset, she won't be able to keep her hands off him. Raz's reaction goes UpToEleven when she adds, "He's right!"

** Inverted when Niles is explaining to Frasier how tempted he is to sleep woith Maris during their separation. Martin, who's in the room with them, has to ask his sons to knock it off.

** In Psychonauts 2's interactive epilogue, Raz can similarly interact with his Nona, who is found with Ford Cruller, since the two seem to be rekindling an old relationship. When Raz asks Ford about his future plans, Ford mentions he'd like to show [[spoiler: Lucy]] (Raz's Nona) Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. Raz has a Squick moment when Nona confides her suspicion that Ford thinks if he gets Nona in a canoe on the lake at sunset, she won't be able to keep her hands off him. Raz's reaction goes UpToEleven when she adds, "He's right!"

->'''Peter:''' I don't need to hear how my parents...\\

In fiction, it's common enough to see a child react with curiosity to their parents in a PrimalScene. As they get older, however, the very ''thought'' that their parents might be getting it on (or even their parents kissing in front of them, for the G-rated version) is enough to send them searching for the BrainBleach. But they may come to terms with it and realize it means their parents do still love each other.

** The first game reveals that when Sasha Nein was a kid, he asked his father about his [[MissingMom dead mother]], who had passed away when he was a baby. After his father refused to tell him anything, Sasha decided to read his mind for the answers, and [[DirtyMindReading stumbled across a memory of seeing her naked]] - horrifying Sasha to the point where he ran away from home.

Do you have parents? Are your parents human? Do you have one or more siblings who are not your twin/triplet/etc?

If you have answered "yes" to any of these questions, then it's entirely likely that your parents have had sex.[[note]]Unless you were a test tube baby... and, even then, IVF is generally only done after couples have been trying to conceive naturally for a sufficient period of time, or are a same-sex couple lacking the opposing parts (and even then, they probably have sex, even if not the same kind). The alternative is that you are a [[UsefulNotes/JesusChrist Son of God]], and statistically, that's even less likely. Also, as ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' points out, a virgin birth doesn't necessarily mean the parents didn't have sex later. [[/note]] '''Listen closely''': Your parents [[SexualEuphemism put Tab A into Slot B]] to bring you into the world.

In fiction, it's common enough to see a child react with curiosity to their parents in a PrimalScene. As they get older, however, the very ''thought'' that their parents might be getting it on (or even their parents kissing in front of them, for the G-rated version) is enough to send them searching for some BrainBleach. But they may come to terms with it and realize it means their parents do still love each other.

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': When Sasha Nein was a kid, he asked his father about his [[MissingMom dead mother]], who had passed away when he was a baby. After his father refused to tell him anything, Sasha decided to read his mind for the answers, and [[DirtyMindReading stumbled across a memory of seeing her naked]] - horrifying Sasha to the point where he ran away from home.