History Main / SexForSolace

* In KatawaShoujo [[spoiler:Misha tries to seduce her best friend Shizuka's boyfriend, because she's depressed and looking for comfort over the fact that she loves [[SchoolgirlLesbians Shizuka and knows she can never have her]]. The self contradiction here should tell you why this is a terrible idea.]]

* Subverted in CodeGeass. Lelouch is depressed and going through a TenMinuteRetirement and propositions this to Kallen. She gives him an ArmorPiercingSlap coupled with a GetAholdOfYourselfMan instead.

* In ''HeavyRain'', Ethan can have an OptionalSexualEncounter with Madison when he is approaching the DespairEventHorizon over the events of the game.

* In ''HeavyRain'', Ethan has a sex scene with Madison when he is approaching the DespairEventHorizon over the events of the game.

* After learning about how several people he loved either died or betrayed him, [[spoiler: Robb Stark]] sought comfort in the arms of [[spoiler: Jeyne Westerling]]. This act and [[spoiler: Robb's]] [[HonorBeforeReason response]] led to brutal and tragic consequences later.

* Averted in CodeGeass. Lelouch is depressed and going through a TenMinuteRetirement and propositions this to Kallen. She gives him an ArmorPiercingSlap coupled with a GetAholdOfYourselfMan instead.

* ''ForgettingSarahMarshall'' has the protagonist, Peter, have a string of unemotional flings with random women on the advice of his doctor after he becomes despondent and mildly obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, the titular Sarah Marshall, after she dumps him.

* In the German soap opera Hand aufs Herz, Jenny assumes that her and Emma have broken up after having a fight, she sleeps with Ben for solace.

* ''GossipGirl''s Chuck Bass.

Alice and Bob are two characters in a series that have fallen in love. Bob might be a LadyKillerInLove, Alice might [[MayDecemberRomance be too old for Bob]], or maybe they just fell in LoveAtFirstSight; whatever the backstory they are currently together. They date, marry, honeymoon and live HappilyEverAfter...until Bob dies. Or leaves. Or is revealed to be [[TheMole lying the whole time]]. Regardless of the exact circumstances the relationship is over and Alice is emotionally crushed. Does she [[DrowningMySorrows begin to drink heavily]] to wipe away the feelings or [[DeathSeeker seek to end the pain]]? Nope, she goes out and finds somebody to spend the night with, and then finds somebody else the next night, and then finds somebody ''else'' the night after that. These are not emotionally healthy relationships, these do not count as a "relationship" by any definition of the term, they are just a string of one night stands as she tries to cope with the loss.

* In ''[[CircleOfMagic The Will of the Empress]]'', [[spoiler:Briar]] tries to have someone in his bed every night to ward off PTSD-induced nightmares.
* In ''[[XWingSeries Wedge's Gamble]]'', Erisi Dlarit tries to sleep with Corran Horn on this pretense; to ease his angst. He refrains and [[IdiotBall wanders an enemy-controlled city without watching where he's going]] instead. Probably just as well - rather than getting him captured or killed this leads to [[ShaggySearchTechnique unexpected discoveries]], and anyway Erisi [[spoiler: is a traitor to the cause.]]

** Harry: If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?
** Sally: I see people.
** Harry: See people? Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe?
** Sally: What the hell does that have to do with anything? That will prove I'm over Joe? Because I fuck somebody? Harry, you're gonna have to move back to New Jersey because you've slept with everybody in New York and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you. Besides, I will make love to somebody when it is making love. Not the way you do it like you're out for revenge or something.

Harry: If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?
Sally: I see people.
Harry: See people? Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe?
Sally: What the hell does that have to do with anything? That will prove I'm over Joe? Because I fuck somebody? Harry, you're gonna have to move back to New Jersey because you've slept with everybody in New York and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you. Besides, I will make love to somebody when it is making love. Not the way you do it like you're out for revenge or something.

* ''GossipGirl''s Chuck Bass could be a MostTriumphantExample.

* Renee Montoya begins the series ''FiftyTwo'' [[DrowningMySorrows drinking heavily]] and picking up random women after the events of ''GothamCentral'', where her partner Crisupus Allen was murdered and her girlfriend Daria Hernandez left her after she began to descend into alcoholism and violence. With the help of TheQuestion she manages to regain her emotional equilibrium, but when [[ShootTheDog she needs to kill a young girl that Intergang had brainwashed into being a]] [[SuicideAttack suicide bomber]] she is found drunk again and in bed with another woman. She herself admits that this is a pattern, and after every emotional trauma she either runs back to the bottle or into the nearest bed.

* Thirteen from {{House}} slid into a downward spiral of partying and drunken one night stands with [[BiTheWay random chicks]] due to being unable to deal with her Huntington's disease.