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* In the film version of ''film/{{300}}'', King Leonidas and Queen Gorgo have an extended sex scene before he goes off to battle. It ''would'' be a tender scene, showing the lovers sharing a tender moment before the war, but it's so crass in execution, it comes across as something out of a porno.

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* In the film version of ''film/{{300}}'', ''{{300}}'', King Leonidas and Queen Gorgo have an extended sex scene before he goes off to battle. It ''would'' be a tender scene, showing the lovers sharing a tender moment before the war, but it's so crass in execution, it comes across as something out of a porno.
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* In the film version of ''film/{{300}}'', King Leonidas and Queen Gorgo have an extended sex scene before he goes off to battle. It ''would'' be a tender scene, showing the lovers sharing a tender moment before the war, but it's so crass in execution, it comes across as something out of a porno.
* Averted by most JamesBond movies. While he certainly ''does'' bed a lot of women in his nearly two dozen movies, the scene always cuts to something else before things get steamy. In fact, the only explicit sex scene ever shown in the movies is between [[TheDragon Xenia]] and the Canadian Admiral in ''{{Goldeneye}}''. But even then she's inexplicably fully clothed (to avoid an "R" rating most likely), and the scene is shown because it's plot-relevant: she murders him during the deed while an accomplice steals his ID.
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That\'s not the same. Yes Bond has sex\' with a lot of women, but the movie always cuts to something else when it\'s obvious what Bond and the lady are about to do. It doesn\'t show uglies being bumped. In fact, the only full sex scene we ever see is in {{Goldeneye}} with Xenia, and even then, she\'s inexplicably fully-clothed, and the scene is shown in full because it\'s plot-relevant: she murders him during the act.


* Happens all the time in JamesBond franchise. In fact, its an unspoken rule in most Bond movies that James will sleep with at least two different women. This often means any random scene with James and a women who isn't M or Moneypenny can end in sex whether it makes sense or not. Many of the women have displayed outright loathing or disgust for Bond before spontaneously sleeping with him at a random moment. In fact, the one movie that subverted this slightly, ''QuantumOfSolace'', completely shocked the audience over it.

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...But then, the narrative comes to a screeching halt, takes a sharp right-angle-turn and treats us to two of the characters having sex. Seriously, the scene comes so far out of left field that it's as if the script had said "And then, CoitusEnsues".

Basically, CoitusEnsues is a specific type of WallBanger that arises when sex in a story simply doesn't logically follow from the involved characters' prior interaction. Almost all of porn is based on this trope, so refrain from adding examples from pornographic works unless they are particularly [[TVTropesDrinkingGame egregious]]. All other examples are fair game, though remember that they are [[SubjectiveTropes subjective]].

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...But then, the narrative comes to a screeching halt, takes a sharp right-angle-turn and treats us to two of the characters having sex. Seriously, Because apparently the scene comes so far out romantic subplot has not received a satisfactory conclusion as of left field yet, and what better way to clean up that loose end with an extended sex scene?

This trope is, at times, logical in the sense that given what we know about the characters in the story, yes, it makes some sense that they would have sex at this time. Where
it's as if the script had said "And then, CoitusEnsues".

Basically, CoitusEnsues
almost always illogical is a specific type of WallBanger that arises there's seldom any narrative purpose for a sex scene. Functionally, it does almost nothing to advance the plot, especially when sex in a story simply doesn't logically follow from compared with the involved characters' prior interaction. Almost far more efficient SexyDiscretionShot.

Unsurprisingly, this trope is the bedrock of nearly
all of porn pornography, since the whole point of pornography is based on that you eventually get to watch people have sex. Since it's an expectation of the genre, this trope, tends to be excusable. Less so refrain from adding examples from pornographic is when the trope pops up in PG-13 works unless they are particularly [[TVTropesDrinkingGame egregious]]. All other examples are fair game, though remember that they are [[SubjectiveTropes subjective]].
allegedly for the whole family. A viewer is often annoyed in these cases, since if he wanted to watch sex with grandma, he would have stopped by the adult video store on the way home from work.




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* One appears in Film/{{Avatar}} after Jake has formally been inducted into the Navi tribe. Considering the ludicrous expense involved in making anything in this movie, many viewers were puzzled why it was necessary for them to watch several minutes of soft-core furry porn. The furries were more or less OK with this.
* Film/{{Watchmen}} has a very long, awkward scene of Dan and Laurie having sex. This was another case of "why did this have to be in the movie", as this was only dealt with briefly in the graphic novel, and the movie was already quite long even without it.

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* Happens all the time in JamesBond franchise. In fact, its an unspoken rule in most Bond movies that James will sleep with at least two different women. This often means any random scene with James and a women who isn't M or Moneypenny can end in sex whether it makes sense or not. Many of the women have displayed outright loathing or disgust for Bond before spontaneously sleeping with him at a random moment. In fact, the one movie that subverted this slightly, ''QuantumOfSolace'', completely shocked the audience over it.
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* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3441406/1/Love_at_first_sight "They banged. The End"]]
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** It was at least foreshadowed (the book started with Vlad griping about how assassinating somebody always makes him horny), and the suddenness of the jump into sex and relationship is noted afterwards. Neither really ameliorates the effect.

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* PlayedForLaughs in ThePunisher MAX with Castle and O'Brien.
-->"Are you cold?"
-->"No."
-->"Are you lonley?"
-->"No."
-->"Do you want to jump my bones anyway?"
-->"Sure."
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* Any movie where StevenSeagal has a potential love interest, especially the ones directed by him..."And so the Lord said: Let there be Coitus!"
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** Became particularly noticeable in pre-game of ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' v4. Many, many characters had graphic sex scenes with varying degrees of lead-up, to the point where handlers often commented on and poked fun at it.
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* DarkKnightStrikesAgain: Superman and Wonder Woman had sex for several pages for no real reason.

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* Some of Guy Gavriel Kay's sex scenes make no sense at all. In the ''Lions of Al-rassan'', an assassin has just killed a minor king and been exiled by his successor. Then the minor king's mistress and the mother of his two bastard sons shows up at the assassin's estate and Coitus Ensues. For no reason at all.

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* Some of Guy Gavriel Kay's GuyGavrielKay ''loves'' gratuitous sex scenes make no sense at all. In the ''Lions of Al-rassan'', scenes.
**In ''TheLionsOfAlRassan'',
an assassin has just killed a minor king and been exiled by his successor. Then the minor king's mistress and the mother of his two bastard sons shows up at the assassin's estate and Coitus Ensues. For no reason at all.
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**In ''{{Tigana}}'', the main character suddenly gets to sleep with a duchess he just met, with the encounter being described in a great detail.
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* Dutch movies, as a whole, have the reputation that every single one of them will have an illogical and unnecessary explicit sex scene somewhere around the middle. Excepting children's movies, this is largely true.
** Unnecessary, sure, but almost never illogical. We do put some effort into things, mind.
** ''Exactly'' the same thing happens with Spanish movies, specially after [[TheNapoleon Franco]] died and censorship went dramatically down. We don't call the just-after-Franco age "Época del Destape" ("Stripping Age") for naught (Though that specific period is considered a bit of an OldShame by now, [[AesopAmnesia there's still plenty of gratuitous sex in Spanish movies]]).

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* Dutch movies, as a whole, have the reputation that every single one of them will have an illogical and unnecessary explicit sex scene somewhere around the middle. Excepting children's movies, this is largely true.
** Unnecessary, sure, but almost never illogical. We do put some effort into things, mind.
true, at least in the "unnecessary" respect.
** ''Exactly'' the same thing happens with Spanish movies, specially after [[TheNapoleon Franco]] died and censorship went dramatically down. We don't call the The just-after-Franco age isn't called "Época del Destape" ("Stripping Age") for naught (Though naught. Though that specific period is considered a bit of an OldShame by now, [[AesopAmnesia there's still plenty of gratuitous sex in Spanish movies]]).movies]].



* Near the end of the ''ChildrenOfTheCorn'' remake, the child cultists are having a feast, and afterward two of them start to randomly have sex as a apart of some disturbing ritual.

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* Near the end of the ''ChildrenOfTheCorn'' remake, the child cultists are having a feast, and afterward two of them start to randomly have sex as a apart part of some disturbing ritual.



* {{Water World}} has an odd scene in which, after a young girl is captured and the main characters go save her... after randomly having sex first.

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* {{Water World}} has an odd scene in which, after which a young girl is captured and the main characters go save her... after randomly having sex first.



* Both sex scenes in ''{{Fahrenheit}}'': The first one being an optional encounter where, if you play your cards just right when your ex-girlfriend drops by at your apartment (offer her a drink, play your guitar for her and then kiss her), she and Lucas will have sex together. The second one, however, is much more {{egregious}}: [[spoiler:Right before the very finale of the game, Lucas and Carla lie on a mattress together for what could very well be [[ApocalypseHow their last night together before the Earth becomes covered with ice]], while Carla wishes the two could have met under better circumstances...and then Carla decides that she loves Lucas and they fuck. And yes, the previous sentence is basically the only indication that the two have any sort of sexual tension between one another.]]
** [[spoiler:Also, Lucas is technically [[{{Squick}} dead during the second one]]. Carla even mentions how cold his skin is shortly beforehand. Sexy!]]

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* Both sex scenes in ''{{Fahrenheit}}'': The first one being an optional encounter where, if you play your cards just right when your ex-girlfriend drops by at your apartment (offer her a drink, play your guitar for her and then kiss her), she and Lucas will have sex together. The second one, however, is much more {{egregious}}: [[spoiler:Right before the very finale of the game, Lucas and Carla lie on a mattress together for what could very well be [[ApocalypseHow their last night together before the Earth becomes covered with ice]], while Carla wishes the two could have met under better circumstances...and then Carla decides that she loves Lucas and they fuck. And yes, the previous sentence is basically the only indication that the two have any sort of sexual tension between one another.]]
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]] [[spoiler:Also, Lucas is technically [[{{Squick}} dead during the second one]]. Carla even mentions how cold his skin is shortly beforehand. Sexy!]]



** [[FridgeBrilliance Which is why it's optional.]]
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* DarkKnightStrikesAgain: Superman and Wonder Woman had sex for several pages for no real reason.
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-->-- [[BenCrosahw Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw]]'s [[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/reviews/playgames.htm review of ''I Like To Play Games Too'']].

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* Both sex scenes in ''{{Fahrenheit}}'': The first one being an optional encounter where, if you play your cards just right when your ex-girlfriend drops by at your apartment (offer her a drink, play your guitar for her and then kiss her), she and Lucas will have sex together. The second one, however, is much more {{egregious}}: [[spoiler:Right before the very finale of the game, Lucas and Carla lie on a matress together for what could very well be [[ApocalypseHow their last night together before the Earth becomes covered with ice]], while Carla wishes the two could have met under better circumstances...and then Carla decides that she loves Lucas and they fuck. And yes, the previous sentence is basically the only indication that the two have any sort of sexual tension between one another.]]

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* Both sex scenes in ''{{Fahrenheit}}'': The first one being an optional encounter where, if you play your cards just right when your ex-girlfriend drops by at your apartment (offer her a drink, play your guitar for her and then kiss her), she and Lucas will have sex together. The second one, however, is much more {{egregious}}: [[spoiler:Right before the very finale of the game, Lucas and Carla lie on a matress mattress together for what could very well be [[ApocalypseHow their last night together before the Earth becomes covered with ice]], while Carla wishes the two could have met under better circumstances...and then Carla decides that she loves Lucas and they fuck. And yes, the previous sentence is basically the only indication that the two have any sort of sexual tension between one another.]]
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* Happens a lot with Moonstone in ''DarkAvengers,'' primarily because she's a manipulative sociopath who considers it the easiest way to get her hooks into her teammates while ticking off her boss.
** [[CharacterDerailment Exasperatingly]], Moonstone had previously spent years cleverly manipulating her enemies and team-mates without NEEDING to put out at all.
*** [[{{FridgeBrilliance}} It might be more difficult]] to play the manipulator against ''Norman freaking Osborn,'' or against his money.

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* Happens a lot with Moonstone in ''DarkAvengers,'' Ellis {{Thunderbolts}} and''DarkAvengers,'' primarily because she's a manipulative sociopath who considers it the easiest way to get her hooks into her teammates while ticking off her boss.
** [[CharacterDerailment Exasperatingly]], Moonstone had previously spent years cleverly manipulating her enemies and team-mates without NEEDING to put out at all.
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[[{{FridgeBrilliance}} It might be more difficult]] to play the manipulator against ''Norman freaking Osborn,'' or against his money.
**This also a tactic used by her team mate Daken. He'll sleep with both men and women to get what he wants.
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** And fandom-based LiveJournal roleplays are guilty of it, as well. In fact, some threads are created with the sole goal of making the two (or more) characters involved have sex; at some point, the players will inevitably lose patience and think up some sudden excuse or trope to use to speed the process up. Sometimes entirely too much.
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** ''Exactly'' the same thing happens with Spanish movies, specially after [[TheNapoleon Franco]] died and censorship went dramatically down. We don't call the just-after-Franco age "Época del Destape" ("Stripping Age") for naught (Though that specific period is considered a bit of an OldShame by now, [[AesopAmnesia there's still plenty of gratuitous sex in Spanish movies]]). SoYeah.

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** ''Exactly'' the same thing happens with Spanish movies, specially after [[TheNapoleon Franco]] died and censorship went dramatically down. We don't call the just-after-Franco age "Época del Destape" ("Stripping Age") for naught (Though that specific period is considered a bit of an OldShame by now, [[AesopAmnesia there's still plenty of gratuitous sex in Spanish movies]]). SoYeah.
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...perhaps I spoke too soon, but still.

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* ''FateStayNight'' offers an arguable example, with the overlap with DeusSexMachina, where Rin doesn't mention that having sex is a way to recharge a Servant's mana until Saber's has all but run out. It ''is'' foreshadowed, but only subtly, and it's a long time before the reader figures out ''why'' she held that back.
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Except for, you know...everything mentioned before Tsukihime was brought up.


* ''FateStayNight'' offers an example of the overlap with DeusSexMachina, where Rin doesn't mention that having sex is a way to recharge a Servant's mana until Saber's has all but run out.

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* {{Water World}} has an odd scene in which, after a young girl is captured and the main characters go save her... after randomly having sex first.
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** [[spoiler:Also, Lucas is technically [[{{Squick}} dead during the second one]].]]

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** [[spoiler:Also, Lucas is technically [[{{Squick}} dead during the second one]].]] Carla even mentions how cold his skin is shortly beforehand. Sexy!]]
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* Some of Guy Gavriel Kay's sex scenes make no sense at all. In the ''Lions of Al-rassan'', an assassin has just killed a minor king and been exiled by his successor. Then the minor king's mistress and the mother of his two bastard sons shows up at the assassin's estate and Coitus Ensues. For no reason at all.

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