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7	EverybodyHasLotsOfSex is a concept so ubiquitous in modern western media, that the very idea that any character, for any reason, is a virgin is something that comes off as alien and bizarre. As a result of this, when a group of characters is discussing something and the discussion vaguely implies that one character is a virgin, the script will quickly throw in an anecdote or line explaining how the character in question is most definitely ''not'' a virgin.
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9	As a narrative device, this sometimes provides for background exposition or a throwaway gag. Just obviously not one where a character explains their virginity. This trope is most common with characters who, given what other information we know about them, would have logical reasons to be a virgin.
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11	Can sometimes come off as rather clunky in the script when used intentionally, along the same lines of HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday. This is for the simple reason that most people don't consider their sexual histories as topics that are [[TooMuchInformation appropriate to bring up]] in unrelated conversations. [[TemptingFate Well, most of the time anyway]].
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13	A subtrope of SexIsCool. See also VirginShaming. Contrast UnexpectedVirgin.
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19	* Eikichi Onizuka of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' (and before that ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'') is a LovableSexManiac, but too awkward to actually have sex, so he's still a virgin by his twenties. Not that he'd ever admit it to anyone but his closest friends (who already know anyway).
20	* Inverted in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. Integra has no qualms admitting that the reason why her blood is so delicious is that she's a virgin. Seras more traditionally subverts this trope -- she was clearly uncomfortable when Alucard asked her and in all likelihood only answered honestly because she realized that if she answered ''dis''honestly she probably would have been killed on the spot.
21	* ''Manga/Overlord2012'': A side episode featuring Albedo, Shalltear and Aura has Albedo summon a bicorn, a HellishHorse with two horns. Albedo tries to ride it, but it refuses to move. They look it up in a MonsterCompendium to discover that as the EvilCounterpart to the unicorn, only non-virgins can ride it. Cue stunned looks from Aura and Shalltear, and Albedo eventually admits that what with running Nazarick she never has time to go out with men (not that her MadLove for Ainz would let her do it anyway).
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25	* In ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'' the main character is exposed as this by trying to tell an obviously fake story about a sexual encounter, especially comparing the woman's breast to a "bag of sand".
26	* In ''Film/BlackSwan'', when Thomas assumes that Nina's a virgin, she quickly denies it. Whether or not she's telling the truth is left ambiguous, but judging from her ShrinkingViolet personality, its probably a lie.
27	* Attempted and failed in ''Film/TheGraduate:''
28	-->'''Mrs. Robinson:''' Benjamin, is this your first time?\
29	'''Ben:''' Is this -- what?\
30	'''Mrs. Robinson:''' It is, isn't it? It is your first time.\
31	'''Ben:''' That's a laugh, Mrs. Robinson. That's really a laugh. Ha ha.\
32	'''Mrs. Robinson:''' You can admit that, can't you?\
33	'''Ben:''' Are you kidding?\
34	'''Mrs. Robinson:''' It's nothing to be ashamed of -- ''etc.''
35	* In the horror film ''Film/TheHazing'', the film ends with one surviving male winning the day, with a girl on each arm. The girls joke that he probably never could have even dreamed of such a thing happening, and throughout the film, he's frequently mocked under the assumption that he's a virgin, as well as geeky and weak. After their final mockery of him at the end, he gets fed up and explains to them that he lost his virginity when he was 15 to his (female) babysitter. She's mentioned twice in the film otherwise, so it's sort of foreshadowing.
36	* In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Max lights a candle in an old home, which results in three witches coming back to life. Whenever he tries to tell someone, they all ask if he's a virgin, and he usually denies it, except everyone in the town knows that a virgin has to light the candle to get the witches to come back.
37	* You Know from ''Film/KeepOffMyGrass'' frantically denies all accusations that he's a virgin so women won't think he's desperate and he can get laid for real.
38	-->'''Jessica''': Go away. I have no patience with virgins.\
39	'''You Know''': Virgin! Jessica, I've told you a hundred times, I've had girls before.\
40	'''Jessica''': I have no patience with liars either.
41	* When the TitleDrop for ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'' happens, the other characters assume that this means what it sounds like: that Josie has never had a serious romantic relationship. Josie explains that "never been kissed" is actually a metaphor for a "real" kiss, which she proceeds to define.
42	* In ''Film/WeddingCrashers'', Jeremy seduces and sleeps with Gloria. Afterwards, she tells him she's a virgin, causing him to panic and run, as his "rules" are strictly against anything more permanent than sex. Things don't go the way he wants, and he's forced to spend several days with her and her family. Meanwhile, [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale she basically rapes him]] (to the point where he needs an ice pack on his groin) and is shown to be an unstable nympho. Eventually, he tries to let her down, by telling her that he understand that him being her first probably has a lot of significance to her. She looks at him like he's crazy and invokes this trope. Nope, not a virgin; she just lied because she thought that all guys wanted to hear that. Suddenly, Jeremy wants nothing more than to be with her.
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46	* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' when Senjogahara accuses Koyomi of being a virgin, which he denies. We later learn that they're both virgins.
47	* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', when Ward is approached by a seductive woman, he recalls how he hasn't been a virgin since his fifteenth year. As he has been ObfuscatingStupidity since he was twelve, and is nineteen at the time, it would be quite logical for him to be a virgin, but apparently he's hot enough to make up for his apparent idiocy. He also found out that he isn't into casual sex because he had some, but other people manage to realize that without having casual sex in the first place, so the DoubleStandard about men and virginity is actually the most plausible reason for his non-virginity. Or maybe the author felt that [[AManIsAlwaysEager there needed to be a good reason for him rejecting the advances of an attractive woman]], and a virgin would be too keen on losing his virginity.
48	* ''Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy'': After meeting up with his exiled sister Idalia, main character Kellen realizes that his {{unicorn}} friend Shalkan refuses to make physical contact with her, and has a moment of panic thinking this means she's secretly an evildoer: in this series, that's one of the two kinds of people unicorns won't willingly touch. Both Idalia and Shalkan burst out laughing when he asks, and Idalia explains [[UnicornsPreferVirgins she's the other kind]]: she reminds him how she explained her [[EquivalentExchange Mageprice]] for [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turning into an eagle to escape their home city]] was to raise a clutch of chicks before she could turn back, which meant mating with a male eagle. (The series leaves open whether she's ever had sex as a human, but she ''is'' in love with an elf whom she's refusing to commit to due to the MayflyDecemberRomance.)
49	* In ''Literature/TheSoundAndTheFury'', Caddy asks her brother Quentin if he's ever had sex. He emphatically replies that he has, but she doesn't believe him.
50	* In ''Literature/SuperPowereds'', Sasha wants to take their relationship to the next level, but Vince is hesitant. She takes it (as well as him generally being reserved) to mean that he's a virgin. He explains that no, he's not, he's just hesitant about serious relationships since his last one didn't turn out well ([[spoiler:in fact, the girl he lost his virginity to left him, while he was recovering from a fire]]).
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54	* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' the Fang Gang rescues a wizard's daughter from a virgin sacrifice only to find out that she is not a virgin when she proclaims so in a loud affronted tone.
55	* ''Series/TheBisexual'': Leila goes home with the male coat-check clerk at the lesbian bar, and then has trouble opening a condom wrapper. She quickly clarifies to him that she isn't a virgin; [[TechnicalVirgin she's just only ever had sex with women]].
56	* ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'': In an episode shortly before Castle and Beckett [[BelligerentSexualTension finally]] have their RelationshipUpgrade, Castle is mildly taken aback when she mentions a former lover during a conversation.
57	-->'''Beckett:''' Castle, are you actually ''surprised'' that I'm not a virgin?
58	* ''Series/Charmed2018'': When they're fighting a demon that specifically targets virgins, Macy offers her own blood as "chum" to draw it out, revealing she's a virgin. Mel and Maggie are quick to clarify that they aren't, with lesbian Mel even taking the time to say that she tried having sex with a man, just to see what it's like (and assure Macy that she's "not missing anything.")
59	* In ''Series/{{Community}}'', Annie has this when Britta and Shirley assume she's a virgin because Annie has never seen a penis before (it's because her first boyfriend would have sex only in the dark).
60	* ''Series/DoctorWho''
61	** The Ninth Doctor in the episode "The Doctor Dances".
62	--->'''The Ninth Doctor:''' Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume that at some point I've '[[UnusualEuphemism danced]]'.
63	** In "Twice Upon a Time", Bill gets a bit annoyed by the First Doctor's [[DeliberateValuesDissonance sexist remarks]] towards her, and calls him out on it. The First Doctor then brags that he's had some experience with "the fairer sex".
64	--->'''Bill:''' [[DudeShesALesbian Me too]].
65	* ''Series/FreshMeat'': Kingsley makes up a story about losing his virginity rather than admitting it. Then after his story turns out to be [[{{Ephebophile}} really creepy]] and [[VirginityMakesYouStupid he needs to take it back]], he still denies it a couple times, less and less convincingly. He also dubbed himself "[[HaveIMentionedIAmSexuallyActiveToday The Pussy Man]]" in the very first episode.
66	* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. Will consoles Carlton over the fact that he's still a virgin, but staunchly denies being one himself, perhaps a little '''too''' strongly. It's never made clear in the show -- he gives conflicting stories on when he did lose his virginity (though this could be a SeriesContinuityError), and the one time it was explicitly clear that he had sex (having been seduced by a date's mother), whether or not this was his first time is never established.
67	* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', the ItsAWonderfulPlot episode is set in an AlternateContinuity where Ross never divorced Carol, Rachel married Barry, Joey never lost his job on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', Chandler quit his boring office job, Phoebe became a stock broker, and Monica stayed fat after high school. In the episode, Monica tells one of her friends that she plans to seduce her new boyfriend for the first time tonight, but it soon becomes apparent that she's still a virgin, though she denies this. Eventually, she and Chandler (who's only slept with one other woman ever) decide to spend the night together.
68	* ''Series/GhostsUS'': Sasappis rather forcefully insists that he's not a virgin, going so far as to say that he'd had sex 43 times before he died. Thorfin later backs this up, saying he'd watched Sasappis having sex.
69	* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''. When Rose mentions the wonderful sex life she and her late husband had, Blanche scoffs at this, stating that Rose is so prudish that she doesn't even like to talk about sex. Rose shoots back that in her experience, people who constantly talk about sex are actually ''not'' having it that much, thus insinuating that Blanche's promiscuity and relentless sexy talk is a facade. Blanche withers under hers and Dorothy's gazes and abruptly shuts up.
70	* ''Series/HermansHead''. Louise is a virgin and gets annoyed when everyone talks about how strange it is.
71	* Jay from ''Series/TheInbetweeners'' to the point of ridiculousness. He claims to have had sex with more women that he's probably actually met in his entire life. By series 3, these claims get so hilariously ridiculous that they involve copious amounts of {{Squick}}.
72	* ''Series/MadMen'':
73	-->'''Joan:''' This isn't China. There's no money in virginity.
74	-->'''Peggy:''' I'm not a virgin.
75	-->(''We'' know Peggy isn't a virgin, but Joan doesn't.)
76	* ''Series/ModernFamily'' gets into its third season episode "Virgin Territory" when Alex hears her father saying "Haley's aversion" as "Haley's a virgin" and laughs, which is how he learns she's not.
77	* ''Series/PerfectStrangers''. Larry teases Balki about his upcoming date, then notices how nervous he is and suddenly realizes, "You're as pure as the driven snow, aren't you?" Balki defensively asks, "Aren't ''you''?" and Larry abruptly shuts up and changes the subject. Neither man confirms it, but their uneasiness and refusal to answer the question strongly implies it.
78	* ''Series/PushingDaisies'': Ned was defensive about his "experience" when questioned about it in "Bitches". He claimed, when Emerson and Chuck asked, to have had girlfriends before Chuck, though it's arguable whether any of those relationships were consummated.
79	* On ''Series/RedDwarf'', Lister and Rimmer are trapped, presumably to Lister's inevitable death on an ice planet, Lister asks Rimmer to tell the story of how he lost his virginity. When Rimmer hesitates, Lister insinuates that he's a virgin and Rimmer relates the anecdote in short order.
80	* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Sherlock Holmes's protest of "Sex doesn't alarm me" is answered by his brother Mycroft with "How would ''you'' know?"
81	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. In the episode ''Jus in Bello', when they need a virgin sacrifice, Dean assumes that nobody is a virgin.
82	* A contemporary commentator in the Weimar Republic bemoaned his society’s ‘loose morals’, saying it would be a profound shame for high school girls at the time if it were discovered that they were virgins.
83	* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': In ''Scary'' the boys think they're dealing with a vampire who is loose in the house. Vyvyan points out he doesn't understand what all the fuss is about because "vampires only attack virgins". Cue very worried looks and [[BlatantLies hasty denials]] of being a virgin from the other three.
84	--> '''Vyvyan:''' Well, we'll soon find out, won't we? 'Cos the vampire's gonna know. And if anyone gets attacked, then we'll know that he's a sissy... ''VIRGIN.'' ''(beat)'' Oh God. [[BestialityIsDepraved I hope snogging with SPG counts.]]
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88	* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': In one of the [[BannedEpisode banned strips]], Miss Buxley meets [[GoodLookingPrivates a soldier]] in a bar and they're sitting very close to each other, holding hands and making deep eye contact. The soldier says to her [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=To+boldly-go-where-no-man-has-gone-before "I'd like to go where no man has gone before."]]. Miss Buxley then moves in closer to him and says "Too late!".
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92	* In ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'', if April asks Flipper Burns how he lost his legs, he wants to know first if she is a virgin. If she says she is, he won't believe her and make up a joke answer to her question, whereas if she says she's not, he'll tell a more plausible tale. It's not clear if April really is a virgin (though her personality would make it likely) but the real issue here is that Burns simply can't believe a pretty girl like April would be one.
93	* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'', there is a unicorn head mounted on the wall of the Adventurer's Guild. Looking at it produces the line, "They say that unicorns are only visible to virgins. You pretend you can't see it."
94	* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'':
95	** When Gundham recounts a past visit to [[{{Chuunibyou}} an amusement park in Hell that required the blood of a virgin as an entrance fee]], Sonia offhandedly states that her own blood couldn't be used for said fee, [[DoggedNiceGuy much to Kazuichi's dismay]].
96	** During one of Fuyuhiko's Free Time events, he [[VirginShaming virgin-shames]] Hajime, leading the latter to surmise that Fuyuhiko is not one.
97	* [[LoveableSexManiac Miu Iruma]] in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is open about her sexual habits and kinks, and is known to make fun of her classmates for being virgins. Amusingly, when she gets the VirginShaming treatment herself, she becomes defensive. This suggests that Miu is nowhere near as slutty as she claims to be, and that she in reality never had sex before.
98	-->'''Miu:''' A floorboard that comes loose when you step on it is dangerous! God, it's like I'm the only one here who's staying on the ball!\
99	'''Kokichi:''' You hardly have any experience with balls to say that, Miu.\
100	'''Miu:''' D...don't be stupid... don'tcha know? Me and balls are the best of friends!
101	* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' the characters come across a unicorn and need to get its horn. When told only a "pure maiden" can approach the unicorn, the adults of the party immediately assume that Sheena, with her cleavage-bearing outfit, would be [[UnexpectedVirgin "unqualified."]] This is opposed to party member Raine who refuses to approach under the rationale "I'm an adult".
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105	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', in the midst of several extras [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-023 coming clean]] that they are [[UnexpectedVirgin in fact virgins]], one extra confirms that he's ''not'' a virgin which leads to another extra coming clean that she is not a virgin to her SlutShaming friend who then [[http://egscomics.com/comic/tlod-024 comforts her]].
106	* In ''Webcomic/RUScrewed'', the [[https://tapas.io/Kimmikala author]] states in a chapter 3 extra that, despite his relatively innocent appearance, Sooch is absolutely not a virgin and is actually quite experienced.
107	* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' -- When Amber tells Robin that she had sex with Ethan, Robin assumes (due to her ShrinkingViolet personality) that Amber is a virgin and just lying to piss her off. Nope, not only has Amber slept with Ethan, he wasn't even her first.
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111	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' episode "Swiss Miss" has Anka, a 15-year-old German heiress who's constantly trying to get in Archer's pants, much to his distress. It soon becomes clear she's a bratty virgin who's acting out when she compares revving the throttle on a snowmobile to what she does to guys' "Wilhelms."
112	-->'''Archer''': What? No, that's not -- oh my ''God''. You've never even ''seen'' a Wilhelm!
113	-->'''Anka''': No! I have seen... ''dozens'' of Wilhelms! Scores, even!
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