1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character admits they experimented with the same gender in college. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice tells her husband Bob that she fooled around with her roommate, Carol, in college. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice tells Bob that she fooled around with all of her female roommates in college. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice tells Bob that she made out with Carol while in college. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Both Alice and Carol wanted to try something different. |
7 | ** Alice and Carol were in an all-girls dorm with strict rules about opposite-sex visitors. [[SituationalSexuality Certain urges don't go away just because a guy can't visit]]... |
8 | ** Alice and Carol were [[KissingUnderTheInfluence drunk and one thing led to another]]. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': |
10 | ** Alice tells her wife Carol that she fooled around with her friend Bob while in college. |
11 | ** Bob tells his wife Alice that he fooled around with his friend Dave while in college. |
12 | ** Bob tells his husband Dave that he fooled around with his friend Alice while in college. |
13 | * '''Subverted''': "Bob, I've gotta tell you something about Carol and I. We..." "...fooled around in college, right?" "What?! No!" |
14 | ** Alice and Carol had a several-months (or even ''years'') long relationship in college, not meaningless sex or making out. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
16 | ** "I ''did'' have sex with Emily, though." |
17 | ** Not long after graduation, they broke up, and Alice exclusively dated men, ultimately marrying Bob. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': Alice has been an out lesbian her whole life, but everyone reacts with shock at the reveal that she had sex with a girl in college. |
19 | ** Alice's "experiments" are [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} scientifically rigorous]]. There's a "control group," and [[ReallyGetsAround large sample sizes]]. |
20 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
21 | * '''Averted''': |
22 | ** Alice and Carol didn't fool around in college. Or she doesn't tell Bob. |
23 | ** Alice and Carol did not attend college. |
24 | ** Alice and Carol went to different colleges. |
25 | ** Alice is canonically bisexual, and her past relationship(s) with girls isn't treated any differently than her relationship(s) with guys. |
26 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
27 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Of course I fooled around with girls in college. Really, doesn't everyone?" |
28 | * '''Invoked''': Emily, a bicurious high schooler, is motivated to go to college to fool around with girls. |
29 | * '''Exploited''': |
30 | ** Alice reveals her previous exploits, or makes up a story about such, knowing Bob's fantasy around [[GirlOnGirlIsHot two women]], in an attempt to turn him on. |
31 | ** Alice and Carol make out in order to score boyfriends, banking that they'll be turned on by their making out. |
32 | ** Alice and Carol use this as a way to get their sexual jollies off while remaining {{Technical Virgin}}s. |
33 | * '''Defied''': Alice and Carol never once made out or did anything sexual together. (Even if one or both of them had feelings for the other.) |
34 | ** Alice decides that (even if she wants to), "just experimenting" is more trouble than it's worth, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome what with all the drama and hurt feelings it can cause or exacerbate]]. |
35 | ** Alice doesn't believe in casually hooking up with ''anyone'' of any gender; she believes sex (and even things like kissing or making out) should be reserved for actual relationships, or even for marriage. |
36 | * '''Discussed''': Alice suggests fooling around with Carol in college. |
37 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
38 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
39 | ** Bob refuses to accept that Alice had sex with a girl in college and breaks up with her. |
40 | ** Alice is secretly a lesbian and breaks up with Bob because of it. |
41 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
42 | ** Alice gets back together with Carol. |
43 | ** Alice is actually bisexual, and the relationship survives. |
44 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Alice and Carol are both prime examples of {{Gonk}}, but Bob acts like them fooling around was the hottest thing ever. |
45 | * '''Played For Drama''': |
46 | ** Alice was secretly lesbian or bisexual, and this was the only way she could get away with exploring her desires. |
47 | ** Carol had feelings for Alice, who decides that nope, she's straight after all, or that it was "just the alcohol talking," or that it really ''was'' "just a phase." Alice didn't make it clear what (if anything) this meant, and [[AmIJustAToyToYou Carol feels used, hurt, manipulated, and betrayed]]. Taking this to its logical extreme, Carol becomes a {{Yandere}} or WomanScorned towards Alice. |
48 | ** Pictures of Alice and Carol making out at a frat party get out and it causes a lot of trouble for both of them and ruins their reputations. |
49 | ** Bob views Alice as DefiledForever. |
50 | ** Alice is a Congressional candidate running on a conservative HeteronormativeCrusader platform. Someone blackmails her with a photo of her and Carol. She has her blackmailer murdered. |
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52 | Back to ExperimentedInCollege. Uh...that page and I used to fool around back when we were in a sorority, you know... |
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