Line #20 PlayingWith/ExperimentedInCollege


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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