All Women Are Lustful / Literature

• Popular for female villains in The Middle Ages:
  • For instance, the temptresses Duessa, Phaedria, and Acrasia in The Faerie Queene. Oddly, Pride is the Deadly Sin that gets cast as female.
  • The character referred to as the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales illustrates the era's stereotype of female sexuality. (She's called the "Wife of Bath" because she lives in Bath, a city in England, and has been married five times.)
  • A running theme in The Arabian Nights, when women are demanding sex from men in tale after tale after tale.
• A Brother's Price takes place in a world with few men, since they strongly tend to miscarry or be stillborn. As a result men are kept carefully sheltered and secluded, because otherwise women abduct them in "husband raids". One such man, the very beautiful and almost-of-marrying-age Jerin, is noted to have had erotic dreams, and after some Questionable Consent is happy to be seduced by a visiting princess. Later in the book he goes out in public, surrounded by protective sisters, and a note is made that women stare at him with either envy—if only I had a man like that!—or open speculation, wondering if they could get away with stealing him. He actively fears being abducted and raped. Virginity is highly valued in unmarried men, since this world averts STD Immunity. It's an interesting use of this trope, because on the one hand part of this "lust" is greed; there's economic value in men and particularly virgins. On the other hand, lust is certainly part of it. Jerin was taught the "art" of pleasing a woman with his hands and mouth, the better to keep several wives happy; another male character employed the Lysistrata Gambit to great effect.
• This trope motivates the High Sparrow in A Dance with Dragons. "All women are wantons at heart, given to use their wiles and their beauty to work their wills on men", he tells the imprisoned Cersei.
• This is certainly Boccaccio's view in the Decameron. See the page quote above for an example.
• In The Dinosaur Lords, Melodía's Girl Posse likes to talk about who sleeps with whom, who's hot and who's the best in bed, much to Melodía's annoyance. There's also the question of whether they're doing this just to taunt her.
• In Disclosure several characters try to make the claim that All Men Are Perverts and All Women Are Prudes. This is uniformly contradicted with statistics that suggest female bosses sexually harass male employees every bit as often as their male counterparts. Thus it is suggested that each gender is inherently lustful. Meredith Johnson exemplifies this trope quite well.
• The Second Circle of the Inferno (lust) has an inordinate amount of female sinners in it, whereas 95+ percent of the inmates of Hell are men.
• In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles' witches behave like rock-star groupies towards him. Even Gretchen, the village maiden courted by Faust, makes a play for Mephistopheles, despite her otherwise consistently impeccable behavior. Mephisto never does the deed with any of the women he meets (he prefers male angels), though he appreciates the attention.
• In Harvest Home, all of the women are sex-crazy and willing to kill people and maim their husbands to make sure it happens, although this is probably because of pregnancy, including Ned's initially "normal" seeming wife.
• K. W. Jeter's classic Steampunk novel Infernal Devices, has two prominent female characters. Both seem to barely think of anything other than boning the hero, a veddy proper Victorian Gentleman who would never dream of engaging in illicit sex. In fact, he's horrified at the very notion of horny women, all while being completely unable to escape them. Thankfully one of them is able to get it on with a clockwork automaton of the hero.
• King Dork: Seemingly every teenage girl with a boyfriend is cheating on said boyfriend. Specifically, they all seem to love giving blow jobs to multiple guys.
• The Malleus Maleficarum, a virulently misogynistic manual for Witch Hunters, gives this trope as the reason why women are more susceptible (allegedly) to becoming witches.
• Mark Twain in Letters From the Earth certainly espouses this view, likening women to a candlestick hankering for a candle, and men to a candle that peters out long before the candlestick is tired of holding them. Satan ultimately reflects that perhaps polygamy is reasonable—as any woman would need a team of men to keep her truly satisfied.
• In Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes all female characters are either prostitutes or lascivious women. Everyone seems to expect this of them, and to assume it is their natural role in Caribbean society. The only people to turn down sex in the whole book are men (though it doesn't happen often).
• Piers Anthony once wrote a short story "Ship of Mustard" (which appears in the collection Alien Plot) in which, as he describes in the introduction to the story, he tried to Gender Flip All Men Are Perverts and All Women Are Prudes. It's set in a space station on which there is a severe gender imbalance in births (far more women are born than men) and the women all want to get pregnant in order to advance their careers and social position. Why men on the station are reluctant to have sex is not explained.
• Tairen Soul. While the heroine's insatiable desire for Rain is portrayed relatively positively, nearly every minor female character is portrayed as negatively lustful. Queen Annoura's lust for "forbidden pleasures" and her tendency to keep attractive male "Dazzles" makes her easier for the mages to manipulate, and negatively affects her relationship with King Dorian. Jiarine Montevero is very lustful, and continually uses her sexuality to bad ends or to help the mages. The Feraz are a race of Femme Fatales and Vamps. Then there's Kelissande Minset…