...or don't look. It's more polite, and keeps things SFW.
A wacky romp, usually full of fanservice, blunt innuendos, and simple plans all to one purpose — to get laid! Expect tons of Gag Boobs, humorous dating or hook up scenarios, and maybe a large dollop of Virgin-Shaming, or Sex as Rite-of-Passage if he still is. These can be explicit or non-explicit. The hijinks don't have to end after our hero or heroine gets laid.
Note that the proportion of sexual material can vary; jokes on other subjects are certainly permitted. A comedy series can have episodes of sex comedy while completely avoiding the subject at other times. Many of the examples below actually feature variants of the trope, or deconstruct it in some way. Conversely, when Porn with Plot tries to be funny, the result is obviously some kind of sex comedy, if not usually a very good one.
Many long-running sitcoms aimed at grown-ups will have an episode of sex comedy sooner or later, sometimes featuring an attractive visiting character or guest star who catches the attention of one or more of the primary cast.
Related to Poor Man's Porn, because you can own a copy of the film and no one will know it's one scene you own the film for.
May occasionally overlap with Romantic Comedy. May be a cause of Best Known for the Fanservice. Compare Ecchi. Subgenre: Awful British Sex Comedy.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- A.I. Love You starts off with the Unlucky Everydude getting a Magical Girlfriend due to a lightning strike hitting his computer, causing her to materialize into the real world, with some fan-servicey moments here and there. Then around the time Number 20 and 40 appear, there are much more fan-servicey moments, Hitoshi is made out to be a huge pervert who only wants to get some nice action (whether it be from his computer program girlfriend or... actual Ecchi video games) and there's more jokes that go pretty far for an overall comedy series with tearjerky moments, including things like Hitoshi arousing Number 30 enough and pinching her nipple.
- Anoko to Iikoto is a collection of humorous NSFW stories about A-Cup Angst, Brother–Sister Incest, and other hentai fetishes.
- Dragon Pink is a Porn with Plot, the plot being a Role-Playing Game infused with Slapstick.
- Interspecies Reviewers is about a group of adventurers who want to find out which species of Cute Monster Girl is best to have sex with, as they go to various brothels and write reviews of their experiences. The series takes a rather lax view of prostitution and is largely a fanservice-filled romp. While the manga doesn't actually show anyone having sex despite the premise revolving around it, the anime is much Hotter and Sexier.
- Lunatic Night: It's After the End, and the last human male has to repopulate the Earth with his new harem. Hilarity Ensues.
- Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time is a comedy series about a man and his Unwanted Harem who keeps trying to get him to have sex with them. While the Fanservice goes beyond what a typical ecchi series shows and it's very clear that sex does happen, no actual sex is ever shown directly and it typically cuts to the morning after.
- Seitokai Yakuindomo is about 21% school Slice of Life jokes, 10% height jokes, and 69% sex comedy. Though here, the protagonist (and only male) is the Straight Man — it's the surrounding girls who provide all of the lust and sex jokes. Surprisingly, it's not actually Ecchi, and the fanservice is pretty limited.
- Sex Demon Queen: a hentai OVA that's also a Heroic Fantasy-Magical Girl parody.
Comic Books
- Robert Crumb's comic strips surely are full of this.
- Milo Manara's work is, too.
- Horacio Altuna's erotic fiction also includes a lot of comedy, usually a five-page set-up ending on a gag or punchline.
- Happy Mania: A young woman sleeps her way into true love, with many semen jokes along the way.
- Red Ears: This enormously successful Belgian comic book is nothing more than an erotic gag comic strip series.
- Sex Criminals is a series about two people who can freeze time when they have orgasms. They use this ability to rob banks so that they can use the money to save a library.
- Much of the work of Icelandic artist Kjartan Arnorsson is a comedic core wrapped in a thick layer of pornographic shenanigans, where the context may be sexual but the execution is often presented as silly, almost cartoonish antics.
Fan Fiction
- New Tamaran: The author wrote two
prequels that are lemon examples; the sex scenes are described as a Random Events Plot combining Bizarre Alien Biology and Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, with Robin being made into both a Sex God and an Iron Butt Monkey.
- Sword Art Online Chapter 16.5: This infamous exercise in Ikea Erotica has been widely shunned by the fandom, yet it's still made many readers laugh by being So Bad, It's Good.
- The NSFW RWBY fanfic Love Hurts is a series of loosely connected drabbles regarding the sex lives (and attempted sex lives) of various pairings. The primary pairings are Blake/Yang (more sexually adventurous than is probably healthy), Ruby/Oscar (young and stupid and with no idea what they're doing), Weiss/Jaune (Friends with Benefits), Nora/Ren (Like an Old Married Couple), and Qrow/Winter (Slap-Slap-Kiss), but there are a few other random Crack Pairings that are vaguely in continuity with the rest. Jacques and Willow Schnee separately cheated on each other with the same "maid" (actually an assassin), Cinder ended up hooking up with Taiyang without knowing he was Yang and Ruby's father, and Salem watches everything through her crystal ball and gets very drunk over the stupidity of it all.
Films — Animation
- Ralph Bakshi 's Fritz the Cat also falls in this category.
- Tarzoon The Shame of the Jungle puts sex into blunt parody.
Films — Live-Action
- The American Pie series is fairly definitive of the genre.
- Belle Époque: A cheerful comedy in which an affable young man lives for a while with a rich dude and the rich dude's four hot daughters. He winds up working his way through all four hot daughters — and one of them is Penélope Cruz.
- The Birds, the Bees and the Italians: A bunch of Italian bourgeoisie has affairs with each other's spouses, take mistresses, and have unfortunate experiences with a underage nymphet.
- Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask and A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy by Woody Allen.
- A lot of Mel Brooks' films fall in this category, despite sex not being the central theme; they tend to have a lot of sexual innuendo in their jokes.
- Porky's is the Trope Codifier for the Teen Sex Comedy subtrope.
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin: The clue is in the title.
- Another Gay Movie and its sequel Another Gay Sequel: Gay's Gone Wild, unsurprisingly.
- The Pink Panther has a fair number of sexual jokes, even though no one really gets any.
- The Sweetest Thing: It's like a chick flick was directed by the guys who direct Rob Schneider's films.
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High: '80s teen sex comedy.
- Love & Other Drugs: A higher drama quotient, but still in the category.
- Pretty Cool, and its sequel, Pretty Cool Too.
- Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Fantasy: A sex comedy musical with actual sex scenes.
- Deep In the Valley, where two average dudes are sucked into the world of porn films.
- Mischief, a 1985 comedy where a shy high school student wants to get it on with a popular girl in 1956 Ohio. Basically, it's Happy Days with sex in it.
- Private School is another '80s comedy featuring various sex-related hijinks at a girls' private school.
- Zapped!, a parody of Carrie in which a teenage boy gains telekinetic powers and uses them to strip girls naked.
- Not Another Teen Movie, a parody of both this genre and teen movies. Most visibly pronounced with Areola, a Foreign Exchange Student who spends the entire film butt-naked.
- Superbad is a Deconstructive Parody of the genre, the protagonists' obsession with getting into the pants of the hottest girls at school used to paint them as a bunch of weirdos.
- The Austin Powers movies, being James Bond parodies, riff nonstop on the Bond movies' sexual content.
- The Naked Gun movies, at least once a film, will parody dramatic Hollywood sex/romance scenes.
- Promises! Promises!: A sex farce involving accidental wife swapping, possible adultery, a dorky dude worried about his impotence, lots of dirty double entendres, and naked Jayne Mansfield.
- The Woman in Red crosses this with Romantic Comedy. It is about a man pursuing a woman, has a soundtrack by Stevie Wonder, and the most famous scenes involve seeing up the woman's dress and seeing her naked in her bedroom.
- Sound Eroticism is mainly a satire of Hungary in the 1980s, but, as its title suggests, has plenty of sex-related humor.
- Scary Movie: Not officially, but since the Hormone-Addled Teenager is a key component of the Slasher Movie formula being parodied, there is plenty of sex gags that redefines "over the top".
- Striptease is a film in which the heroine is a stripper, some of whose fans fixate on her.
- In Hot Bot, two sexually repressed and unpopular teenagers discover a lifelike super-model Sexbot. Thrilled at the chance to finally have sex, Huffy and Nard go to great lengths to protect their newest discovery.
- The film Yes, God, Yes is about a repressed Catholic School Girl discovering the wonders of masturbation while attending a religious youth retreat.
Live-Action Television
Theatre
- The Ancient Greek play Lysistrata demonstrates that the sex comedy is Older Than Feudalism.
- In the 19th century, Georges Feydeau not only popularized farce in the modern form, but was quite risqué about it by the standards of the time; many of his stories have elements of sex comedy, and the combination has remained popular in theatrical farce to the present.
- "Nothing On", the Show Within a Show in Noises Off, is a Feydeau-style sex farce. As we only ever see the first act, we don't get to see how it develops, but the young ingenue spends most of the act stripped to her underwear and one of the male leads hops around with his pants around his ankles.
Video Games
- Leisure Suit Larry is an Adventure Game by genre, but by content, it's a Sex Comedy with logic puzzles.
- Monster Prom is a competitive Dating Sim in which your Lovable Sex Maniac playable character tries to score a date for prom, the quest being full of innuendos and several characters being very open about their sexuality as well as Everyone Is Bi.
Webcomics
- Among (non-porn) webcomics, Ménage à 3 is perhaps the purest example, although it's relatively subtle and even deconstructive about it — some of the time, anyway. Of its spinoffs, Sticky Dilly Buns and Pixie Trix Comix are more or less equally sex comedies (especially the former) but dial back on the explicitness and add a little more Soap Opera, while Sandra on the Rocks is less about sex and somewhat less explicit (despite the odd Shower Scene and a fair bit of nudity with careful use of the Scenery Censor), but still approaches the trope at times; some of the later plots and Print Bonus material dial the sexual content back up a bit.
- Oglaf primarily revolves around sex comedy in a High Fantasy setting. Unlike the aforementioned webcomic, it is quite explicit and occasionally pornographic. Not all of it though, and some jokes could easily fit into a SFW fantasy parody.
Western Animation
- The infamous 1929 cartoon Everready Harton In Buried Treasure is a sex comedy.
