Basic Trope: Women's prisons are treated as an Excuse Plot for lesbian porn or are presented as cozy, clean and safe in contrast to men's prisons.
- Straight: Alice is sent to prison for jaywalking. She ends up entering into a hot, steamy relationship with her cellmate.
- Exaggerated: Alice's cell is a Luxury Prison Suite. Heck, Alice Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All. And all the inmates wear sexy lingerie under their prison uniforms and have orgy parties together.
- Downplayed:
- Alice's cell isn't too bad (more like a college dorm room), and she gets along well with the other inmates, but isn't anyone's girlfriend.
- Alice gets a girlfriend in prison, but they rarely have sex, and prison is as bad as it logically should be.
- Justified:
- Alice is in a minimum-security prison, and there isn't much in the way of gang culture in this setting.
- Alice is wealthy and committed a white-collar crime.
- Inverted:
- Alice is in a Hellhole Prison, and Prison Rape is Played for Drama, not for Fanservice.
- Bob gets sent to prison for jaywalking, and it's not so bad compared to women's prisons... And it's full of Yaoi.
- Two female prison guards get into a relationship.
- Subverted: The prison is a Crapsaccharine World, it looks clean and comfortable and the women seems loving, but a lot of coercion happens under the surface.
- Double Subverted: The women are kinky, most of the coercion is harmless roleplay.
- Parodied:
- Alice and the other inmates are given nothing but revealing swimsuits to wear, and the conditions of the whole place resemble those of a Vacational-Center / Luxury-Spa, complete with massage tables, saunas, swimming pools and artificial beaches!
- The prison is an over-the-top, seedy and bleak hellhole where brutal torture and rape are everyday occurances... but all the girls are either complete masochists who got arrested just to get in on the action or just too used to constant brutality and violence and carry out the light girly conversation while being beaten with nightsticks.
- Zig Zagged: There is little consistency regarding the danger of the prison or the sexuality of the inmates.
- Averted:
- The prison is portrayed as dangerous, maybe even to the point of being a Hellhole Prison.
- Alice doesn't go to prison.
- Enforced: Girl on Girl Is Hot, Viewers Are Morons.
- Lampshaded: "Don't worry about it, Alice; girl jail is just lingerie-clad pillow fights. You know, like on TV!"
- Invoked: Alice is sent to prison.
- Exploited: Alice's book/film about her experience when she went to prison is disguised as this in advertisement, because Sex Sells. It's actually an authentic, realistic testimony with no gratuitous fanservice.
- Defied: "You really think female prisons are all about carpet-munching and lounging around in lacey lingerie? Bob, stop watching TV, it does things to you."
- Discussed: "Alice will be fine; women's prisons aren't that bad. Not like men's prisons." "Then explain to me why the prettiest inmates come out with huge facial scars they didn't have upon going in."
- Conversed: "Clearly, TV writers should stop fapping and start researching how a women's prison really works."
- Deconstructed: Because everyone believes a women's prison is just a peaceful dormitory for naughty girls, nobody notices that all the prisoners are planning a massive escape. When the plan is put to execution, no one is prepared and the whole prison's staff gets slaughtered by the inmates as they successfully escape.
- Reconstructed: The setting is portrayed realistically, with Alice struggling everyday to survive and not become anyone's "special friend."
- Played For Drama: The prison forces everyone to be the stars of a reality porn show. Alice is humiliated by what she has to do.
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