Basic Trope: An old person doesn't have sex.
- Straight: Bob is an old man who doesn't have sex.
- Exaggerated: Bob is an old man who has never had sex.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is a middle-aged man who doesn't have sex.
- Bob is an old man who normally doesn't have sex, but is willing to do it a few times.
- Justified:
- Bob feels as if he is too old to have sex.
- Bob has become sterile.
- Bob is asexual and was never interested in sex.
- Bob has severe arthritis in his hips, and sex is painful for him.
- Bob only believes sex is ok if it's for the purpose of procreation, and his wife Alice is post-menopausal.
- Bob has erectile dysfunction.
- Bob just found better things to do than sex.
- Inverted: Bob is a young adult who doesn't have sex.
- Gender Inverted: Alice is an old woman who doesn't have sex.
- Subverted: Bob is initially thought to not have sex, but he then mentions doing dirty things with his wife, Alice.
- Double Subverted: It turns out that those dirty things are just dirty talk.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Bob goes through periods of having and not having sex, depending on his time, health and availability of his wife Alice.
- Averted: Bob has sex whenever he wants to.
- Enforced:
- "It would be weird if Bob was a Dirty Old Man. Let's have him abstain from sexual activities."
- The producers actually want to avoid a Restricted Rating.
- Lampshaded: "It just seems like everyone is abstinent as soon as they turn old."
- Invoked: Bob doesn't want his reputation to be ruined, so he acts like he has no sex in order to seem "normal".
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob has sex regularly with his wife Alice.
- Discussed: "Bob, why don't you have any sex? It's fun!" "I'm just too old for it. Besides, there's more to life beyond doing that."
- Conversed: "I swear, old people are so boring. They never have any sex, after all."
- Deconstructed: Because of the belief that it'd be gross and weird for him to have sex, Bob experiences sexual frustration, which takes its toll on his health.
- Reconstructed: Bob knows it's fine for older people to be sexually active, he just isn't personally interested.
