Basic Trope: Sex is depicted in a positive way.
- Straight: Alice and Bob have sex with no complications. Everything works out for them and they have a good time.
- Exaggerated: Immediately after they have mind-blowingly fantastic sex, Bob wins the lottery. Alice invests half in the stock market. The stock skyrockets, making them multi-billionaires. They buy their own private island and live Happily Ever After, with plenty of sex.
- Downplayed: Bob and Alice have sex. It was good and they liked it, but it's not the focus, and nothing really changes for them.
- Justified: Alice and Bob are sexual dynamos and/or really lucky people themselves.
- Inverted: Sex Is Evil.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob have great sex, but she gets hit by a bus.
- Sex is a deep, basic need for most of humanity, and as such is very, VERY good when done right. However, it has too great a potential for harm (intentional or otherwise) to be classified exclusively good.
- Double Subverted: She is taken to the hospital, and survives to have sex another day. The fact that she need to get healthy before she can have sex again motivates her to work really hard during physical therapy.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob climax, and all wars and crime everywhere immediately cease.
- Zig Zagged: Was it good, or was it not? It could be Their First Time and they don't know.
- Averted: They don't have sex. They're both asexual. Or maybe the show is.
- Enforced: One writer wants to do a scene about the consequences of sex, but the other writers disagree, because they think that sex is 100% awesome.
- Lampshaded:
- "I knew it! Sex makes everything awesome!"
- "I really hope our sex is as good as in the James Bond movies."
- Invoked: Alice and Bob are superheroes. The villain somehow sets them up together, knowing full well that they'll be distracted by how awesome sex is, that he'll be able to commit crimes without having to worry about them.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice avoids sex with Bob, because she knows that she'll like it too much.
- Discussed: "Whoa, sex really is that good!"
- Conversed: "Sex is awesome on TV and in the movies, so we should try it!"
- Implied: Alice and Bob are mean people who frown all the time. They start dating, and he goes in for a nightcap at her place. We get a Sexy Discretion Shot, and the next day, Alice and Bob have these huge grins on their faces and are nice to everyone they meet.
- Deconstructed: Alice and Bob have great sex, but it causes both of them to question things in their lives. There could even be a pregnancy or disease scare. Sex is good in that one moment, but what follows isn't necessarily good.
- Reconstructed: They decide that recreational sex is okay with the right precautions, and learn valuable life lessons. In fact, the awesomeness of sex motivate them to start a worldwide campaign about sexual health so that everyone can enjoy it safely.
- Played For Laughs: Sex is so good that the formerly nerdy Bob goes out the next day and struts around to "Stayin' Alive."
- Played For Drama: Alice and Bob have good sex, but are torn with the heartbreak of knowing that they can't be with each other.
- Intended Audience Reaction: We want the audience to know how awesome sex is. That said, Bob and Alice are two entitled douchebags who have sex for no good reason and don't deserve it.
Back to Sex Is Good
