Basic Trope: Someone intentionally tries to think of disturbing things in an attempt to prevent sexual arousal.
- Straight: Bob is trying to avoid getting a Raging Stiffie, so he tries to imagine a naked old lady.
- Exaggerated: Bob imagines millions of dismembered corpses just so he doesn't get aroused.
- Downplayed: Bob tries to imagine something non-sexual, but not necessarily disturbing, to get his mind off it.
- Justified: Bob is in a situation where sexual arousal would be inappropriate or embarrassing, and this is a way to avoid it.
- Inverted: The Loins Sleep Tonight - Bob is trying to think of sexual things in order to get aroused, but can't.
- Subverted: Bob ends up being aroused by thinking of the naked old lady anyway.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: It backfires, because Bob Likes Older Women.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody ever avoids thinking of sexual things to begin with.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: When Bob gets a Raging Stiffie in public, he discreetly asks his friend what to do, who recommends that he thinks of something repulsive.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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