Do You Want to Copulate?
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Are you here for the Mating Challenge? —Rima, Brutal Legend
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A sub-trope of What Is This Thing You Call Love?, this refers to the examples where the character is completely deprived of any hang-ups and inhibitions humans usually feel in connection with sex. This might be because they are aliens, or have No Social Skills due to an offbeat background, or live in some sort of utopian/dystopian universe. For this reason, they have no qualms about taking their clothes off in the presence of other people, and may pose a question along the lines of the trope title to anyone who they suspect of being attracted to them.
Related tropes: Good Bad Girl, Innocent Fanservice Girl, and Hooker with a Heart of Gold. As these related tropes and the examples below suggest, trope examples are usually female: as men are seen as more sexually threatening than women, a man who behaves in this manner is more likely to be seen as creepy and menacing than sexy or amusing.
No real life examples, please; this is All The Tropes, not Tropes After Dark.
Examples of Do You Want to Copulate? include:
Anime and Manga
- Gantz: "Let me have sex with you." "What! Are you an idiot?!" *beat* "Alright." *zip*
- Ren from DearS almost literally asks Takeya this at one point. After she sensed sexual desires from him, no less.
- The Blue Drop - Tenshi no Bokura manga starts with two middle school-age-looking kids; the dialogue basically goes like this:
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Girl: I want you to have sex with me. |
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- In Change 123, Hibiki does this to Kobusegawa a couple times. It freaks him out a bit.
- This happens all over the place in Asobi Ni Iku Yo Both in casual talk and in spades during the mating season.
- Kuso Miso Technique gave us the infamous phrase "Yaranaika?" ("Do you want to do it?")
- In No. 6 Safu tells Shion that 'she wants his sperm" i.e. that she wants to have sex with him.
- In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex a young boy wonders how sex feels, and specifically how it feels with a cyborg. Motoko immediately offers a trial run. The boy gets shy and turns down the offer.
- Haganai: The very first thing Teen Genius Rika does upon joining the Neighbors Club is ask Kodaka (the only male in the club) "Do you want to have sexual intercourse with me?" He refuses... but that doesn't stop her libido from becoming a Running Gag.
Comic Books
- This is part of Starfire's characterization as of 2011's Red Hood and the Outlaws. In the first issue, she gets bored and Roy Harper's the nearest guy at the moment, so she propositions him.
- In the short-lived Penthouse Comix, this tended to be the conclusion of any meeting between Hericane and Captain Adventure; they'd argue, sling words, then actually fight, and it would lead to Destructo-Nookie that wrecked the whole city block. The first time, her response to one of his threats was simply, "Top or Bottom?" This sort of made him an Accidental Pornomancer in every story.
Fan Works
- In With Strings Attached, moments after George has a nerve-wracking encounter with the god Ardav, the priestess/employee Ma'ar says to him:
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“Come sex with me.” |
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Film
- Barbarella.
- Her idea of sex was closer to a mind meld.
- Saturn 3 saw Benson asking Alex, "You have a great body. May I use it?"
- Sandra Bullock's character in Demolition Man.
- Similar to the Barbarella example, this turns out to be sex via a machine, which thoroughly frustrates John Spartan.
- Happens in the movie My Stepmother Is An Alien. Of course, the stepmother in question got her ideas about human interaction from porn videos.
- An example involving an (otherwise) completely average middle aged woman in Synecdoche New York. She takes the main character, Caden Cotard, back to her apartment and suggests sex. He's a little flustered by this, but agrees. It stands out because of her matter of fact attitude towards the whole thing.
- Ghostbusters. Peter Venkmann has been trying to seduce Dana Barrett ever since he met her. He finally gets his chance after she's possessed by Zuul.
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Dana: "Do you want this body?" |
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- A male example takes place in Earth Girls Are Easy. An alien who has recently learned English is talking to a woman in her bedroom, both taking refuge from other rowdies. She mentions the word sex.
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Alien: What is "Sex"? |
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- John Nash in A Beautiful Mind: "I don't exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex." He gets a drink thrown in his face, fittingly.
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Charles: I particularly liked the part about "fluid exchange", it was... charming. |
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- Marie from Innocent Blood: 'When you are alone eternally, you live for the comfort of the senses: food, sex.' Later, when she and The Hero find themselves hiding in the same hotel room, 'Right now I need sex more than blood.'
- The Big Lebowski.
- Sleeper - Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), thawed out in 2173, is on the lam with Luna (Diane Keaton), who eventually warms to him:
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Luna: Would you like to perform sex with me? |
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- A scene in the original script for Alien had Ripley casually stripping off in front of Captain Dallas saying "I need some release." Although the scene was used in the audition, it was never filmed.
- In Return to The Blue Lagoon, the guy mentions the outsider people that once in a while, "we mate."
- In The Cook the Thief His Wife And Her Lover, the Wife and Lover meet for the first time without saying anything, then slip off to the bathroom in order to copulate. Later, they have no qualms about making love in very public areas or being nude in front of others. It's a surreal film.
- In the So Bad It's Good (to most) film Once Bitten, Mark's two friends (who have No Social Skills) try this on two girls at a laundromat, and it works about as well as you might expect. (One gets punched, the other gets stuffed in a drier.) Later, however, the Trope is played straight when they ask two of the Countess' female minions. (Although, given what the Countess had planned for Mark, sex may not have been the only thing on their minds.)
Literature
- Lenina of Brave New World. She is not unusual by any means, though; it's absolutely mundane.
- Right down to the seven-year olds. One of the reasons Bernard Marx is such a social outcast is his vague concept that there should be something special about sex, while John Savage is seen as perverted for his more extreme religious Puritanism on the subject.
- In an old Sci Fi story in Isaac Asimov magazine, a research team consisting of a male and female human, a talking humpback whale (who spoke through a translation computer) and an alien are hoping to make First Contact with an even weirder alien. At one point, the female human confides to the whale that she has made amends with the male human whom she had previously disliked. The whale's reply translates into English as "I wish you many happy copulations".
- There is this moment in Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed where the main character's father tells his son that he is going on vacation to "swim, and rest, and copulate with a woman named Pipar." This kind of frankness isn't unusual in their society, though.
- In Daughter of the Drow the protagonist saw her emotions messed up and the relationship with a young man growing too complex, so she tried to simplify both. It turned out that while drow may enjoy both complex courtship and raw passion they don't feel at all obliged to combine them in a single pre-defined form: she chose to, ahem, fall back to more basic protocol in a way so unambiguous that she didn't even need any words. It worked, after a fashion.
- This is one of the most apparent personality traits of a ferret-turned human in Metaplanetary by Tony Daniels. Apparently, ferrets don't get the concept of courtship, which ends up infuriating her in that few humans respond positively to such a blatant offer.
- In the Ringworld series, rishathra (sex between different species of intelligent hominids) routinely occurs to seal the deal on trade or peace agreements, or just to get one's rocks off without having to worry about pregnancy.
- The Adem are like this in The Name of the Wind. They consider sex to be nothing particularly special—to the point where Kvothe's (female) teacher asks the question almost verbatim when she realizes he is Distracted by the Sexy—and hold the expression of emotion in the human voice, and especially singing and music, to be private and intimate and basically the social equivalent of sex in Aturan (read: Western) society. This, of course, causes some problems for Kvothe, who has very Aturan notions about sex but is a musician by trade.
Live-Action TV
- Star Trek: Voyager's Seven of Nine: "Do you wish to copulate?".
- Anya in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The first time she slept with Xander started with her taking her dress off while his back was turned and telling him to "Please remove your clothes now." He went along with it because, hey, "still more romantic than Faith." This made it a bit harder for her to explain that she was actually interested in a relationship later on.
- Often applies to Samantha of Sex and the City, she often knows (and wants) things will head this way so will say some variant of "Lets just screw already..."
- The Big Bang Theory (Subverted): Sheldon is in teleconference with Amy's mother when he says that he would like to have sex with her daughter's vagina. All without blushing the least. Later, he asks Amy if it would be okay for her to actually copulate... followed by a Bazinga!. Subverted in that he is not uncomfortable about talking about sex, but he would never ever do it.
- Of course he will. This is TV. It may be a shark jumping moment, but it will happen.
- In Blackadder Goes Forth:
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Nurse Mary: Edmund, when this war is over, do you think we might get to know each other a little better? |
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- An alien race in Babylon 5 used sex as a way to seal political alliances. They eventually tried to ally with Earth, with Ivanova (who was de facto ambassador at the moment) being unaware of this fact. Hilarity Ensues.
- In Farscape, the Peacekeepers are an entire society consisting of soldiers and mercenaries. As they have no home world and no civilians, sex is viewed as a means of recreation between battles, or as a mechanical act for the purpose of producing more soldiers. Children are raised in groups and may never learn who their parents are, and finding someone to "recreate" with is as simple as asking. As Aeyrn Sun is a former Peacekeeper, now in a much less restrictive environment, this becomes a plot point on several occasions.
- The Ambiguously Disordered Saga in The Bridge at one point is shown to be feeling sexually deprived one evening after work. So she goes to a nightclub, catches a guy's eye, refuses his offer to buy her a drink, and flatly asks him "Do you want to come to my place and have sex". And after they do, horrifies him by starting up her laptop and looking at gruesome crime scene photos while still in bed with him.
- Given all the raunchy sex-related humor in Married... with Children, this was bound to happen a couple times:
- In one episode where the Bundy's go to the beach, Al meets a woman he knew from high school (who by the way, is now married with two young boys, who are with her now) who, after a few minutes of talking, asks him to have sex with her right there. (As in, in public; Peg is not ten feet away, having fallen asleep.) Al turns her down, surprisingly. Probably counts as a What You Are in the Dark moment, seeing as Peg was not truly asleep.
- Bud has always had terrible luck with girls, so in a late-season episode, where Marcie's hot babe of a niece Amber comes in his bedroom window uninvited (wearing a crop top and short-shorts) claiming she got lost, he assumes he's dreaming. But he has to make sure, so he just asks her if she wants to have sex. When she answers "Sure", he figures, "Yup, it's a dream alright, but who cares?" and he takes her. Thing is, it wasn't, and he and Amber would be an item for a few episodes.
Tabletop Games
- The Clans are like this in BattleTech. They don't practice marriage, and among warriors reproduction is accomplished via cloning, so sex is simply seen as something to engage in when you're not training or fighting. "Would you like to couple?" is actually used as a pickup line.
Video Games
- Brutal Legend: Lita Ford's character is Rima, queen of the jungle and leader of the leather-clad tribe of women known as The Zaulia. Talking to them outside of cutscenes reveals that sexy time is their favorite time, but they always call it Mating.
- "Are you here for the Mating Challenge?"
- "Search the prisoners for potential mates!"
Web Comics
- Gax of Wondermark can't understand any way to initiate sex other than showing his genitals.
Web Original
- Dick Figures episode Pussy Magnet has Red helping blue to improve his "game" with Pink including helping Blue with his confidence. This leads to Red pulling this trope with a random female who responds positively. This in turn leads to Blue going from to being slightly disturbed all the way to downright horrified judging by what Red is doing off screen.
Western Animation
- Brutally deconstructed in Metalocalypse, and Fan Disservice. Toki's internet date, Caroline, is hideous, and only wants to get pregnant, and talks about sex like it's a mechanical act just to get pregnant.
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Caroline: "Keep the 15th open so you can deposit your sperm into my vagina with your penis." |
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- Futurama had a few "near miss" situations with Fry and Leela, some of them fitting the Trope:
- In episode "The Du-Vinci Code", the Planet Express crew is investigating a subterranean tomb and Fry asks Leela if she wants to "join the mile deep club" She actually seems to consent, but are interrupted by Farnsworth. This becomes a Brick Joke later when Leela asks Fry to have sex with her because they think the apocalypse is at hand, but are "unfortunately" interrupted by Amy with news that they might be able to survive.
- Leela seems to do this towards Fry in the second segment of "Reincarnation". When Farnsworth's claims his experiment will be "laying bare the most fundamental laws of the universe, she slyly whispers to Fry that "I know something you can lay bare". Unfortunately, he's more interested in the experiment. Oddly, the first segment is a story where Fry proposes to Leela and it is implied she says "yes".
- Something of an Overly Long Gag in the first act of Batman: Assault on Arkham. Several times, Harley suggests to Deadshot that she wants him to get into her pants, but he's not interested and doesn't even like her. Right before the actual assault, she sneaks into his room and crawls into bed with him - naked - saying she has "an itch I thought you could scratch. At first it seems like he's going to use a violent method to tell her "No!" but instead he sighs, "Oh, what the Hell?" and takes her there.