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In certain parts of Fictionland, sex is something women just give to men to shut them up for a while. But women don't ''enjoy'' sex, and they definitely don't desire it. They just [[Lie Back and Think of England]]. The only reason a fictional woman should ever want sex is if she wants to get [[Babies Make Everything Better|pregnant]]. And many times, it is clearly implied that a desirable woman ''[[My Girl Is Not a Slut|shouldn't]]'' [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|want sex in any way, shape or form]] if she wants to be respected.
The corollary to this [[Trope]] is that men are utterly lecherous: see [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|I'm A Man, I Can't Help It]], [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]], [[Handsome Lech]], and the [[Spear Counterpart]], [[All Men Are Perverts]]. Compare/contrast with [[My Girl Is a Slut]], [[Be a Whore To Get Your Man]], and [[Good Bad Girl]], all of which address women's sexuality on the opposite of the spectrum.
Many modern folk believe this to be [[Older Than Dirt]]. However, it's actually a [[Cyclic Trope]]. The humor in ''[[Lysistrata (Theatre)|Lysistrata]]'' in its own time, for example, came from the trope that [[All Women Are Lustful]] and therefore would be incapable of [[Lysistrata Gambit|withholding sex from men]]. The common belief that a woman needs to have an orgasm to get pregnant (putting "pleasing your wife" high on the list of a man's priorities) also precedes this trope. Both this trope ''and'' its inversion, [[All Women Are Lustful]], can be invoked to support claims for [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast]]. This is also part of the reasoning behind [[A Man Is Always Eager]].
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* Becka Paulson, a character in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'' is actually relieved when her husband starts an affair and doesn't have sex with her anymore. To her, sex was "just as her mother had told her it would be, nasty, brutish, sometimes painful, always humiliating".
* Played with in ''How Few Remain'', the first book in the ''[[Timeline 191]]'' series by Harry Turtledove. During the [[Fetish Retardant|much maligned]] Samuel Clemens sex scene, he reflects to himself that his wife seems to genuinely enjoy sex, despite everything he's been told to the contrary.
* This trope is [[Enforced Trope|enforced]] by the Party in [[Nineteen Eighty
** Then again, everyone, not just women, are forced to [[No Sex Allowed|be asexual.]]
** Actually, Goldstein's book specifies that the Party ideal is that sex should only be carried out for purposes of procreation, and that in the course of the act there should be no pleasure on the part of the woman. It doesn't specify whether men are allowed to enjoy it or not, though presumably the Party would prefer if they didn't.
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** It may have been thought by the characters but it was subverted by the show- Elaine is the second to cave in, after Kramer.
** Taken even further in another episode where she makes ''another'' bet with Jerry that she could break up with Puddy. Cue the montage of her paying Jerry over and over again after making up with Puddy. And by make up I mean 'make up sex'. That's the reason she couldn't stay away, the sex was too good.
* Debra's uninterest in sex with Ray is such a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'', it's a wonder the two ever had kids at all.<ref>How adverse is she? Her biggest turn-on in the show was when Ray said ''he'' didn't want to have sex.</ref> This seems to be the most common variation, where women will only use sex to get a man to marry her and then later have kids. It's only partially [[Justified]] by a large case of [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]], and the fact that in-universe, Ray is actually pretty terrible at it (both characters have said as much).
** Although to be fair, it's also a running gag that most of the favors Ray does for Debra are a means to get him laid. At worst, it's a cyclical thing.
* ''[[I Carly]]'': Carly Shay is a kid-friendly version of the trope. She's 16 going on 17, and still can't tell that two squirrels were ''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|not wrestling]]''.
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