Can't Have Sex Ever/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character can, for some reason over another, never have sex.

  • Straight: Bob is the victim of an ancient curse that will kill him if he ever has sex.
  • Exaggerated: The curse will activate if he ever has sex, gets aroused, or even thinks about sex.
  • Downplayed:
    • Bob's curse will activate if he has sex more than once a day.
    • The ancient curse preventing Bob from having sex is being bald and overweight
  • Justified: Prior to being cursed, Bob was a rapist. The curse was the perfect way to teach him a lesson.
  • Inverted: The curse will activate unless Bob has sex every day.
  • Subverted: Bob has sex and there is no consequence...
  • Double Subverted: ...however, he didn't release, so the technical requirement of the curse wasn't fulfilled.
  • Parodied: Bob is a Catholic priest, but still complains at every opportunity about the curse.
  • Deconstructed: The inability to have sex eventually takes an emotional and mental toll on Bob, as he's not asexual and really misses it.
  • Reconstructed: He finds a way to lift the curse.
  • Zig Zagged:
    • The curse comes and goes; sometimes it is in effect, other times not.
    • The curse only activates if Bob has sex with a woman who's an inch or more shorter than him... on a Tuesday. On Wednesdays, it'll activate if he so much as thinks about having sex, and other days of the week tend to have their own unusual variations.
  • Averted: Bob's life of celibacy is not the result of a curse.
  • Enforced: "We're not allowed to show sex in this work, but we can show a guy who really wants it but can't have it!"
  • Lampshaded: "Well, we're alone in this hotel room with nothing to do..." "Stupid curse..."
  • Invoked: After Bob hurts her feelings, Alice casts the anti-sex curse on him.
  • Defied: "Screw the curse. I need some lovin'."
  • Discussed: "We can't steal that gold from the ancient Egyptian temple. We'll get cursed and then we can't have sex ever or we'll die."
  • Conversed: "Why didn't I pay attention to that movie about anti-sex curses! Now I've been cursed too!"

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