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As Roman Catholicism teaches that sex is to be strictly reserved for marriage, it is easy for non-Catholics to [[Did Not Do the Research|assume]] that Catholic children are almost never taught about sexuality in a way that promotes an informed understanding of themselves and their world. This feeds into an idea that since they supposedly know nothing of these things, seducing them would be a lot easier than seducing more 'enlightened' girls who 'know better'.
Alternatively, even those who know differently may feel that a Catholic girl striving to be innocent is a [[Forbidden Fruit|desirable]] [[Nature Adores a Virgin|virgin]], who is a greater challenge to seduce, and thus a "greater prize" if she [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil|caves under pressure.]] Or else there's the notion (sometimes [[Truth in Television]] but more often wishful thinking, given the fetish-fantasy nature of the trope) that a seemingly chaste schoolgirl may actually be a plain old-fashioned [[Hypocrite]], only going through the ''motions'' of chastity and religiosity for the benefit of parents and teachers, similarly to [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl|another trope somewhere around here]], and who is just itching for a chance to [[Naughty
And of course for some there's good old [[Nostalgia Filter|nostalgia]], as plenty of Catholic school alumni can fondly remember their own hormonal teenage years.
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When this outfit shows up in films and TV shows, it's almost always done through [[Dawson Casting]]. Likewise, when it's done by [[Sexy Schoolwoman|fully-grown women]], it's almost always a case of [[Fan Service]] in action.
In Britain, where the trope is not associated with Roman Catholicism to the same extent (due to uniforms being much more common, even in public schools), this look is known as the "[[St
Slowly becoming part of the "once common but no longer generally required" subtrope of [[Hollywood Dress Code]], since many real Catholic schools change their uniforms to unisex khakis and polo shirts.
A subtrope of [[Adults Dressed
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== Comic Books ==
* An issue of the New X-Men had [[X-23]] dressed in a provocative [http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh78/ColonelGreen/LJ51.jpg school girl outfit].
* ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'': While these girls are indeed beautiful, they got their looks by [[Deal
* ''Xombi'': Young superheroine Catholic Girl, and by implication, her ally and mentor, Nun Of The Above (who is presumably a former Catholic School Girl).
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* ''[[Bedazzled]]'' (2000) Elizabeth Hurley's [[Satan Is Good|Devil]] wears a schoolgirl outfit, as one of a whole series of Fanservice-type costumes.
* ''[[Five Girls|5ive Girls]]'' : This [[Sy Fy]] original movie revolves around "sinners" who are sent to a Catholic reform school and are forced to wear naughty schoolgirl outfits. The events of the movie turn two of them into lesbians for [[Les Yay|some]] [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|reason]]. Bizarrely, this may even be justified, since everyone involved is either part of a conspiracy with a demon or being manipulated by someone who is, and the girls are being groomed for sacrifice.
* The second ''[[The Sweeney|Sweeney]]'' movie has Jack Regan meeting an informant in the park when a group of schoolgirls walk by and one of them [[Panty Shot|bends over to pick something up]]. Seeing how Regan is [[Distracted
* Referenced in ''[[Scott Pilgrim Versus the World]]'', when Scott admits with a certain scandalized pride that Knives is an actual Catholic schoolgirl, with the uniform and everything.
* ''Catholic Ghoulgirls'': This no-budget film features these as the main heroines. It also features some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_XSd05hQVE arrestingly hammy action poses.]
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== Literature ==
* In [[Simon R. Green]]'s ''Hex and the City'', a [[Nightside]] novel, John Taylor sees the succubus Pretty Poison dressed in a girl's school uniform. As succubi appear differently to each individual, as fits their personal sexual fantasies, John [[Lampshades]] this trope by musing that he must've seen too many St. Trinian's films as an adolescent.
* In the [[Kate Daniels]] novel ''Magic Strikes'', Kate asks Raphael if he has a costume kink: [[Naughty Nurse Outfit|nurse]], [[French Maid Costume]], et cetera. He responds instantly with "Catholic schoolgirl". He then starts imagining his crush wearing a Catholic school uniform and tunes out of the conversation with Kate.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''Hearts in Atlantis'', one of the main characters, Pete Riley, remarks that Catholic school girls give the best handjobs; he's changed his mind about a lot of things, but that's not one of them.
* In ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'', Aislinn and co go to a Catholic school. It isn't gone into much, given that the series tends to be pretty cynical/dark/serious in tone, but Leslie definitely fits this stereotype. At least until [[Rape
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': Jennifer Garner dressed as a Catholic schoolgirl.
* Mischa Barton did it in ''[[The OC]]''. Not surprisingly, it was Sweeps Week.
* On ''[[The Office]]'' (USA), Michael comments on the hot picture of a Catholic schoolgirl hanging near Stanley's desk.
{{quote| '''Stanley:''' "That's my daughter. She goes to private school and I'm taking the picture down right now."}}
* ''[[
** The school teaching staff, however, held a sponsored "teachers dress in your old uniform" day to raise a little extra money for essential equipment. Two of the three female teachers wore their old school uniforms, of which one actually looked too little girl and cutesy to count for this trope, but the second was practically was a textbook definition of the trope. (The third female teacher came in her old-fashioned "cap and gown" teaching attire from when she started in an old Grammar School.)
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': In "House's Head," he has a hallucination in a sensory deprivation tank of Cuddy in a schoolgirl outfit. [[You Can Leave Your Hat On|She isn't in it for long though]].
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
** Darla, a vampire who's at least four hundred years old, dresses as a Catholic schoolgirl because she is taunting Angel for being in love with teenage Buffy, despite the fact that Sunnydale High doesn't require uniforms. Darla's also wearing that outfit to get boys. As in 'to get dinner'. Check out the opening sequence of the pilot episode, when she's wearing that same outfit to lure a leather-jacket-clad tough guy into a place where she can bite him. It's a great take on the usual [[Death
** 21 year-old Buffy dresses in a plaid skirt while dressing younger in order to seduce 17 year-old jock RJ in "Him".
** Similarly, in its spin-off series ''[[
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had Time Lady companion Romana wearing a very ''[[St Trinian's]]'' style uniform in the "City of Death" serial. Lalla Ward, judging by interviews and the production notes, came up with the idea and had no concept it was a fetish.
* ''Lingo'': [[Ms. Fanservice|The female co-host]] of this [[Game Show]] once wore a classic schoolgirl uniform.
* In ''[[That
{{quote| DONNA: Man, what is with you guys and this uniform?<br />
FEZ: It makes us want to corrupt you. }}
** In another episode, Kelso states that he likes Catholic school girls because "they were never taught about sex so they don't know what not to do".
* ''[[
** Kate states that she spent twelve years at Catholic school. Tony asks her if she still has the pleated skirt. She's also wearing it when Dinozzo imagines her, post-[[Killed Off for Real|death]].<ref>If you want to get technical, she's wearing the outfit of [[Kill Bill|Gogo]].</ref> When Dinozzo's imagination has an imaginary wind blow the imaginary skirt up around her imaginary waist showing her imaginary, and very skimpy, panties, imaginary-Kate is not amused!
** Abby has also been known to dress up like that.
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* Defied in ''[[Degrassi]]''. First Clare wore something approaching your standard schoolgirl uniform. But it was played as childish, not sexy. Fiona's time in a New York prep school included her attempt to redesign them to be this, but we never got to the end point on that. Now that Degrassi itself has moved to using school uniforms... they are designed to be as unflattering as possible. This [[Truth in Television]]; as is the fact that the girls seem to have wasted no time figuring out how to shorten the skirts without permanently doing so.
* In ''[[Grounded for Life]]'', Lily has to go pick up uniforms as part of her school's switch to a uniform dress code. As Lily tries on a uniform and shows it to her dad and his brother, she laments [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|"Who's gonna find me attractive in this?"]] Sean and Eddie look at each other as if they're both thinking "Don't say it. Let it drop!"
* In [[The X
{{quote| '''Scully:''' Snake handling... didn't learn that in Catechism class. <br />
'''Mulder:''' That's funny, I remember a couple of Catholic school girls [[Double Entendre|that were experts at it.]] }}
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* ''"Catholic Schoolgirls Rule"'' by the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] is the [[Trope Namer]].
* Billy Joel's song ''Only the Good Die Young'' is a partial subversion, in that Roman Catholicism could be seen as a stumbling block to the singer getting the goods. But only partially, because that stumbling block only makes the girl more attractive to the singer.
* Alicia Silverstone and [[Liv Tyler]] first appear in Roman Catholic schoolgirl uniforms in the video for [[
* Every female human being under the age of 22 is dressed in a Roman Catholic schoolgirl uniform at the beginning of the video for [[Britney Spears]]' ''Baby, One More Time...''. Additionally, every female human being of any age had an automatic Halloween costume that year. Thanks, Britney!
* [[Frank Zappa|Frank Zappa's]] ''Catholic Girls''
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== Video Games ==
* ''Varicella'': If you look in palace courtesan Miss Sierra's wardrobe, a Catholic school uniform is one of her fetishistic outfits.
* ''[[Escape From St.
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'''Raye:''' Catholic girls taste better. }}
* ''Hot For Words'', the youtube "phenomenon", has host Marina Orlova dressing up in this uniform with alarming frequency.
* ''[[
* The characters in [[Survival of the Fittest|SOTF-TV]] each get alternate outfits inside their daypacks, usually either [[Fan Service]]-y, humorous, or both. Naturally, a character (specifically, Mikaela Warner) gets this costume.
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== Webcomics ==
* The Bad Catholic Girls, of John Kricfalusi's ''Goddamn George Liquor Program''.
* An exchange from ''[[
{{quote| '''Nanase:''' As far as my mother is concerned, Ellen, you are a heterosexual whom attends Catholic school.<br />
'''Ellen:''' A ''naughty'' Catholic schoolgirl?<br />
'''Nanase:''' No. }}
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
** Then Sabine tries to seduce Roy, who throws her out a window.
{{quote| '''Roy''': Nice piercings, by the way.}}
* In ''[[
* The private school version rules in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]''.
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': When the [[Golem]] Girls first appear, they are dressed this way. And drunk.
* Subverted in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' by Carrie, who is a devout Catholic, but goes to a public high school and dresses like everyone else.
* In ''[[Fansadox
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' was [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3930 invoked] to make Seymour's wire nimbus ''[[Your Head Asplode|explode]]''. The day it's healed a [[Succubus]] really [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3982 used this costume]. The effect proved repeatable.
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