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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to [[Genre Savvy|successfully survive a horror movie]]! For instance, [[Rule Number One|Number One]]: You can never have sex. Sex equals death, OK?"''
|'''Randy'''|'''''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'''''}}
Well, the young couple had sex. You know what this means -- [[Tempting Fate|they are doomed]]. Anyway, more often ''[[My Girl Is Not a Slut|she]]'' is.
Shows where [[Kill'Em All|lots of people die]] tend to have a [[The Scourge of God|strange conservatism]] about who gets killed. Anyone who engages in nonmarital sex, especially unprotected and/or with someone they don't really know, is almost guaranteed to get offed by the killer, even if the killer is choosing their victims totally at random. [[Fanservice Extra
▲Well, the young couple had sex. You know what this means -- [[Tempting Fate|they are doomed]]. Anyway, more often ''[[My Girl Is Not a Slut|she]]'' is.
Very common in
▲Shows where [[Kill'Em All|lots of people die]] tend to have a [[The Scourge of God|strange conservatism]] about who gets killed. Anyone who engages in nonmarital sex, especially unprotected and/or with someone they don't really know, is almost guaranteed to get offed by the killer, even if the killer is choosing their victims totally at random. [[Fanservice Extra|Fanservice Extras]] are particularly vulnerable to this trope.
For a literal application, compare [[Out
▲Very common in slasher movies, such as the ''[[Friday the 13th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' and ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' series. This could be a metaphor for the then-new AIDS scare, or for STDs in general, although according to one of the makers of ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'', it was simply because he thought that people having sex will forget about everything else and be especially vulnerable to serial killers. Which wouldn't be an [[Ass Pull]] if they only died during sex, but when they're prone to it after...
Sometimes a consequence of [[Can't Get Away
▲For a literal application, compare [[Out With a Bang]], [[Death By Childbirth]] (yeah, [[Anvilicious|we know...]]), [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]], and [[The Murder After]]. For the lite version, see [[Kiss of Death]]. [[Mate or Die]] is the inverse of this trope. Contrast [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]] and [[Her Heart Will Go On]], where the man is doomed, but the woman has [[Contractual Immortality]]. In some cases, the doomed man will leave [[Someone to Remember Him By]] ([[But I Can't Be Pregnant|Hur, hur, hur...]]). Don't even get us started if it's [[Bring Out Your Gay Dead|with the same gender]]. Compare [[Cartwright Curse]] where death can happen even ''before'' the sex merely for being a love interest.
{{noreallife|All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers.}}
▲Sometimes a consequence of [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]. Can be full of [[Unfortunate Implications]], especially in countries where abstinence-only sex education is prominent.
{{deathtrope}}
{{examples}}
* Genderflipped in ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[X 1999]]''. Sorata and Arashi. Subverted because ''he'' dies - first in the movie (though she follows him later), later in the TV series. He's still alive in the manga, but it's a sure thing he'll die sooner or later.
▲* Genderflipped in ''[[Naru Taru]]''. [[Manipulative Bastard|Takeo Tsurumaru]] impregnates several girls in the course of the story. In the second-to-last episode of the manga, he has sex with main girl [[Action Girl|Shiina Tamai]] after she tells him that she loves him. Soon... ''he'' dies. Shiina, along with her [[Shadow Archetype]] Mamiko, makes it to the end.
▲* ''[[X 1999]]''. Sorata and Arashi. Subverted because ''he'' dies - first in the movie (though she follows him later), later in the TV series. He's still alive in the manga, but it's a sure thing he'll die sooner or later.
** In a subversion, it's less about the sex than it is that Sorata, even before the story begins, was destined to die for a woman. Sorata didn't know ''who'' he would die for or how; he just jokingly said that, since he absolutely '''has''' to die for the sake of a lady, he'd like to die for a really pretty girl. It was many years later (which is the beginning of the story) when he actually '''met''' Arashi; knowing that [[You Can't Fight Fate]], he decided to die for her.
* Also genderflipped in ''[[Trigun]]'', with Nicholas D. Wolfwood and Milly Thompson. He dies in the same episode he sleeps with her. She makes it to the end.
* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' novels, apparently, after all these years, Kurz Weber ''finally'' manages to get it on with Melissa Mao (after years of [[Slap Slap Kiss]]). He dies during his very next mission. {{spoiler|Ultimately averted! Guess who's back after being rescued by the Spetsnaz in the penultimate volume of the novel series??}}
* ''[[Yuria 100 Shiki]]'' actually lampshaded about [http://img04.nj.us.mangafox.com/store/manga/1108/05-039.0/compressed/yuri5_135.jpg this]{{Dead link}}
* Avoided in ''[[Crying Freeman]]''. Yoh has to kill Emu for witnessing his crimes, so she asks him to have sex with her as her last wish... but after that, Yoh not only doesn't kill her, but he actually ''takes her in'' and they become a [[Battle Couple]].
* Strangely inverted in ''[[Anatolia Story|Red River]]'', most of the important characters who die are the ones who never got the chance to have sex.
* Episode 32 of ''[[Blood
* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'': Every man who's ever slept with
* At one point in the yaoi manga ''[[Under Grand Hotel (manga)|Under Grand Hotel]]'' [[Depraved Bisexual|Swordfish]] has sex with Sen to the point where Sen would have ''died'' if Swordfish wasn't stopped by guards.
* Implied to have happened to {{spoiler|the other cabin attendant}} in ''[[Cage of Eden]]''. Subverted in the fact that {{spoiler|she was raped to death.}}
* In ''[[Urotsukidouji]]'', sex with the Chojin causes this.
* In ''[[Basilisk]]'', [[Action Girl]] Kagerou's powers can cause this as her breath becomes poisonous when she's aroused. She in fact uses it to kill Koushiro Chikuma with a [[Kiss of Death|poisoned kiss]], and later when Tenzen rapes her, poisoning him and then snapping his neck. {{spoiler|Then it's horrifyingly subverted, as Tenzen's powers allow him to come back from the dead.}}
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'': {{spoiler|Sheryl Nome and Alto Saotome}} have sex not long before battle and then, one is dead/missing and the other has terminal illness. {{spoiler|In the series they both get better, in the movies, [[Downer Ending|this is the end!]], Or is it?}}
* Happens in more than one [[Hentai]], logically. A good example is ''Sexy Magical Girl/Mahou Shojou Ai''. In episode 3, Touru wails his [[Naughty Tentacles]] on the [[Magical Girl Warrior]] Ai. Standard hentai fare until now, right? Well, he goes on to describe that the white liquid in his tentacles is a poison that, when absorbed during orgasm, causes poor Ai [[Out
* ''[[My Balls]]'': This one guy has the demon queen sealed inside one of his testicles. Would he cum, the demon queen is released and he dies. Well, him and the rest of world. Talk about taking it to the extreme.
* This is what led to Gilbert's death in ''[[
* Iason Mink's and subsequently Riki's deaths in ''[[
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'': One early client of
== Comic Books ==
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** {{spoiler|Ava Lord}} uses a mixture of sex and [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] to get men to do her bidding, often leading them to their demises.
* Narrowly averted in the "Darkest Night" arc. Writers initially planned to have the current Firestorm, Jason and his girlfriend Gehenna, doing a make-out session prior to Gen's death. This was later changed to a quiet conversation about getting married and having kids. Then they changed their minds and had it re-drawn into the make-out scene, but this was fortunately lost somehow and they ended by putting in the conversation.
== Fan Works ==
* Rest assured, if a female character in any form of media is more buff than what's considered typical, there's [[Rule 34|going to be fanfiction with her and a "death by snu-snu" reference]].
== Film ==
* ''[[
** Especially for THE JACUZZI SCENE. [[Up to Eleven]] indeed.
* The entire plot of ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' (Catherine Tramell lives, however).
* [[Justified Trope|Justification]]: In the first ''[[Friday the 13th (
** Although there are later claims that the counselors tried to catch Jason who ran off and fell into the lake ''because'' he saw them going at it.
** A most notorious moment in the second movie is where two teens got killed while ''in the middle'' of getting it on. Jason killed them shiskabob style by skewering them both with a spear.
** A significant Lampshade is hung on this trope in the tenth film in the series. In a virtual reality simulation meant to distract Jason, a pair of scantily clad teenage girls exclaim (among other things), "We love premarital sex!" He proceeds to kill them with ''[[Grievous Harm
** Done heavy-handedly in the newest{{when}} movie, every character who has sex, or wants to have sex, or fantasizes about having sex, or is a creepy redneck who has sex with mannequins gets killed. There are a few others of course.
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'', two workers at the local weather service station are making out passionately on the couch when tornadoes strike Los Angeles. In the chaos that ensues, they die, while the Mexican janitor (who was diligently cleaning the floors while the people who were supposed to be monitoring the weather were making out) survives.
* [[Lampshaded]] in the movie ''[[Scream (
** Not to mention it's hilariously subverted when {{spoiler|Sidney bangs the ''damned'' killer and gets to survive the movie!}}
* More or less every [[B-Movie]] and thus, rightfully parodied in the "Thanksgiving" segment of ''Grindhouse''.
* Used in the original ''[[Halloween (
** In an interview with AMC, John Carpenter (the Director) states "I have been accused of ending the Sexual Revolution, and for that I sincerely apologize."
** The same happens in the new remake: Everyone seen having sex dies horribly. Most of the other victims probably weren't virgins either (this pattern is so glaringly obvious in the movie that it must have been intentional). They even went out of their way to mention Laurie hasn't gotten laid. Although, the trope is surprising averted with {{spoiler|Annie}} who actually survived her attack to appear in the second movie {{spoiler|and THEN die.}}
* In the 1970s ''[[Day
* Done literally in one of the latter ''[[Wishmaster]]'' films, when one of the characters wishes for "killer sex".
** In [[Wishmaster|Wishmaster2]] a prisoner wishes his lawyer would go "fuck himself". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtu3D471gK8 Wish granted.]
* Xenia Onatopp love of [[Murderous Thighs]] in the ''[[James Bond (
** Jill Masterson (drugged and painted in gold from head to toe, which suffocated her because she can longer can breathe through her skin) in ''[[
*** Note that Jill's sister Tilly (killed by [[Improbable Weapon User|Oddjob's deadly hat]]) doesn't count because not only did she not have sex with Bond, she didn't even flirt with him.
** Aki from ''[[
*** The other female, Kissy Suzuki, survives even after "marrying" Bond {{spoiler|and, in the novels, mothering his only child, James Suzuki.}}
** Teresa "Tracy" Di Vicenzo from ''[[
** Plenty O'Toole from ''[[
** Countess Lisl von Schafl from ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
** The villain Drax' secretary Corrine Dufour in ''[[
** The female [[The Dragon|Dragon]] May Day from ''[[A View to
** Paris Carver from ''[[
** Elektra King from ''[[
** Vesper Lynd (drowned) and Solange Dimitrios (strangled) from ''[[
** Strawberry Fields from ''[[
{{quote|
** Lampshaded in ''[[
{{quote|
** This happens to ''[[James Bond (
▲{{quote| '''M:''' Look how well your charm works, James. They'll do anything for you, won't they? How many is that now?}}
** Parodied in ''[[Illuminatus!]]'', wherein the British agent Fission Chips leaves a trail of dead Eurasian girls wherever he may go.▼
▲** This happens to ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'' himself in the [[Fake-Out Opening]] of ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'', as he's killed by assassins shortly after boinking a Chinese girl.
** Played straight and averted in ''[[Live and Let Die (
▲** Parodied in ''Illuminatus!'', wherein the British agent Fission Chips leaves a trail of dead Eurasian girls wherever he may go.
* In ''[[Snakes
▲** Played straight and averted in ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]''. Rosie Carver is killed after Bond seduces her. Solitaire, who is supposed to remain a virgin to retain her psychic powers, is also seduced by Bond and was supposed to be sacrificed in a voodoo ritual, but Bond saves her.
* Interestingly, the slasher film did not always contain this trope: in the 1976 Canadian film ''[[
▲* In ''[[Snakes On a Plane]]'', a couple sneaks into the bathroom to have sex. They are the first to be killed by the snakes. Their [[The Scourge of God|drug use]] may have contributed, too.
▲* Interestingly, the slasher film did not always contain this trope: in the 1976 Canadian film ''[[Black Christmas (Film)|Black Christmas]]'', the heroine is pregnant, {{spoiler|though the movie ends with her alone in the house with the killer}}.
** The first victim is also described as a "professional virgin."
* In
* In ''[[Once Bitten]]'', the hero is targeted by the vampire Countess ''because'' he's a virgin. He and his girlfriend end up having quickie sex in a coffin.
* ''[[Piranha]] II
* In ''[[Taken (
* In the film ''[[Tormented]]'', a schoolboy who killed himself because of bullying comes back from the dead to take fatal revenge on the bullies. One of them decides to go to the cemetery and dig up the killer's body, but is sidetracked by having sex with his girlfriend while his car is parked there, which turns out to have been a very bad idea because the killer drags him out of the car and castrates him by repeatedly stomping on his genitals, leaving him to bleed to death. ''Ouch.''
* Two of the youngsters that stop by in the Mario Bava movie ''[[Reazione a Catena]]'' who are speared while having sex. ''Friday the 13th Part 2'' copies this very scene, only putting the guy on top instead of the girl.
* Subverted in ''[[
* Invoked in ''[[Evolution (
* In ''Revenge in the House of Usher: zombi 5'', the resurrected wife of the [[Mad Scientist]] has a very odd way of getting her revenge on the villainous Doctor Orloff as his last act on Earth: she threatens to make love to him. He reacts with horror.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' shows us the family-friendly version of this trope: Death By Marriage as soon as Will and Elizabeth are hitched in the third film, you know one of them is about to die. (Also kinda inverted, in that the sex comes after. No, not like ''that''.)
* Inverted in ''[[Grindhouse|Death Proof]]''. The first group of girls, while they act fun, are surprisingly conservative, especially Arlene/Butterfly, who actually seems to have some kind of aversion to sex. They die. Horribly. The second group, on the other hand, are ''very'' open about their sex lives ("He likes to watch me pee"), and Kim at one point in the final chase scene yells "I'm the horniest mother-fucker on the road!" Not only do they live, they kill Stuntman Mike.
* Played so straight it's almost a parody in ''[[Jennifer's Body]]'', where the title character uses the promise of sex to lure boys into places where she can eat them. {{spoiler|It's revealed though that the whole "demonic possession" thing gets kicked off
* Sarah Connor's roommate in the first ''[[Terminator]]'' movie.
** And Kyle as well, after he serves his purpose by {{spoiler|impregnating Sarah with John and delivering her to the point where she can defend herself from then on (partly because he's already damaged the Terminator so badly himself).}}
* In the fourth ''[[Final Destination]]'' movie, Hunt has steamy sex by the pool and shortly after dies a very gruesome death by being sucked into a high pressure drain hole. It doesn't help that he was a Hollywood skeptic that was warned about some weird stuff going on... or saying earlier that if [[Tempting Fate|he was going to die, he was gonna get laid first.]]
* In ''[[The Towering Inferno]]'', Dan Bigelow and his secretary/mistress die almost immediately following a tryst in his apartment.
* Sort of referenced in ''[[Manhattan]]''. A character at one point mentions a book he's writing about a guy who's ''so good'' at sex, the women [[Out
* Although there's no actual sex, the sultan's death in ''[[
* In the shlock blood-and-boobs horror film ''[[Piranha 3D]]'', most of the victims are promiscuous spring breakers. A pornographer gets his penis bitten off by a piranha, a woman is sliced in half by a high-tension cable (which first removes her bra, then her entire upper torso) a girl gets her hair entwined in the propeller of a speedboat and has a face ripped off - might be one of the definitive "death by sex" compilations.
* In ''[[Starship Troopers (
* In ''[[All the Boys Love Mandy Lane]]'', Marlin gets killed just minutes after giving a blowjob to Jake. The cause of death? [[Freud Was Right|Getting a shotgun barrel shoved down her throat.]]
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim
** Watch the whole fight [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y41_x7fcPA&feature=fvst here], Spoilers ahoy.
* Inverted in Norwegian slasher [[
* Played straight in horrifying fashion in ''[[Se7en]]'', as one of the victims is killed {{spoiler|not just during or after the sex act, but
* In ''[[Cabin Fever]]'', a flesh eating disease scares off most of the teenagers spending their break in a
== Literature ==
* [[Ex
▲* [[Ex-Heroes]] has Cairex the Demon-Human Hybrid die in the backstory due to {{spoiler|getting a blow job from zombie Jessica Alba.}} No one is sure how to react to this story when they hear it.
* "Sex equals death" is the main theme in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s short story "Welcome to the Monkey House," in which a dystopian society prevents people from having (or enjoying, if they do try to have it) sex. The "villain" responds by basically {{spoiler|raping women to force them out of their belief that sex is wrong. It works.}}
* In Arthur Machen's ''[[
* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], it's revealed that the H'nemthe have evolved (naturally or socially, it's not clear) this trait due to their 20 males to 1 female gender ratio. The females, who are otherwise vegetarians, eviscerate their partners after sex with their razor-edged tongue and they sincerely believe this is actually the greatest expression of love between the sexes. One of the short stories in [[Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina]] revolves around an alien [[Corrupt Bureaucrat]] named Feltipern Trevaag wooing and having sex with the alien identified in the movies only as "Yamnose", here revealed to be a female H'nemthe named M'iiyoom Onith. When the inevitable happens, the folks who clean up the mess consider Trevaag to have truly been [[Too Dumb to Live]], not only for trying to sleep with a female H'nemthe, but for not realising the [[Genius Bonus]] [[Bilingual Bonus]] in her name; "M'iiyoom" is the H'nemthe word for "Nightlily", a beautiful but carnivorous flower that uses its sweet scent to attract prey.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s short story ''The Raft'', four college students swim out to a raft in the middle of a remote lake. A mysterious oil slick-like creature appears, and devours two of them; the first one touches it, the second steps on a crack on the raft and grabbed by his foot. Hours later, the remaining two (a guy and his girlfriend) end up having sex; the girl's hair falls off through the cracks of the raft and the creature absorbs her.
* Mentioned in reference to Shelob in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', who killed her mates. However, this is a case of [[Truth in Television]], since spiders do actually do this.
* In the second ''[[Night Watch]]'' book, Alisa and Igor have sex, then discover who (and what) each other is. Light magician Igor then kills Alisa for being a dark witch, then goes into a depression and ultimately lets himself die in remorse.
* If it's not clear enough in ''[[Indigo|Troika]]'' that Veness is doomed when Indigo sleeps with him, it becomes ''painfully'' obvious when she admits to [[Love Hurts|reciprocating his love for her]].
* In ''[[Jaws]]'', the book actually kills off the character Matthew Hooper during the cage scene. Earlier in the book: he was having an affair with Brody's wife, Ellen. She avoids the trope by never being in the water. The first victim in the book was taking a postcoital swim.
* In David Eddings' ''[[Tamuli]]'', the emperor of the Tamul empire is required to marry a woman of each subject kingdom at the same time, and then consummate with all of them that night. After mentioning this, Emperor Sarabian recalls that his grandfather had not survived the night.
* Played straight in some ways, averted in others in ''[[
** Also joked about in the first book when Harry is asked in investigate a couple who's hearts exploded during sex.
{{quote|
'''Dresden:'''Either that or [[Sarcasm Mode|that was some great sex.]] }}
* In ''[[Vampire Academy]]'s'' third volume, ''Shadow Kiss'', Rose and Dimitri finally give in to their passion for each other...And right after the school is attacked by Strigoi and Dimitri is "taken." Right when they whipped it out, you knew something bad was going to happen to ''one'' of them, at least, since a huge plot point of their relationship is that it's forbidden.
* In ''[[Rainbow Six (
* While it is not a quick connection of "sex then death", Thomas Hardy's ''[[
** Also, while one may argue whether it happened or not, it's implied {{spoiler|Tess and her husband Angel, who once abandoned her just because she was not a virgin then came back and tried to rescue her from execution, consummate their marriage in their hideout}}. And their hideout scenes are supposed to be those moments of (false) hope.
== Live-Action TV ==
* [[VH
* This enduring trope may have had its first instance on TV with the ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' episode aptly entitled "Coming, Mama" (episode #217, originally aired 4/11/61).
* Let's not even get started on ''[[Law and Order SVU]]''
* Subverted on an episode of ''[[
** Although those girls all recovered in the end, as opposed to many victims of the week.
* [[Miniseries]] and book example: in ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]'' a middle-aged bedder, who senses a college's only research graduate student's secret obsession for her, sneaks in his room in the middle of the night and [[Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male|rapes him]]. However, moments into the act they both explode because, while sneaking in, she lit the gas without knowing the chimney was blocked. (For reasons too complicated to explain, the blockage consists of ''gas-filled condoms'', I kid you not, so the explosion is pretty spectacular.)
* This happens almost every episode in ''[[CSI]]''. If two characters are shown having sex, and it's enjoyable and unwed and not in the missionary position, one or both of them are doomed. This has more to do, however, with the fact that ''any'' character outside the main cast whose personal life the show delves into is doomed, regardless of what they're doing.
** Done entirely straight with two of the regulars on ''[[CSI: NY]]''. That's not Danny and Lindsay, yet. It was Flack and Angell.
* Also common in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', where sex and sexually transmitted diseases are routinely the cause of a number of horrific medical cases, up to and including heart failure, car crashes, paralysis, life-threatening pre-teen pregnancies, and even African Sleeping Sickness.
** "Sex Kills" is the title of one of the episodes.
** [[Subverted Trope]] in one episode, where we're led to believe that a woman's sexual promiscuity may have led to her illness, but it turns out that the cause is something completely unrelated that she couldn't possibly have foreseen.
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** Also Libby, whom it's strongly implied was about to do the deed, if she hadn't already.
** Also, sleeping with [[Cartwright Curse|Sayid]] is practically a non-stop ticket to the afterlife. In fact, this is what kills Shannon. {{spoiler|He later marries Nadia, and actually ends up shooting Elsa himself.}}
* A running joke on the ''[[Television Without Pity]]'' recaps for ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is that every woman that has sex with Sam must, by rule, die. Began with the Pilot, confirmed with Heart in which Sam is forced to kill the first woman he has brought himself to sleep with since his girlfriend's flaming death and in recent episodes seemingly subverted until we find out that it is actually a demon [[Unfortunate Implications|in a dead body]], so she was already dead!
** Ruby should still be added to Sam's sex hit list, now that she's been skewered with her own knife. That leaves Sam's track record at 3 out of 4!
** Subverted later in the season. The next woman Sam has sex with experiences no karmic retribution whatsoever we are led to believe that she is the demon they're after, until it is discovered the real demon is the guy Dean is cosying up with.
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** Xander attracts quite a number of demon girls who want to have sex with him ''and'' kill him. At once for the first case, the substitute teacher who turns out to be a female mantis.
* One episode of ''[[The Practice]]'' involved the firm's client being accused of killing her rich, elderly husband in this manner, by giving him a heart attack so she could get his money. At some point in the episode, the attorney realizes, with dawning horror, that she has daddy issues from her childhood, so it was more of a plain ol' murder. Too bad. Ethically, they can't disclose it.
* In the first season of ''[[
** In Season 8, {{spoiler|Renee Walker is killed by a sniper after having sex with Jack}}.
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Hard
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Let He Who is without Sin...", Dax host Curzon was ''jamaharoned'' (sexed) to death by Arandis.
* Not a horror setting, but in an episode of ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan is dating an older widow whose husband died while they were having sex. When Dan asks if they can have sex, she says, "I've killed before." His response is that he's VERY intrigued.
* Invoked in a [[Halloween Episode]] of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' where the kids are being stalked by a killer out of the ''[[Scream (
{{quote|
'''Jack:''' I'm dead.
'''Shawn:''' I'm as sick as you can get without actually dying. }}
* The premise of the comedy series ''Laid''. A woman discovers that all the men she's ever had sex with are dying. In the order she slept with them. All in really random ways, like getting hit by a car or getting an aneurysm or getting hit in the head with an indoor cricket ball.
* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Elle and Sylar entertain a brief sociopath/psychopath romance and immediately have sex when they realize that the second eclipse was blocking their powers. Once they regained their powers however, he murders her after they fail to murder Bennet and he realizes that their relationship had no possibility of being sustainable.
* ''[[Golden Girls]]'': Rose Nyland's husband Charlie died while they were making love.
* Alana De La Garza, who plays Marisol Delko Caine on ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', has said that she knew her character was going to die when she heard that Marisol and Horatio were getting married.
* In [[Outrageous Fortune]] gold digging Pascalle marries the much older man but they can't consumate the marriage because he has a serious heart condition. ''I could kill him with my body!''
* Take [[Up to Eleven]] with ''[[Two Pints of Lager and
== Music ==
* "White Pearl, Black Oceans," a song by power metal group [[Sonata Arctica]]. A reclusive lighthouse keeper heads into town one night, meets a woman, and later sleeps with her. On his way home, her husband beats him so badly that he's unable to make it back to in time to light his lamp. [[Can't Get Away
* Briefly treated for laughs in the video for "Sweet N Sour" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. A couple are making out in a bathroom and then a monster comes out of the toilet are decapitates them.
* I'm surprised the video for "[[Lady Gaga|Bad Romance]]" hasn't been mentioned.
== Mythology ==
* The ''wrong kind of sex'' in a lot of mythology and classic [[Literature]] (premarital, adultery, incest, impulsive, etc. depending on the age) could lead to various unpleasant fates, from infertility to being turned into trees. See also [[Good People Have Good Sex]].
** For instance, in ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'', Oedipus accidentally marries and has sex with his mother Iocaste. And just to show that sexism is timeless, guess which one of the two of them dies, and which one goes on to become a cult hero in ''[[Oedipus
*** To be fair, Iocaste commits suicide, specifically ''because'' of her learning that Oedipus is her son. Oedipus apparently thinks it sufficient to tear his own eyes out of his eye sockets.
*** And according to [[Aeschylus]]' ''Seven against Thebes'' and [[Euripides]]' ''Phoenician Women'', his sons Etheocles and Polyneices thought of him as a curse and a pariah to the point of forcing him to step down as king, locking him away and later kicking him out of Thebes along with his daughter (and their sister) Antigone.
*** His father Laius abducted and raped Chrysippus (who he was the tutor of) and the gods placed a curse on his family, saying that Laius' son would kill his father and marry his mother.
* Most
** Not all violations were punishable by death, however. If neither of the lovers was married (or betrothed), the Bible commands [[Shotgun Wedding|the couple to be married immediately, unless the woman refused]]. Note, this order to get married (and pay the dowry associated with the marriage) stands whether or not a child was conceived. Oh, and a man who married his wife this way can never divorce her.
*** Though this also held for ''rape''. It just about makes sense within the [[Values Dissonance|view at the time]] of women as property - you break it, you bought it, essentially. However, from the wife's point of view, when compared to spending the rest of your life inescapably married to your rapist, [[Fate Worse Than Death|death by sex might be preferable]]. It should be borne in mind that the victim was never required to live with her rapist or ever sleep with him again.
**** Hence why she can refuse and he can't.
***** The reason for this being that in Bible times non-widowed non-virgins had virtually no chance of being married after being deflowered, (unless already betrothed) so marrying her rapist/lover was the only way she could get married and have some status in society. Getting married was woman's only option in those days unless she wanted to be an outcast.
* [[Discussed
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Mortasheen]] has two creatures designed to administer this: [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/abysmal.htm Abysmal], an anglerfish with an illusionary ideal mate as a lure, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140403015413/http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/widoweed.htm Widoweed], a venus flytrap creature that attracts men via pheromones.
== Theatre ==
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** Well, after she has a soliloquy/musical number that sums her mindset up as "my affair has made me more grateful for what I have but hey it was kind of nice." She's more killed by barely-repentant adultery than killed by sex, since she's a married lady with a child.
** Meanwhile, by contrast, the entirely '''un'''repentant and equally married Prince is punished by ''hooking up with'' ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]''. Then again, who was expecting something by [[Stephen Sondheim]] to be ''fair''?
* In Victorian theatre, the only accepted way for a "fallen" woman - that is, any woman who had sex outside of marriage, or had an affair - to redeem herself was to die. Preferably after seeing the horrible consequences of her actions. One notable example is ''East Lynne'': A woman is convinced by a rival of her husband that her husband is having an affair, and so agrees to run off with him. The husband supposedly was meeting the woman for purely innocent reasons. Which is why he's married to her in the second act. The man his first wife ran off with abandons her, so she returns to her former house in disguise as a governess to her own child. When she reveals herself to him, he dies. Everyone then finds out who she is, but she falls ill and dies shortly thereafter. And this was considered one of the classics of Victorian literature and theatre. Her melodramatic cry on her child's death, "Dead! And never called me mother!" is still somewhat well-known today.
** Aversion: W. S. Gilbert (of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]])'s 1874 play, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060901090614/http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/html/charity.html Charity]'' has up a woman, Mrs. Van Burgh, who was virtuous in every way, except she had never actually married her husband. She has spent all her time since his death doing good deeds, and trying to rescue other women back to the path of virtue. Victorian theatre demanded that she be ruined, and die in order to be redeemed. Gilbert allowed her to be ruined by public opinion and the hypocritical antagonist (he lectures Ruth, one of the women Mrs. Van Burgh gave a second chance to, on how abominable it is that she is being foisted on society as if she was an unfallen woman. Guess who had seduced her?) - but then both Mrs. Van Burgh and Ruth head off to Australia as traveling companions for a colonial bishop whose son is in love with Mrs. Van Burgh's daughter. You wouldn't believe the uproar this caused in the newspapers of the time, which fell over themselves trying to see which could declare the play more immoral.
** Another aversion. Dickens' ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' has Emily, David's first love, dumping her fiancé Cam right before their wedding to run away with David's best friend James Steerforth and become his concubine. She ultimately lives, and after [[Break the Cutie|LOTS of misfortune (principally, Steerforth being an absolute]] [[Jerkass]] [[Break the Cutie|to her)]], she goes to Australia with her father Daniel. The book also includes Emily's best friend Martha, [[Hooker
** Dickens used the trope straight in ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' with poor Nancy, who also was a prostitute and ended up dead.
* [[Stephen Sondheim]] does it again in Passion, where Fosca dies three days after, um, a final bit of passion.
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* Done after a fashion in ''Wicked'' where the very next scene after Fiyero and Elphaba have their G-rated sex scene in 'As long as you're mine' and kiss Fiyero gets beaten to death. [[Disney Death|He gets better though.]] Sort of.
** The novel, of course, plays it straight.
* [[Two Words]]: ''[[Spring Awakening]]''.
== Video Games ==
* Speaking of [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]], he's also used this trope... Literally. Well, almost. Occurs in ''6 Days a Sacrifice'', part of the [[Chzo Mythos]]. Janine having sex with Theo was what ended up allowing John Defoe to take full control of her. By the end of it, she got impaled in the chest and literally ''crushed inside a wall''. NEVER have sex when there's obvious signs of someone being partially possessed.
* In the Gamecube game ''[[Cubivore:
* In ''[[Phantasmagoria]] 2'', it's more like Death by Kinky Sex. The female BDSM fanatic is murdered, while the woman who is having monogamous vanilla sex with the protagonist and wants a committed relationship survives.
* In the ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' series, this trope appears twice. In the first game, sleeping with the hooker at Lefty's Bar without protection causes your family jewels to explode a minute or so later. In the second game, you can seduce the maid in your resort hotel room and sleep with her, only to have her brother (who's in the military and likes to shoot things) walk in on you.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131105130854/http://www.atrianglemorning.com/games/flash.php WhichWay]'', a flash adventure game, every time you end up with a naked or half-naked woman on screen, you will be ambushed by a monster within seconds.
* A variation occurs in the [[Hentai|H-Game]] of ''[[
* In the [[Silent Hill]] series, any woman who implies that she might perform sexual favors on the protagonist will die in an agonizing way within a few scenes. It began with {{spoiler|Maria in Silent Hill 2}} and continued with {{spoiler|Cynthia in Silent Hill 4}}.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Shepard learns of a rare Asari genetic defect known as Ardat-Yakshi, which destroys the minds of anyone who has sex with the infected. It's possible to later replace Samara with her daughter Morinth, who has the symptom and [[Too Dumb to Live|choosing to have sex with her]] leads to a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].
** Most [[
* Inverted in the third ''[[God of War (
** {{spoiler|This is more a case of Dummied out, the designers originally planned for aphrodite to pull a knife on Kratos if you went back for round two, which would end in her death, but decided against it.}}
* In ''[[Snow Drop]]'', there's a [[An Ice Person|Snow Lady]]. Her two main powers are the ability to [[Shapeshifting|change appearance]] and the ability to kill men by having sex with them. The secret to beating the second half of the game (the first half of the game is pure [[Guide Dang It]]) is learning when to keep it in your pants (read: 90% of the time).
* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' module series The Bastard of Kosigan, you can go through it in such a way that every woman you make out with or have sex with dies soon afterward. Of course, being the non-linear sort of story it is, all of them but Alex can survive too.
** Several quests in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'', most notably the Dhorn Generals' Heads quest in the first chapter, involve having sex with someone to get something before killing them.
* In ''[[Fallout 2]]'', the player can get his/her car stolen in New Reno. After finding the chop-shop with their car in it, the player can buy it back, threaten to kill the owner, T-Ray, or if female, pay in other means. Female players can keep doing this to get car upgrades and fuel cells. However, doing it too quickly in a short span of time will make T-Ray explode after having too much sex.
** In ''[[
* In ''[[
* After awhile of playing ''[[Kara no Shoujo]]'' you begin to wonder if maybe the writers were trying to scare teens away from sex. The first set of victims are targeted partially because of this and most of the time the main character has sex he ends up dead soon after. That or the girl does.
* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' doesn't have a straight example, but it comes close enough to count. Protagonist Hisao has a bad heart and his (blind) girlfriend Lilly decides to go for blindfold sex. She gets him so turned on he keels over before the foreplay is even finished. He lives to tell about it though.
* Implied in ''[[
* Happens to a seduced NPC in the Human Noble origin in [[Dragon Age]]. He or she opens the door of the playable character's room to investigate a noise and gets an arrow in the chest. However, you can find the noblewoman he or she arrived at the castle with dead later in the origin, meaning they'd have likely died anyway.
== Web Comics ==
* [http://yahtzee.comicgenesis.com/d/20020313.html This] ''yahtzee takes on the world'' strip.
* ''[[Chopping Block]]'' [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20110214.html has this too]
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Dr.
** Of course they did.
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* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]] [http://theglen.livejournal.com/89715.html 501-1000]''
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* [[Weebl and Bob|"We were doing Position 97 near a porthole... and she just fell out!"]]
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20657_the-6-most-bizarre-ways-to-lose-popular-video-games.html The 6 Most Bizarre Ways to Lose Popular Video Games] describes an odd [[Nonstandard Game Over]] in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'':
**
**
** And of course, "Amazon Women in the Mood" has the famous "death by snu snu" punishment that Fry, Zapp, Bender, and Kif are sentenced to by the Femputer, ruler of Amazonia - which is news that all of them (minus Kif) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8sjzETQ5o take to rather enthusiastically] at first. After Bender is released (due to being a robot and thus lacking the required anatomy), Femputer orders the others to be taken to the "snu snu chambers", causing Zapp and Fry to react with alternating joy and horror.
* ''[[South Park]]'': One of the many causes of death for [[Butt Monkey|Kenny]], one example being contracting syphilis after he receives a blowjob.
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