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{{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]]'''''}}

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]]s are particularly vulnerable to this trope.

 

 

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 [[Bury Your Gays|with the same gender]]. Compare [[Cartwright Curse]] where death can happen even ''before'' the sex merely for being a love interest.

* 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.

* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'': Every man who's ever slept with Ryuuko Konuma has died. [[Parental Incest|Like her father]], [[Squick|and that man he sold her to]]. That's not to say she murdered them directly, either. Apparently sleeping with Ryuuko just sucks away your will to live unless you're a callous, violent maniac... [[Unholy Matrimony|like her boyfriend]] [[Big Bad|Haguro]]. Eeeeek.

* 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.

** {{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.

 

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**** 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.

 

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* [http://yahtzee.comicgenesis.com/d/20020313.html This] ''yahtzee takes on the world'' strip.

 

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