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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?"''
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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.
 
Very common in slasher[[Slasher moviesMovie]]s, such as the ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13th]]'' 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...
 
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.
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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.
* [[Discussed Trope]] and averted in ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', where the titular character refusedrefuses Ishtar, a goddess, seducing<ref>can'tattempting rememberto the original context...</ref>seduce him, in a very interesting case of [[Genre Savvy|genre-savviness]] (- remember, this is THE''the'' oldest written story EVER),ever. byGilgamesh namingdoes theso mythologicalspecifically figuresby naming others who met a horrible demise from accepting suchher offer. It- though it's debatable whether he knew [[Woman Scorned|what his refusal would mean]] or not.
 
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== 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]—is there any [[Slasher MoviesMovie]]s theme Mr. Butch didn't try?
 
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