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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]]'''''}}

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...

== Anime &and Manga ==

* ''[[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}}

* Episode 32 of ''[[Blood Plus+]]'' probably counts when Riku is raped by Diva and then turns to stone right in front of his brother Kai and her sister Saya.

* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'': Every man who's ever slept with [[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest|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.

* In ''[[Urotsukidouji]]'', sex with the Chojin causes this.

* ''[[Franken Fran]]'': One early client of [[Franken Fran|Fran Madaraki]] ends up like this after Fran saves his girlfriend by making her part insect. Apparently the species of insect in question instinctively eats its mate.

* [[Justified Trope|Justification]]: In the first ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th13th]]'', {{spoiler|the killer, Pamela Voorhees}}, specifically targeted the people who were having or going to have sex, because the two camp counselors who were supposed to be {{spoiler|monitoring her son Jason Voorhees when he drowned as a child}} were too busy getting groiny with each other.

** 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.

* Xenia Onatopp love of [[Murderous Thighs]] in the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movie ''[[GoldeneyeGoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'' is more an example of [[Out with a Bang]], but it's worth noting that ''several'' Bond Girls and henchwomen die after hooking up or flirting with Bond:

** Strawberry Fields from ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' (drowned in crude oil). Lampshaded by M:

** Parodied in ''[[Illuminatus!]]'', wherein the British agent Fission Chips leaves a trail of dead Eurasian girls wherever he may go.

* In ''the [[So Bad It's Good|]] ''[[Boa vs Python]]'', the python stalks a teenage couple that is having sex, and actually ''licks'' the girl, who, because her eyes are closed, thinks it is her lover. Then the python, which [[Did Not Do the Research|should be a constrictor]], ''bites'' them squarely in half.

* ''[[Piranha]] II : The Spawning'' opening scene had a couple discussing where they failed to have sex because the guy found fault in everything. The hotel room was too dry, the beach too sandy and the boat too uncomfortable. They then go scuba-diving into a shipwreck and decided to have sex, you know nothing better than that, right? Well okay the killer piranha did kinda ruin the mood.

* 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.

* 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, only because it'sits perpetrators thought they had gotten their hands on a ''virgin'' sacrifice.}}

* ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World|Scott Pilgrim]] Vs The World'' has an unusual take on this trope. In the Scott/Ramona vs Roxie fight, Scott defeats Roxie by poking her in the back of the knee after Ramona tells him that it's her weak spot. Roxie immediately has what is unmistakeablyunmistakably an orgasm, and bursts into a giant pile of coins.

* Played straight in horrifying fashion in ''[[Se7en]]'', as one of the victims is killed {{spoiler|not just during or after the sex act, but BY''by'' the sex act with a bladed sex toy.}}

* In ''[[Cabin Fever]]'', a flesh eating disease scares off most of the teenagers spending their break in a Cabincabin in the woods. When only two are left behind, the requisite horror-flick babe figures that, seeing as their [[Out with a Bang|doomed to die anyway, she and the hero might as well go out with a bang]]. Only ''after'' the horny hottie gets his pork in her pouch does the guy question why they aren't using a condom. Of course, the woman tells him [[Tempting Fate|not to worry because "She's healthy."]] Oh good! Seeing as how all their friends had come down with this deadly illness, I was afraid she might be sick, too. No need to worry about that sinister soundtrack playing as she grinds you into the matressmattress, pal... Or those sickly red rashes that just appeared where you grabbed her back while you blew your load. But, just to be on the safe side, you should probably rinse off the salami with some Listerine when youryou're done.

* [[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.

* [[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.

** 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 with a Heart of Gold|a prostitute]], who helps Daniel and David to find the missing Emily and also survives.

* 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.

* [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?

** AnOne episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' parodies the B-movie tradition by having a robot couple making out in a car say things like "It's okay to let our guard down, even for a moment!" before being attacked by a "scary human".

** What about theThe Decapodians, the species of Dr. Zoidberg?, do this literally - Theythey have sex once in their lives, and die immediately afterwards.