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If you're looking for the trope about ''actual'' deities having romance or sex, that's [[Divine Date]].

 

* ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]'' is a truly strange show that goes a bit beyond propping plot up with sex. People with magic powers to control elements—not the 4 elements but from the periodic table: Iron and Copper are principal characters and Gold is some kind of villain—but in order to use their powers they need "Soma" which they get from sucking on enormous tits. Evidently, they must be large tits. In any version readily available, every plot-related scene is heavily censored, to the point that it is impossible to know what is happening—at least story-wise. It's hard to hide what the characters are doing.

** At the time of this writing, there ''are'' uncensored versions available (hint: do a google search for "seikon no qwaser uncensored"). They're a lot easier to follow. And [[Gainaxing|bouncier]].

* Generally speaking, this is actually a ''[[Bleached Underpants|huge problem]]'' in the Japanese "nerdcore" industry, especially with semi-professional video games and animated projects. Full-blown porn is still considered a shameful thing to produce; however, including blatant sexuality in a work even when it doesn't make a lot of sense or is a bit disjointed from the narrative guarantees sales from a certain section of the population, and a lot of companies have built their initial fortunes this way, despite the damage to their reputations and the fact that the sexual content is often shoe-horned into stories that are more than narratively sound enough to stand on their own without this kind of "propping up". [[Nasuverse]] and Key games (such as ''[[Kanon]]'' and ''[[AIR]]'') are the most notorious examples of this practice, although it's worth pointing out that those involved with said franchises are now [[Bleached Underpants|bleaching furiously]] since the initial appeal of sexuality paid off.

** Key games do not even bother trying to pretend that the sex is in any way important to the plot. Pretty much 'we know you thought she was cute, here's a picture of her naked, back to [[Utsuge|the sad story]].' Which is why they made an under 18 version of ''AIR'' (for those who just want the story) and ''CLANNAD'', which doesn't have any sex involved.

*** Kano in ''[[AIR]]'' is told by {{spoiler|Hijiri}} that she will gain magical powers once she "becomes an adult". In the original [[H-Games|H-game]], you can guess which way she takes this. (Pun very much intended.)

** The woman in question was incredibly poisonous; having sex with her led an otherwise unbeatable rock-man to {{spoiler|fall to pieces}}.

* A prime example of this is ''[[Daiakuji]]'', where the protagonist comments upon his release from prison about how he has become weak with absence of sex. Throughout the series the protagonist becomes more powerful as he subjugates women.

* ''[[La Blue Girl]]'' involves ninjas who use sex (and things related to it) as weaponry. Case in point, pubic hair needle barrage. Delivered at point-blank range [[Eye Scream|to the eyes]].

** Considering the [[Nightmare Fuel|vaginas that squirt acid]] or [[Vagina Dentata|bite off penises]] and orgasm-triggered disintegration, you have to wonder how any of this made the sex less terrible.

* Cruelly subverted in ''[[Basilisk]]'', where one of the Koga ninjas is Kagerou, a beautiful and sexy [[Broken Bird]] who will never be able to have sex with a man she truly loves since [[Blessed with Suck|her breath becomes poisonous]] when she's aroused.

** As [[The Hill of Swords|one fanfic]] put it:

{{quote|[[Crowning Moment of Funny|"In order to stop a truly powerful enemy, you had to have sex with two women at once, and that it actually made one of them powerful enough to win against a foe you had no hope of defeating before?"]]}}

* The ''[[Gantz]]'' anime toys with this: while Kurono is still unused to using the Gantz suit, he theorizes that it only functions when he is turned on. This theory is only referenced in one scene and the suit seems to function consistently after that, so either Kurono was wrong and the suit also responds to other kinds of "excitement," or he's turned on a LOT. (Knowing Kurono, the latter is at least as likely as the former.)

* Inverted in the oh-so-wonderfully named manga ''[[My Balls]]''. The series begins with the Queen of Terror being [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealed into Satou Kohta's right testicle]], meaning the world will end should he ever, well, um, you know. Cue the sexy legions of Hell to use every technique in their arsenal to get in his pants, hilarity ensues.

* In ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'' and its sequel ''[[Aquarion Evol]]'' combining mechas causes all of the pilots to experience something [[Better Than Sex]]. Each time they combine, the audience gets a load of screaming, rainbow-coloured naked bodies. The entire series has multiple metaphors to sex and maturity, but those are justified due to many of the characters being teenagers.

* ''[[Moonlight Lady]]'' deals with this a whole lot. Apparently, the training that Suzuna has to go through in order to carry out the Expecting Moon Ceremony involves loads and loads of [[Pornomancy]], not to mention the fact that simply ''because'' Expecting Moon Ceremony is about to begin makes everyone start rolling around in the hay. Oh, and wouldn't you know, the Expecting Moon Ceremony itself is {{spoiler|an orgy}}! Suzuna's mother, Yuriko, also seems to have powers that make people lose their inhibitions, not to mention {{spoiler|the ability to live off of the lust of everyone in the house}}.

* Urd from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' tries to invoke this trope in her introductory chapter of the manga. She tells Keiichi that he has to have sex with her in order to repair/recharge the system force that keeps him and Belldandy together, and that if he doesn't have sex with her, Belldandy will have to return to heaven. It turns out to be a trick though and Belldandy comes in and reveals that it was just a trick before anything happens.

* Kinji's [[Super Mode|Hysteria Mode]] from ''[[Hidan no Aria]]'' only gets activated when he becomes sexually aroused.

 

* Phil Foglio's ''[[XXXenophile]]'' sometimes uses this, but usually with a comedic twist. For example, the one where the nymph mentions casually in passing that people's orgasms keep the earth from exploding, or the one where a [[Time Travel|time traveller]] from the future has to find out whether it's worth bringing back women through cloning, but it turns out {{spoiler|it's just a <s>normal</s> exceptional couple roleplaying}}.

* The old ''Penthouse ComicX'' series loved this trope:

* Provides [[Fan Disservice]] in ''[[Incorruptible]]'' #16, where the city's water supply is magically transformed into some noxious substance by the unattractive and obese sex magicians Nebuchadnezzar and Loretta Grass, whose spells only last as long as they're [[Unusual Euphemism|"chanting"]].

 

* In the extensive ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''Firing Solution'', Pon Farr and the Vulcan mating cycle and cultural history are examined in far more depth, and at least half the mechanics of [[The Federation]] and the power shifts in the galaxy prove to be directly attributable to Vulcan Nookie.

* In a ''[[True Blood]]''/''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' crossover ''Survival of the Fallen'', it turns out that {{spoiler|Rogue of all people}} is a succubus. In this case Succubi aren't outright demonic, and appear to go either way morally speaking. They seem more like talented sex oriented energy vampires, without actually needing to take energy. Considering the character this happens to, this is most ironic, and a major plot point.

* The ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' doujin ''[[RE-TAKE]]'', takes this to... a much lower level than would be expected, considering the author's previous work! This is done properly in chapter one. All 5 chapters thereafter just play dress-up-the-sex-and-hope-the-audience-doesn't-notice.

 

** Almost certainly related to an earlier, often deleted exchange.

{{quote|'''Zuul/Dana''': I want you inside me.

* In ''[[Cat People]]'' the remake, the werepanthers' transformation is triggered by sex.

 

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]'' (but not in [[The Film of the Book]] for [[Media Watchdogs|obvious reasons]]), Beverly Marsh {{spoiler|has sex with the other members of the Losers Club (all six of them, one after the other, in a sewer) in order to re-forge the connection between them after defeating [[IT]] as pre-teens}}. Apparently it's supposed to be a metaphor for moving from childhood to adulthood.

** Another level of irony (and possibly a [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]) also exists here, when you contrast this with another scene in the book. Beverly's father is portrayed as an abusive, overprotective, borderline psychopath. When he learns that Beverly has been playing with boys, he insists—violently—on ''physically'' checking to see if she's still a virgin. {{spoiler|Fortunately, she escapes him.}} At this point, she still is, and the scene plays out like an [[Rape as Drama|attempted rape]].

* In Dan Simmon's ''Olympos,'' one of the main characters finds a slumbering princess who's been kept in stasis for centuries. The only way to wake her? Climb in the stasis chamber and give her some lovin'.

* Ramona Random, a Black Chamber agent in [[Charles Stross]]'s ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]'' has a succubus bound to her. If she doesn't have sex, it [[Mind Rape|eats her mind]]. If she does have sex, it [[Out with a Bang|kills the partner instead]]. She's employed as an assassin, naturally.

** One version says that what wakes her up is her first baby's cry.

* This happens with Leah, Henry, and Tony in ''[[Smoke and Shadows]]'' Leah is tied via Demongate to a sex demon named Ryne Cyratane, but the demon doesn't comprehend homosexuality. Tony the gay wizard can tell that Ryne Cyratane wants to communicate with him, but literally can't see him without the sexual connection. Ergo, Tony's [[Bi the Way]] ex Henry is enlisted for a save-the-world threesome that will enable Tony to talk to the demon.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' {{spoiler|Melisandre the Red Priestess/sorceress}} is able to spawn shadow demons that can be used as assassins. She needs sex in order to create them, but it apparently weakens the man she uses; she herself states that {{spoiler|Stannis'}} declining health is due to her using him in that way, and so tries to convince {{spoiler|Davos Seaworth}} to help. It is possible that her somewhat [[Foe Yay]]-ish interactions with {{spoiler|Jon Snow}} might be a prelude to trying to use him in this way.

* In Alex Prentiss' novel ''[[Night Tides]]'', the main character [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|communes]] with lake spirits, but in return, she must help everyone who needs it.

 

* In ''[[Smallville]]'', Clark's discovery of his [[Eye Beams|Heat Vision]] was linked to him being aroused. I wonder what ''that'' [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|reminds you of...]] Hence the [[Fan Nickname]] "Eyejaculation".

* In ''[[The Others (TV series)|The Others]]'', two of the characters have fallen in love, but the interaction of their respective psi-powers causes powerful energy discharges whenever they touch. In the finale, as part of a series of strange happenings that works to break the group apart, they find that they can now safely touch one another. This tragically turns out to be an illusion created by an otherworldly evil force, which lifts while they're having sex. Cue the ''entire building exploding''.

* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has Pon Farr - every seven or eight years Vulcans get a hormone craze that is generally only to be satiated by sex. Either they do or die, literally. Fortunately, {{spoiler|the holodeck version counts}}. Or {{spoiler|they find an alternative way to give said Vulcan similar emotions to sex, e.g. extreme anger/rage/sadness, like believing that you killed your best friend}}.

 

* ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' gave us the Cult of Ecstasy. Sure, they didn't just revolve around using sex as magical foci (they also used drugs, music, meditation, etc.), but that was easily the aspect with the most humor potential.

** ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' carries it on with a [[Prestige Class|Legacy]] called the Whipping Boys. They don't use sex, exactly, but BDSM, using deeply intensive "sessions" to find revelation in a place beyond pain and pleasure.

** And ''Sisters of Rapture'', which kicks it up a notch with full-frontal nudity on nearly every page—some of it showing tavern scenes and the like to drive the point home that these characters ''never wear clothing at all''.

 

* In Richard Strauss's early opera ''Feuersnot'', Kunrad punishes Diemut's rejection by magically banishing fire from the town until she gives herself to him.

 

* Completely inverted in ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', where the token demoness is a reformed succubus, runs an Intellectual Brothel and refuses to feast on horny men for her power. She is the healer of the party, but not quite the [[Intimate Healing|Intimate Healer]]; her kisses are an attack. There is a tentative flirtation between her and The Nameless One that suggests the approach of a kiss, but she decides not to risk it, even if he's apparently immortal.

** A memory that the Nameless One can trigger reveals that he ''can'' have sex with a succubus, die, and come back. In fact, he ''did'' so, and then gave the memory to the Sensates so that other people can experience it without, you know, the unfortunate end.

** The fourth one added strippers, who unfortunately stay in bra and panties. They heal the same amount prostitutes do, but they cost more.

* The fangame ''[[Quest for Glory]] 4.5'' also allows the hero to be "healed" in a brothel. Needless to say the company owning the original game wasn't too happy.

* Apparently sex is required to gain the right to {{spoiler|become an Eternal}} in ''[[Eien no Aselia]]''. [[Fridge Logic]] sets in when you realize that {{spoiler|Kyouko and Tokimi}} apparently did not have to. Maybe {{spoiler|Tokimi}} made the whole thing up?

 

* ''[[Super Stupor]]'' has one ''[http://www.superstupor.com/sust11262007.shtml comic]'' where a hero reveals his superpower to make anyone tell the truth... as long as his penis is inside them. He's asked how he discovered this power, whereupon a third character claims it's "[[Noodle Incident|the best divorce story ever!]]"

* ''[[Kit N Kay Boodle]]'', all the time. Nearly ''every'' plot line seems to be solved by the title characters <s>having sex</s> [[yiff]]ing.

* ''[[Sonichu]]'', of all comics. has this in issue #8 with Silvana, whose "nectar" is a poisonous and paralytic sleeping agent she secretes during sex. After transforming herself to look like Bubbles, she makes out with Blake, knocks him out, and advances what little plot there is in the comic in the first place.

 

* Now, the vast majority of ''[[Ilivais X]]''s [[Humongous Mecha]] are fairly normal and realistic. But the eponymous one only registers with one who possesses "Love" Drive Core (or has a similar demeanor), but the way it works makes it more similar to lust. This kicks off numerous broad themes involving the border between love and lust and whatnot, but the most clear example of an out-and-out Deus Sex Machina is the Love Drive Core attack, which can basically only be used via orgasm.

* This shows up a ''lot'' in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section of [[Literotica]], though details vary.

* The erotica writer Salamando, aka Salamando Flames enjoys mixing elements of fantasy adventure and superhero fiction into his erotica. Often, sex will in some way be used as a mechanism for mind control, domination, acquiring magical energy, exacting revenge, fueling super powers, or even healing. In the Sex Mage World stories, the entire basis of magical powers (which only women have access to) requires sex and arousal to both activate and continue functioning.

 

* A study suggests [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011597 sex may boost long-term memory] and counter [[Performance Anxiety]] in male rats. [[You Fail Biology Forever|Nobody knows if it works for humans]] of either sex, but news editors [[Rule of Sexy|haven't let that get in the way]] of a [http://www.science20.com/rogue_neuron/sex_makes_you_smarter_can_virtual_sex_do_same good headline].

** It has this effect in the only strain of rats that was tested, but it has the exact opposite effect in the only strain of mice tested. So depending on if humans are more like one strain of rats or one strain of mice, sex improves memory and relieves anxiety, or it makes you more anxious and unable to remember. Take your pick. Furthermore, they can only test this in male rats and mice since females tend to get pregnant and pregnancy has a huge effect on the brain region in question. This is why [[Artistic License: Biology|you should not trust a good headline]].