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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I understand that blowjobs are now a casual greeting among young people."''
|'''Tycho Brahe'''
Or, alternatively, [[Overly Long Name|Everybody Has Relationships Which Inevitably Lead To Premarital Sex But Not Necessarily Marriage]].
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While being near-universal today in works that deal with romance and sex, this trope is a fairly recent arrival, since time was the [[Moral Guardians]] would have heavily frowned on the implications. It's also somewhat justified in modern society, which does not have as much of an emphasis on abstinence as it used to (which may have to do with the growing prevalence in media of the trope itself). It can just as easily be unjustified, though, in that your typical [[Hollywood Dateless]] is liable to have five times as many sexual partners over the course of a series as most people have in their lifetimes.
This idea is most obvious in settings where the characters are ostensibly supposed to be "normal". If they're explicitly sex freaks, or it's a story that doesn't really involve romance, or the characters are consistently monogamous, as opposed to serially monogamous, the trope is far less relevant. (For the record, a 2007 US survey indicated that the average American man has seven sexual partners in his life while the average American woman has four; only 29% of American men and 9% of women have had more than fifteen partners. [https://www.newsweek.com/whats-driving-gen-zs-aversion-sex-opinion-1638228 In 2020, despite sex being ''much'' more of a free and accepted act than before, another piece of research pointed to the ''opposite'' - newer generations tend to have have much less sex.])
[[Hotter and Sexier]] probably has a bit to do with this, as well as the fact that more ambitious writers may be of the opinion that [[Sex Is Interesting]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A staple of [[Hentai]] everywhere.
* While not a Hentai series, ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'' has quite a lot of sex scenes, some even unorthodox (Like nose sex), though they are always censored.
* ''[[Interspecies Reviewers]]'' takes place in a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] [[World of Buxom]] with legalized and government-regulated prostitution (many succubi hold powerful positions in government) and the main characters are a group who reviews brothels the way most would review restaurants. This anime kind of ''is'' this Trope.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', the World State actually enforces this through conditioning.
* The myriad works of sci-fi writer [[Robert A. Heinlein]], extrapolating [[Free-Love Future|the future from the '60s sexual revolution]].
** Actually, a lot of the sexual revolution was at least tangentially inspired by ''[[Stranger in
* Shows up in ''[[Forever Amber]]'', with a fair amount of [[Truth in Television]] since the story is set during the reign of Charles II in England, who was notorious for having a veritable harem of mistresses and illegitimate children.
** Of course, it's up to [[Alternate Character Interpretation|debate]] whether any of the main characters are actually supposed to be [[Villain Protagonist|likable]].
* Pretty much inverted in ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' - [[Sex Is Evil|only villains]] seem capable of pulling it off, and even then, only temporarily. Those who escape the physical risks often tend to go insane, or become detached loners, or [[Jump Off the Slippery Slope]] somehow. Or get [[Demonic Possession|possessed]]. Or become [[Strawman Political|fanatic hate-mongering left-wing demonstrators with picket signs and weaponized Viagra]]. Heroes rarely have sex; and when they do so outside of marriage, they're clearly not better for it, suffering from issues of self-doubt and [[Heroic Self-Deprecation]].
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* The novel ''[[Youth in Sexual Ecstasy]]'' gives a deconstruction of this.
== [[Live
* This trope is common in modern [[sitcom]]s. Each week or two one of the main characters must have another [[Girl of the Week|guest star sweetheart]].
* ''[[Skins]]'' is perhaps the best example of this trope for depicting college students as an endless bacchanalia of sex and drugs.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Futurama]]''. [[Hollywood Dateless]] characters like Fry and Leela still have many sexual partners throughout the show. ([[Double Standard|Fry]] more than [[My Girl Is Not a Slut|Leela]].) Then there are more liberated characters like Amy and Bender, who aren't really chastized for their gettin' around. Even the Professor gets some, although this is played for [[Squick]].
** Well, [[Bizarre Alien Biology|he]] [[Death by Sex|can't]]. But he [[Throw the Dog a Bone| finally does get a girlfriend]] by the finale of the series.
*** Season five has him getting it on with Farnsworth (while Fry and Leela have [[Freaky Friday Flip|swapped bodies with them]]) and season six implies he had it going with Mom for a while before the professor founded Planet Express.
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