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It's a lonely life in the Navy. Perhaps outside [[Prison Rape]] or [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|single-gender schools]], one of the well-known versions of [[Situational Sexuality]] is in the naval service. For years, men would be left alone together on ships for weeks on end, as female sailors served in a very limited capacity if at all (this is slowly changing), causing these men to have their sexual urges met ''somehow''. This has led to sailors becoming sex symbols among gay men. Definitely [[Truth in Television]] on occasion, and in fiction, a common subtrope of the [[Manly Gay]] and [[
[[Dead Horse Trope|A somewhat outdated trope nowadays]], however, as most military fetishists have been leaning towards the sweaty and [[Perma
Note that the British Navy abolished the practice of flogging in 1948, and that rum rations were discontinued in 1970. [[Insane Troll Logic|The modern
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== Anime And Manga ==
* In the ''[[
* ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* In the second volume of ''Heroes For Hire'', the main characters [[Action Girl|Misty Knight]], [[Ninja|Colleen Wing]], [[Everybody Was Kung
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'''Colleen Wing: '''Relax, they're ''sailors''. Just look cute.
'''Shang-Chi: '''That might not work for all of us, Colleen.
'''Black Cat: '''They ''are'' sailors, Shang. }}
* [[Deadpool]] accidentally invokes this trope by walking into a bar full of sailors in a [[Fan Disservice|tiny tank top and short shorts]]. Bright pink tank top and short shorts. In San Francisco. And then he comes up with his hairbrained scheme to join the X-Men.
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== Film ==
* Captain Shakespeare of the ''[[Stardust (
** It's said DeNiro took the role of Shakespeare out of deep regret at having passed on playing [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Jack Sparrow]]. Make of that what ye will.
* ''[[Top Gun]].'' Yes, they're pilots, but they're still Navy.
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* Referenced vaguely a few times in the ''[[Temeraire]]'' series, when Laurence reflects on some of the hazards of the Navy, while musing he was lucky to escape that part of it himself.
* Herman Melville's unfinished novella ''[[Billy Budd]]'' makes this [[Older Than Radio]]. It's all about homosexuality among sailors on ships in the age before steamships.
** Even ''[[Moby Dick]]'' is stuffed full of it. Including Ishmael and Queequeg's status as [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] and Ishmael wading, nay, [[Have a Gay Old Time|wallowing in sperm]]<ref>
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has its own parody on the subject, exchanging "homosexuality" for "cannibalism", and making countless of jokes of navy men casually eating one another, or discussing nonchalantly of who should get eaten. This comes right after a sketch with a letter from a member of the Royal Navy who is ''outraged'' that the show would demean Her Majesty's naval forces... that soon descended into describing the "perfect little buttocks" of the sailors, and John Cleese saying, [[Take Our Word for It|"And we can't show you the rest of that letter."]]
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' first season episode "M.A.D.":
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* Used in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', of all shows, in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VucFQe_vhmI&feature=related#t=2m37s final host segment] of ''[[Teenagers
* In one round of the ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' game "If you Know what I Mean," which involves speaking in nothing but sexual innuendos, one of the players reminisces, "When I was in the Navy, I was surrounded by seamen!"
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a continuing serial Dickens parody with guest Michael Palin, who as the youthful hero gets initiated to the manly life on the sea with manly men on the "Raging Queen".
* The second-season ''[[
* In the UK comedy ''Brass'', the [[Camp Gay]] son borrows his mother's perfume, "[[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|Bonsoir Matelot]]."
== Music ==
* The subtext of the [[
** Just remember what "subtext" is an anagram for!
** Hilariously, this song was originally recorded as the theme for a US Navy recruitment spot. The deal fell through when conservative activists complained about the Village People's association with the gay community. While the Navy yielded to the right-wing screeching, they took umbrage to the implication there was anything at all gay about the Village People or the song "In The Navy" in any way promoted homosexuality.
*** Or on a less insulting note, people questioned the legitimacy of the government using taxpayer money to fund a music video.
* Martin Mull sang a rousing sea shanty about being on a 'ship all filled with men' - he does note "But none of us are sissies/And so we sleep in sep'rate beds/and blow each other kissies!"
* This trope has been immortalized in song for well over a century at the very least.
* The Frogs' song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iliwt9h6-a0 Sailors Board Me Now] is one big ode to seaside sodomy.
* Damon Albarn, while working on the [[
* Subverted in Cosmo Jarvis' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysG12QCdTA&feature=feedlik Gay Pirates], which has nothing to do with [[Situational Sexuality]] and everything to do with [[The Power of Love]].
== Video Games ==
* In the video game ''[[Tradewinds]]: Legends'', the burly Berber swordsman Hasan Tazere is a [[
* The trope name is actually a recurring [[Catch Phrase]] in the old ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* Apparently referenced in this [http://www.thecrewdogs.com/2009_11_13 Crew Dogs]{{Dead link}} strip by an Air Force member.
== Western Animation ==
* Used in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
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** "Simpson Tide" had the Village People sing on the submarine with Smithers dancing along.
* In some ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons from WWII era (such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfcPJS5IBc "Seeing Red, White and Blue"]), Navy sailors (except Popeye of course) were portrayed as "funny", groping, mincing and occasionally cross-dressing.
* A rather odd version would be Mirage of ''[[
* Shore Leave a [[Camp Gay|walking stereotype]] from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', a parody of Shipwreck from the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoons.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Used]] in an episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''. After being told that women like a guy who's "in touch with his feminine side", the not-very-bright Johnny ends dressing in drag to impress a girl and gets hit on by a couple of [[Ambiguously Gay]] sailors who tell him suggestively that they're "on shore leave."
* A naval school in ''[[
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'''Chris:''' Is this some kind of pirate school?
'''Instructor:''' Well... a certain kind of pirate. Yes, we've been called that.
'''[[Ambiguously Gay|Stewie]]:''' Is there some kind of preschool program? }}
** Also this short of Stewie as an old British Navy Captain
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'''Sailors''': And your record will stand as proof.
'''Stewie''': Be it galleon or freighter, I'm an expert navigator.
'''Sailors''': And you're also a world class poof.
'''Stewie''': My manner quite effete/Is mistaken on the street For a sailor who can pirouette on -->cue.
Well despite your point of view, I can thrill a girl or two...
But I'd rather get it on with you!
'''Sailors''': Ha Ha Ha! }}
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'''s advertisement [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/More_Don%27t_Ask_Then_Ever_Before More Don't Ask Than Ever Before ]
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