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{{trope}}
In the same way that CPR is presented as [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable|Clean, Pretty, and Reliable]], sex in fiction has a tendency to gloss over the more awkward aspects. Sure, maybe it's explored if it's [[Their First Time]] to highlight the characters' inexperience, but most of the time sex is very different to how it is in real life. Issues like impotence, pregnancy, STD's ([[STD Immunity|or not]]) can come up, but generally only when it's a plot point, deployed for drama. Realism is simply a lower priority than [[Rule of Sexy]], [[Rule of Funny]], [[Fetish Fuel]], avoiding [[Fetish Retardant]], avoiding [[Fan Disservice]], and so on.
There are several possible reasons for this:
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* [[Right Through His Pants]]
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]] (with [[The Modest Orgasm]] as an inverse)
{{noreallife|this is a trope about how sex is depicted in media.}}
{{examples}}
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As Hollywood Sex is so common, please only list glaring examples.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* If the guys who wrote ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' know anything about actual BDSM and fetishism, then they chose to hide it really well for the sake of [[Rule of Funny]] or whatever. ''Or'' it might just be that every single sadomasochist in the
* Inverted in ''[[Small Favors]]'': The BDSM is reasonably realistic, while the setting/premise of the comic is totally surreal. The protagonist is desperately trying to hide her [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]] [[Casual Kink|BDSM]] relationship with a physical manifestation of a part of her subconscious from a physical manifestation of another part of her subconscious - who doesn't catch them, because she's busy getting seduced by the protagonist's neighbor.
* Lou Kagan's ''Perils Of Penelope'' contain many bondage scenes that pay no attention to gravity, skeletal structure, or any such pesky details.
=== [[Film]] ===▼
▲=== Film ===
* The hilarious [[Two-Person Pool Party]] in ''[[Showgirls]]'' is a particularly famous example.
* ''[[The Room]]'' famously features writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau thrusting enthusiastically somewhere around his partner's navel.
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* [[Played for Laughs]] with the infamous "Fuck me, Your Majesty!" scene from ''[[American Beauty]]''.
▲=== Live Action TV ===
* Any of Samantha's sex scenes in ''[[Sex and the City]]'' count, though injuries are frequently shown in this instance. There's still a ludicrous amount of screaming, thrashing and athleticism.
** There was once an episode where she was bent on performing the ''entire'' book of Kama Sutra. (Which, for the record, [http://www.cracked.com/article_18450_7-kama-sutra-sex-tips-that-will-put-you-in-hospital.html is a horrible idea.])
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Aversions or subversions where in one or more respect, the sex is presented more realistically than typical Hollywood Sex.
=== [[Advertising]] ===
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGvESR4erc This] ad for a dating site called Zoosk.com includes an [[Imagine Spot]] of two people trying to have Hollywood Sex. They fail miserably.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===▼
* ''[[Houkago no Himitsu]]'' by Nekota Yonezou is a [[Yaoi|BL]] short story with two high schoolers who don't know what they're doing. This ends realistically (there is some ripping). They promise to do more research next time they try. ▼
▲=== Anime and Manga ===
▲* ''Houkago no Himitsu'' by Nekota Yonezou is a [[Yaoi|BL]] short story with two high schoolers who don't know what they're doing. This ends realistically (there is some ripping). They promise to do more research next time they try.
* ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'', which seems to have "[[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstruct]] Hollywood Sex" as one of its goals, does indeed manage to be more realistic in its portrayal of sex—particularly the young, awkward-first-time sex only virgin newlyweds can manage.
* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Tamahome and Miaka decide to consummate their relationship knowing that this could very well be their last day together. [[Big Eater|Miaka's]] stomach grumbles, and they are both embarrassed by this awkward noise. (So much so that Tamahome can't continue!)
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=== Comic Books ===
* Roberta Gregory averts this in her comics ''[[Naughty Bits]]'' and ''[[Artistic Licentiousness]]''. She's great at depicting sex in all its awkward, sometimes unpleasant glory.
=== Film ===
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* In ''[[Friends with Benefits (film)|Friends With Benefits]]'', Dylan and Jamie have pretty realistic sex, with stuff such as them listing their weird quirks about sex, Dylan needing to pee halfway through, him wondering why she's screaming, etc.
=== [[Literature]] ===▼
▲=== Literature ===
* In the [[Ben Elton]] book ''This Other Eden'', the Hollywood star Max and his actress wife agree to have one last roll in the hay before their divorce. The narration specifically compares their perfect movie sex scenes with their real sex, complete with fanny farts and awkward elbows.
* [[John Green]]'s book [[Looking for Alaska]] has a girl performing oral on the main character. They exchange some awkward dialogue ("should I bite it?") then go to their more experienced friend to explain it to them.
* Played with in the ''[[Slave World]]'' novels: Many [[Hollywood Masochism]] stereotypes are lampshaded and justified with [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. In the first few books, this include the stereotype that all real submissives enjoy everything in the kinky spectrum. This is backpedaled in the later books, where it's established that most people have some things they just can't handle, much less enjoy, no matter how many [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul|smilies you paint on their soul]].
* Very common in works by the
* ''Anatomy of a Boyfriend'' by Daria Snadowsky is fairly realistic. It discusses the teenage characters first times, fooling around (and trying to clean it up), and the funny noises they would make.
▲=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Mad TV]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4QbzM3wu1w this sketch] on sex faces.
* Sex in ''[[The Sopranos]]'' is pretty realistic.
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* As well as showing quite a considerable amount of Hollywood Sex between the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Lizzie Siddal and various prostitutes, [[Desperate Romantics]] does at least depict Lizzie encouraging Gabriel to abandon the prophylactics they have apparently been using prior to their marriage. There is also some awkwardness shown between Millais and Effie the first time they're in bed together, though they get over it later in the series.
* The ''[[John Adams (TV series)|John Adams]]'' miniseries averted this every which way with John and Abigail's bout of reunion sex in France; it's fast, clumsy, and a little bit sweaty. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|And still leaves viewers gazing dewy-eyed at the screen from the palpable emotions surging between them.]]
* Oddly enough, ''[[Sex and the City]]'' would often defy a lot of [[Hollywood Sex]] tropes. Samantha got in trouble more than once trying to get it on with a guy in public, and in the episode where Carrie had "jackhammer sex" with an old classmate, she didn't enjoy it at all and had a very sore back the next morning.
=== [[Music]] ===▼
▲=== Music ===
* The [[Flight of the Conchords]] song "Business Time" is a pretty hilarious aversion of this.
** Likewise "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8tPTVBRSc Ooh Girl - An Honest R&B Song]" by Mike Polk of Runawaybox.
=== [[Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy]] ===▼
* One of Bill Engvall's most famous routines involves how Hollywood Sex is different from real sex... which he knows from personal experience.▼
▲=== Stand-Up Comedy ===
▲* One of Bill Engvall's most famous routines involves how Hollywood Sex is different from real sex...which he knows from personal experience.
** "Well thanks for the wedgie, Romeo..."
* Australian comedian Josh Thomas notes that for him, sex never involved [[The Immodest Orgasm|loud moaning and thrashing]], but more often, "Mm... mm... oh, gosh... mm... OH SHIT are you alright?! ... and then it takes you a while to get back into the rhythm..."
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Sex in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'' is very... realistically... described. The game even tracks an integer for how experienced your character is, and varies the descriptions depending on that (though it is more often used to determine if you can use the 'if I have really good sex with this guy he will give me what I want' tactic). Most possible sexual partners are quite experienced, so acting like it makes sense for them, but Anden is understandably awkward.
* ''[[The Sagara Family]]'' proves that even an [[H-game]] can ground
** The necessity of foreplay is frequently mentioned and seen to, especially with anal sex.
** One scene has the mother giving some (factually correct) contraceptive advice to her daughter.
** The "a virgin always bleeds" myth is averted at least once, when the protagonist takes his time getting the girl turned on first and then penetrates so gently it doesn't even hurt. Both of them were still expecting the myth so much [[Lampshade Hanging|they're both a little confused when it doesn't happen.]]
* Sex in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' is also more realistically depicted than you'd expect from a [[Visual Novel]]. Emi's
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* The College Humor video "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100528095811/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1820859 Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene]" parodies this trope. It's awkward, gross, creepy, and pathetic... and it ''still'' manages to seem just a teensy bit sweet and romantic.
* Averted in ''[[Tales of MU]]''. Mack has no clue what she's doing during her first several encounters, and as such, it's not terribly enjoyable.
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[[Category:Sex Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Artistic License Indexes]]
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