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* The ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5053133/1/Some_scars_are_easy_to_hide "Some scars are easy to hide"] has Lithuania and Poland having sex to help Lithuania get over his depression and anxiety resulting from having been sexually abused by Russia. Notable for giving rise to the [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] "I'm damaged goods, Feliks!"
** Another Hetalia fic, "Mistakes", has China attempting to do this with a random hooker, and then later with France, in an attempt to heal himself. [[Subverted Trope|It does not work]].
** Subverted in the fic "Cages". A recently colonized Taiwan has sex with [[Imperial Japan]] after {{spoiler|having been raped by China in the prequel ''Dollhouse'', and then rescued by Japan once he takes her in}}
* [[A Growing Affection]]: Kakashi seeks sex from his lover as a distraction from a recent trauma. After a later event, Hinata does the same for Naruto.
* A [[Lost Forever]] Digimon fic has the grown up Koushirou and Jyou as a couple. Jyou is driven to an [[Heroic BSOD]] at some point after [[Failure Knight|failing to save the lives of a young boy and his parents]], and he discusses the incident with Koushirou who then helps him relax and forget about it via sex.
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* In the movie ''[[Baby Boy]]'', the main character loses his temper and slaps his girlfriend, and then she starts breaking down and crying uncontrollably. So he picks her up, carries her to the bedroom and gives her oral sex while sad music plays. She forgives him and it's never mentioned again.
* Very much subverted in ''[[Antichrist]]''. The main character's husband thinks it's a good idea to [[What an Idiot!|treat her depression himself.]] She uses sex as a method of dulling the pain. It ends badly.
* Subverted in ''[[Horrible Bosses]]''
== Literature ==
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* A somewhat more literal example appears in ''Broken Angels'', the second in Richard Morgan's [[Altered Carbon|hard sci-fi series]]. The protagonist, [[Heroic Sociopath|Takeshi Kovacs]], tracks down Tanya Wardani, the only archaeologist with the knowledge required for his mission - unfortunately, she's {{spoiler|been tortured far enough that she's withdrawn from reality}}. It's stated that normally, she would takes months, maybe years to recover from this - however, Takeshi doesn't have that long. So, he uses some of his [[Super Soldier|Envoy]] mental conditioning techniques to bring her back. It's described this way in the novel:
{{quote|Envoy co-option techniques make rather brutal use of the deep wells of psychosexual energy that drive humans at a genetic level. Properly mined, the matrix of animal strength on tap in those places will speed up psychic healing by whole orders of magnitude. You start with light hypnosis, move into quick-fix personality engagement and thence to close bodily contact that only misses definition as sexual foreplay on a technicality. A gentle, hypnotically induced orgasm usually secures the bonding process, but at the final stage with Wardani, something had made me pull back. The whole process was uncomfortably close to a sexual assault as it was.}}
* Subverted in the ''[[Star Trek]] [[The Next Generation]]'' novel ''Imzadi''. Deanna Troi, shortly after meeting Riker for the first time on Betazed, suggests that they take off their clothes and spoon, saying that it's a technique she learned in her psychotherapy classes for moving past the desires of the flesh. And they do precisely
* ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' is an early and successful example. Maria wants Robert to make love to her to replace her rape memories.
* In the A.J.Quinell's book ''Snap Shot'', The sex between on of the protagonists (a war photographer) and a psychologist (another protagonist) who showed compassion towards him, help him to finally get ride of a trauma he got in one of his missions.
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