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{{quote|Tristan: He wants a virgin sacrifice! Quick, Téa, have sex with me! It's the only way to stop him!

Téa: Hell no, I'm saving myself for Yuugi! ...I mean marriage. }}

* ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' gives us Jubei, poisoned and seeking the antidote. As it turns out, the only way to stop the poison is with more poison. Good thing his partner is a sexy ninja with a [[Kiss of Death]].

** Interesting subversion; {{spoiler|She offers herself -- naked -- to him. He refuses the sex, seemingly on principle. Insult to injury, before she dies, she confesses she loved him,and wished they could have made love before she died.}}

* An inversion in the [[Hentai]] anime ''Dvine Luv'', in which an [[Moe Moe|Adorable]] [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Nice Girl]] noblewoman was ''already'' cured of [[Ill Girl|her lifelong illness]] due to an elixir obtained by the [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] hero Hyde: the catch is the medicine renders the imbiler to be in a ''permanent'' state of arousal and orgasm, resulting in crippling discomfort irrefutably worse than the original illness. The only way to stabilize the side-effects is for her to have a man; cue [[The Hero]] to the rescue once more, in one of the few [[Hentai]] scenes in contemporary anime gentle and tender enough to qualify as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

* In ''[[Tentacle Lovers]]'', the protagonist is accidentally [[Baleful Polymorph|turned into a]] [[Rule of Cute|(cute!)]] [[Naughty Tentacles|tentacle monster]] by a princess from a magical kingdom. If he doesn't regularly come in contact with women, he'll "dry out" and die.

* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'': Possibly the ''only'' [[G-Rated Sex|g-rated]] example. The protagonist must seduce other girls to exorcise the evil spirits [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|possessing them]], and fulfill his [[Deal with the Devil|contract with hell]]. An [[Explosive Leash]] makes sure he does not skeedaddle out of it. The catch? We're talking about a [[Celibate Hero]] who [[Hates Being Touched]] by girls. He barely manages the kiss needed to [[Intimate Healing|seal the deal]] without collapsing every time.

* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'': Possibly the ''only'' [[G-Rated Sex|g-rated]] example. The protagonist must seduce other girls to exorcise the evil spirits [[Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can|possessing them]], and fulfill his [[Deal with the Devil|contract with hell]]. An [[Explosive Leash]] makes sure he does not skeedaddle out of it. The catch? We're talking about a [[Celibate Hero]] who [[Hates Being Touched]] by girls. He barely manages the kiss needed to [[Intimate Healing|seal the deal]] without collapsing every time.

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has Recognition, a telepathic mating urge that forces elf couples with good genetic matches to mate and have children. Elves who try to resist become sick and will eventually die.

** It should be noted that (1) these elves are almost always overjoyed with the opportunity to have a child, and (2) there is no such thing as cheating in the [[Elf Quest]] world, and more often than not Recognized mates are instantly welcomed into their new family, forming bisexual three-way relationships. Only two cases of elves being unwilling to mate are at all relevant to the plot: the main characters Cutter and Leetah, who are both just being stubborn and end up [[Happily Married]]; and the young wolf-elf Dewshine with the old bird-elf Tyldak, because Tyldak was a villain at that point. (Ironically, Recognition allowed them to see each other's "true selves", which caused Dewshine to be somewhat attracted to Tyldak - seeing his original body, not his flesh-shaped one - and Tyldak to be absolutely repulsed by Dewshine - seeing her wolf heritage instead of her regular pretty elf face.)

** Also a case of Mother Nature Knows Best. The result of a Recognition-forced mating will always (1) successfully come to term as a healthy baby (unless an outside force prevents it), and (2) be a genetically superior child who has all of the parents' genetic advantages and few, or any, of their weaknesses. Often, the offspring will manifest entirely new abilities or powers, as well. E.g., if one of the parents is a genius who possesses extremely high psychic ability at the expense of physical frailty, while the other is a half-witted, psychically inept world-class bruiser, the resulting child is pretty much guaranteed to have similar psychic ability to that of the first parent (if not more), [[Genius Bruiser|tremendous physical strength and endurance, and a genius IQ]]. The drawbacks will simply never manifest.

** {{spoiler|Also, in the ''New Blood'' series, Dodia and Door were Recognized, but the ex-Blue Mountain elf soon crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] as a villain, such that she had to bash him over the head with a club to end his crimes. Whether or not she could've done this ''before'' they'd had sex is unclear.}}

== Fan Fic ==

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* ''Once Bitten'': In the (very early) Jim Carrey comedy, the ancient vampire played by Lauren Hutton has to feed on the blood of teenage male virgins to renew her youth. Carrey's girlfriend saves him before the third (final) bite. No, not by killing the vampire, smart guy.

* Film example, Stephen Chow movie ''Royal Tramp'' 2. A villainness is hit with a poison that will kill her before dawn unless she mates with a man. The lucky man turns out to be, you guessed it, Stephen Chow.

** Actually, she was the villainess for the first movie and about half of the sequel, until the aforementioned scene took place. After that, she's basically part of Stephen Chow's harem.

* ''[[The Invention of Lying]]'': Invoked when Ricky Gervais' character discovers lying for the first time in human history. To test his new-found ability, he stops a random attractive woman on the street (Stephanie March) and tells her that unless they have sex "right now" that the world will come to an end. Never realizing that he might not be telling the truth, she agrees in an instant.

** "Do we have time to get a hotel room?"

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* Kathleen Morgan's [[narm]]y romance novel ''Heart's Surrender'' featured a race of [[Petting Zoo People|vaguely feline]] [[Human Aliens]]...who were at very least ''unlikely'' to survive the night if they didn't have sex when their planet's three moons were aligned.

* Used in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' short story ''Raistlin's Daughter'', in which a mysterious woman accidentally forms a painful magical connection with the titular character that can only be severed if she bears his child. When she finally tracks him down and gets him alone so she can explain, Raistlin is less than pleased. Of course, they're conveniently alone in a cave in the middle of a blizzard with no reliable source of heat.

* Played straight in Sherman Alexie's short story ''The Sin Eaters'', where the narrator is [[Shotacon|twelve years old]] and all the American Indians are [[Putting on the Reich|rounded up and placed in facilities]] where they are forced to donate blood and marrow. This is because American Indians have an immune gene of some kind that protects against a virus, or something. They talk about antibodies, and that's all I know. Anyway, the government forces him to breed with a thirty-year-old woman who has already been with several men because [[You Fail Biology Forever|the more men she's with, the stronger the child will be]]. That last one, despite failing biology forever, is actually congruent with the myths of some Native American peoples.

* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]'' by Charles Stross has Ramona Random, an assassin from the CIA's occult equivalent with a succubus bound to her soul. The thing is regularly "fed" by consuming the souls of people Ramona has sex with... and when it gets hungry and Ramona's mark dies of a heart attack before climaxing, she's in a rough spot, as "if it doesn't get the little death, it'll go straight for the big one."

* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] by ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'': Lamdock poisons the Voyagers in the hopes that he can invoke [[Death by Sex]] after transforming them into their human selves. Liquidon, who is not-yet paired with anyone, [[Defied Trope|desperately tries to clear the air of Eros gas so his teammates cannot be ambushed]] while in a [[Aliens Made Them Do It|Mantithian wizard-induced trance]].

** And Subverted: {{spoiler|Neone Washingtip}} knew she had to fulfill Pentacko's orders; but if only she'd known: {{spoiler|Consto}} wasn't even interested in sex! So even if she ''did'' get to get it on with him, he'd've killed her anyway.

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* In ''[[Women of the Otherworld]]'', Karl tries desperately to stay away from Hope, but ultimately is unable to because his inner wolf has chosen her as his mate and he can't bear to be away from her any longer. It gets to the point where he practically jumps her in her apartment (though he ''does'' let her know that at any point she can tell him to gtfo and he'll comply).

** Disturbingly, the next book in the series introduces the kumpania, a cult of inbred clairvoyants who are required by their own laws to produce a child within a year of marriage. Any who fail to comply go through what can easily be called group rape - [[Nightmare Fuel|the woman is forced to have sex with ''all'' the other adult males in the kumpania until she gets pregnant]].

* {{spoiler|Jory and Kol}} in S.L. Viehl's ''Blade Dancer''.

* Lisanne Norman's [[Sholan Slliance]] series features Leska pairs who live and die by this trope.

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== [[Web Original]] ==

* This trope is the premise of the [[Journal Roleplay|Livejournal based roleplaying game]] [[Amat Omnes]] (generally referred to as "Amat"): a [[Wizard Did It|Goddess]] kidnaps characters from their homeworlds, plunks them on an island from which there is no possible escape, and puts on them collars that will gradually choke them to death unless they have sex at least once every two weeks. Luckily for all involved the definition of "sex" is loosely defined to "as long as two people, inappropriate touching, and mutual orgasm is involved".

== Western Animation ==

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* In one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', Leela and Zapp are forced to have sex by a censorship death star/V-ger homage. It thought they were Adam and Eve, and decided that them mating was the only way to redeem Earth's for its sexually promiscuous sins. If they didn't mate, it would have ''destroyed Earth''.

** Inverted with the Decapodians (Zoidberg's species), who are instinctively drawn back to their home planet to mate, ''and then'' die.