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* ''The Duke and I''. Daphne wants kids, but her new husband doesn't. He's pulling out before ejaculation, but as far as she knows (because her mother neglected to give her [[The Talk]]) they're trying to make a baby.
** Since pulling out isn't a reliable method of contraception (although recent studies rate it as only slightly less effective than normal, not perfect, condom use), there's a bit of crossover with the second type of this as well.
* ''[[The Joy Luck Club (Literature)|The Joy Luck Club]]'' has one of the mothers, Lindo, revealing through backstory that her first husband in China was unable to get her pregnant. While his mother, her mother-in-law, eager for a lot of grandchildren, accuses her of "spilling his seed," it's revealed that it's because they haven't actually had sex. This is because the husband is very young, bare minimum to be having children, and isn't emotionally ready for it yet.
* [[The Thorn Birds]]: Meggie thinks she's dying because because she's been "bleeding from her bottom" once a month for several months. Poor Father Ralph has to explain to her that she's having her period, all the while suppressing his anger at Fee, Meggie's mother, for being so neglectful of her daughter that she's failed to explain this to her. During that same conversation, he asks her if she knows where babies come from and she cheerfully declares, "You wish for them and they grow!". She's in for quite an unpleasant surprise on her wedding night. . .
** The movie improves on this slightly by having her know about sex (having grown up on a farm, she's witnessed the animal behavior), but is still shocked at how painful her first experience is.
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== Visual Novels ==
* ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]''. Kappei refuses to go through with a life-saving operation, so his girlfriend Ryou tries to coerce him by claiming that she's pregnant with his child... until Kappei points out that they haven't fulfilled the necessary prerequisites.
 
 
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]''. The episode "Deacon Stan, Jesus Man" played with this. Steve gets caught holding hands with his crush, Betsy by her parents who tell her "hand holding leads to kissing which can get you pregnant.". Later in the episode, Steve gives Roger CPR and wakes up the next morning [[Mister Seahorse|pregnant]]. Roger, being an alien, as well as one of [[Ambiguous Gender]], reveals that his species reproduces through mouth to mouth contact, and he accidentally [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|put his spawn into Steve]]. Later, Steve kisses his crush, Betsy, the daughter of Stan's rival, Chuck White. The next morning he wakes up no longer pregnant. It turns out he transferred the spawn to her, and she's now pregnant.
* ''[[Drawn Together]]''. Conniving bitch Toot convinces Princess Clara she's fallen pregnant because the next thing after [[True Love's Kiss]] is children. Clara submits to a tumble or three down the stairs of the "M.C. Escher room" before Foxxy Love explains to her how human biology works. Even worse, Clara had been kissed by ''another woman''. Talk about [[Virginity Makes You Stupid]].
* ''[[King of the Hill]]''. In season 3 episode 14, "The Wedding of Bobby Hill", Bobby and Luanne have an [[Escalating War]] of pranks that culminates in Bobby replacing Luanne's birth control pills with candy, and Luanne then tricking him into believing that this alone made her pregnant and that [[Shotgun Wedding|he must now marry her]]. Hank and Peggy apparently go along with this to teach Bobby a lesson... and {{spoiler|then trick ''Luanne'' into thinking the marriage is actually legally valid, to teach ''her'' a lesson too}}. They can be [[The Chessmaster|quite sneaky]] sometimes.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' In one episode, Bart thinks he has gotten a girl pregnant by kissing and holding her hand at the same time, a case of [[Ping-Pong Naivete]].
** A deleted scene from an episode where Lisa gets a crush on Nelson has her daydreaming about them being married with a baby. Nelson presents it to her and says "Our love created it somehow."
 
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'''Fawn:''' I ''said'' I was stupid about it. I thought maybe people were different than heifers. I thought maybe Sunny knew more than me. He could hardly know less. It's not as if anybody talked about it. To me, I mean. }}
* Cara in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'', mentions a teen who believed that she became pregnant because Darken Rahl gave her a flower and did some magic on it.
* Almost ''everybody'' in ''[[EarthsEarth's Children]]'' do not know about the sex/pregnancy connection. The Clan thinks that every month a totem from a female and a totem from a nearby male will fight, and if the female totem looses, the female will get pregnant. The Others believe the Earth Mother blesses females with babies. [[Mary Sue|Ayla]] is the only person who connects sex with babies.
** More justified than, well, pretty much every other unique discovery or technological advancement Ayla is solely responsible for; she's the only female character we meet who's spent a prolonged period totally isolated from male company, or in fact any human or Neanderthal company at all for that matter, and eventually she starts to wonder why she hasn't become pregnant.
 
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** Spike thought she couldn't get pregnant her first time. She was wrong.
** ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' also had this happen, this time to Manny.
* ''[[That Seventies70s Show]]''
** Jackie discovers she is pregnant, but she thought you couldn't get pregnant for 8 days after your period. Though, as Donna points out, it's eight days after the first day of the period, not the last day. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in that it turns out she's not actually pregnant anyway.
*** Not that Donna's words were any better since it's possible for a woman to become pregnant after having had sex during a period.
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== Print Media ==
* ''[[Weekly World News]]''. A story from that escaped into the wild as an [[Urban Legend]]: A woman sues the maker of spermicidal jelly after she gets pregnant. Then it turns out that she had used the product by ''putting it on crackers and eating it''.
** Referenced (but inverted) in an episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. A woman comes to him complaining of itching and smelling bad "down there." It turns out she had been using jelly...but not ''spermicidal'' jelly, which gave her a bacterial infection.
* An article on Urban Myths on Fertility in Chile: "I use the Chinese calendar: You won't get pregnant if you only have sex when you are 'Closed'." [[Face Palm|"Open" was when she was likely to be bleeding.]]
 
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]''. A... [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0501.html divine example:]
{{quote| '''[[Boisterous Bruiser|Thor]]:''' It's not my fault! She never told me she was a ''fertility'' goddess!<br />
'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Loki]]:''' She has flowers in her hair and bluebirds singing around her head. Who did you think she was, the bringer of pestilence? }}
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