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Given that [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]], a leading man who has no sexual experience will generally be mortally embarrassed about the fact and feel the need to get de-flowered as soon as possible to prove himself. The plot generally follows his attempts to meet girls/women and get them into bed. Generally speaking, this is a comedy film, so his attempts are inept or nerdish and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* In ''[[The Iron Dragon's Daughter|The Iron Dragons Daughter]]'', girls have a [[I Call Him "Mister Happy"|"naming ceremony"]], in which a good experience will render their ladybits "pliant and a friend for life". It's suggested that boys have a similar rite.

* This trope is common in the books that [[Miss Marple]]'s nephew Raymond West usually gives her to read, and Miss Marple hates it. Not because of any squeamishness about sex, but because of the rite-of-passage bit; she feel that it removes all the romance and mystery from sex and reduces it to something roughly equivalent to taking a vitamin pill.

* In ''[[The Red Tent]]'', girls in Padan-Aram undergo a ritual upon reaching their first period where they are masturbated with a small household idol by their female relatives, in order to a) break their hymen to offer the resultant blood to the goddess Inanna, and b) encourage (via orgasm) the girl undergoing the ritual to [[Dreaming of Things to Come|dream about what her destiny holds]]. (The Canaanite women, who do not do this ritual, view it as [[Squick]].)

** In the same book, [[Love Interest|Prince Shalem]] mentions having been [[Professional Sex Ed|taken to the high priestess to lose his virginity upon reaching puberty]]. She kept the room dark, so he couldn't actually see her, the idea being that he was sleeping with whatever goddess she served or represented. He fondly remembered it as "like a dream within a dream," although he says it does not compare to his honeymoon with [[The Protagonist|Dinah]].

* Alistair in [[Dragon Age|Dragon Age:Origins]] subverts this trope by refusing female!Gray Warden sexual advances until he falls in love with her, despite the fact that he admits sexual attraction and current virginity.

* In-universe example in [[No One Lives Forever|NOLF 2]], when the backstory of the traitor from the first game is explored. A series of audio diaries reveal that he trained rigorously to take on the role of a super-spy, but being unable to pick up women leaves him feeling inadequate. This changes when the last tape is found...

* This is the case for {{spoiler|Hanako Ikezawa}} in ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', another rare female example. {{spoiler|She allows Hisao to have sex with her even though [[Fan Disservice|she's obviously uncomfortable]] and ''neither'' of them is emotionally ready, because she wants him to stop seeing her as [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|someone that]] [[I Will Protect Her|needs protecting]]. (Even more so, after their sexual act Hisao mistakenly ''thinks'' that [[Rape Tropes|he forced Hanako into sex]], and while explaining this trope Hanako has to dispell these fears too.)}}