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Often a subtrope of the [[Coming of Age Story]]. Contrast with the [[Celibate Hero]] theory, which says, "Real men can resist sex." Compare [[Sex Is Cool]]. Often found in the [[Sex Comedy]]. A subtrope of this trope is [[Professional Sex Ed]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Most of the plot of ''The Last American Virgin''.
* ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'': Baby.
* Boner (pronounced "Bonner") in ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (Film)|Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]''. He spends the entire movie trying to get some. At one point, he spontaneously declares that the protagonists should [[American Pie|make a pact to lose their virginity before graduating]]. Everyone turns him down simultaneously (but [[The Ditz|Slab O'Beef]] agrees). At lunch (oysters, natch), he laments that roofies aren't getting him laid when he takes them (Slab opines that he's not taking enough). Even when it looks like he's getting some at the climax, it's all [[Innocent Innuendo|sight gags]] to illustrate [[Action Girl|Martina Martinez's]] [[Scream (Film)|rules of a parody situation]]. A [[Hospital Hottie]] jumps him for his [[Biggus Dickus]] as he's being loaded into an ambulance. The [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] reveals that she's a post-op transsexual; Boner doesn't care.
* This is pretty much the plot of every [[Michael Cera]] film. [[Superbad]], [[Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist]], [[Youth in Revolt]], plus he also loses his virginity in [[Juno]].
* ''The Virginity Hit'' is the story of Matt, whose friends try to get him laid. [[Hilarity Ensues|And make a movie out of it.]] On a side note: the main character is played by Matt Bennett. Yes, [[Victorious|that Matt Bennet]].
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*** This trope is played so straight that in one book, the plot kicks off with a goblin having to take her kid brother to a forgetfulness spring, because he's gained tremendous power just by learning to ''swear''. Lord knows what would have happened if he'd found out about stork summoning.
* The [[Miles Vorkosigan]] series has Miles' first time described in his thoughts and fitting the [[Feudal Future]], it matches a traditional one of European aristocrats- on a "Grand Tour". Miles went to [[Pleasure Planet|Beta]] and had his first experience with a woman who had a fetish for those deformed like himself. When he saw her with someone else, he tried to slit his wrists and was only stopped from suicide by [[Battle Butler|Bothari]] (the context of Miles' memory is that he knows Bothari was a psycho, but he also remembers Bothari's kindness to him).
* In ''[[The Iron Dragons Daughter (Literature)|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.
{{quote| Sex as a word had not been mentioned much in Miss Marple's day, but there had been plenty of it, not talked about so much, but enjoyed far more, or so it seemed to her. Though usually labeled Sin, she couldn't help thinking that was preferable to what it was now, a kind of Duty....Really, to have sex urged on you as though it were an iron tonic! Poor young things.}}
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* In a flashback ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' showed us how Barney losing his virginity to Rhonda "The Man-Maker" French turned him into the [[Casanova]] we know today.
* In [[Glee]], Finn loses his virginity to Santana, believing in this trope. but was incredibly regretful about it immediately afterwards and the following Monday denies he lost it yet.
* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Cory and Shawn say that their prom night will be "the night we leave as boys and come back as men", and both try to persuade their respective girlfriends to have sex for the first time. Cory and Topanga almost go through with it, but [[Let's Wait Awhile|decide not to in the end]], and Shawn and Angela, well... the episode ends [[Did They or Didn't They?|without resolving that plotline]] and it's not mentioned in the subsequent episodes.
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== Western Animation ==
* One episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' parodied this plot, in full-blown [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] style. Stan is upset because although he is a CIA agent, he has never killed a man, and [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]. So he sets out to find the right person to be his first kill.
** The episode "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option" episode [[Moment Killer|has a repo-man telling Steve "Well you may have planned on becoming men through sexual conquest, but perhaps an equally valid preparation for adulthood would be a night filled with disappointment and compromise."]]
** The first several episodes of the series had subplots about Steve trying to score with girls. Luckily, [[Casanova Wannabe|this aspect]] of his character [[Characterization Marches On|was later downplayed]].
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