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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Samantha''': He is ''hot.''
'''Carrie''': He is a priest!
'''Samantha''': [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|He is a HOT priest]]!
|''[[Sex and the City]]''}}
Basically the [[Spear Counterpart|male counterpart]] of [[Naughty Nuns]]: the handsome, attractive, usually young priest. Has a ''long'' tradition in western culture, dating at least to the Middle Ages. The priest is usually Roman Catholic for the added [[Forbidden Fruit]] aspects of celibacy, but there's still room for the handsome young pastor in Protestant settings as well.
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* (pictured) Father Remington of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is handsome... and ''knows'' it. He happily flirts back with the younger nuns, much to Sister Kate's chagrin. He's handsome enough that
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* (pictured) Father Remington of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is handsome... and ''knows'' it. He happily flirts back with the younger nuns, much to Sister Kate's chagrin. He's handsome enough that Rosette -- a [[Naughty Nuns|nun]] herself and something of an adopted daughter to him -- has a crush on him, too, making him also a case of a [[Hot Dad]].
** Apparently, the reason why he's so hot in the anime is that {{spoiler|he's a [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] fallen angel}}. (In the manga he's {{spoiler|unnaturally youthful despite having been a teen in the 1870s due to being implanted with demonic "legion."}}
** In the epilogue of the manga, it turns out that {{spoiler|Joshua Christopher, Rosette's younger brother, becomes a priest as well and keeps his [[Bishonen]] looks}}.
* The Church of Violence in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' acquires one of these in season 2: Ricardo aka Rico, the [[Naive Newcomer]] who hangs out with [[Naughty Nuns|Eda]] and [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs|gets called "jackass" for referring to her as "sis" intead of "Sister"]].
* Miroku of ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is a ''houshi'', a wandering Buddhist monk. He's also Team Inuyasha's resident [[Handsome Lech]] and generally very popular with the ladies of any given [[Adventure Towns|Adventure Town]]
* ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' is full of them. Father Abel, Father Tres, Father Leon, Father Hugue, Brother Petro... even the Pope! [http://media.photobucket.com/image/trinity%20blood%20anime%20tres%20abel%20hugue/ErchinEragon/Animes/Vampire%20Series/largeAnimePaperwallpapers_Trinity-B.jpg Observe here].
* Nicholas D. Wolfwood in ''[[Trigun]]''.
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* Frau in ''[[07-Ghost]]''. And [[Stoic Spectacles|Castor]].
* Charley in ''[[Vassalord]]'', though [[Boys Love|he gets it all the time from Rayflo]].
* Enrico Pucci from part 6 of ''[[
* While not exactly priests, the Exorcists in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' could qualify.
* Ryoumei, from ''Yume Musubi, Koi Musubi''. [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yume_musubi_koi_musubi/v01/c001/10.html See here for reference]. (Although that's when he's just a teenager.)
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* Paul McGann, who has his own personal [[Estrogen Brigade]], played a vicar in ''[[Lesbian Vampire Killers]]''.
* Young Jean-Paul Belmondo in ''Léon Morin, prêtre''. A young atheist woman confronts him. She ends up beaten by the [http://media.paperblog.fr/i/135/1356077/beatrix-beck-auteure-leon-morin-pretre-est-mo-L-1.jpeg obvious power of faith (and a something else beyond)]
* Camerlengo Patrick McKenna from ''[[Angels
* Gael Garcia Bernal's Father Amaro from ''The Crime of Father Amaro''. Bades on a novel.
* Gabriel Byrne in ''Stigmata''.
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* Also, the ''bogatyr'' (similar to "knight errant") Alyosha Popovich from Russian folk legends may fit. While not a priest himself (he's a ''popovich'', or [[Preacher's Kid|priest's son]]: the Russian Orthodox Church allows married men to become priests), his image bears many of the stereotypes associated with priests at the time (e.g., he's cunning and well-spoken, and relies more on wits than strength). Besides his valiant deeds, Alyosha is known for his often [[Casanova|dubious amorous escapades]]. Like that one time when he [[Loveable Sex Maniac|"disgraced" a fair maiden]] and received severe fisticuffs from her angry brothers. Or when he tried to trick the wife of his fellow bogatyr, Dobrynya Nikitich, into marrying him by telling her that Dobrynya's dead. It's important to note that Alyosha also gets the girl (a beautiful, loving wife) at the end.
* In medieval Europe, the supposed sexual endowment of priests was standard dirty-joke fodder:
** One joke had a wife threatening to leave her husband because of his physical inadequacy: the priest arranged to have him "inspected" by the women of the parish, through a hole in the church door. The man admitted to the priest that his wife's accusations were
** Kramer and Sprenger, in their notorious witch-hunting manual ''Malleus Maleficarum'', accepted just such a dirty joke as a factual report of witches' stealing men's "members":
{{quote|"And what, then, is to be thought of those witches who in this way sometimes collect male organs in great numbers, as many as twenty or thirty members together, and put them in a bird’s nest, or shut them up in a box, where they move themselves like living members, and eat oats and corn, as has been seen by many and is a matter of common report? It is to be said that it is all done by devil’s work and illusion, for the senses of those who see them are deluded in the way we have said. For a certain man tells that, when he had lost his member, he approached a known witch to ask her to restore it to him. She told the afflicted man to climb a certain tree, and that he might take which he liked out of the nest in which there were several members. And when he tried to take a big one, the witch said: You must not take that one; adding, because it belongs to a parish priest."}}
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* Mentioned in ''Gargantua'': "The tower of a cloister makes the woman of the village more fertile."
* In Barbara Kingsolver's novel ''[[The Bean Trees]]'', Taylor mentions that whenever she sees Father William, she has to resist the urge to flirt with him.
* ''The Thorn Birds''
* Father Dominic from ''The Mediator'' series by Meg Cabot is in his sixties, but Suze the heroine, frequently notices how handsome he must have been and actually still is "in that Sean Connery way".
* Julien Sorel, the [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[The Red and The Black]]''.
* There is a medieval (probably [[The High Middle Ages|12th century]]) Latin poem called the "[[Carmina Burana|Altercatio Phyllidis et Flora]]" about whether knights or priests make better lovers. Guess who wins?
* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' features a Friar as one of the pilgrims who loves associating with the fairer sex, and is kind enough to perform marriages which he has made necessary.
* Medieval literature in general has tons of
* A number of these in the [[Deryni]] works. Bishop Denis Arilan's face is described as "handsome", and then-Monsignor (later Bishop) Duncan McLain prompts this exchange between two ladies at his cousin's ducal court:
{{quote|"...I do hope he gets back in time for dinner. You've seen him, haven't you?"
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* Emilio Sandoz in Mary Doria Russell's ''The Sparrow'' is a particularly sympathetic example.
* Father Lorenzo Quart in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's ''The Seville Communion''.
** Also from Pérez-Reverte is ''[[Alatriste|Purity of Blood]]''. Fray Juan Coroada is a very good-looking, well-spoken thirty-year-old. He controls a convent — and [[Sinister Minister|takes sexual advantage of the nuns]].
{{Quote|"They are even told that ... certain intimacies and unchaste acts proposed by the spiritual director are the pathway to perfection."}}
* ''[[The Monk]]'' Ambrosio is described as being very attractive, and is obviously popular with the ladies of his congregation.
* Aramis from ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' and sequels.
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** He wasn't a priest, he was a religious broadcaster on the radio only, Steve just incorrectly assumed he was a vicar.
* Father Philip Callaghan from ''[[Poltergeist: The Legacy]]''.
* Rickety Cricket in ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]''
* Book of ''[[Firefly]]''. He's by no means young, either, so he's also an example of [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]].
* A female one of these was recently seen on ''[[What Not to Wear]]''. Especially after the makeover, but before it, she was pretty cute, too.
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* Father Phil had a flirtation with Carmella in ''[[The Sopranos]]''
* Father Jack Landry in the 2009 remake of ''[[V-2009|V]]'' has a [[Shirtless Scene]] in one episode and he had a history of touring in Iraq.
* More cute than "sexy" but Father Mulcahy from ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' wore a tight black t-shirt with his usual army uniform sometimes and looked very nice indeed.
* In an episode of ''[[Spin City]]'', the men play a prank on the women by cancelling the male stripper who was to attend Claudia's bachelorette party and send a Catholic priest instead. The priest happened to be rather handsome. Guess what happened.
* Invoked in ''Penn & Teller'' when they meet a self-described "porn pastor." It's not quite what it sounds like.
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* Caleb has to consider his faith after flirting with Annie in 90210.
== [[Music]] ==
* There's nothing true here yet, but the blue man in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg59is5AyUg\] sure looks like a sexy priest, judging by the robes.
** The blue man's name is Kaito, by the way.
*** This troper believes they meant purple (Gackupo) as Kaito's clothing does not look anywhere similar to clothing of the clergy, an entertainer maybe. Gackupo on the other hand does seem to be dressed like a priest of some sort.
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** [http://adultimum.net/rw/97/ This comic illustrates it perfectly].
* Carter, from ''[[Harvest Moon|Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town/More Friends]]'' is this... at least, in the eyes of [[Self Fanservice|many fangirls]]. Many of them lament that he's not an elligble bachelor. [[One Steve Limit|Not to be confused with]] Carter the ''Archaeologist'' from the ''Wonderful Life/DS'' subseries.
* [https://wow.gamepedia.com/Argent_Confessor_Paletress Ardent Confessor Paletress] from ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' could be a female example. Unlike the typical healer found in RPG settings, she does actual duties expected of the clergy, like hold mass and hear confessional. Her soft, sexy voice shows that a woman doesn't have to wear a [[Stripperiffic]] outfit to be [[Ms. Fanservice]].
* All of the the Lumen Sages in ''[[Bayonetta]]'' are young, handsome, muscular, charismatic, smooth-talking guys, and some of them radiate light. [[Light Is Not Good| (These are the bad guys, by the way)]]. In fact, to drive the point home, the [[Big Bad]] of the first game is named [[Norse Mythology| Father Balder]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The Witch craze in Loudun, France, was started when an amorous priest was brought on trial for witchcraft. Said priest had earlier on publicly humiliated some local bishop named [[Magnificent Bastard|Armand Jean du Plessis]] and who went on to become [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|Cardinal]] some time later. It is the basis of the movie ''The Devils'' mentioned above.
* There's a calendar featuring male Mormon missionaries. The things one learns from [[Stephen Fry]]...
** There's also [https://web.archive.org/web/20090310031300/http://guanabee.com/2009/01/what-the-frock-vatican-priest-calendar-makes-us-feel-catholicky-guilty one featuring actual priests].
* In American Roman Catholic popular culture, such priests are known as [http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/Catholic/2000/11/Father-What-A-Waste.aspx "Father What-A-Waste"].
* [[Meaningful Name|Father Cutie]] is not exactly hard on the eyes, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826151641/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1896581,00.html he seems to know it].
* The Reverend [[wikipedia:Ida Auken|Ida Auken]] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark, also a Socialist MP and current Danish Minister for the Environment. This being a Lutheran church, not only is a woman allowed to be a priest, but they're allowed to marry; her mother was ''also'' a priest (and a Social Democratic MP).
* Pope Benedict XVI's private secretary, Monsignor Georg Gänswein, is known throughout the Vatican as [http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tbs=isch:1&&sa=X&ei=Vh67TJngE8H88Ab02szHDg&ved=0CCMQBSgA&q=georg+gaenswein&spell=1&biw=1280&bih=626 "Beautiful George"] because of his good looks. Possibly the only Vatican official in history to attract the attention of the tabloids and the papparazzi (that's the photographers, NOT Sun-speak for the current Pontiff).
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