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[[File:~~orks_3430~~.jpg|link=Nerf Now|frame|[[World of Warcraft|Orcs have "needs" too, you know...]]]]

[[File:orks 3430.jpg|link=Nerf Now|frame|[[World of Warcraft|Orcs have "needs" too, you know...]]]]

{{quote|'''Oswald:''' ''Forget it. I don't wanna talk about this.''

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*** And the two lead characters avert the trope entirely: they are quite thoroughly lesbian, as illustrated by the manga's epilogue that takes place after high school.

* ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' establishes via [[Techno Babble]] that the girls' [[Virgin Power|Otome powers go away]] if they have sexual relations with men. This is odd in that male characters are still around, and with one exception, none of them are involved romantically with other Otome, presumably so that the writers didn't upset the sizable [[Yuri Fan|yuri fanbase]].

** Note that its heavily implied in-universe that the inventors of the system that gives them their powers did this on purpose, although whether its because they're idiots or [[Yuri Fanboy~~|Yuri Fanboys~~]] is never made clear.

** Note that its heavily implied in-universe that the inventors of the system that gives them their powers did this on purpose, although whether its because they're idiots or [[Yuri Fanboy]]s is never made clear.

* Everyone in ''[[Simoun]]'''s world is female until age 17, which makes all teenage romance [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]] by default.

* ''[[Vandread]]'' reverses it. The two cultures start off unfamiliar with the idea of gender at all, but when encountering each other for the first time, some of the women and all three of the captured men turn out to be straight (or at least bi). Not that they have any idea ''why'' they find the "[[Mars Needs Women|aliens]]" more attractive than their own kind...

** Then again, when one of the only three males {{spoiler|(at least that we knew of immediately)}} had [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|a Bridget dropped on him]], he decided he didn't care anymore and continued his pursuit anyway.

** One of the women finds a book that explains heterosexual sex and reproduction. She wants to try it but the way she goes about it with the youngest male available and the fact that she has a girlfriend suggest that she doesn't really comprehend the importance. She also gets accused of witchcraft when the female government finds it in her possession. It sounds funny. It was not.

* ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'', where the world is all male because the only survivors of the spaceship crash were male, and since [[Did Not Do the Research|not-so-logically]] everyone is a clone from the DNA of those six, there aren't any women. If they can do cloning, why can't they do X-chromosome duplication? Never mind. Oddly enough [[Robot Girl~~|Robot Girls~~]] in the series are mostly treated as impressive machines, but Hanagata is the only real [[Pet Homosexual|obviously gay]] character. It ''is'' [[Shonen]], after all. The manga states outright that lack of women is the reason for most of the homosexual relationships on Terra 2.

* ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'', where the world is all male because the only survivors of the spaceship crash were male, and since [[Did Not Do the Research|not-so-logically]] everyone is a clone from the DNA of those six, there aren't any women. If they can do cloning, why can't they do X-chromosome duplication? Never mind. Oddly enough [[Robot Girl]]s in the series are mostly treated as impressive machines, but Hanagata is the only real [[Pet Homosexual|obviously gay]] character. It ''is'' [[Shonen]], after all. The manga states outright that lack of women is the reason for most of the homosexual relationships on Terra 2.

* Indirectly affects ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''; no doubt one of the main reasons there's so much [[Everyone Is Gay|Yaoi Fic]] in this fandom is the [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|dearth of female characters]] and overabundance of [[Bishonen]].

* One storyline in the manga ''[[Legal Drug|Gohou Drug]]'' involves the characters infiltrating an all male boarding school, where almost all the guys are gay simply because there are no girls around. One student even explains this trope directly to the main character.

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** A throwaway line a while ago basically said Queen Hippolyta is in a relationship with General Phillipus, and [[Word of God]] confirmed it (as well as the fact that they intended to do a storyline where they got married before [[Executive Meddling|the editorial axed it]]).

* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight]]'' comics have Buffy hook up with fellow Slayer Satsu. It is shown as a result of Buffy feeling emotionally isolated (not to mention sexually-deprived), so she latches on to Satsu (who is genuinely in love with Buffy). This is similar to her relationship with Spike, where she also chose a unusual partner (a soulless corpse in that case) who was genuinely in love with her, in order to satisfy her (purely physical) needs (though at least Satsu she liked and respected, while she frequently professed outright disgust and rage at Spike during season six).

** Hilariously, it was ''Satsu'' who broke off the relationship with Buffy... and then spent an entire issue [[~~Wangst|wangsting~~]] about Buffy rejecting her, despite this never having actually happened.

** Hilariously, it was ''Satsu'' who broke off the relationship with Buffy... and then spent an entire issue [[wangst]]ing about Buffy rejecting her, despite this never having actually happened.

== [[Fanfic]] ==

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* In the ''Discworld'' series of books, dwarves embody this through most of the series. Both male and female dwarves wear the same clothes, have beards and so forth. Therefore, courtship for dwarves is described as delicately finding out the gender of a fellow dwarf. When this starts to change through one female dwarf taking on [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]], it causes a huge uproar in the dwarf community.

* Rather baselessly averted in [[John Wyndham]]'s ''Consider Her Ways''. In the aftermath of a virus wiping out all men, a basically sexless society emerges. Wyndham seems to have utterly dismissed the possibility that women could form romantic relationships with each other, despite making a reference to [[Sappho]] at one point. He admitted that he put plot ahead of common sense in that one and seemed to regret it. Happens to the best of us.

* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' has what are euphemistically referred to as "pillow friends", especially among initiates in the White Tower, where girls are isolated from men (and the world altogether) and would have problems anyway due to their powers and extended lifespan. Treated as a very private matter and not looked down upon, most of these relationships dissolve upon completing the long training process, anyway, though not always. All of the all-female organizations have some mention of this. Complicated by the fact that "pillow friends" can refer to a platonic friendship, since sharing a bed isn't always ~~sexual--it~~'s just as often that one of the friends has been punished and wants to cry herself to sleep on a friend's shoulder.

* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' has what are euphemistically referred to as "pillow friends", especially among initiates in the White Tower, where girls are isolated from men (and the world altogether) and would have problems anyway due to their powers and extended lifespan. Treated as a very private matter and not looked down upon, most of these relationships dissolve upon completing the long training process, anyway, though not always. All of the all-female organizations have some mention of this. Complicated by the fact that "pillow friends" can refer to a platonic friendship, since sharing a bed isn't always sexual—it's just as often that one of the friends has been punished and wants to cry herself to sleep on a friend's shoulder.

** A comparably ''extremely'' brief allusion to a male equivalent in [[The Empire]]'s military companies occurs in ''Knife of Dreams'' during Tuon's point-of-view.

* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s ''Enchantment Emporium'' the Gale clan usually [[Incest Is Relative|keeps things in the family]] and there are more female Gales than male so they tend, in the words of one of them, to be "enthusiastically undiscriminating".

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* Possible case with Daenerys Targaryen of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', who becomes intimate with her handmaiden Irri. She wasn't exactly short on men at the time, but rather men who she trusted.

** Subverted with Cersei, who ends up bedding (to some degree) one of her female friends, but she finds no pleasure in the act.

** Oddly averted with the Night's Watch. YMMV, but I found it odd that nobody has even joked about [[Situational Sexuality]] among the men of the Night's Watch.

** Oddly averted with the Night's Watch. YMMV, but I found it odd that nobody has even joked about Situational Sexuality among the men of the Night's Watch.

*** Probably only averted because there's a town with a brothel within a day's ride. A good portion of the Watch makes use of it, despite their vows including one of celibacy.

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== [[Real Life]] ==

* Can be [[Truth in Television]]; the old [[Hello, Sailor!|Royal Navy]] was famously rife with "rum, sodomy, and the lash", and not all prison sex is [[Prison Rape]]. Until anti-sodomy laws were struck down in Britain, the only time that "buggery" was legal was "after ninety days at sea," at which point it was no longer a crime.

** As [[The Onion]] blurb in ''Our Dumb Century'' for August ~~15th~~, 1954 put it: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened".

** As [[The Onion]] blurb in ''Our Dumb Century'' for August 15, 1954 put it: "Let's Work Together to Pretend Our War-Time Homosexual Experiences Never Happened".

** Old joke about life on submarines, "150 people go down, 75 couples come up"

** Hence the phrase "Prison Gay", with the con asserting, despite the evidence, "I'm not gay"

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** Others, due to the way that reptilian genetics can work, produce only males through this method.

* Plus bison and other animals with sex-segregated herds. You can only go so long without!

** For that matter, [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bisexual-species homosexual behavior is much more common among zoo animals than among the same species in the wild], and is even displayed in captive species that in the wild are rarely or never homosexual (such as koalas.) The same article briefly discusses this trope as applied to ~~humans--40~~% of high school football players admit to having engaged in same-sex kissing or similar acts.

** For that matter, [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bisexual-species homosexual behavior is much more common among zoo animals than among the same species in the wild], and is even displayed in captive species that in the wild are rarely or never homosexual (such as koalas.) The same article briefly discusses this trope as applied to humans—40% of high school football players admit to having engaged in same-sex kissing or similar acts.

* While in heat, female rats and mice will often start humping each other in the absence of males. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HahZhRRtb0Y&feature=related Ahem...]