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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Chobits]]'' uses this as a source of drama: penetrative intercourse with Chii will activate her reset mechanism and erase all her memories, destroying her feelings of love in the process.

 

== Literature ==

* In [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series. Stile's wife has been [[Prophecies Are Always Right|prophesied]] to have one child by her second husband. So as long as they don't consummate their marriage, Stile remains safe from death.

* [[Cal Leandros]] is so afraid of impregnating the human he loves (he doesn't trust birth control at all) with his half-evil-[[The Fair Folk|fairy]] sperm that he will only boink other species that he's biologically incompatible with.

* Edward and Bella can't have sex in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' because he would crush her and/or suck her blood ({{spoiler|this is true for the first 3 books anyway}}).

** To be more exact, Edward refuses to have sex with Bella before marriage due to his old fashioned values.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' wizards can't have sex because there is a risk that the resulting child could be a sourceror, a magician powerful enough to destroy the world by accident. They don't seem to have heard of non-procreative sex.

*** Good luck hiding that from the wizards raised in rural environments, especially Archchancellor Ridcully.

** It's actually worse than not having discovered non-procreative sex; a sorcerer will only be born if they're the eighth son of an eight son. So in theory, there's lots of sex that can be had before they have to stop, and some wizard could never have a problem. This is mentioned in some of the early books, so there's a good chance it's the kind of canon that can be safely ignored.

** Mostly, though, wizards don't have sex because they usually [[Chaste Hero|find magic]] [[Asexuality|more interesting]]. They're [[nerd]]s, after all...

*** Ah, '[[Insistent Terminology|Postmortem Communications]]'.

* Played on a villain in ''Exiles at the Well of Souls'', when the sexually-perverse and licentious [[Big Bad|Antor Trelig]] is transformed into a Makiem, a frog-like alien race. Makiem don't copulate at all, they just release gametes into the water once a year without any physical contact. Karma's a bitch, eh?

* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''The Gods Themselves'', it is emphasized a few times that Earthborn and Moonborn people suffer from a ''slight sexual incompatibility'' due to Earth people's tendency to subconsciously move as in normal Earth-gravity during moments of abandon—an Earthman would be very likely to injure his partner in the lower gravity of the Moon. {{spoiler|In the end, it's implied that the protagonists can work something out.}}

** Turians have a similar issue—being dextro-amino-based lifeforms, any sort of fluid-exchange could (in a worst case scenario) cause a deadly allergic reaction in either party, and Mordin's repeated warnings of chafing. {{spoiler|Once again, you ''can'' still go with it if you're romancing Garrus, but it takes quite a bit of planning beforehand. Mordin suggests that you try not to ingest.}}

** Some asari are Ardat-Yakshi: they suffer from a condition that fatally burns out the nervous system of anyone with whom they mate. To make matters worse, this also gives the Ardat-Yakshi a boost to their own natural biotic ability, [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|which proves addictive]].

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' it's never been spelled out, but it's been heavily implied that, however effective Voluptua's shapeshifter unit that lets her appear human may be, she and Bob would not be ''able'' to do much of anything physical, even if they were so inclined.

* Deepblooded (drastically mutated) [[Hell Hound|crater hounds]] in ''[[Wurr (Webcomic)|Wurr]]'' are not permitted to mate, as stillbirths or [[Death by Childbirth]] would likely result.

 

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