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Does sex just happen as naturally as breathing around you? When alone with a woman, is the next shot always of [[Dress Hits Floor|her dress hitting the floor]]? Did an [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem|instant harem]] appear at your house? Perhaps you have a [[Compelling Voice]], and take to its [[Power Perversion Potential|logical conclusion]]. You almost certainly make [[Bow Chicka Wow Wow]] music on the soundtrack when you walk down the street. People will look.

 

 

Often pornomancers are a walking [[Deus Sex Machina]], but they can exist in more family-friendly works, such as [[The Casanova]] in a sit-com, or the [[Femme Fatale]] in a detective show. Pornomancy is often exhibited by [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] and any other character so hot that they [[Even the Guys Want Him|engender attraction]] from [[Even the Girls Want Her|same-sex heterosexuals]].

[[Whatevermancy|Pornomancy]] is sometimes blatantly supernatural in a work, particularly in [[Hentai]], where powers are [[Power Perversion Potential|almost immediately used for their most sexual application]] upon being obtained or there's actually a loose [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|magical justification]] for [[More Friends, More Benefits|all that sexing]], but more often the cause of a character's ability to make respected citizens become slobbering sex maniacs is completely non-magical within the context of the show's universe: it simply starts off as an [[Informed Ability]] and everyone pretty much accepts it as a given (with the occasional [[Hand Wave]] when writers feel frisky). Even if the show has no established super-normal content, pornomancy is still possible through ''TV'' magic.

 

 

Aversions of this trope occur when, for example, the [[Casanova]] "earns" the conquest plausibly to the viewers. Subversions take place when the [[Informed Ability]] turns out to be just that... for example, the [[Femme Fatale]]'s charms fail and she strikes out miserably; it's also a subversion when the person with said powers knows he or she ''can'' use them for sex, but doesn't.

* [[Sir Apropos of Nothing]] gets a ring (that does not go on his finger) that gives him pornomancy in ''The Woad to Wuin'', the second book of the series. Subverted in that it quickly proves to be a curse: "The women came to me in all shapes, all sizes, young and old, pretty and . . . less so. ... Finally they tied me to the bed. There are worse ways to pass one's hours, but none come readily to mind."

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' this is the power of one of the families of the White Court of Vampires, which they use to facilitate their feeding on a person's ''soul'' and ''life'' through sex. If a vampire gets hungry gender appropriate prey will try to get close and tear their clothes off. The vampires can tone the effect to [[Distracted by the Sexy|tolerable levels]], though. It should be noted that gender DOESN'T matter for the White Court. If it has a libido, they can eat it.

* Mikael Blomkvist, the male lead from Stieg Larsson's ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|Millennium]]'' series. There are only two female characters featuring in more than a few paragraphs that Blomkvist ''doesn't'' sleep with. One is a married woman with young children and the other is his sister. It never seems to be Blomkvist who seduces them either, it just seems like every female jumps him as soon as she gets a chance. Luckily the movies downplay this.

** Some of this is due to Larsson's editors making him put more sex scenes in because they felt it would give the novels more commercial appeal. By the third book they stopped doing this and it shows.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Chuck Bass from ''[[Gossip Girl]]''. Nate Archibald as well, but to a lesser degree.

* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', Dean Winchester alternates between being a pornomancer and actually being a viable romantic lead. The third season premere started with Dean cavorting with "the [[Twin Threesome Fantasy|Doublemint Twins]]" in a hotel room while Sam hides in the car. Though the show does contain magic, it's reasonably certain that he didn't need anything more than [[Author Appeal]] to cross [[Fetish Fuel|that one]] off the bucket list. In several episodes, however, such as with Cassie in the episode ''Route 666'', the tenderness is definitely earned.

* Brian Kinney of the American version of ''[[Queer as Folk]]'', as well as Stuart Jones, the character he was based off of in the original.

* Lord Flashheart from ''[[Blackadder]]'' is pretty much the embodiment of this trope.

* Monty Pippin from ''[[Keen Eddie]]''.

* One episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' had Dorothy dating a short, nerdy, bald man whom she and the other ladies found inexplicably irresistable and kept throwing themselves at him. The man had apparently dealt with this his whole life.

* ''[[Skin Horse]]'': [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Tip somehow manages to charm every woman he meets without even trying. The other characters jokingly refer to it as his "superpower". When Tip ends up getting turned into a werewolf, it turns out his "superpower" transcends species (and in once case [[Even the Guys Want Him|orientation]]).

* Zii of ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' has probably had sex with most of the cast by now, one-shot characters included. She can seduce [[Everyone Is Bi|presumably]] straight girls (and middle-aged, married women) with ease, and once had a foursome with male triplets. Probably the only reason we haven't seen her use her Pornomancy on any gay men yet is because she'd rather [[Yaoi Fangirl|watch them do their own thing]] (although in one what-if scenario created by Gisele on Slipshine is an indication, she could easily do that too).

 

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