The opposite of Sex Tropes. Chastity, celibacy, abstinence, sexlessness, asexuality, platonic relationships— in short, nobody in this index is doing it.
Not to be confused with Unisex Tropes, which deal with sex-the-category rather than sex-the-act. Nor with No Biological Sex, which is similarly about innate physical characteristics rather than about what one might choose to do with them.
See also Asexual and Aromantic, the orientations of people who don't experience sexual or romantic attraction.
Tropes
Related indexes:
- Purity Personified: People whose innocence may preclude sexuality.
- The Singles Index: Tropes about single people
- This Index Is Not My Girlfriend: Relationships that look like they might be Love Interests, but aren't.
- Virginity Tropes: Tropes about virginity
Tropes that avert sex tropes — inadvertent, happenstance sexlessness:
- Celibate Eccentric Genius: An eccentric genius who's uninterested in sex.
- Chaste Hero: A hero is clueless about love or lust.
- Chaste Toons: If cartoon characters have small children around, it's their nephews and nieces, avoiding the implication that they would ever procreate.
- Children Are Innocent: Children have no budding sexuality.
- Crippling Castration: The victim of this attack is definitely never having sex again.
- Eunuchs Are Evil: If he has no sex organs, he may as well become a villain.
- Locked Away in a Monastery: Dealing with an inconvenient person by sending them off to live in a cloister, where they will probably have to take a Vow of Celibacy.
- No Love for the Wicked: An evil character who is asexual.
- No Time for Love: A character who has no time for romance and dating for various reasons.
- Maiden Aunt: An older female relative who never married.
- No Hugging, No Kissing: There's no sexuality or romance in a work.
- Old People are Nonsexual: Old people don't have sex.
- Oblivious to Love: A character is clueless about someone's interest in them.
- Sexless Marriage: A couple who no longer has sex.
- Sexy Villains, Chaste Heroes: Heroes are chaster than villains.
- Token Wholesome: A modestly-dressed character in a Fanservice heavy cast.
- Truly Single Parent: Someone uses Applied Phlebotinum or Mad Science to have a child without sexual reproduction involved.
- You Need to Get Laid: Someone's poor mood or excessive nerdiness is attributed to a lack of sexual activity.
Tropes that defy sex tropes — characters being deliberately chaste:
- All Women Are Prudes: The gender stereotype that women in general lack a sex drive.
- But I Would Really Enjoy It: A character deliberately refrains from sex for an honorable reason, but is really horny.
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: For some reason, this particular person or couple having sex would cause disaster to ensue.
- Celibate Hero: A hero who avoids all romantic relationships.
- The Chaperone: A third party supervises a romantic couple to make sure things stay chaste.
- Chaste Separating Sword: A sword lain between bedmates to signify chaste bedsharing.
- Chastity Belt: An (apocryphal) medieval device that's locked on someone's genitals to prevent infidelity.
- Chastity Couple: A romantic but celibate Official Couple.
- Chastity Dagger: A woman carries a concealed dagger to defend her chastity against any would-be assailants.
- Contractual Purity: A celebrity is required to preserve their public image by never engaging in Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll.
- Courtly Love: A romantic affair that is ideally never consummated.
- Exiled to the Couch: A couple going through a rough patch refuses to share a bed.
- Hates Being Touched: A person with a strong aversion to physical contact, generally including sex.
- Let's Wait a While: A couple decides to hold off on Their First Time.
- Lysistrata Gambit: Withholding sex from a sexual partner until they do X.
- Madonna-Whore Complex: The False Dichotomy in which women are perceived as either totally pure and chaste, or totally corrupt and promiscuous.
- Matron Chaperone: An older woman whose job is to supervise a young lady and make sure she's never alone with any potential love interests.
- No Pregger Sex: Abstaining from sex during pregnancy.
- Non-Sexual Intimacy: Affectionate gestures that show closeness without being sexual.
- No Sex Allowed: All sex is forbidden under penalty of law.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: A character may have sexual feelings, but is too afraid to ever act on them.
- Platonic Declaration of Love: A person saying "I love you" to someone they have no sexual or romantic feelings for.
- Platonic Kissing: Kissing for reasons other than sexual attraction.
- Platonic Prostitution: Someone hires a sex worker to do more innocent work.
- Platonic Valentine: Someone celebrates Valentine’s Day with a person they love non-sexually.
- Sleeping Single: A married couple sleeping in two separate beds.
- Sour Prudes: A character who doesn't have sex looks down on people who indulge.
- Straight Edge Evil: A villain who abstains from sex, drugs, and everything fun.
- Taking the Veil: A woman has a Turn to Religion and becomes a nun, with the Vow of Celibacy included.
- Tamer and Chaster: A later installment/incarnation is significantly less sexual.
- Unexpectedly Prudish: A character turns out to be prudish when other aspects of their personality suggest they wouldn't be.
- Vow of Celibacy: A vow not to have sex.