Can't Have Sex Ever/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character can, for some reason over another, never have sex.

• Straight: Bob is the victim of an ancient curse that will kill him if he ever has sex.
• Exaggerated: The curse will activate if he ever has sex, gets aroused, or even thinks about sex.
• Downplayed:
  • Bob's curse will activate if he has sex more than once a day.
  • The ancient curse preventing Bob from having sex is being bald and overweight
• Justified: Prior to being cursed, Bob was a rapist. The curse was the perfect way to teach him a lesson.
• Inverted: The curse will activate unless Bob has sex every day.
• Subverted: Bob has sex and there is no consequence...
• Double Subverted: ...however, he didn't release, so the technical requirement of the curse wasn't fulfilled.
• Parodied: Bob is a Catholic priest, but still complains at every opportunity about the curse.
• Deconstructed: The inability to have sex eventually takes an emotional and mental toll on Bob, as he's not asexual and really misses it.
• Reconstructed: He finds a way to lift the curse.
• Zig Zagged:
  • The curse comes and goes; sometimes it is in effect, other times not.
  • The curse only activates if Bob has sex with a woman who's an inch or more shorter than him... on a Tuesday. On Wednesdays, it'll activate if he so much as thinks about having sex, and other days of the week tend to have their own unusual variations.
• Averted: Bob's life of celibacy is not the result of a curse.
• Enforced: "We're not allowed to show sex in this work, but we can show a guy who really wants it but can't have it!"
• Lampshaded: "Well, we're alone in this hotel room with nothing to do..." "Stupid curse..."
• Invoked: After Bob hurts her feelings, Alice casts the anti-sex curse on him.
• Defied: "Screw the curse. I need some lovin'."
• Discussed: "We can't steal that gold from the ancient Egyptian temple. We'll get cursed and then we can't have sex ever or we'll die."
• Conversed: "Why didn't I pay attention to that movie about anti-sex curses! Now I've been cursed too!"

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