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* One verse of the Ian Dury and the Blockheads song "Billericay Dickie" has the titular character boast that he was able to bed a woman named Sandy by giving her eight glasses of brandy.

* One verse of the song "Poor Little Angeline" brings up that the squire planning to rape Angeline buys "some gin to make her sin".

* One of the guys in ''Film/AnimalHouse'' is [[GoodAngelBadAngel tempted]] to do this with Clorette, the mayor's daughter (who [[ReallySeventeenYearsOld lied about her age]] to get into the frat party). He listens to the good angel and does not actually sleep with her, although everyone in town believes he did.

** Many productions of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' have Fantine swallow some booze before she goes with her first john.

-->'''Pam''': And ''that's'' the reason I never have sex with my coworkers. That, and...nobody lets me.\\
'''Krieger''': I've had good results with ether.

--> '''Cheryl:''' Trust me, you can't control a person's heart.\\

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--> "It's like flirting in code, it's using body language, and laughing at the right jokes. And looking into her eyes and knowing she's still whispering to you, even though she's not saying a word. And that sense that if you can just touch her, just once, everything will be okay. For both of you... [suddenly flippant] Or, if she's really hot, you get her drunk and see if she comes on to you."

--> '''Jay''': If we're in charge of the alcohol, then we get our pick of the birds! The DRUNK birds!
--> '''Will''': That sounded just a little bit rapey.

--->'''Randy''': "Are you drunk enough to go home with me?"
--->'''Woman at the Bar''': ''takes a look at Randy and then gulps down the remainder of her beer'' Yep.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' it's implied that Zapp Brannigan intended to do this to Leela when he was trying to seduce her during his first appearance, though she poured out the champagne in a pot. He succeeds in sleeping with her though after he invokes her sympathy and she has [[PitySex sex with him out of pity]].

-->'''Pam''': And ''that's'' the reason I never have sex with my coworkers. That, and...nobody lets me.
-->'''Krieger''': I've had good results with ether.

--> '''Cheryl''': Trust me, you can't control a person's heart.\\
'''Krieger''': You can with a little something I like to call a [[ElectricTorture deep cycle marine battery]]. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Or LSD.\\
'''Cheryl''': IS THAT WHAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVING ME?!\\
'''Krieger''': ''Yes''? Point is, emotions like love don't come from the heart, they come from--\\
'''Archer''': ''(Gasps)'' The brain!\\
'''Krieger''': Yeah. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Or LSD.

-->'''Gumball''': Can kids buy potions?\\

Anyway, this trope is fairly common in fiction, but [[DiscreditedTrope usually parodied]] nowadays, and is quickly entering [[DeadHorseTrope Dead Horse]] territory due to increased awareness of {{date rape}}.

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* The Ogden Nash poem 'Reflections On Icebreaking' is simply the following: 'Candy is dandy/But liquor is quicker'.

Anyway, this trope is fairly common in fiction, but [[DiscreditedTrope usually parodied]] nowadays, and is quickly entering [[DeadHorseTrope Dead Horse]] territory due to increased awareness of date rape.

May be invoked to fuel AlcoholInducedBisexuality.

* In ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', Eva's unflattering flashbacks of Roberto heavily imply that the only reason she had slept with him was thorough inebriation. Whether he supplied the alcohol is, however, unclear.

* The video for Alestorm's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0 "Drink"]] portrays the pirates' four DistressedDamsel victims becoming uninhibited as they're forced to join their captors in drinking, culminating in table-dancing in corsets and knickers and GirlOnGirlIsHot.

One of the most well known effects of alcohol and other recreational drugs are to loosen inhibitions, and if a specific inhibition is having sex with someone, that other person can use alcohol or other drugs just for that; the other person could also be drinking or doing drugs so that he or she will be less [[ParalyzingFearOfSexuality self-conscious about having sex]].

* Zigzagged in ''ComicBook/AlanFord'': volume 443 ends with a Swedish {{bifauxnen}} stewardess offering all the passengers champagne and flirting with the heroine Minuette before inviting her to join the "MileHighClub" with her later. The variation is that she didn't spiked Minuette's drink, but rather everyone else's, so that in an hour they'll be asleep and leave them privacy.

* A sleazy character plies an innocent young woman with booze and marijuana cigarettes for this purpose in ''[[Literature/DrKildare Young Dr. Kildare]]''. [[spoiler:It turns out she's a little ''too'' innocent, overdoses and passes out badly. The sleazeball panics, dumps her on the nearest bed and calls a doctor. She wakes up, clothing disarranged and lying on a bed in an obvious love nest, assumes the worst, and freaks out, running away. Sleazeball comes back to find her gone, and decides she's not his problem any more; he's wrong...]]
* In ''Literature/RainbowSix'' (novel, not video game), a [[TheCasanova Casanova]] picking up girls in bars by getting them drunk turns out to be employed by the evil AnimalWrongsGroup to abduct people to conduct bioweapon experiments on. If there's AnAesop there, it's rather heavy handed, Mr. Clancy.

* A more literal version in ''Series/{{Fortune}}'' when everyone got drunk on enchanted alcohol, although most of what happened is left to imagination. [[spoiler:Other than Tess and Emil's HomePornMovie.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'' and its sequels, you can give a drink to a Sim your Sim is interested in. Said drink makes it more likely the target will accept certain social interactions that would be rejected sober. Giving more drinks increases the receptiveness.

** It is later revealed in an extended flashback that Gary, while on a private jet to Europe with Senna and suffering from extreme nervousness (this being his first ever flight), accepted her suggestion that he have a drink or three. (He didn't pay attention to what he was drinking, she didn't pay attention to his requests for something non-alcoholic.) By the end of the flight, Gary had joined the MileHighClub, which might well not have happened had he been sober, given his nervousness about [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} Senna's gender status]]. Senna probably just assumed that this was her innate sex appeal at work, though.

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* Mandark tries this with Dee Dee in ''Fanfic/Core'', continuously filling up her champagne glass on their date, calculating her BMI, and asking to come into her apartment later.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', a suave [[Film/JamesBond Bond]]-like spy attempts to teach {{Nerd}}y Chuck how to seduce women as part of his spy training. A mission requires Chuck to seduce a very dangerous Russian woman. His first attempt is botched when he attempts to buy her a drink (as per the spy's instructions), only to find out that she doesn't drink. This prompts the spy to exclaim, "How is he supposed to seduce her without alcohol?" This either indicates his low faith in Chuck's charm or a limitation of his own seduction skills.

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. Sara Lance brags that many men have tried to get into her pants this way, but she always ends up drinking them under the table. Mick Rory promptly challenges her to a DrinkingContest. Sara wins.