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* Miroku in ''Manga/InuYasha'' is a male example, although it is usually PlayedForLaughs. Any beautiful woman he meets he immediately propositions to bear his child. Justified in that he's living with a curse that will certainly kill him sooner or later, and he needs to produce a child before that happens. [[spoiler:In the finale, he's cured and he settles down with Sango, who bears him ''many'' children.]]

* In the BookOfGenesis, Sarah has been struggling with infertility for a number of years, and believed herself to be nearing the end of her reproductive lifespan. So (as per the Code of Hammurabi) she got her husband Abraham to sleep with her servant, Hagar. (Naturally, as per the LawOfInverseFertility, Hagar conceives by sleeping with him ''once.'')This causes Sarah to become [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] (not helped by the fact that Hagar seemed to lord it over her, forgetting her place and/or her relationship to Abraham). Hagar gives birth to a boy named Ishmael (though he's ''legally'' Sarah's), and Sarah has a biological son, Isaac, later, driving out Ishmael and his biologcal mother.

* Toward the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Morrigan offers the Grey Warden a way to avoid dying in the impending battle against the Archdemon. The catch is, one of the Grey Wardens must agree to help her conceive a child, and she is pretty vague about what the consequences of this decision might be and what exactly she plans to do with the kid once it's born.

* At the end of season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' it's revealed that Lana is pregnant. The next season reveals that she used a sperm donor. In the last episode, the baby is born, [[spoiler: and Lana explains to Archer that she knew he had frozen a bunch of his sperm, and that not only is he a genetically fit specimen, but she loves him despite what a mess he is. She then introduces Archer to his daughter.]]

* Toward the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Morrigan offers the Grey Warden a way to avoid dying in the impending battle against the Archdemon. The catch is, one of the Grey Wardens must agree to help her conceive a child, and she is pretty vague about what the consequences of this decision might be.

* {{Farscape}}: John Crichton ends up on the receiving end of this when he travels to a Sebacean colony where the Empress-to-Be has to get married to a male who can provide her with healthy children in order to rule...and he's the only one who can do it. In this case, the princess doesn't want to force John into the relationship, but with the threat of being handed over to Scorpius on the table, he doesn't seem to have a choice.
* ''TheXFiles'': Used in the episode "Per Manum." It plays directly into season 8's poorly-disguised WhosYourDaddy subplot; it's a flashback episode to mid-season 7 offering a potential answer to Scully's unexpected pregnancy. After her stolen ova are found and tests suggest the eggs could be viable, Scully refuses her doctor's offer of an anonymous sperm donor and asks Mulder. The audience isn't shown the scene where she asks, only a shot to a few days after Mulder has had time to think it over. Scully assumes he will refuse, but Mulder accepts. In a completely heart-wrenching twist on the trope, the IVF attempt actually fails, giving us a heartwarming scene of Mulder comforting a devastated Scully and telling her "Never give up on a miracle." And leaves the WhosYourDaddy storyline to live another day.

* {{TheXFiles}}: Used in the episode "Per Manum." It plays directly into season 8's poorly-disguised WhosYourDaddy subplot of season 8; it's a flashback episode to mid-season 7 offering a potential answer to Scully's unexpected pregnancy. After her stolen ova are found and tests suggest the eggs could be viable, Scully refuses her doctor's offer of an anonymous sperm donor and asks Mulder. The audience isn't shown the scene where she asks, only a shot to a few days after Mulder has had time to think it over. Scully assumes he will refuse, but Mulder accepts. In a completely heart-wrenching twist on the trope, the IVF attempt actually fails, giving us a heartwarming scene of Mulder comforting a devastated Scully and telling her "Never give up on a miracle." And leaves the WhosYourDaddy storyline to live another day.

--> ''May future generations forgive us...'' - (Dr Leonard Hofstadter)

* Downplayed in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', where Ethan is asked to help Robin and Leslie get pregnant ([[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2003 by using a Super Soaker to implant Leslie's DNA in his sperm and another one to impregnate Robin]]). Since all parties involved are confirmed homosexuals, it removes a great deal of drama (that and Robin's alien-modified body makes the pregnancy last three weeks).

* ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'' is an upcoming RPG by Creator/{{Atlus}} where this will feature prominently. You can [[GRatedSex Classmate]] with the heroines to create star-children to come into dungeons with you.

[[caption-width-right:350:What sometimes happens when [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Women Find A Good Man.]]]]

In this trope, someone wants a child and picks some ("lucky") person who is not their spouse, or exclusive LoveInterest, to be the one to do it. While this may overlap with the StalkerWithATestTube sometimes, most cases are much nicer about the offer and their motives are not to use the other person for their genes. The choice is motivated by feelings of actual respect, love or affection, a DarwinistDesire, or [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan finding a good person to raise a family with]]. The individual may also be a {{Prince|ly Tropes}}, {{Princess| Tropes}}, [[TheOjou Ojou]], LastOfHisKind, or MacGuffinGirl that needs to produce an heir for a bloodline, family or race, but their reasons are still motivated by some level of respect, love or affection for the partner chosen. As such, if the characters are both villains, then expect to see VillainousVirtues, VillainousFriendship and EvenEvilHasLovedOnes.

In this trope, someone wants a child and picks some ("lucky") person who is not their spouse, or exclusive LoveInterest, to be the one to do it. While this may overlap with the StalkerWithATestTube sometimes, most cases are much nicer about the offer and their motives are not to use the other person for their genes. The choice is motivated by feelings of actual respect, love or affection, a DarwinistDesire, or [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan finding a good person to raise a family with]]. The individual may also be a {{Prince|ly Tropes}}, {{Princess| Tropes}}, [[TheOjou Ojou]], LastOfHisKind, or MacGuffinGirl that needs to produce an heir for a bloodline, family or race, but their reasons are still motivated by some level of respect, love or affection for the partner chosen. As such, if the characters are both villains, then expect to see VillainousVirtues, VillainousFriendship and EvilEvilHasLovedOnes.

In this trope, someone wants a child and picks some ("lucky") person to be the one to do it. While this may overlap with the StalkerWithATestTube sometimes, most cases are much nicer about the offer and their motives are not to use the other person for their genes. The choice is motivated by feelings of actual respect, love or affection, a DarwinistDesire, or [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan finding a good person to raise a family with]]. The individual may also be a {{Prince|ly Tropes}}, {{Princess| Tropes}}, [[TheOjou Ojou]], LastOfHisKind, or MacGuffinGirl that needs to produce an heir for a bloodline, family or race, but their reasons are still motivated by some level of respect, love or affection for the partner chosen.

* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar''. This happens to Vanyel, TheProtagonist. King Randele, is sterile, and his life-bonded mate, Shavri, is about to go stir-crazy over wanting kids. Since the king's sterility needs to be hidden in case he needs to make an alliance marriage at some point, he permits Vanyel to conceive a child with her. Their coupling introduces feelings that cause Van to question his sexuality (as he'd assumed he is gay). Officially, Van later acts as the child's honorary uncle, and he concludes that he ''is'' gay, and that Shavri is just a {{Platonic Life Partner|s}}.

[[caption-width-right:350:What sometimes happens when [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Women Finds A Good Man.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:What sometimes happens when a [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Women Finds A Good Man.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:What sometimes happens when [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Women Find A Good Man.]]]]

SuperTrope of MandatoryMotherhood, GlorifiedSpermDonor and StalkerWithATestTube, but ''way'' more friendly than either.

Because this is a mutually-beneficial partnership, it almost always averts ThatThingIsNotMyChild.

** Later on, while on the ship of another vampire lord, several beautiful maids approach him for sex. When Kojou suspects that they aren't really maids, they reveal themselves as political hostages from foreign countries and say they want to bear Akatsuki's children because as a vampire lord even more powerful than the one they serve, they'd gain incredible status and privilege.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' has the daughter of Comicbook/RasAlGhul, Talia. Her greatest desire is to sire a worthy heir for her father's empire with the Caped Crusader (although she has made the offer to other men at times, such as [[Comicbook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws Jason Todd]]). In fact, Ra's has several daughters (and a sister) that exist solely for this purpose. Usually, they happily choose their mate, although they will cross over into StalkerWithATestTube territory if jilted.

** One issue depicts several possible futures (pictured above). In one of them, Tarot marries her LoveInterest Jon, has a child by him, and then loans him to her sister Raven so that she can have a child of her own.
** There is also another issue where an attractive (and giant) Troll Queen wishes for Jon (whom the trolls think is a fertility god) to impregnate all of her female troll subjects. After being force-fed a drink that kept him high as a kite the whole time, he accomplishes the task without having a clue what's going on the entire time.
* In the Pre-Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}} ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', [[Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] allows Swamp Thing to [[WillingChanneler use his body]] to father a child with Abby.
* ''Comicbook/FantasticFour:'' DoubleSubverted with Alyssa Moy, a little-known LoveInterest of Reed Richards. Alyssa is, like Reed, one of the smartest people on the planet, and they dated while he was in college. However, she turned down Reed's marriage proposal because she felt it was the duty of smart people like them [[ArtisticLicenseBiology to breed with the dumbest persons so that the next generations will be smarter]]. [[SarcasmMode When this failed for some strange reason]], she later tries to get back in Reed's pants again, but by that time, he was happily married to, and had children of his own with, Sue Storm.

* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Morrigan offers the Grey Warden a way to avoid dying in the impending battle against the Archdemon. The catch is, one of the Grey Wardens must agree to help her conceive a child, and she is pretty vague about what the consequences of this decision might be.
* ''Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'' is an upcoming RPG by Creator/{{Atlus}} where this will feature prominently. You can [[GRatedSex Classmate]] with the heroines to create star-children to come into dungeons with you.

* Downplayed in ''WebComics/{{Shortpacked}}'', where Ethan is asked to help Robin and Leslie get pregnant ([[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2003 by using a Super Soaker to implant Leslie's DNA in his sperm and another one to impregnate Robin]]). Since all parties involved are confirmed homosexuals, it removes a great deal of drama (that and Robin's alien-modified body makes the pregnancy last three weeks).

[[caption-width-right:350:What sometimes happens when [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Women Find A Good Man]]]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:What sometimes happens when [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan Single Women Find A Good Man]].

[[caption-width-right:350:What happens when SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan and decides to share.]]

** One issue depicts several possible futures. In one of them, Tarot marries her LoveInterest Jon, has a child by him, and then loans him to her sister Raven so that she can have a child of her own.

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This is a form of [[{{Escapism}} Escapist Fantasy]], and is actually quite popular with both men and women. "Conception" (or "impregnation") fantasies are one of the most popular in all corners of the world, so it's no surprise that this pops up in fiction often.

The main difference between the way it's marketed toward gender is that for male audiences, the beauty or sexual desirability of the woman is played up (and domestic compatibility, if any, is just a bonus), while for women, domestic compatibility is emphasized and his handsomeness/{{hunk}}iness is the bonus. That binary is part of the reason why, in mainstream media, this trope is AlwaysFemale. There's a persistent {{Stereotype}} that men simply desire sex while women desire children and domestic stability; thus, in fiction, while male characters tend to be quite fond of the baby-''making'', only women are as keen on the baby-''raising''.

Further, men have less BodyHorror to deal with. The realities of the fantasy involve far less risk for men than for women, what with the whole nine months of inconvenient pregnancy, changes to their body and hormones, then the many hours of painful labor. Stories that focus on titillating female audience typically [[OutGivingBirthBackInTwoMinutes do something to alleviate or circumvent this dilemma]] to avoid FetishRetardant.

Although rare, if any coitus happens in the story, it's usually with a conscious effort to breed or make a child. ([[NoLewdnessNoPrudishness And we'll leave it at that.]]) The GrandFinale almost always establishes BabiesEverAfter. Lastly, a character may have ''many'' chosen partners for this (if male, that is--this is ''highly'' unlikely if female).
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