History Main / ChosenConceptionPartner

* ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'' is an RPG by Creator/SpikeChunsoft (published by Creator/{{Atlus}} for all versions in the US sans the PC version) where this features prominently. You can [[GRatedSex Classmate]] with the heroines to create star-children to come into dungeons with you.

* ''VideoGame/FableII'': If you marry an NPC of the same gender and want children, you can have Player 2 serve this role.

* In ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGatesLiesAHighSchoolLibrary'', Coira Sitri (who is the [[TangledFamilyTree aunt/stepmother]] of [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD Sona Sitri and Serafall Leviathan]]) asks the girls' boyfriend, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]], if he would be interested in the role (no need for sex, as she is uninterested in that and knows Harry wouldn't want to, either), since it would potentially lead to their kids being very magically powerful and it would also be a way to metaphorically flip off the traditionalist devils.

* ''LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood'':

* Naturally, as a Harem anime, ''LightNovel/AntiMagicAcademyThe35thTestPlatoon'' has the protagonist, Takeru. In an early episode, his teammate Usagi reveals that she's in an ArrangedMarriage to a creepy nobleman who [[EntitledToHaveYou considers Usagi his future property]]. When Takeru invites her to his place after she confides in him, she assumes his plan is to get her pregnant so that the engagement will be nullified. At first, she behaves as though this is tolerable because she's desperate, but then she has an ImagineSpot and gets immensely excited at the idea of bearing Takeru a child. However, it turns out that [[CluelessChickMagnet Takeru had no such designs]] and was bringing her over to his house so that they (and the other girls) can have a strategy meeting about how to save Usagi.
* PlayedForLaughs a couple of times in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD''. Xenovia has [[ItMakesSenseInContext decided her life goal is to be a mother]], and tries to sleep with Issei for that reason alone. She doesn't get far, however, since her [[TheStoic stony-faced come-ons]] freak Issei out more than anything. And then there's [[TheVamp Kuroka]], who basically introduces herself by asking if Issei wants to make a baby, but whether she's serious, just looking to get laid, or only saying it to fluster him is [[TheTease difficult to say]]. This becomes increasingly common as Issei grows ever more powerful, and several female characters express interest in having his child simply because they know any child of his will be very powerful.

* Subverted in the backstory for ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''. [[spoiler:Arturia married Guinevere for political purposes, as Arturia was really MarriedToTheJob. However, as Arturia needed a biological heir, [[EasySexChange Merlin magically gave her a penis until she could conceive an heir with someone]]. For whatever reason, that someone wasn't Guinevere (it was ''Morgan'' via rape).]]

* ''Myth/HinduMythology'': If a couple could not conceive a child, the husband's younger brother was permitted to beget a child on the wife. In many myths, if a king could not beget any children of his own or died without leaving any heir, a qualified ascetic would be called to beget worthy children on the queens. The most famous case was the birth of the five Pandavas- King Pandu of Hastinapura had two beautiful queens. Unfortunately, Pandu was cursed with DeathBySex, which prevented him from having any children. So he ordered his queens to use a Mantra to invoke various demigods, who begot five excellent sons on them.

* In the Chinese film, ''Inkstone'', Dang Xiang falls in love with a young master and marries him. The newlywed couple is pressured into having a child. Dang Xiang's husband is unable to perform in bed, so he orders his servant A Gen to have sex with his wife. Dang Xiang relishes the sexual act and initiates an affair with the servant. The husband is enraged and has A Gen killed, then seals his corpse in the Inkstone bed. [[AllForNothing The husband dies at the age of thirty, Dang Xiang's affair did not yield any heir, the family declines and Dang Xiang dies of old age and loneliness in poverty.]]

** Later still, a woman named Tamar marries one of Judah's sons, and he dies. As per custom of that time and place, she was to marry his brother Onan, to perpetuate her deceased husband's lineage; she did as she was supposed to, but he also passed away, which is attributed to divine punishment for using CoitusInterruptus instead of perpetuating his brother's lineage (the original incident was forgotten over time, hence "onanism" becoming a synonym for ADateWithRosiePalms instead). Next in line is a boy named Shelah, who is conveniently not old enough for marriage just yet. Judah believes Tamar to be [[CartwrightCurse cursed]], and doesn't want to lose his last son; he tells Tamar to move back in with her parents and wait for Shelah to grow up, at which point he'll become hers... but once Shelah comes of age, he is married to another woman. So Tamar decides to take things in her own hands by disguising herself as a prostitute and sleeping with ''Judah'' himself; he almost has her executed for engaging in illicit sex once her pregnancy begins to show, but she reveals that he is the father by using the seal, cord, and staff she took as "collateral" three months earlier. He spares her life, saying that she was more righteous than he was because she did her duty while he didn't; she gave birth to twins, who are then recognized as Judah's descendants.

Expect at least ''one'' character to fit this trope in a HaremGenre story. If they're middle-aged, they may be a ChristmasCake or state that "MyBiologicalClockIsTicking", and if homosexual, this is a case of AllLesbiansWantKids. If the baby-seeker is a non-human, expect this to overlap with "DoYouWantToCopulate". If MateOrDie is also a factor, it may overlap with OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace.

* In ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGatesLiesAHighSchoolLibrary'', Coira Sitri (who is the [[TangledFamilyTree aunt/stepmother]] of [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD Sona Sitri and Serafall Leviathan]]) asks the girls' boyfriend, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]], if he would be interested in the role (no need for sex, as she is uninterested in that and knows Harry wouldn't want to, either), since it would potentially lead to their kids being very magically powerful and it would also be a way to metaphorically flip off the traditionalist devils.

* In ''{{Series/Letterkenny}}'' during one episode of season 8 the guys begin to wonder if the Mennonite Dyck family is asking for help on the farm for the purpose of impregnating their daughters, especially when patriarch Noah asks if they have any genetic conditions. [[spoiler:The entire thing turned out to be InnocentInnuendo, since nearly everything they say could be interpreted that way]].
* Series/{{Outlander}}: Colum [=MacKenzie=] is Laird of Clan [=MacKenzie=] but suffers from a medical condition that has rendered him sterile. Colum's brother Dougal agrees to sire an heir with no one knowing the truth of the child's paternity since Dougal has sworn undying fealty to Colum. Of course, with this being the 18th century, this requires Dougal and Colum's wife, Leticia, to have sex until a successful conception is confirmed, with Colum's full knowledge and consent. This later becomes a sore point after Dougal is unable to sire any sons with his own wife, leaving him with no male heir, since he has no legal or common claim to Hamish, the son he sired with Leticia.

* ''Series/{{Outlander}}: Colum [=MacKenzie=] is Laird of Clan [=MacKenzie=] but suffers from a medical condition that has rendered him sterile. Colum's brother Dougal agrees to sire an heir with no one knowing the truth of the child's paternity since Dougal has sworn undying fealty to Colum. Of course, with this being the 18th century, this requires Dougal and Colum's wife, Leticia, to have sex until a successful conception is confirmed, with Colum's full knowledge and consent. This later becomes a sore point after Dougal is unable to sire any sons with his own wife, leaving him with no male heir, since he has no legal or common claim to Hamish, the son he sired with Leticia.

* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'': This is how Cassandra Cain was born in the pre-Flashpoint continuity. Her father David Cain was a member of the League of Assassins and was seeking to create the ultimate assassin using his brutal TrainingFromHell methods, but all his attempts ended in failure. He got it into his head that this was because none of them were his blood, so he sought out to find the perfect mother to have his child, and eventually found two potential candidates at a martial arts tournament in Detroit, a pair of twin sisters with a great amount of talent. He murdered one of the sisters in order to "free" her from having to hold back her talent, and when the surviving sister went after him in revenge, he defeated her with the help of the League, but offered to spare her life in exchange for having his child. She accepted, and after Cassandra was born, the sister gave her to Cain so she could continue her path to becoming the person she was meant to become--ComicBook/LadyShiva.

* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'': This is how Cassandra Cain was born in the pre-Flashpoint continuity. Her father David Cain was a member of the League of Assassins and was seeking to create the ultimate assassin using his brutal TrainingFromHell methods, but all his attempts ended in failure. He got it into his head that this was because none of them were his blood, so he sought out to find the perfect mother to have his child, and eventually found two potential candidates at a martial arts tournament in Detroit, a pair of twin sisters with a great amount of talent. He murdered one of the sisters in order to "free" her from having to hold back her talent, and when the surviving sister went after him in revenge, he defeated her with the help of the League, but offered to spare her life in exchange for having his child. She accepted, and after Cassandra was born, gave her to Cain so she could continue her path to becoming the person she was meant to become--ComicBook/LadyShiva.

* ''[[Fanfic/UmeiNoMaisUnchained Unchained]]'' opens with Uchiha Izuna abducting Senju Tobirama in order to make him her concubine. It's political as Tobirama is the younger brother to the future Senju clan Head, and Izuna also wants to add his potent chakra, sensing and tactical skills to her own lineage. Tobirama isn't exactly thrilled by the prospect to give children to his kidnapper, but muses he can stomach her pragmatical viewpoint much better than if she had acted on sheer lust.

* 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 he is a genetically fit specimen, but she loves him despite what a mess he is. She then introduces Archer to his daughter.]]

* ''Series/{{Outlander}}: Colum [=MacKenzie=] is Laird of Clan [=MacKenzie=] but suffers from a medical condition that has rendered him sterile. Colum's brother Dougal agrees to sire an heir with no one knowing the truth of the child's paternity. Of course, with this being the 18th century. This requires Dougal and Colum's wife, Leticia, to have sex until a successful conception is confirmed, with Colum's full knowledge and consent. This later becomes a sore point after Dougal is unable to sire any sons with his own wife, leaving him with no male heir, since he has no legal or common claim to Hamish, the son he sired with Leticia.

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* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar''. This happens to Herald-Mage Vanyel. Van is not at all interested in women, but King Randale is sterile, and his life-bonded mate, Shavri, desperately wants to be a mother. Since the king must appear fertile in case he needs to make an alliance marriage, Van agrees to sire a child with Shavri and acts as HonoraryUncle to the resulting daughter. He also fathers children with a few other women on request, starting a SecretLegacy that later books' protagonists turn out to be part of.

* ''Literature/WizardAndGlass''. Susan has been promised to the town mayor, ostensibly because his wife is barren but actually to ensure [[DistractedByTheSexy he's too worked up with anticipation]] to intervene in the conspiracy that others are planning. [[WickedWitch Rhea]] draws this out further by forbidding them to have sex until a certain date (ostensibly for fertility reasons), which backfires because in the meantime Susan meets and falls in love with Roland instead, before she has a chance to fulfil her side of the bargain.

* Music/{{Heart}} had the 1990 single [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OAfxs0IDeMs All I Wanna Do]] about a woman who wanted a baby and whose husband was impotent picking up a stranger by the side of the road in the rain and taking him to a motel. She leaves before he wakes, and only finds out when he sees his son years later (she left a vaguely hinting note the morning after but didn't really tell him). The song never really gets around to his reaction beyond surprise. Word is, the Wilson sisters were {{Squick}}ed by the song, but the label made them do it.

* ''Literature/WizardAndGlass''. Susan has been promised to the town mayor, ostensibly because his wife is barren but actually to ensure [[DistractedByTheSexy he's too worked up with anticipation]] to intervene in the conspiracy that others are planning. Susan meets and falls in love with Roland instead, before she has a chance to fulfil her side of the bargain.

* In ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', Ann spends months trying to find a nice man to impregnate her as a sperm donor, after years of never finding a lasting, stable romance to settle down in. She plans on having some sort of friendly, responsible contact with the father as the child grows up, since it would a choice by both of them. [[spoiler:She ends up choosing Chris. But this dramatic reunion between exes becomes a revived romance, so he impregnates her the traditional way!]]

* In ''FilmYourSistersSister'', Jack is invited to his sister-in-law Iris's cabin. When he arrives, she isn't there, but her sister Hannah is. After drinking a bottle of wine, they have sex. Iris arrives the next day, and she asks Hannah about her desires to be a mother. Jack recalls it was Hannah who presented and disposed the condom from their night before. He takes it out of the trashcan and fills it with water. Water spurts out of about a dozen holes inside it. He realises she had unprotected sex with him for the purpose of conceiving.

* In ''Film/MySistersSister'', Jack is invited to his sister-in-law Iris's cabin. When he arrives, she isn't there, but her sister Hannah is. After drinking a bottle of wine, they have sex. Iris arrives the next day, and she asks Hannah about her desires to be a mother. Jack recalls it was Hannah who presented and disposed the condom from their night before. He takes it out of the trashcan and fills it with water. Water spurts out of about a dozen holes inside it. He realises she had unprotected sex with him for the purpose of conceiving.

* ''Fanfic/{{Handmaid}}'': This is how the handmaid privilege works. If a Queen could no longer bear children for their King and the King is in need of a son, then either one of the royal couple could select a woman of noble birth (usually one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting) to bear children in her instead. The woman would then have five years to produce a son, with an extra two years added if their first child is female. If they succeed, then they would have a permanent position at court and crowned as a 'Princess Consort'. If they failed, they were dowered and wed off to a minor nobleman and usually replaced. In this case, Anne Boleyn is chosen by Henry VIII (publically) and Katherine of Aragon (secretly) to be the Chosen Conception Partner. [[spoiler:Right before the seven years were up (because her first child was a girl), one of the twins she produces is a boy, the future King Edmund. She ends up producing four children total: Cecily, twins Edmund and Elizabeth, and Owen.]]

* In the Chinese film, ''Inkstone'', Dang Xiang falls in love with a young master and marries him. The newlywed couple is pressurised into having a child. Dang Xiang's husband is unable to perform in bed, so he orders his servant A Gen to have sex with his wife. Dang Xiang relishes the sexual act and initiates an affair with the servant. The husband is enraged and has A Gen killed, then seals his corpse in the Inkstone bed. [[AllForNothing The husband dies at the age of thirty, Dang Xiang's affair did not yield any heir, the family declines and Dang Xiang dies of old age and loneliness in poverty.]]

* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' has male prostitutes whose sole job is to father children. As men are only 10% or so of the population, being a Chosen Conception Partner is not so much of a compliment to a man - men are considered handsome if they have no deformities. Only rich women can afford to fulfil a DarwinistDesire.