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At some point, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity generally will ensue]].

This, however, can also occur in drama -- and be a motive for murder. Often done because the person needs the money, and if not actually the basis for murder, at the very least used for blackmail.

* One episode of '' WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresofBillyAndMandy'' has Billy tell Mandy that Grim "drank your juice, and broke your computer and watched my mom and dad's special DVD"
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Hank and Peggy walk into Boomhauer's bedroom to see a videocamera pointed at the bed and hooked up to the TV. [[InnocentInaccurate They assume it's for home videos and pretend to be news casters on the bed with it]].

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* ''A+X'' #13 has ComicBook/EmmaFrost requesting the help of ComicBook/BlackWidow to help her take down a blackmailer who has uncovered a sex tape from Emma's past before she joined the ''Franchise/XMen''.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates 3'' has a sex tape of Tony Stark and the recently deceased Natasha Romanov leaked to the public. The tape is later revealed to have been recorded by Ultron for unknown reasons.

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* One issue of Post-Crisis Franchise/{{Superman}} involves him and Comics/BigBarda being mind-controlled by the New God Sleeze, who attempts to use this opportunity to have them make such a film. Yes really. Thankfully he fails.

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* A ''very'' dark version appears in ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo''. [[spoiler:Lisbeth takes a hidden camera to her guardian's house, knowing he's going to molest her and planning to use the tape as blackmail. However, instead he knocks her unconscious, ties her up and brutally rapes her. She of course still has the tape and uses this for blackmail... after knocking him out on the next visit and tattooing "I am a rapist pig" on his stomach.]]
* "The Porn Stars" in Creator/ChuckPalahniuk's ''Literature/Haunted2005''. They started out making the movie as a labor of love and to make money. By the time they're finished, they've realized how artificial their relationship has become.
* In ''Literature/ReconstructingAmelia'', The Magpies, an unauthorized club of girls at the Grace Hall private school, take nude photos of themselves as part of a group activity and put them up online so people can vote on them. The fact that all of them are underage makes this especially problematic, and Kate, the mother of the title character, is absolutely flabbergasted when she finds out that the mother of at least one of the girls was aware of what was going on and was okay with it.
* As early as 1938, the Literature/SirHenryMerrivale crime novel ''The Judas Window'' by Carter Dickson (Creator/JohnDicksonCarr) had a plot point in which a female character was blackmailed using sexual photos of her taken with her consent by an ex-boyfriend.

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* ''Film/TalesFromTheHood2'': In "Date Night", {{Asshole Victim}}s Ty and Kahad drug their intended victims set up their tripod to film their latest conqueests, an act which, judging by their casual ritualistic routine, has happened many times before.

* ''Series/{{Mosley}}'' (about Sir Oswald Mosley). The mistress of the title character takes a photograph of Mosley naked at the beach. When Mosely dumps her after she becomes pregnant she gives the photo to his political opponents, endangering his political career.
* ''Series/TheMurders'': {{Played for drama}} when Kate gets sent a recording of her having sex with Pete (audio only), and initially thinks he made this, angrily ending their relationship because he didn't ask permission for that. However, it turns out he didn't do it, and she becomes anxious that she's the victim of a stalker. [[spoiler:It turns out to be even worse, as he's a ''serial killer''.]]

* Greg of ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' takes several nudes of Jeremy after beating him and before raping him.

* A ''very'' dark version appears in ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo''. [[spoiler:Lisbeth takes a hidden camera to her guardian's house, knowing he's going to molest her and planning to use the tape as blackmail. However, instead he knocks her unconscious, ties her up and brutally rapes her. She of course still has the tape and uses this for blackmail... after knocking him out on the next visit and tattooing "I am a rapist pig" on his stomach.]]
* As early as 1938, the Literature/SirHenryMerrivale crime novel ''The Judas Window'' by Carter Dickson (Creator/JohnDicksonCarr) had a plot point in which a female character was blackmailed using sexual photos of her taken with her consent by an ex-boyfriend.

* Julie was blackmailed with one of these on ''Series/TheOC''.

* ''Series/PamAndTommy'' is a {{biopic}} miniseries about the 1997 scandal that saw the sex tape of Creator/PamelaAnderson and [[Music/MotleyCrue Tommy Lee]] being leaked on the Internet.
* ''Series/{{Soap}}'' being an AffectionateParody of {{Soap Opera}}s, naturally featured one of these.
* Speaking of which, this is a standard SoapOpera trope--many adulterous couples find that their liaison has been taped, either (a) by one of the lovers, with the intent of blackmailing the other, (b) deliberately done by a third party, again with the intent of blackmailing one or both, or (c) inadvertently. When it's inevitably discovered, the finder of course, uses it to blackmail one or both
** An especially cruel version on ''Series/AllMyChildren'', when Gloria taped her tryst with her lover Craig and threatened to show it to his wife Dixie unless he gave her money. When her boyfriend discovered this, he was so enraged at her infidelity--adding insult to injury, Dixie was his sister--that he raped her and threatened ''her'' with revealing the tape should she dare to press charges (this took place at a time when a rape victim's sexual history could be used to discredit her story).
** A savvier version from the same show when Arlene blackmailed her son-in-law Alec into an affair and taped their trysts as an insurance policy, warning him that if he killed her, the police would find the tape and know his motive. Sure enough, he tried, assuming she was bluffing. . .and it was found.
** A rare funny version from this genre on ''Series/GeneralHospital''. When Emily Quartermaine made a documentary for the annual nurses ball, she left her camera in the conference room, unaware that it was still on. A nurse and her boyfriend sneaked into the room for a quickie. When the documentary was played at the ball. . .
* ''Series/{{Kings}}'' had a story where the princess is blackmailed with the photographic variety.
* In an episode of ''Series/DropDeadDiva'', Kim and Parker fight to get his son's teacher his job back after it's revealed he and his wife made a few of these before he became a teacher when they were in dire financial straits.

* Series/VeronicaMars has a few of these.
** The Climax of Season 1 involves the discovery that the murder victim discovered that she was taped non-consensually by her partner, and when she threatened to go to the press caused him to murder her.
** In Season 3, Veronica finds a hidden camera sex tape filmed without her or her boyfriends knowledge in his dorm room. It is then leaked to the internet. It causes major problems, and causes her ex-boyfriend Logan to beat her current boyfriend Piz senseless as Logan assumes he made it on purpose. The video shows up in the follow-up [[Film/VeronicaMars film]], although the footage is different (for rating reasons).
* Shows up several times on ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' usually as blackmail material followed by murder.

* In a third-season episode of ''Series/{{Defiance}}'', [[CameraFiend Berlin]] has sex with Tommy while recording the whole thing on a camera (the same camera she uses for her propaganda videos). Tommy is a bit worried, but Berlin points out that there's no risk, since the Internet hasn't been around in decades. When Tommy claims that Berlin's boss (the town mayor) could see it, she brushes him off, explaining that Pottinger only cares out his own looks, not Berlin's naked ass (she is glad that Tommy cares about the latter, though).

* ''Series/HemlockGrove'': [[spoiler:Andreas]] and a Croatian mob girl get the bright idea of shooting a porn movie while they're both conspiring to rip off her boss. This obviously comes back to bite them both when he discovers the tape, and uses it to [[spoiler:convince Peter that Andreas has crossed them both and become a liability]].
* Several episodes of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' revolve around this trope, including one in which a man drugs women and records himself raping them and another where a woman's secret recording of herself with a man is used to rebut her claim of rape.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'', when nude photos of a girl start circulating around the school, it is treated as a very serious problem, and the legal implications (that under-18 sex is extremely illegal) are brought up, though we are informed that the girl in question is 18.

* The ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' episode "Sex and the Daten City" sees Panty at risk of losing her newfound celebrity lifestyle when she screens her "debut film" (a sex tape) at a swanky premiere for another movie she and Stocking are in, which leaks to the public, leading to the Anarchy sisters traveling the world to destroy every last copy of the porn. [[spoiler:They succeed, but Stocking keeps the last copy and uploads it online to get even with Panty for cutting her from their film entirely.]]

* ''A+X'' #13 has ComicBook/EmmaFrost requesting the help of ComicBook/BlackWidow to help her take down a blackmailer who has uncovered a sex tape from Emma's past before she joined the ''Franchise/XMen''.

* This is the basis of ''Film/RoadTrip''; main character has to travel across the United States because he accidentally sent a VHS to his girlfriend which has him having sex with someone else.
* In ''Film/RuthlessPeople'', the sex tape is filmed by a pair of blackmailers trying to get someone arrested for murder. Thinking (by the screaming) that it was actually a murder, they take the tape straight to the chief of police. Unfortunately, it was him on the tape, and, accidentally blackmailed, he obeys their commands. Gets really bad when the cleverer of the two blackmailers takes the tape into a video shop to check it.
* Clark Griswald (in ''Film/NationalLampoonsEuropeanVacation'') tests his new videocamera by taping Mrs. Griswald in the shower. After swearing he's going to erase the tape later, she sings a "naughty" version of "Hey, Big Spender." Later, in Italy, Clark hands the camera to a stranger to videotape the family while standing in the Trevi Fountain and the stranger runs off with it. Something like a day passes and they see a screengrab from the "shower scene" on a billboard for a new "erotic movie". (She is not happy.)
* ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. They're ''trying'' to make a professional porn, but are working with a shoestring budget and have [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend quite a bit of unexpected emotional baggage]] to deal with.
* In "An Evening With Creator/KevinSmith", he talks about borrowing and watching a sex tape made by and starring ''Jason Mewes.'' [[BrainBleach Yes.]] In an interview on Series/{{Attack of the Show}}, Smith actually said that this is his [[AuthorAppeal favorite kind of porn]] ever since he discovered "revenge porn" on the internet.

* In ''Film/{{Machete}}'', [[ParentalIncest April and her mother June]] film these, although it's unclear how far they go. They mistake Machete for [[PizzaBoySpecialDelivery a new gardener and invite him to join them]]. It's unclear how far he goes, but he definitely kidnaps them and puts the video in a place where the evil father, Booth, can find it, to taunt him.

* In ''Film/WarInc'', Yonica's fiance was planning to make one of their honeymoon and then sell the resulting [=DVDs=]. Yonica was unaware of this and got really upset when she found out.

* Billy from ''Film/MostLikelyToMurder2018'' has a tape from high school starring himself, his then-girlfriend Elana, and various condiments. Elana's husband, Sheriff Perkins, is haunted by the existence of the tape.

* In ''Film/LoveAndOtherDrugs'', Jamie and Maggie make a sex tape. Later, Jamie catches his brother, Josh watching the tape and masturbating. He is as horrified as one would expect and beats Josh with said sex tape.

* In an episode of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', Lynette's kids start to watch a videotape belonging to a neighboring couple, which Lynette frantically stops when she sees what kind of movie it is. The neighbors are embarrassed it got out of their house... because their more recent movies have higher standards of production.
* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', in which there's a video tape that appears to be a Home Porn Movie made by Drew Carey and his girlfriend. At the end of the episode, the contents of the tape are revealed: while their initial intention was in fact to record a sex act, his girlfriend via the camera [[WeightWoe notices how much weight she'd put on]] since she began dating Drew. What the video ''actually'' contains is [[DownerEnding their break-up]].

* In ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'' (USA), Michael invites a few co-workers over for dinner and takes them into the bedroom on the house tour. He apparently neglected to remove the video camera pointed at the bed.
* ''Series/BrothersAndSisters''. Said clip ends up getting shown at a birthday party.
* ''Mosley'' (about Sir Oswald Mosley). The mistress of the title character takes a photograph of Mosley naked at the beach. When Mosely dumps her after she becomes pregnant she gives the photo to his political opponents, endangering his political career.
* Patrick in ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' has a tape of every single woman he's ever slept with - which it turns out includes all the female characters. They're all kept in a cupboard, which is of course [[TheCasanova stacked floor-to-ceiling]]. Susan is ''infuriated'' when she finds out that not only did Patrick accidentally tape over her, but that neither he nor her current boyfriend Steve were able to realize it wasn't her in the video until she pointed it out.
-->'''Steve:''' It's a very similar bottom...\\
'''Jeff:''' Similar breasts...\\
'''Susan:''' ''[[MyEyesAreUpHere Look at her face, boys!]]''
** Jane, on the other hand, finds the tape of herself with Patrick and helpfully tapes over it with constructive criticism of Patrick's performance.
* Dennis on ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' makes home porn videos. Without the women's knowledge. And they all focus on him.
* On ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' [[spoiler: [[TheSmartGuy Emil]] [[TheQuietOne Hamilton]] and [[TheBaroness Tess]] [[TheAtoner Mercer]]]] of all people make one while KissingUnderTheInfluence. They are not happy when it's found the next day.

* ''Series/CougarTown'': Bobby and Jules have one. Jules is particularly proud of how great she looked at nineteen.
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': Jenna regards this as an important step in her relationship with Paul. This makes sense given that her personality is "Hollywood AttentionWhore to the nth power."
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** Barney has an outright camera fetish. He records nearly all of his sexual encounters, and has cameras running in his apartment twenty-four seven, just in case. At one point, he has a nightmare ImagineSpot about being able to have sex with a group of gorgeous strippers but not being allowed to tape it.
** Barney spends one later episode hunting down a homemade sex tape that Marshall and Lily made. It's at first stated to not even exist, although it's eventually revealed that it is, in fact, real.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' had a BannedEpisode (not shown until over ten years after it was made) where on Marcy's advice Al and Peggy go to a motel to spice up their love life, only to find out the motel recording guests having sex. Realizing they could sue over this gets them in the mood.
* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Puck and Lauren want to make a sex tape to make Lauren famous, but their teacher advises them not to since they're under-age and it would be child pornography. Plus, she can say from experience that it never works out how you intend it to.
** Brittany purposely leaks her and Santana's sex tape to prove to Santana that she's nor truly willing to do anything for fame. Santana is not impressed.

* On ''Series/{{ER}}'', Doug and Carol make one of these shortly after reconciling. Amazingly, in an aversion of what often happens in this scenario, it does ''not'' end up being viewed by anyone else who shouldn't see it.
* Implied in ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'' when George puts on a tape for Angie's birthday and she worriedly asks if it's "from our [[NoodleIncident trip to the lake]], because the kid's can't see that!"
* Dave on ''Series/HappyEndings'' hooks up with a women's lacrosse coach who records them having sex then uses it to coach Dave on his technique.
* Invoked on just about every other episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''. Someone will say something that may or may not be an actual double entendre and Jake will respond "Title of your sex tape!"
* On ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' Mindy St. Claire secretly recorded Eleanor and Chidi having sex during one of their stays in The Medium Place.
* ''Series/WithoutATrace''. Martin Fitzgerald half-jokingly suggests to girlfriend Samantha Spade that they make one of these so as to reveal their relationship to their co-workers.
* ''Series/TheBill''. An old man storms into the Sun Hill nick to complain about a VCR he bought had a porn tape in it. Turns out that was because the VCR had been stolen with the tape in it. When the woman in the tape later comes to get her VCR back, Hollis recognises her instantly even with her clothes on; she however is not happy at the idea that the tape might be shown in court as evidence.
* ''Series/MelissaAndJoey'': In "Bad Influence", Joe and Ryder sell a video tape labelled "World Series" at a garage sale. It turns out to be a sex tape Mel made with one of her ex-boyfriends.
* Done accidentally in an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}''. Angela and Hodgins are lovers and coworkers at a museum and made a habit of having sex at work (Cleopatra's bed being a favorite place). They didn't realize that security cameras had been installed until Cam (their boss) confronts Angela with one of the videos. While she's initially embarrassed, Angela gets over it quickly and finds the video erotic (though she does promise Cam that they'll stop).
* ''Series/TheMurders'': {{Played for drama}} when Kate gets sent a recording of her having sex with Pete (audio only), and initially thinks he made this, angrily ending their relationship because he didn't ask permission for that. However, it turns out he didn't do it, and she becomes anxious that she's the victim of a stalker. [[spoiler:It turns out to be even worse, as he's a ''serial killer''.]]

* "Get Naked" on [[Music/MotleyCrue Tommy Lee's]] rap album complains about the money being made off his sex tape with Pamela Anderson.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has Hank and Peggy walk into Boomhauer's bedroom to see a videocamera pointed at the bed and hooked up to the tv. [[InnocentInaccurate They assume it's for home videos and pretend to be news casters on the bed with it]].
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' -- Bart finds a tape marked "Homer and Marge Get Dirty", and plays it for Lisa hoping to traumatize her. It turns out its just footage of the two carving pumpkins for Halloween and getting covered in pumpkin pulp as a result.
* Not quite ''home'', but on ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'', when Stormy asked the ASHDTV to show him porno bloopers, it showed him one featuring Debbie and, based on context clues, Hesh. Debbie was more offended that the guys didn't think her breasts were real.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko Heffer and Filbert find a video made by the Bigheads called "Toads In Love".

* Bobby and Jules in ''Series/CougarTown'' have one. Jules is particularly proud of how great she looked at nineteen.
* Jenna in ''Series/ThirtyRock'' regards this as an important step in her relationship with Paul. This makes sense given that her personality is "Hollywood AttentionWhore taken UpToEleven."

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' -- Bart finds a tape marked "Homer and Marge Get Dirty", and plays it for Lisa hoping to traumatize her. It turns out its just footage of the two carving pumpkins and getting covered in pumpkin pulp as a result.

* ''Series/TheMurders'': {{Played for drama}} when Kate gets sent a recording of her having sex with Pete (audio only), and initially thinks he made this, angrily ending their relationship because he didn't ask permission for this. However, it turns out he didn't do it, and she becomes anxious that she's the victim of a stalker. [[spoiler:It turns out to be even worse, as he's a ''serial killer''.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Ultimates}} 3'' has a sex tape of Tony Stark and the recently deceased Natasha Romanov leaked to the public. The tape is later revealed to have been recorded by Ultron for unknown reasons.

* "Cry Me A River" , the Justin Timberlake song, has a video where JT does this, with the aim of getting back at a woman who is very clearly meant to be [[TheFaceless Britney Spears]].

* One issue of Post-Crisis Franchise/{{Superman}} involves him and Comics/BigBards being mind-controlled by the New God Sleeze, who attempts to use this opportunity to have them make such a film. Yes really. Thankfully he fails.

* Series/VeronicaMars had a hidden camera sex tape filmed without her or her boyfriends knowledge in his dorm room. It is then leaked to the internet. It causes major problems, and causes her ex-boyfriend Logan to beat her current boyfriend Piz senseless as Logan assumes he made it on purpose.
** The video shows up in the follow-up [[Film/VeronicaMars film]], although the footage is different (for rating reasons).

-->"But let me just say: The camera? Nice!" *two thumbs up*

* Done in an episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds''. When a woman finds in her husband's cell phone nude pictures of their daughter, he explains that this is some sexting done by the daughter (presumably to her boyfriend) and that she sent those to her father in law by mistake. [[spoiler:He's lying by the way.]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''- Bart finds a tape marked "Homer and Marge Get Dirty", and plays it for Lisa hoping to traumatize her. It turns out its just footage of the two carving pumpkins and getting covered in pumpkin pulp as a result.

* Literal {{Gorn}} variant, though downplayed. Greg of ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' takes several nudes of Jeremy after beating him and before raping him.

* Also doubling as a serious case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, one episode of '' WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresofBillyAndMandy'' has Billy tell Mandy that Grim "drank your juice, and broke your computer and watched my mom and dad's special DVD"

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''- Bart finds a tape marked "Homer and Marge Get Dirty", and plays it for Lisa hoping to traumatize her. It turns out its just footage of the two carving pumpkins.