History Main / MadonnaWhoreComplex

Also compare SlutShaming, SourPrudes, LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, BettyAndVeronica, MyGirlIsNotASlut, SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains, SexualKarma. Sometimes may be seen as a sign of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Closely related to MamasBabyPapasMaybe, HeirClubForMen, and AltarDiplomacy, as demonizing female promiscuity is one way of ensuring political marriages only produce legitimate heirs. Contrast EthicalSlut, GoodBadGirl, HeroicSeductress, HookerWithAHeartOfGold, InnocentFanserviceGirl, MyGirlIsASlut, LovableSexManiac (If female), SexIsGood, and VirginShaming. Also contrast DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale if the whores aren't taken seriously ''in the {{unfortunate|Implications}} way''. Not to be confused with MadonnaArchetype.

* DisposableSexWorker

Also compare SlutShaming, SourPrudes, LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, BettyAndVeronica, MyGirlIsNotASlut, SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains, SexualKarma. Sometimes may be seen as a sign of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Closely related to MamasBabyPapasMaybe, HeirClubForMen, and AltarDiplomacy, as demonizing female promiscuity is one way of ensuring political marriages only produce legitimate heirs. Contrast EthicalSlut, GoodBadGirl, HeroicSeductress, HookerWithAHeartOfGold, InnocentFanserviceGirl, MyGirlIsASlut, and VirginShaming. Also contrast DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale if the whores aren't taken seriously ''in the {{unfortunate|Implications}} way''. Not to be confused with MadonnaArchetype.

* TransgenderFetishization

* EvilIsSexy

Also compare SlutShaming, SourPrudes, LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, BettyAndVeronica, MyGirlIsNotASlut, SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains, SexualKarma. Sometimes may be seen as a sign of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Closely related to MamasBabyPapasMaybe, HeirClubForMen, and AltarDiplomacy, as demonizing female promiscuity is one way of ensuring political marriages only produce legitimate heirs. Contrast EthicalSlut, GoodBadGirl, HeroicSeductress, HookerWithAHeartOfGold, MyGirlIsASlut, and VirginShaming. Also contrast DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale if the whores aren't taken seriously ''in the {{unfortunate|Implications}} way''. Not to be confused with MadonnaArchetype.

* ActionGirl--when compared with the more ruthless and often more sensual DarkActionGirl

* Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', as the film shows how unrealistic it is to look at a woman from either standard. Frollo considers [[HotGypsyWoman Esmeralda]] as a Whore because she performs suggestive dances. He [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny lusts after her]] but is sure he can't have her because she is a Whore (plus he's bigoted against Romani) so he decides to [[BurnTheWitch burn her]] if she [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe refuses him]]. Meanwhile, Quasimodo is well-intentioned but only sees Esmeralda as a pure Madonna, heavily idealizing her since she saved him from humiliation and possible death—which does not mix well with the fact that Quasi has an extremely naïve view of human relationships due to him living all of his life locked away from the world. Phoebus is attracted to ''both'' Esmeralda's kind heart and her alluring nature, so she [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan chooses him]] because he's the only one that sees her as a proper human being with flaws and pros instead of just one thing or another.

* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'': Tony believes a girl can be a [[ProperLady "nice girl"]] or a [[CountryMatters "cunt"]], not both.

* ''Film/TaxiDriver'': Travis, among his many other issues, seems to suffer a major case of this, although it is more complicated and nuanced than most other examples. He becomes obsessed with Betsy, whom he sees as a beacon of virtue and purity among the filth of the city ("Madonna"), but when she rejects him his perception of her shifts completely, and she turns into "just like all the others" (a "Whore"). His relationship with Iris is similar but inverted: she starts as a "Whore"(literally a prostitute, and is implied that Travis is sexually attracted to her), but due to her age Travis becomes fixated with helping her escape and start a virtuous life (become a "Madonna"). Throughout the movie it is never shown if Travis is capable of thinking about women in any other way than these two extremes.

* This was a constant problem with Music/TaylorSwift in the past but she has largely grown out of it. She chalks it up to immaturity. It was to the point that an image from "You Belong With Me" was the page image:

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* Literature/TheBible plays with, zig-zags, and subverts this trope a lot more than you'd think:
** In the Literature/BookOfGenesis, where Tamar disguises herself as a shrine prostitute to sleep with her former father-in-law and becomes pregnant by him. At first, Judah sentences her to be burned to death for engaging in illicit sex... but she sends a messenger with the cord and seal that she had taken as "collateral," saying that the man who owns them is the father. Judah recognizes the {{MacGuffin}}s as his, and [[LastMinuteReprieve spares Tamar's life.]] He even says that she is more righteous than he is, because she had done her duty (perpetuating the lineage of her deceased husband) and Judah had not (he married his youngest son Shelah off to someone else, even though [[ValuesDissonance Shelah was supposed to marry Tamar to provide for her and father children on his dead brother's behalf]].) From then on, Tamar lives in Judah's household, raises the twins born from their sexual act and he provides for her and the kids as he would an actual wife (although they didn't have sex again.)
** Averted with Rahab, a prostitute[[note]]Although some believe she was just an innkeeper or the wife of one, the mainstream view is that she was actually a HighClassCallGirl[[/note]] from the Literature/BookOfJoshua. She is shown to be a kind person and even hides the Israelite spies. Not only does she end up later having a family of her own, but she becomes part of the lineage of the Messiah.
** Played straight in the Literature/BookOfProverbs, where the students are warned about "strange" women, and where these women are contrasted against a personification of Wisdom, and against the Wife of Noble Character.
** There's nowhere in any of Literature/TheFourGospels who says "Mary Magdalene was a prostitute", neither is she positively identified with the Woman With The Alabaster Jar (who seems is described as a "sinful woman", [[NoodleIncident what sin she commits is unclear]]), but in any case, it's common practice to make her a CompositeCharacter with the Woman With The Alabaster Jar to counterbalance, you know, The Madonna. Even then, this composite Mary Magdalene plays with the dynamic by being a Whore who becomes a Madonna.
** Subverted in the Literature/TheFourGospels on at least two occasions. The first time, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} chats with an unnamed Samaritan woman at her town's well, and does not treat her with contempt for [[SerialSpouse having been married five times]] and living with a boyfriend as a [[TheMistress "kept woman,"]] even though everyone else does, to the point where she comes to the well at high noon instead of at dawn or dusk when the other townswomen do. The second time, a woman who was caught in the act of adultery is being brought out to be executed by stoning[[note]][[DoubleStandard Her lover is not mentioned as being about to be executed]], even though he was caught, too, and even though the laws laid out in the Literature/BookOfExodus said that ''both'' the man and the woman were to be executed[[/note]]. The townsmen ask Jesus what should be done with her, and He calls on the sinless among them to throw the first stone... leading them to spare her life. He then tells her that he doesn't condemn her, and to [[GoAndSinNoMore go and live her life and never cheat again]].
** Played straight in the Literature/BookOfRevelation. The Whore of Babylon (a personification of a culture of corruption, idolatry, and immorality) is contrasted to the pure Bride of Christ (the Church). Sure these are symbols and not real people, but it still counts.
* Many a philosopher have portrayed the two aspects of Aphrodite from Myth/ClassicalMythology as the heavenly Aphrodite Urania, spiritual love, and Aphrodite Pandemos, carnal love. There is evidence that this might have been a more complex matter in historical religion, however.
* Inverted in the Mesoamerican legend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtabay Xtabay]]. Xkeban was promiscuous but kind and humble. Utz-Colel was chaste but selfish and haughty. When Xkeban died, her body emitted a perfume scent and her grave grew beautiful, fragrant flowers. Utz-Colel felt shocked and jealous, vowing that her death would be more beautiful, only for a putrid scent and a prickly cactus to birth during her funeral. Afterwards, Utz-Colel became the eponymous sex demon out of jealousy for her rival and the [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint misbelief that promiscuity (rather than kindness) had been the key to her success]].
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* ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful

Compare and contrast TheThreeFacesOfEve, as it creates a FalseDichotomy between the Seductress and the other archetypes, either represents the Child archetype as "[[TheIngenue pure]] and [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent]]" while ignores the Wife archetype (the one who is sexually active ''and'' morally good/"pure"), or makes the Wife archetype as the one who is well-aware of her "Madonna" role and [[IncorruptiblePurePureness will never corrupt it]], while depicts the Child as too oblivious to realize her [[InnocentFanserviceGirl immodesty]] and [[FilleFatale "inappropriate"]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive actions]] which increase her risk of [[BreakTheCutie being corrupted]]. That said, many Madonnas ''are'' wives, though they are more often mothers or sisters, or other women with close emotional ties to whoever considers them a Madonna.

Compare and contrast TheThreeFacesOfEve, as it creates a FalseDichotomy between the Seductress and the other archetypes, either represents the Child archetype as "[[TheIngenue pure]] and [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocent]]" while ignores the Wife archetype (the one who is sexually active ''and'' morally good/"pure"), or makes the Wife archetype as the one who is well-aware of her "Madonna" role and [[IncorruptiblePurePureness will never corrupt it]], while depicts the Child as too oblivious to realize her [[InnocentFanserviceGirl modesty]] and [[FilleFatale "inappropriate"]] [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior actions]]. That said, many Madonnas ''are'' wives, though they are more often mothers or sisters, or other women with close emotional ties to whoever considers them a Madonna.

The Madonna-Whore complex is a notable contrast to TheThreeFacesOfEve, as it ignores the Wife archetype (one who is sexually active ''and'' morally good/"pure") and creates a FalseDichotomy between the Child and Seductress. That said, many Madonnas ''are'' wives, though they are more often mothers or sisters, or other women with close emotional ties to whoever considers them a Madonna.

Compare SlutShaming, SourPrudes, LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, BettyAndVeronica, MyGirlIsNotASlut, SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains, SexualKarma. Sometimes may be seen as a sign of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Closely related to MamasBabyPapasMaybe, HeirClubForMen, and AltarDiplomacy, as demonizing female promiscuity is one way of ensuring political marriages only produce legitimate heirs. Contrast EthicalSlut, GoodBadGirl, HeroicSeductress, HookerWithAHeartOfGold, MyGirlIsASlut, and VirginShaming. Also contrast DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale if the whores aren't taken seriously ''in the {{unfortunate|Implications}} way''. Not to be confused with MadonnaArchetype.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'' when you get to the upper layer of what is basically Heaven you find out that the Madonna and [[Creator/AleisterCrowley the Whore of Babylon]] [[spoiler: are the same concept seen from different angles.]]
* Rorschach in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is implied to think this way, owing in part to his rather unfortunate upbringing and [[SonOfAWhore his mother having been a prostitute]], and in part to his love of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Pretty much every time Rorschach describes a female character, they're either an untouched innocent (Kitty Genovese or Blaire Roche) or a whore beneath contempt (both Silk Spectres, his landlady). It's not hard to imagine his own issues with sex and gender aren't factors as well.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Brutus Close thinks wives should be meek, modest, submissive and "innocent", while he wants his mistresses bold, alluring and adventurous. His wife Nina has been [[DomesticAbuse beaten for years by him]] and warped her entire personality around trying to be his perfect quiet housewife so as not to set him off, and finally snaps and kills him when he berates her while talking about how appealing his adventurous mistress is for traits which he literally beat out of Nina.
* Pops up quite a bit in regards to Peter's romantic life in ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. The women in his life tend to be divided amongst the "Madonnas" such as Gwen, Aunt May and Carlie Cooper, and those deemed "The Whores" as seen with Felicia and Mary Jane. Characters like Gwen and Aunt May are treated with solemn reverence and treated as the most important women in Peter's life, while Felicia and Mary Jane were derided for their sexual agency and confident personalities and argued for being "Not a good fit" for Peter.

* VanSorceress

* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': [[MeaningfulName Maria]] is [[ASaintNamedMary saintly and pure]], whereas her robotic doppelganger is a diabolical temptress who works as a dancing girl at Toshiwara. Of course, the machine-woman was [[InvokedTrope deliberately made that way by Rotwang and Joh Fredersen to discredit Maria]]. They even spell it out for us--not only is Maria named after the Virgin Mary, but her robot double is repeatedly and explicitly compared to the Whore of Babylon from [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]].

Compare SlutShaming, SourPrudes, LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, BettyAndVeronica, MyGirlIsNotASlut, SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains, SexualKarma. Sometimes may be seen as a sign of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Closely related to MamasBabyPapasMaybe, HeirClubForMen, and AltarDiplomacy, as demonizing female promiscuity is one way of ensuring political marriages only produce legitimate heirs. Contrast EthicalSlut, GoodBadGirl, HeroicSeductress, HookerWithAHeartOfGold, and MyGirlIsASlut. Also contrast DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale if the whores aren't taken seriously ''in the {{unfortunate|Implications}} way''. Not to be confused with MadonnaArchetype.

* WinterRoyalLady: Again because frigidity means chastity and snow is almost always seens as pure.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil

* The seductress of TheThreeFacesOfEve

** Miki loves Anthy, whom he sees as entirely virginal and passive because he sees her as basically the foil of his promiscuous sister, Kozue, whom he is sexually attracted to. The theme appears to be that Miki sees Anthy and Kozue as two sides of one woman, and by extension seeing neither as a full person in her own right.

* Rorschach in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is implied to think this way, owing in part to his rather unfortunate upbringing and his mother having been a prostitute, and in part to his love of BlackAndWhiteMorality. Pretty much every time Rorschach describes a female character, they're either an untouched innocent (Kitty Genovese or Blaire Roche) or a whore beneath contempt (both Silk Spectres, his landlady). It's not hard to imagine his own issues with sex and gender aren't factors as well.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Brutus Close thinks wives should be meek, modest, submissive and "innocent", while he wants his mistresses bold, alluring and adventurous. His wife Nina has been beaten for years by him and warped her entire personallity around trying to be his perfect quiet housewife so as not to set him off, and finally snaps and kills him when he berates her while talking about how appealing his adventurous mistress is for traits which he literally beat out of Nina.

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in an episode of ''Series/MadMen'' where the characters mull over ideas for an ad and conclude that every woman is [[TheSixties either a "Jackie" or a "Marilyn."]]. The funny thing is that when they are checking out various secretaries and calling them [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy "Jackie"]] or [[Creator/MarilynMonroe "Marilyn"]] that they pick Jane Siegel as a "Jackie" despite being no more chaste and proper than Joan who is a "Marilyn" or rather "Well Marilyn's really a Joan, not the other way around". Later Jane marries Roger Sterling (a former flame of Joan's) after leaving his wife of 20 years and he cheats on her with Joan, resulting in a son, before divorcing Jane.

** Subverted in the Literature/TheFourGospels on at least two occasions. The first time, UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} chats with an unnamed Samaritan woman at her town's well, and does not treat her with contempt for [[SerialSpouse having been married five times]] and living with a boyfriend as a [[TheMistress "kept woman,"]] even though everyone else does, to the point where she comes to the well at high noon instead of at dawn or dusk when the other townswomen do. The second time, a woman who was caught in the act of adultery is being brought out to be executed by stoning[[note]][[DoubleStandard Her lover is not mentioned as being about to be executed]], even though he was caught, too, and even though the laws laid out in the Literature/BookOfExodus said that ''both'' the man and the woman were to be executed[[/note]]. The townsmen ask Jesus what should be done with her, and He calls on the sinless among them to throw the first stone... leading them to spare her life. He then tells her that he doesn't condemn her, and to go and live her life and never cheat again.

* Heo Min-Jung from ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory''. Being from a culture that is reminiscent of [[FeudalFuture Joseon-era Korea]], she strongly believes that all women desire to get married and be good, obedient wives. She equates any woman wanting otherwise and be "independent" to being a "Whore".

The Madonna-Whore Complex (AKA "Virgin–Whore Complex") was described by Sigmund Freud on the basis of some of his clinical work. Specifically, he noticed the difficulty some men had in having sexual relations with their wives because they differentiated women into these categories. Those men were aroused by prostitutes and mistresses but not their wives because, paradoxically, [[RomanceAndSexualitySeparation they respected the latter too much]] (they viewed them as fellow humans; i.e., not whores) to be sexually attracted to them.

* Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', as the film shows how unrealistic it is to look at a woman from either standard. Frollo considers Esmeralda as a Whore because she performs suggestive dances. He [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny lusts after her]] but knows he can't have her because she is a Whore (plus he's bigoted against gypsies) so he decides to [[BurnTheWitch burn her]] if she [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe refuses him]]. Meanwhile, Quasimodo is well-intentioned but only sees Esmeralda as a pure Madonna, heavily idealizing her since she saved him from humiliation and possible death—which does not mix well with the fact that Quasi has an extremely naive view of human relationships due to him living all of his life locked away from the world. Phoebus is attracted to ''both'' Esmeralda's kind heart and her alluring nature, so she [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan chooses him]] because he's the only one that sees her as a proper human being with flaws and pros instead of just one thing or another.

* ''Film/AnalyzeThis'': Billy Crystal asks Creator/RobertDeNiro why he has a mistress. De Niro explains that there are things he can't do with his wife. When Crystal asks what, De Niro replies "Doc, it's the mouth that kisses my children goodnight".

* FinalGirl: The existence of this trope in slasher movies runs on the Madonna-Whore Complex. The FinalGirl is typically a virgin and above vices such as drinking, smoking and being promiscuous. She is usually contrasted with other girls in the film who enjoy frequent sex and therefore [[SexSignalsDeath don't survive the film]]. ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' was among the first to do this with all the female victims being killed in relation to sex. Two had just had sex while the third was on her way to do so.

* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': [[MeaningfulName Maria]] is saintly and pure, whereas her robotic doppelganger is a diabolical temptress who works as a dancing girl at Toshiwara. Of course, the machine-woman was [[InvokedTrope deliberately made that way by Rotwang and Joh Fredersen to discredit Maria]]. They even spell it out for us--not only is Maria named after the Virgin Mary, but her robot double is repeatedly and explicitly compared to the Whore of Babylon from [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]].

** Powell's case is so severe that he's left a series of murdered wives behind him, each killed for showing sexual interest in him at the exact moment when their culture would have deemed it ''most'' appropriate - i.e., their wedding night. And lest you think that he did it just for the money (he robbed the wives as well), the movie establishes early on that he really has substituted murderous violence for sex in his brain when [[SomethingElseAlsoRises his switchblade punches through his pants pocket]] while he's watching the aforementioned burlesque dancer.

* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' is frequently cited as an example, with Lucy Westenra as the Whore, having three lovers and becoming a seductive vampire before getting her just punishment in death, and Mina Harker neé Murray as the Madonna, a kind and submissive housewife, surviving through the end. This was an addition made by adaptations, however, and the original novel is by-and-large a subversion. Lucy in the novel is a textbook Madonna, kind and innocent, with nary a flaw to be had. Yet she is killed anyway, both by being TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth and as a symbol of the fading aristocracy. Mina Murray, while not exactly a Whore, is far more liberated and proactive, frequently brings up a skillset one wouldn't typically expect of a housewife, and is ultimately vital to the defeat of Dracula. Not to mention that, while Lucy is definitely a virgin by the time of her death, Mina (being a married woman, attacked by Dracula while asleep in bed with her husband) is almost explicitly not.

* ''Literature/TheGame2005'' [[note]]Not to be confused with the 1997 Michael Douglas movie of the [[SimilarlyNamedWorks same name]][[/note]] (And "Pick Up Artist" philosophy in general) names and discusses this trope extensively - according to its theories, [[AllWomenAreLustful all]] women [[MyGirlIsASlut are]] "Whores" that only put on a "Madonna" facade because that's societally expected of them.

* Subverted in ''Literature/LesMiserables''. The character of Fantine largely represents the Madonna-esque purity and innocence, however, due to the consequences of being an unwed mother following a summer fling, is relegated (quite literally) to the role of the Whore; in the closest thing 19th century French Literature had to snark, Hugo makes sure to mention that the man she slept with suffered [[KarmaHoudini no ill effects]] of this, and managed to be a rich and successful lawyer, highlighting the double-standard. In addition, the novel makes note that she is both denigrated as Whore and the subject of incredulity as Madonna, leaving her at odds with society as both Madonna and Whore.

* ''Literature/TessOfTheDUrbervilles'' is made of this. Tess' love interest is a hypocrite, who had sex before marriage himself, but despises her for ''having been raped''. The subtitle of the novel is "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented", so, in a way, this is a subversion, as the author apparently did not subscribe to the misogynist attitude portrayed in the novel.

** The video for "You Belong With Me" is really anvilicious. The "narrator"? Totally sweet, tomboyish and GirlNextDoor-like and thus ''undoubtedly'' the better option. Her pretty and popular cheerleader rival, who also is more overtly sexual than her? Stupid evil whore who cheats and whines and is ''bad''. Interestingly enough though, Taylor plays them ''[[ActingForTwo both]]''.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Johnny has this, hard, in spite of having lived the SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll lifestyle for most of his life. He has no problems with working with women in general, and regularly cheats on his girlfriends with various groupies and sex workers, but he also treats the same groupies and sex workers with contempt bordering on outright hostility. At one point, Johnny will angrily chastise V for insinuating that saving a group of abused and imperiled sex workers from a particularly vile and vicious pimp is a good thing.

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': The government promotes the image of magical girls as [[PropagandaHero pure and perfect warriors]] -- meaning they don't like talking about what happens when a magical girl has sex and gets pregnant. Specifically, [[spoiler:when the child is born, the power [[BequeathedPower passes out of the mother and into the child]], basically guaranteeing that the child will awaken powers of her own later on, and that those powers will be stronger than normal]]. The "whore" side doesn't come up as much, though; if a magical girl gets pregnant, the government just shuffles her out of the public eye and covers up any connection between the child and their mother's identity.

* SweaterGirl

* DarkChick

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Sakura is never seen making any sexual advances to Sasuke, only a teary AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and total devotion before the TimeSkip. [[DarkChick Karin]], on the other hand, is much more openly sexual.

The Madonna is always an EmbodimentOfVirtue, always chaste, benevolent and [[NeutralFemale often passive]]. She sometimes is corrupted--[[LesYay often sexually, and often by the Whore]], directly or indirectly. Often the {{Protectorate}} or the MoralityChain of a DarkerAndEdgier male character, sometimes of a whole community, whose mission is to protect her purity and innocence. If she remains "untarnished" to the very end, she gets the HappyEnding she earned by chosing virtue and chastity over sex.

A pattern of thought that divides [[AlwaysFemale female humanity]] into [[ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld two mutually exclusive categories]]: Madonnas and Whores. The respectable and honorable Madonna figure, possessing and protecting social virtue [[AllWomenArePrudes (and deploring sexuality)]] is an object of worship and everything that all women should aspire to be. However, sex is not part of this; [[InsaneTrollLogic any woman who fails to live up to the Madonna standard is a disgusting and contemptible Whore]] driven exclusively by [[AllWomenAreLustful sexual desire]] and (therefore) [[SexIsEvil lacking in morality and humanity]]. An active sex life makes one a Whore... unless one is married, and sometimes even then.

* AnythingThatMoves

Compare SlutShaming, SourPrudes, LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine, BettyAndVeronica, MyGirlIsNotASlut, SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains, SexualKarma. Sometimes may be seen as a sign of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Closely related to MamasBabyPapasMaybe, HeirClubForMen, and AltarDiplomacy, as demonizing female promiscuity is one way of ensuring political marriages only produce legitimate heirs. Contrast EthicalSlut, GoodBadGirl, HeroicSeductress, HookerWithAHeartOfGold, and MyGirlIsASlut. Not to be confused with MadonnaArchetype.

* The wife and the child in TheThreeFacesOfEve

* The seductress in TheThreeFacesOfEve