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* There is even a series of oneshots on Adultfanfiction where the Doctor crosses into Star Trek universe and gets 'infected' by Vulcanian pon farr. This makes for one happy Jack Harkness, companion at the time. After the first, oneshots gets weirder and weirder and could be squicky to someone.

* This trope comes up fairly often in any given fandom. Often takes the form of, essentially, something akin to this: a character afflicted with a poison/drug/substance/aphrodisiac/etc that for whatever reason amps up their sex drive times eleven. Not only does it make them virtually crazy with lust, their partner is confronted with the knowledge that if the afflicted is not satiated they'll suffer horrible consequences ranging from extreme discomfort/injury, to insanity, to actual death. Mate or die, truly. Oh and having sex once isn't good enough. It's going to last for hours.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Tracker}}'', one of the aliens has a build-up of poisons that must be "released" daily, in order for him to survive. To that end, he becomes a pickup artist, sleeping with women and leaving before they lapse into a coma. Needless to say, he gets very upset when he is just about to do it with yet another woman, and she suddenly changes her mind, as he doesn't have time to go look for another.

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* Film example, Stephen Chow movie ''Film/RoyalTramp'' 2. A villainess is hit with a poison that will kill her before dawn unless she mates with a man. The lucky man turns out to be, you guessed it, Stephen Chow.
** Actually, she was the villainess for the first movie and about half of the sequel, until the aforementioned scene took place. After that, she's basically part of Stephen Chow's harem.

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* This trope is the basis for an old joke: A doctor and his residents are making the rounds when they discover a man masturbating in one of the examination rooms. One of the residents asks why he is doing this, and the doctor explains: "This man has a rare condition where he must have an orgasm every hour or he will suffer a fatal hemorrhage." Several rooms later, they come across a man receiving a blowjob from a [[HospitalHottie gorgeous blonde nurse]]. Again the residents ask what's happening and the doctor responds: "Same problem, better insurance."
* In one [[Myth/CelticMythology ancient Irish myth]], the goddess, the Morrígan, heartily recommended that the hero Cú Chulainn surrender to her advances for his own health. Cú Chulainn (depending on who tells it either trying [[ReallyGetsAround for once]] to be faithful to his wife Emer or having heard bad things about men who had sex with the Morrígan) doesn't, and in revenge, she orchestrated his death years later, in the form of a MortonsFork that forces him to break one of his two {{geas}}a, by offering him a meal of dog's meat. (Cú Chulainn's geasa forbade him both from eating dog meat and from refusing an offer of [[SacredHospitality hospitality]].) By breaking one geas for another, Cú Chulainn lost his supernatural strength and died in battle the next day.
* This was attempted in the ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''. Gilgamesh turned down Ishtar's marriage proposal for the excellent reason that all her lovers die quickly and horribly after loving her. In response, Ishtar throws a temper tantrum to convince her father, the sky-god Anu to sic the Bull of Heaven, embodiment of the gods' vengeance, on Gilgamesh's city, Uruk, to destroy everyone in it. Predictably, Gilgamesh and Enkiddu slew the Bull, and offered the beast's heart to the sun god Shamash. When Ishtar came to the walls of Uruk to curse Gilgamesh again, Enkiddu came to his friend's defense, and tore off the Bull's right thigh, throwing it at her face while threatening to do the same to her. As a result, Ishtar convinced the other gods to curse Enkiddu with a fatal illness, and thus, grant her some measure of revenge against Gilgamesh for spurning her.

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* In the Literature/BookOfGenesis from ''Literature/TheBible'', Jacob's second wife Rachel gets jealous that her sister, his first wife Leah, is giving him children, and demands "Give me children [literally ''sons''] or I'll die." (Whether that means she will kill herself or something else entirely is unknown.) When Jacob tells her that he's not in the place of God to decide whether or not she would have children, Rachel gives him her handmaid so that she could have children through an ancient form of surrogacy, thus averting the trope. Still not satisfied, Rachel has one of Leah's sons give her some of the mandrakes (believed to be an inducer of fertility) in exchange for Jacob sleeping with Leah and giving her more children. It's only when God finally decides to grant Rachel conception that she gives birth to her first son Joseph.
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* Extremely popular in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' slash fic as a way to help Sam and Dean get over their [[SiblingIncest But He's My Brother]] aversion to sexual activity. The canonical series has already established them as being so codependent that they're willing to sell their souls and go to hell for one another so writers figure what's a little sex amongst brothers if it'll save each others lives? This is usually commenced by one or both brothers being exposed to sex pollen (makes them super horny and their brains will fry from fever if they don't act on it), sex magic (a witch or a curse that forces them to be sexual together), or some combination that literally creates a screw or die situation (name has been mellowed for the less spicy nature of TV Tropes). Also used for slash pairings that are less popular in the fandom and lack even subtextual support in canon, such as John and [[ParentalIncest either of his sons]], [[TheFriendsWhoNeverHang Castiel and Sam]], [[SiblingIncest Castiel and any other angel, since angels are technically all siblings]] or characters who are canonically enemies such as Sam/ Lucifer or Dean/ Ruby or canonically strangers such as John/ Ruby or John/ Castiel.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]" reveals that Spock must return to Vulcan and mate or he will die. All Vulcans go through a process known as ''Pon Farr'' every 7 years; it makes them increasingly agitated, violent and dangerous for anyone, especially unmarried women, to be around. (Despite what some believe, there's no indication that Vulcans ''only'' mate during ''pon farr'', only that they ''must'' do so at that time. [[WordOfGod D.C. Fontana]] confirmed that Vulcans can and do feel desire and take mates at other times.) While Vulcans are betrothed at the age of seven to ensure they have a marriage partner for when ''Pon Farr'' finally strikes, Spock is in deep space when his occurs, meaning his condition is very advanced by the time they finally reach Vulcan. As Spock's intended wife doesn't want to marry him, she challenges the arrangement by demanding Kirk fight Spock on her behalf, expecting Kirk to be killed and Spock to spurn her in retaliation. Believing he's killed Kirk, Spock is snapped out of the ''Pon Farr'' and he does indeed free his intended wife from the arrangement. This episode is responsible for launching SlashFic as a fanfic genre, and has made Kirk/Spock one of the most enduring and prolific fanfic pairings of all time.

** That exact fact was used as an innuendo in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode Detour. Scully tries to keep Mulder warm after he goes into shock from being attacked by a wild animal. Mulder quips "I've heard the best way to generate body heat is to crawl naked into a sleeping bag with someone else who's already naked." Scully replies "Well, maybe if it rains sleeping bags, you'll get lucky." Unfortunately, this never happens.

* Though it hasn't reached the level of sexual intercourse, yet, in ''LightNovel/TheHiddenDungeonOnlyICanEnter'' has Noir receive LifeEnergy from performing erotic acts with the opposite sex. Should the LP reach zero, he dies, so he has to engage in erotic acts with as many women as possible, just to stay alive.

* A Downplayed example in the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LinkedInLifeAndLove'' kicks off the plot, as Blake the [[CatGirl cat Faunus]] starts to [[MatingSeasonMayhem go into heat]] just as a lockdown of Beacon Academy is initiated and she finds she's out of the medication normally distributed to Faunus to help suppress it. While there's no suggestion that she'd actually die if she's not relieved, one hour into trying to get through it cold turkey and Blake's already sweating and trembling, nearly kissing Ruby without asking because Blake's having trouble staying lucid -- and there's still nine more hours to go. Blake knows already that [[ADateWithRosiePalms going solo]] won't stop the symptoms, and online research by the rest of Team RWBY indicates that Blake's symptoms will progress to a high fever and phantom pains if left unchecked.

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The inverse of this is DeathBySex. Contrast CantHaveSexEver. Also, not to be confused with the anime short series ''Anime/MeatOrDie''.

** [[DeathBySex Inverted]] with the Decapodians (Zoidberg's species), who are instinctively drawn back to their home planet to mate, ''and then'' die. Fry states this dilemma pretty succinctly:

* DouteiZetsumetsuRettou, or "Virgin Extinction Island", has this as its very plotline - Males over the age of 18 start dying suddenly and unexpectedly in Japan (and later the rest of the world), and the common denominator found was that they were all virgins. The cause is the cherry-looking mutated "DTG-cell", which is cured with intercourse. "Death by virginity" suddenly becomes a very real thing for all the males of the world, and the series mainly follows a 17 year old kid who's basically looking to smash before he turns 18.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Prior to instigating reforms and rejoining with the Themysciran tribe of Amazons the Bana would offer some male oponents the choice of becoming {{breeding slave}}s instead of death in battle or execution, meaning their only choices were to die at the women's hands or be chained up in stalls and used for reproduction.

** [[spoiler: Also, in the ''New Blood'' series, Dodia and Door were Recognized, but the ex-Blue Mountain elf soon crossed the MoralEventHorizon as a villain, such that she had to bash him over the head with a club to end his crimes. Whether or not she could've done this ''before'' they'd had sex is unclear.[[note]]Dodia is shown as having gone ''completely'' bonkers later on[[/note]]]]

* This trope comes up fairly often in any given fandom. Often takes the form of, essentially, something akin to this: a character afflicted with a poison/drug/substance/aphrodisiac/etc that for whatever reason amps up their sex drive [[UpToEleven times eleven]]. Not only does it make them virtually crazy with lust, their partner is confronted with the knowledge that if the afflicted is not satiated they'll suffer horrible consequences ranging from extreme discomfort/injury, to insanity, to actual death. Mate or die, truly. Oh and having sex once isn't good enough. It's going to last for hours.

* One Series/AsTheWorldTurns fanfic has has Luke and Reid snowed in and have to get warm. It turns out Reid actually had that planned all along. Reid's a doctor, so Luke believed the having to keep each other warm excuse.

* A milder version comes up in quite a lot of WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic lemons: Ponies have a mating season just like real horses (or as similar as the author's knowledge of horses allow). While they don't ''die'' if they don't have sex, they become quite obsessed with it and it makes anything but trying to get laid very hard, justifying OOC behaviour and the like. The end results vary: [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/3693/Why-Didn%27t-Ah-Stay-at-Th%27-Farm%3F In Why Didn't Ah Stay At The Farm]], Big Macintosh [[Main/RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale makes the mistake]] of going into town during that time, while in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/1306/Fun-Bus-to-Manehattan Fun Bus to Manehattan]] the Mane 6 decides to counter the lack of eligible males in Ponville by just taking the bus to Manehattan for some quick sex tourism (NSFW, though the mood of the stories for each of the Mane 6 is actually quite different).

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]" reveals that Spock must return to Vulcan and mate or he will die. All Vulcans go through a process known as ''Pon Farr'' every 7 years; it makes them increasingly agitated, violent and dangerous for anyone, especially unmarried women, to be around. While Vulcans are betrothed at the age of seven to ensure they have a marriage partner for when ''Pon Farr'' finally strikes, Spock is in deep space when his occurs, meaning his condition is very advanced by the time they finally reach Vulcan. As Spock's intended wife doesn't want to marry him, she challenges the arrangement by demanding Kirk fight Spock on her behalf, expecting Kirk to be killed and Spock to spurn her in retaliation. Believing he's killed Kirk, Spock is snapped out of the ''Pon Farr'' and he does indeed free his intended wife from the arrangement. This episode is responsible for launching SlashFic as a fanfic genre, and has made Kirk/Spock one of the most enduring and prolific fanfic pairings of all time.

* Though it hasn't reached the level of sexual intercourse, yet, in ''LightNovel/TheHiddenDungeonOnlyICouldEnter'' has Noir receive LifeEnergy from performing erotic acts with the opposite sex. Should the LP reach zero, he dies, so he has to engage in erotic acts with as many women as possible, just to stay alive.

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