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* In the 1987 AffectionateParody movie version of ''{{Dragnet}}'', Joe Friday falls for the Virgin Connie Swail (as she's almost always called) after rejecting a topless model and a stripper. Connie may also be using this trope, since she chooses Joe over his partner who is seen with several different women; it's implied Joe is a virgin himself.

* A similar thing happened in ''{{Coupling}}'' with Jane falling for her CelibateHero co-worker (who admittedly isn't a virgin but has renounced premarital sex for religious reasons).

* Averted in at least one episode of Series/LawAndOrderSVU. A high-school [[TheCasanova Casanova]], who is accused of raping a girl, claims outright that he doesn't have sex with virgins, saying that since losing their virginity is such a big deal for most teenagers, he doesn't want the emotional baggage that comes along with it.

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny

* NaughtyNuns

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* In the novel ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' (''Cross Stitch'' in the UK, for some reason) the main [[AManIsNotAVirgin love interest]], Jamie, is a virgin until his wedding night-- seemingly a pleasant state of affairs for the older, previously-married heroine. This might have been an intentional subversion of the romance novel staple of the rakehell romantic hero and the virginal, innocent heroine, as neither of them are precisely innocent despite it. (There's also an incredibly {{squick}}y possibility that this same perceived innocence is the same reason the main villain [[spoiler:wanted to have sex with him when he was sixteen, and was willing to [[ScarpiaUltimatum set Claire free in exchange for torture and rape]] later on]]. Nngh. Whimper.)
* OlderThanDirt: In ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', animals had no fear of the WildMan Enkidu until he slept with a woman (after which they avoided him).
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' Book 9, ''Literature/WhiteNight'', Lara Raith (a sex vampire/succubus) is instantly driven to feed on [[spoiler:young wizard Carlos Ramirez]] when she realizes that he is a virgin. He deflects her advances and his own supernaturally-fanned lust with some quick thinking, and Lara warns Harry (he and [[spoiler:Ramirez]] being her [[PragmaticVillainy protected guests]]) that virgins are extremely attractive to her kind and [[spoiler:Ramirez]] should stay away from her kin, as they may not be able to control themselves around him. This revelation is particularly [[AManIsNotAVirgin humiliating]] for [[spoiler:Ramirez, who had made it a point to brag long and hard about his sexual conquests and prowess]], and particularly amusing for Harry.
** Averted in ''Proven Guilty''. One of the reasons Harry doesn't sleep with [[spoiler:Molly]] is because she's never had sex before and doesn't understand the emotional ramifications of it.
* The nature of royal marriages in ''Literature/KingdomOfLittleWounds''. Isabel insists that she came to Christian a virgin. Sophia was also a virgin on her wedding night. With non-noble characters, Jacob didn't penetrate Ava because while he wanted to be intimate before their wedding, he still wanted to marry a virgin.

* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': This is discussed in-series, when [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Bosco]] explains to [[TheProtagonist Ayaka]] that it'd become harder for vampires to find virgins in their day and age, due to how liberal society had become. The fact that [[DamselInDistress Makiko]] was [[PurityPersonified not only a virgin, but didn't drink, didn't smoke, or do drugs]], made her blood especially pure. Which causes her to stick out like a walking neon "drink me" sign and is the reason she was being relentlessly pursued by Dracula.

* ''Anime/YuugenKaisha'': This is discussed in-series, when [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Bosco]] explains to [[TheProtagonist Ayaka]] that it'd become harder for vampires to find virgins in their day and age, due to how liberal society had become. The fact that [[DamselInDistress Makiko]] was [[PurityPersonified not only a virgin, but didn't drink, didn't smoke, or do drugs]], made her blood especially pure. Which causes her to stick out like a walking neon "drink me" sign and is the reason she was being relentlessly pursued by Dracula.

* Inverted in ''ALittleNightMusic'', where Fredrik leaves his still-virginal wife for Desiree.

* OlderThanDirt: In the ''Literature/EpicOfGilgamesh,'' animals had no fear of the WildMan Enkidu until he slept with a woman (after which they avoided him).

* Creator/JoshHartnett trying to be a ChasteHero in ''Film/FortyDaysAndFortyNights'' makes him the target of both lust and sabotage attempts on the part of women presumably because, should he succeed, it would prove men can be sexually independent of women and can choose to resist AManIsNotAVirgin. That he looked like a drug addict going through withdrawal towards the end does not help matters.
** To be fair, he also wasn't masturbating at all during that time. For some guys, that is some serious withdrawal inducing stuff right there.

** While none of the films in the franchise may qualify as horror movies by today's standards (even if filmgoers ran from the auditoriums in terror when the first one premiered in 1933), Film/KingKong not only adores his virgins, but he seems to prefer blondes (see also VirginSacrifice).

The reasons behind this vary depending on the period of the story and the characters themselves. In early stories it's because SexIsEvil, and virginity is a sign of purity, and thus desirability -- and also giving the man some hope of averting MamasBabyPapasMaybe, since it's evidence that she doesn't just sleep around. Modern stories follow the Madonna/Whore Complex: men marry the Madonna, but sleep with the Whore. There's also the bragging rights behind bedding a virgin, which would be a BIG notch in any [[TheCasanova Casanova]]'s or rare male [[TheVamp Vamp's]] belt. The [[UnfortunateImplications assumptions here]] are that AManIsNotAVirgin, and the [[VirginityMakesYouStupid virginal are idiots]], and [[MadonnaWhoreComplex non-virginal women are whores]]. It bears repeating that this can be a gender neutral trope; when a man ''is'' a virgin, that signals to women that this guy is likely waiting for love and not just wanting a one-night stand.

* In the movie version of Dragnet, Joe Friday falls for the Virgin Connie Swail (as she's almost always called) after rejecting a topless model and a stripper. Connie may also be using this trope, since she chooses Joe over his partner who is seen with several different women; it's implied Joe is a virgin himself.

Sometimes this trope [[RuleThirtyFour comes]] in a more [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] form, where the thought of [[RapeAsDrama defiling]] a virgin is a turn on in and of itself. However, it could also be thought of as a [[RuleThirtyFour turn-on]] to be the first one to show someone how great sex can be. There is also the foolish idea held by some insecure people that a virgin won't know if the sex was bad, having no comparison. But of course, anyone can tell if they enjoyed themselves or if they were in pain. And it's much easier to satisfy an experienced woman and keep her from being in pain than it is to do the same for a virgin (same applies to a gay man on the bottom, naturally.)

* Music/LikeAVirgin by Music/{{Madonna}} caused a stir back in 1985, precisely because of this trope.

There's just something about virgins that seems to exude desirability, like a natural aphrodisiac that works regardless of gender. Heck, even characters who are no longer virgins can get this benefit from sincerely trying to be [[ChasteHero Chaste]] or [[CelibateHero Celibate]] because ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere (faking it is far more hit and miss).

This was a big thing in older stories, what with a "woman's virtue" and desirability being directly proportional, and part of the nobility behind a KnightInShiningArmour. The sheer number of suitors a fair and virginal [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]] would draw to her [[TheDulcineaEffect just from hearing her described]] would be [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman ''staggering'']], bordering on SoBeautifulItsACurse.

* ''Anime/YuugenKaisha'': This is discussed in-series, when [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Bosco]] explains to [[TheProtagonist Ayaka]] that it'd become harder for vampires to find virgins in their day and age, due to how liberal society had become. The fact that [[DistressedDamsel Makiko]] was [[PurityPersonified not only a virgin, but didn't drink, didn't smoke, or do drugs]], made her blood especially pure. Which causes her to stick out like a walking neon "drink me" sign and is the reason she was being relentlessly pursued by Dracula.

* Averted in ''SinCity''. Marv is the only known virgin in the series and he tends to get into a lot of trouble. In fact, the universe itself was apparently against him getting laid for a long time. He said it himself:

** Still worth noting that [[spoiler:the one time he does get laid [[DeathBySex leads directly to his death.]]]]

* ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons'' with Madame de Tourvel (And Cecile, though she's much easier due to VirginityMakesYouStupid). (And, consequently ''Film/CruelIntentions'', which is [[{{INSPACE}} ''Dangerous Liaisons'' IN HIGH SCHOOL!]]

* In ''Film/{{Kids}}'', 15-year old TheCasanova Telly pursues only virgin girls. [[spoiler: Which makes it all the more horrifying when it is discovered that he is an unknowing HIV carrier.]]

* Averted in at least one episode of LawAndOrderSVU. A high-school TheCasanova, who is accused of raping a girl, claims outright that he doesn't have sex with virgins, saying that since losing their virginity is such a big deal for most teenagers, he doesn't want the emotional baggage that comes along with it.

* In the novel ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' (''Cross Stitch'' in the UK, for some reason) the main [[AManIsNotAVirgin love interest]], Jamie, is a virgin until his wedding night-- seemingly a pleasant state of affairs for the older, previously-married heroine. This might have been an intentional subversion of the romance novel staple of the rakehell romantic hero and the virginal, innocent heroine, as neither of them are precisely innocent despite it. (There's also an incredibly {{squick}}y possibility that this same perceived innocence is the same reason the main villain [[spoiler:wanted to have sex with him when he was sixteen, and was willing to [[ScarpiaUltimatum set Claire free in exchange for torture and rape]] later on.]] Nngh. Whimper.)

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' Book 9, ''Literature/WhiteNight'', Lara Raith (a sex vampire/succubus) is instantly driven to feed on [[spoiler:young wizard Carlos Ramirez]] when she realizes that he is a virgin. He deflects her advances and his own supernaturally-fanned lust with some quick thinking, and Lara warns Harry (he and [[spoiler:Ramirez]] being her [[PragmaticVillainy protected guests]]) that virgins are extremely attractive to her kind and [[spoiler:Ramirez]] should stay away from her kin, as they may not be able to control themselves around him. This revelation is particularly [[AManIsNotAVirgin humiliating]] for [[spoiler:Ramirez, who had made it a point to brag long and hard about his sexual conquests and prowess,]] and particularly amusing for Harry.

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'' subverts this: "While unicorns will lay their heads in the laps of virgins, uniclopses will settle for a girl who doesn't go past second base on the first date."