History Main / NerdsAreVirgins

* Webcomic/SabrinaOnline: the title character Sabrina starts out like this and her eventual future boyfriend/husband to be R.C. is as well. Que R.C.'s SpitTake when on a date together Sabrina asks him if he's a virgin and if he'd like to join her in the bedroom to change that.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/TheLastStory''. AdventurerArchaeologist, and all-around bookish and meek shopkeeper, Horace, is married... and when hero Zael discovers this, he seems rather shocked. Horace tells him he doesn't have to act so surpised that a fellow like him actually managed to find a wife.

If you are a {{nerd}} and/or {{geek}}, then according to damn near every work of fiction in existence, you have ''never'' gotten laid, very likely haven't gotten to first base, may have never ever stepped up to bat — and quite possibly have never so much as wandered within a mile of the ballpark.

* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'', a {{mockumentary}} about a group of vampires living in modern-day Staten Island, Nandor tells his familiar Guillermo to bring some virgins for them to feast upon with their guest the Baron. Guillermo finds a high concentration at a {{LARP}} event, and lures two of them back to the house by offering to show them his master's medieval weapons.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/TheLastStory''. AdventurerArchaeologist, WeekendInventor, and all-around bookish and meek shopkeeper, Horace, is married... and when hero Zael discovers this, he seems rather shocked. Horace tells him he doesn't have to act so surpised that a fellow like him actually managed to find a wife.

-->'''Geek #1''': I roll 13 so I reach level 35 wizard.\\
'''Geek #2''': You can't level up, you ate a poison mushroom in the enchanted forest.\\
'''Geek #1''': No I din't!\\
'''Geek #2''': Yes you did!\\
'''Geek #1''': No I din't!\\
'''Geek #3''': Ugh...
-->''The geeks get knocked on the floor by three flying phonebooks that open up on a specific page''.
-->'''Narrator''': "Dating services." Another problem solved by Pacific Bell.

* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', Okabe and Kurisu spend a great deal of time mocking each other for being scrawny, nerdy virgins - [[{{Irony}} naturally ignoring their own scrawny, nerdy virgin-hood]].

--> ''"What is this!? This super-saccharine morning!? This total sense of shame!? This wasn't an act befitting of an otaku! Normies blow up!! Normies blow up!!"''

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' introduces protagonist Ken Kaneki as a shy bookworm that rarely leaves his apartment. He's ''very clearly'' a virgin, fretting over trying to ask a girl out for the first time. Unfortunately for him, his first date ends with him discovering Rize is a LiteralManeater...

--->'''Marty''': Jesus, George, it was a wonder I was even born.

--->'''Dr. Emmett Brown''': Which one's your pop?\\
'''Marty''': ''[points him out]'' That's him.\\
''[they see him getting kicked around by other school bullies]''\\
'''Dr. Emmett Brown''': Maybe you were adopted.

* {{Subverted}} in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' is about Cher and Dionne trying to help a more awkward girl become popular. Ironically, they're virgins while she isn't. Though Dionne's own virginity "goes from [[TechnicalVirgin technical]] to nonexistent" by the end.

-->'''Rat''': Wait a second... you guys aren't here to whack me, are you? Cause I was kinda hoping to have sex before that happens...

-->'''[[TheSmartGuy Meeks]]''': I'll try anything once!\\
'''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Charlie]]''': Except sex!

-->'''Gadget''': If you see anything suspicious, you let me know.\\
'''Gadgetmobile''': You mean like a [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkie]] with a girlfriend?

-->'''Glenn''': I have done NOTHING bad my entire life! Hey man, I'm still a virgin.

--> '''Annie''': "Jesus. ''None'' of you guys got laid in highschool, did you?"

* {{Subverted}} in the ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' TV series: the main characters are doing a school assignment with a nerdy girl who keeps running off to throw up. At first they assume she has an eating disorder; instead, it turns out that [[MorningSickness she's pregnant]], which they get a test to confirm. Note that all three of the [[LovableAlphaBitch popular protagonists]] are virgins up until about the last episode. They're also surprised when they learn who the [[TheUnseen unseen]] father is, because he's a massive geek too.

-->'''Chandler''': Didn't you read ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' in high school?\\
'''Joey''': No, I had sex in high school.

--->'''Sam''': ''[checking out his new face]'' Who ''are'' you? ''[finds Advanced Physics and Chemistry textbooks]'' Smart kid. ''[finds [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] T-shirt]'' Virgin. ''[finds porn magazine]'' Frustrated Virgin.

-->'''Statistician 1''': You're like Neo.\\
'''Dan''': Wow.\\
'''Selina''': What's a Neo?\\
'''Statistician 1''': He's from ''The Matrix''. Everything he does is awesome.\\
'''Statistician 2''': The first movie. The sequels sucked.\\
'''Jonah''': Guys, we agreed to let ''The Matrix'' debate lie.\\
'''Dan''': Jesus, I can feel my virginity growing back in here.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead''
** Glenn Rhee seems completely baffled and unsure what to do when Maggie Greene offers to have sex with him, and it’s all but stated she had to take the lead on their first time due to his lack of experience.
** Eugene Porter has come to meet Stephanie, a woman he fell in love with over the radio, and is interrogated by General Mercer before he can enter the Commonwealth. Trying desperately to convince Mercer he’s not a threat and is being honest, he explains his whole story with Stephanie, and resorts to confessing that he’s still a virgin. This gets Mercer, who’d been TheStoic overseeing his screening, to blink in a bewildered fashion. Then Eugene says he was hoping Stephanie would be the one to change his status as a virgin, and this gets Mercer’s composure to break further, but convinced him he’s being legit. [[spoiler:Later in the season, it’s revealed that Mercer is actually the older brother of “Stephanie”, meaning Eugene just told his crush’s brother he was trying to sleep with her.]]

--> ''There go Petey who be all in the books\\

* {{Subverted}} in ''VideoGame/TheLastStory''. AdventurerArchaeologist, WeekendInventor, and all-around bookish and meek shopkeeper, Horace, is married... and when hero Zael discovers this, he seems rather shocked. Horace tells him he doesn't have to act so surpised that a fellow like him actually managed to find a wife.

-->'''Fred''': Wait. You don't want teenagers havin' sex but you don't want 'em playin' ''TableTopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' either? Isn't that like sayin' you don't want 'em to get sick [[HilariousInHindsight but you'd hate to see them get vaccinations]]?

--->'''Q''': Who shot first? Han or Greedo?\\
'''A''': Sleep with somebody.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'': Cleveland takes Junior to a sci-fi convention, to show him what happens to guys that fail to lose their virginity. They ended up coming home with heaps of stuff from it.

* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' mentions that in Earth's past, Trekkies, after the show became a worldwide religion, were executed by [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod being thrown into a volcano]] because it was "the manner best befitting [[VirginSacrifice virgins]]." Considering how many of the show's staff are themselves Trekkies, nerds or holders of advanced degrees there was a definite SelfDeprecation vibe to the scene.

-->'''Suicide Bomber''': ''[angry SkywardScream]'' OSAAAMAAA!!

* One bit on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has the Devil wondering what happened when everything in the underworld suddenly turns frigid as he's torturing victims. Cut to a bedroom with a hot blonde lying in bed and a nerd dancing around the room singing "I got laid! I got laid!"
* Like its Creator/SethMacFarlane companions, ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has this in effect with Steve, Barry, Snot, and Toshi. Many episodes have a subplot involving either Steve or Steve and his friends trying to overcome their nerdiness and get some.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
** Both [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation Daria]] and her artsy best friend [[CoolLoser Jane]] end the series as virgins; of the other notable characters in their grade, the only one not implied to have sex is [[ExtravertedNerd Upchuck]]. There was an episode where Daria and [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]] almost have sex, but Daria [[LetsWaitAWhile can't go through with it]].
** Interestingly {{Inverted}} with Daria's popular, boy-crazy sister [[LovableLibby Quinn]], who is implied to have a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality. In fact, there's not really any indication that anyone in [[GirlPosse the Fashion Club]] has had sex.

--> ''"What is this!? This super saccharine morning!? This total sense of shame!? This wasn't an act befitting of an otaku! Normies blow up!! Normies blow up!!"''

* {{Subverted}} in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'': the main characters are doing a school assignment with a nerdy girl who keeps running off to throw up. At first they assume she has an eating disorder; instead, it turns out that [[MorningSickness she's likely pregnant]], which they get a test to confirm. (Note that all three of the [[LovableAlphaBitch popular protagonists]] are virgins up until about the last episode.) The girl's boyfriend, though [[TheUnseen unseen]], is apparently a massive dork himself.

* On ''Series/TheOC'', HollywoodNerd Seth is stated to be a virgin at the beginning of the series, but it doesn't stay that way.

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* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', Okabe and Kurisu spend a great deal of time mocking each other for being scrawny, nerdy virgins - naturally ignoring their own scrawny, nerdy virgin-hood.

* In Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows, a {{mockumentary}} about a group of vampires living in modern-day Staten Island, Nandor tells his familiar Guillermo to bring some virgins for them to feast upon with their guest the Baron. Guillermo finds a high concentration at a {{LARP}} event, and lures two of them back to the house by offering to show them his master's medieval weapons.

* ''Nerd na Yatsura'', an [[{{Hentai}} H doujin]], is about a boy named Jimon and his female senpai Nakatani who, upon going to their hotel room at the end of their first day of selling her {{doujinshi}} at a Comiket-type event, end up having TheirFirstTime and a RelationshipUpgrade. When she wakes up the next morning, Nakatani has a comedic episode of self-disgust when she realizes that losing her virginity makes her a "normie".

* ''Manga/PrincessJellyfish'': The female otaku with NoSocialSkills that Tsukimi lives with are called the Nuns and are terrified of men. When Kuranosuke brings up sex one time and Tsukimi freaks out, he realizes that she (and all the roommates) must be virgins.

Now, this does have some [[TruthInTelevision real life basis]], in that some nerds and geeks do lack some social skills, and take up unusual interests as a way to fill the gap in their lives (or, more unfortunately, fail to develop social skills ''because'' of said interests), or simply find them more interesting than exercising social skills. Though some might just be {{asexual|ity}}.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''
** Mostly averts this, at least where the main characters are involved. Aside from Sheldon justifying it with his {{asexuality}}, no one else in the group is a virgin, even if Raj has trouble with women (as a result of a personality issue completely unrelated to being a nerd, and it didn't stop him from sleeping with at least two girls in the series). Played straighter with Amy. [[spoiler:As of season 9, both Sheldon and Amy have both lost their virginity to each other, making this trope fully averted.]]
** At other times the show plays this painfully straight. Almost any time the girls enter the comic book shop, the stereotypical background comic book nerds are always somehow shocked into catatonia, having been unable to grasp the concept that women might possibly read comics, even though in real life there are a great many women who do.

* An issue of the Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' during the Genis-Vell run used this trope when an evil sorcerer needed to sacrifice virgins to summon a demon [[TakeThatAudience and tried to use a comic book store's customers for that purpose.]] Marlow pointed out that rather than going to the time and effort of setting up a comic book store [[TakeThat he could have just gone to the nearby]] [[Franchise/StarTrek Star Trek convention]].

** At other times the show plays this painfully straight. Almost any time the girls enter the comic book shop, the stereotypical background comic book nerds are always somehow shocked into catatonia, having been unable to grasp the concept that women might possibly read comics.

* Made into a RunningGag on WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's videos, which mainly focuses on comedic reviews and talks of video games. For example, the episode that covers ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Xtreme Beach Volleyball'' reveals that prior to February 2019, Scott used to think the word breasts was pronounced "beans". Another episode actually has him being officialy certified as a virgin.

* In ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', Brian Johnson (the "brain") is a virgin... but so are Claire (the princess) and Alison (the basket case). However, Alison and Claire both get together with Bender and Andy at the end, while Brian is left alone and single.

* The virgin in [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/265/076/394.jpg "The Virgin Walk"]] and its spinoffs looks nerdy.

** [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]] noted this in his review of the new ''Film/StarTrek2009''.
** Averted with most of the TGWTG crew though. Creator/DougWalker is married, his brother is married, Linkara is married, and Spoony and Lindsay have all been in long-term relationships.