History Main / NoSexAllowed

* Zamyatin's ''{{We}}''. All members of the society in ''We'' were issued tickets to be redeemed for sex with members of the opposite gender; the ticket allotment was based on hormone levels in each person's bloodstream. The fifteen minutes allotted for the use of each coupon was the only time in the day when the people involved were allowed to drop curtains on all four walls of their bedrooms and have some privacy, as the buildings in ''We'' were made of glass. One of the signs that society is breaking down fast in the later part of the book is when the narrator describes entire buildings with virtually every single room's curtains down...

* ''TheIsland'' has a "proximity rule" designed to keep males and females apart. I guess they don't [[spoiler:want clones reproducing real people]]. What did they expect with ScarlettJohansson around??

* Sexual behavior ''by apes'' is evidently regulated in ''Conquest of the PlanetOfTheApes'', as the intelligent chimpanzee Caesar has his first sexual encounter when a request for "superior males" is issued and he's brought to a breeding facility. Presumably, "inferior males" of the three ape species aren't permitted to mate.

* ''TheGiver'': To control the population, people are given pills to stop sex drive, or "stirrings," from the start of puberty. Marriages and families still exist, but the children are assigned to parents by the government, which has Birthmothers as a special profession. (Whether the Birthmothers have sex or undergo some sort of artificial insemination is unclear.)

* The male Zentradi and female Meltrandi in ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' are segregated, with a mild antipathy generated between them, to prevent any procreation not under control of, originally, the Protocultures and later on the Zentradi fleet commanders. The movie goes further, portraying the two as being at war, and so uninterested in any case in... intimate matters.

* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': At first, it appears that sex is common and taken lightly, judging by how casually Sandra Bullock's character offers herself. It turns out that "sex" only means virtual computer-generated pornography, as the real thing has been outlawed because of the "dangers of fluid exchange" (e.g. HIV and illegitmate children).

** The excuse given for all this was ultraconservative backlash against a ridiculously uberliberal society, which included "Feels On Wheels" prostitute delivery (and possibly other end-of-''{{Cerebus}}''-levels of depravity); given that this is what the government in place tells the populace, it should be taken with a pillar of salt.

* Deconstructed [[NightmareFuel horrifically]] by the Emirate of Mecca in ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. The Emirate is a [[RecycledInSpace space]] Muslim theocracy that has extremely strict religious rules on sex. This naturally causes the Muslims to have very low birthrates, so rather than having sex they [[FateWorseThanDeath turned their women into living broodmothers, which are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth every few seconds like factories]].

* Deconstructed [[NightmareFuel horrifically]] by the Emirate of Mecca in ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. The Emirate is a [[RecycledInSpace space]] Muslim theocracy that has extremely strict religious rules on sex. This naturally causes the Muslims to have very low birthrates, [[FateWorseThanDeath so rather than having sex they turned their women into living broodmothers that are surgically impregnated and forced to give birth every few seconds]].

* The Jedi Knights of StarWars aren't allowed to have attachments of any kind like a kind of warrior monk or historical [[TheKnightsTemplar knight templar]]. Children strong in the force are found and chosen to join. Note that ''sex'' is just fine; it's procreation and [[UnfortunateImplication love]] that's the problem. Not that we have example of passionless sex in films; expanded universe rather show that Jedi like Obi-Wan had crushes, but refrained from having sex because they didn't want to let this error go too far. In the EU Luke's new Jedi Order averts this, and Jedi can now make love have families in the order.

* The DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse tried to make [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor's]] asexuality canon in ''Lungbarrow'', where it's revealed that an ancient Gallifreyan witch named Pythia cursed the Time Lords to sterility, and children are assembled in genetic "looms." RussellTDavies has spent the past few years of the new series finding subtle ways to dance all over this trope with hobnailed boots.

* NotASubversion, an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]: ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' makes most of its members sterile and healthy, thus unrestricted, noncommittal sex is accepted and even encouraged with "orgy-porgies". In the end, however, it sends a similar message as NoSexAllowed does, due to the fact that being monogamous or emotionally attached is considered undesirable: the "utopia" has sacrificed human intimacy and emotion such as "[[LoveHurts True Love]]" for mechanical order and guaranteed but shallow biological pleasures.

** The excuse given for all this was ultraconservative backlash against a ridiculously uberlibral society, which included "Feels On Wheels" prostitute delivery (and possibly other end-of-''{{Cerebus}}''-levels of depravity); given that this is what the government in place tells the populace, it should be taken with a pillar of salt.

* Joe Haldeman's ''The Forever War'' has a traveler stumble upon a future Earth where, due to massive overpopulation, [[HetIsEw heterosexual contact and sex is entirely outlawed and considered lewd]]. Homosexual relationship are considered clean and normal, and the occasional reproduction occurs by artificial insemination. The heterosexual male time-traveler runs into problems with his preconceived notions of decency.

* In ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', Barbarella is rescued by a native of the planet she's on. When he asks that she make love with him in payment for the clothes and transportation he's providing, she describes some kind of ritual involving computers and pills. "Make love? But no one's done that for centuries!" The pill-based intercourse still provides an orgasmic response, though; Barbarella finds she rather likes the old-fashioned version better.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', the Psyche Master enforces asexuality on all Psyches, since he is in charge of their reproduction, so sex is not allowed in their culture. Instead, Psyches that are bonded in pairs engage in the telepathic technique of "sharing dreams" with each other.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'': A constant misconception about Angel's GypsyCurse was that the CurseEscapeClause was in fact this, to the extent that, in ''Buffy'' season 3, Faith attempted to seduce Angel in order to unleash Angelus. However, said escape clause is perfect happiness; thus, Angel ''can'' have sex with people as long as said people aren't anyone he truly loves (i.e. Buffy and/or Cordelia).

* Zamyatin's ''We''. All members of the society in ''We'' were issued tickets to be redeemed for sex with members of the opposite gender; the ticket allotment was based on hormone levels in each person's bloodstream. The fifteen minutes allotted for the use of each coupon was the only time in the day when the people involved were allowed to drop curtains on all four walls of their bedrooms and have some privacy, as the buildings in ''We'' were made of glass. One of the signs that society is breaking down fast in the later part of the book is when the narrator describes entire buildings with virtually every single room's curtains down...

** The world known as Beta Colony in the same series is arguably an inversion. Sex in just about any form aside from rape is permitted and indeed encouraged - they have even worked out a whole set of codes concerning availability and preferences, displayed to the world by wearing distinct styles of earrings, to get the guessing games out of the way. It is ''reproduction'' that is regulated in a downright draconian manner, via the implanting of mandatory contraceptive implants at puberty. Anyone wishing to reproduce requires Government approval to get the implants temporarily disabled; obtaining a permit for a first child can be roughly equated to getting a driver's license (a fairly rigorous process but one that's easily accomplished by anyone who puts in a bit of effort), a second child permit is harder than for the first, and third children are extremely rare. The no-reproduction-without-governmental-consent rules come not from any moral or religious principles, but from pure pragmatism: Beta Colony just doesn't have enough ''room'' to allow complete freedom of reproductive choice.

** The world known as Beta Colony in the same series is arguably an inversion. Sex in just about any form aside from rape is permitted and indeed encouraged - they have even worked out a whole set of codes concerning availability and preferences, displayed to the world by wearing distinct styles of earrings, to get the guessing games out of the way. It is ''reproduction'' that is regulated in a downright draconian manner, via the implanting of mandatory contraceptive implants at puberty. Anyone wishing to reproduce requires Government approval to get the implants temporarily disabled; obtaining a permit for a first child can be roughly equated to getting a driver's license (a fairly rigorous process but one that's easily accomplished by anyone with a bit of effort), a second child permit is harder than for the first, and third children are extremely rare. The no-reproduction-without-governmental-consent rules come not from any moral or religious principles, but from pure pragmatism: Beta Colony just doesn't have enough ''room'' to allow complete freedom of reproductive choice.

** The world known as Beta Colony in the same series is arguably an inversion. Sex in just about any form aside from rape is permitted and indeed encouraged - they have even worked out a whole set of codes concerning availability and preferences, displayed to the world by wearing distinct styles of earrings, to get the guessing games out of the way. It is ''reproduction'' that is regulated in a downright draconian manner, via the implanting of mandatory contraceptive implants at puberty. Anyone wishing to reproduce requires Government approval to get the implants temporarily disabled; obtaining a license for a second child is harder than for the first, and third children are extremely rare. The no-reproduction-without-governmental-consent rules come not from any moral or religious principles, but from pure pragmatism: Beta Colony just doesn't have enough ''room'' to allow complete freedom of reproductive choice.

* In the 1968 film ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'', JaneFonda's character is rescued by a native of the planet she's on. When he asks that she make love with him in payment for the clothes and transportation he's providing, she describes some kind of ritual involving computers and pills. "Make love? But no one's done that for centuries!"
** The pill-based intercourse still provides an orgasmic response, though. Barbarella finds she rather likes the old-fashioned version better.

Not to be confused with the [[HollywoodToneDeaf horrible song of the same name]] from the audition round of AmericanIdol Season 7.

* In ''Literature/TheGoodnessGene'', children are created artificially in petri dishes; babies with 'undesirable' traits are quite literally ''[[NightmareFuel shredded to bits]]'' while in the embryo state; also, there is what some call "simulation sex".