History Main / NoSexAllowed

-->-- '''O'Brien''', ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]''

* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': At first, it appears that sex is common and taken lightly, judging by how casually Lenina Huxley offers herself. It turns out that "sex" only means by computer mind link, as real sex has been outlawed because of the "dangers of fluid exchange" (e.g. HIV and unplanned pregnancy; in fact, Huxley names two ''different'' STD outbreaks involving completely new diseases ''after'' HIV was presumably done away with). John Spartan seems to find it too intense, or just unsettling for someone whose never done it. Kissing or even touching is frowned upon though, if not downright illegal. Their computer sex may be the only intimacy allowed.

* ''Videogame/{{Half-Life 2}}''.

** Amusingly, in the ''Videogame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' chapter "Follow Freeman!" you come across another "suppression device": a giant laser cannon. One wonders if people were afraid of having sex for fear of being disintegrated.

* Elements of ''Welcome to the Monkey House'' (see above) briefly appear in the Vonnegut pastiche/tribute ''From Time To Timbuktu'', which was broadcast on PBS in the early 1970s.
* During the brief proliferation in the late nineties-early thousands of one-hour sci-fi story series in the style of ''Twilight Zone'' and so on, there was episode of such a show where, again, while the future allowed sex, and there were men around, all the men were sterile. This inability to conceive somehow robbed women of any and all pleasure from sex, and relegated men to being treated like not-very-useful sex toys and not mentioned otherwise, with women dismissing them contemptuously and sitting around to gossip over old sex stories of kinky naughtiness they didn't really understand. Then a fertile male shows up and suddenly all the women want him because his ability to fill them with babies makes the sex ridiculously good. One hardly knows where to start on the massive amount of sexism this heaps on BOTH sides.

* One episode has Ned Flanders briefly become the landlord for ''TheSimpsons'', and after evicting them for Homers unusually obnoxious behavior and refusal to pay rent, he plans to rent the house to a married WASP-ish couple who state on their application that they dont even have sex for reproductive purposes. After meeting what he has always thought would be his ideal neighbors, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Ned finds that he hates it]] and [[WeWantOurJerkBack wants the Simpsons to move back in]].

* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': At first, it appears that sex is common and taken lightly, judging by how casually Lenina Huxley 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 illegitimate children; in fact, Huxley names two ''different'' STD outbreaks involving completely new diseases ''after'' HIV was presumably done away with).
** On the other hand John Spartan seems to consider their version of sex disturbingly intense rather than lacking in some way.
** How about the fact that KISSING or even touching is frowned upon, if not down right illegal

* The B-movie ''Sumuru'' (South Africa/UK 2003, based on a novel by some hack called [[Literature/FuManchu Sax Rohmer]]) has a similar plot. Starring Michael Shanks of ''Series/StargateSG1'' fame as the male protagonist from the past. He ends up in the future and on a former Earth colony in space where women rule, living in an utopian city, and the remaining men work in the mines. The sexes only interact when the women select a male inseminator to father fresh babies, like the mythical Greek amazons are said to have done. Not exactly NoSexAllowed so much as "no hetero fraternization allowed between the genders".

* The Jedi Knights of ''Franchise/StarWars'' aren't allowed to have attachments of any kind like a kind of warrior monk or historical [[UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar knight templar]]. Children strong in the force are found and chosen to join. Note that ''sex'' is just fine; it's procreation and [[UnfortunateImplications 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.

** This trope was thrown off a cliff for WerewolfTheForsaken's second edition, however. Now they can breed with each other just fine.

* The B-movie ''Sumuru'' (South Africa/UK 2003, based on a novel by some hack called [[FuManchu Sax Rohmer]]) has a similar plot. Starring Michael Shanks of ''Series/StargateSG1'' fame as the male protagonist from the past. He ends up in the future and on a former Earth colony in space where women rule, living in an utopian city, and the remaining men work in the mines. The sexes only interact when the women select a male inseminator to father fresh babies, like the mythical Greek amazons are said to have done. Not exactly NoSexAllowed so much as "no hetero fraternization allowed between the genders".

* ''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; in fact, Bullock names two ''different'' STD outbreaks involving completely new diseases ''after'' HIV was presumably done away with).
** On the other hand John seems to consider their version of sex disturbingly intense rather than lacking in some way.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'':

* The werewolves of ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' and ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' are prohibited from having procreative sex with each other, on threat of deformed, sterile offspring or deformed, evil, [[FetusTerrible ghost child]] of Doom, respectively. Heterosexual sex tends to result in punishment even before any weird children are involved.

* ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'': For Party members, the only acceptable devotion is to Big Brother. Casual and romantic sex are outlawed, with the only time sex is 'accepted' is when it is necessary for procreation, and you're [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland not supposed to enjoy it]]. One of The Party's prominent youth movements is the Junior Anti-Sex League, who want all reproduction done by artificial insemination. (Of course, the very sexual Julia uses membership in the JASL as a cover.) This adds to the general interpretation where Party members, who are constantly under surveillance and forbidden to express subversive desires, are in a much worse FateWorseThanDeath, compared to the Proles who are allowed freedoms such as porn access and prostitution because the Party sees them as animalistic and ApatheticCitizens.

* In Chalker's WellWorld novels, many of the Comworlds have taken this approach, artificially suppressing the onset of puberty in the majority of their populace.

* In JohnCWright's ''Literature/TheHermeticMillennia'', the Chimarae and Blue Men allowed reproductive only sex, under strict control; the Hormagaunts had the reproduction done artificially. There were also the Nymphs, who by dint of drugs and bioenhancement were all {{Extreme Omnisexual}}s, with the effect of making no relationships special; however, despite this, the other cultures note similarities between Nymph-talk and talk of brotherhood.

* In the science fiction novel ''Ethan of Athos'' (part of the Literature/VorkosiganSaga by LoisMcMasterBujold), the planet of Athos is populated entirely by men who reproduce by using eggs from frozen ovary tissue cultures and [[UterineReplicator grow the babies in artificial wombs]]. The planet was originally settled centuries ago by an ultra-religious sect of zealot monks. The sect's founder believed that women were unclean, so he sought to found a sanctuary where no women were ever allowed to set foot, and this then blossomed into full-blown paranoia and superstitious fear about women. In the present, off-world literature written by women is censored, only men considered morally stable are allowed to read scientific articles written by women for fear they might be infected with this madness, and few Athosians leave their planet.
** While the founders apparently intended "no women" to lead to "no sex", that is... not really how it's worked out.
** 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 easily successful 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.

* Creator/AynRand's ''{{Anthem}}''.

* The male Zentradi and female Meltrandi in ''Anime/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.

* The Jedi Knights of ''Franchise/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 [[UnfortunateImplications 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.

* ''Film/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??

* The Jedi Knights of ''Franchise/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.

* In PomPoko an elder tanuki attempts to apply this trope to the tanuki population to limit the population (due to an impending food storage). It works only for a while.

* In ''{{Appleseed}}'' the movie, the Elders state that they have suppressed the reproductive functions of the Bioroids, to which Hitomi clarifies: "In other words, no sex". [[spoiler:The reproductive and regenerative functions of the Bioroids are restored in the course of the movie, but it's unclear whether they still have fully developed sexuality -- new Bioroids are still made in a factory in the sequel.]]

* One of the time periods visited by the protagonist of ''ApollosSong'' is a dystopian future where sex has been abolished and the world is ruled over by a cruel ArtificialHuman race who reproduce through cloning.

* When John Byrne rebooted the {{Superman}} continuity with the ''Man of Steel'' mini-series following the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', he made Krypton an emotionally sterile society where sex was regarded as an animal act and all children were conceived in 'birthing matrixes'.

* When John Byrne rebooted the {{Superman}} continuity with the ''Man of Steel'' mini-series following the ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', he made Krypton an emotionally sterile society where sex was regarded as an animal act and all children were conceived in 'birthing matrixes'.

* A mutiny ensues in ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' over a clause in Nergal's contract which stipulates that the members of the crew aren't allowed to do anything more sexual than hold hands, as Mr. Prospector points out "The Nadesico doesn't have a daycare center."

* 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 relationships 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.

* The society of Libria from ''{{Equilibrium}}'' has outlawed all human emotion in an effort to stop another disastrous war from coming to pass. Including love.
** Although sex for reproduction purposes still works normally.
** Cleric Preston even had a wife. Although, why, since love was forbidden?
*** WordOfGod is that the dystopia hadn't existed for more than a few decades at this point and many holdovers still existed because tradition was outlasting the lack of emotion; marriage is an institution and thus, does not vanish overnight even if the personal reasons for it do. This is also why [=DuPont=] wears a suit and tie, because men in positions of professional authority are expected to. Had the society lasted for another fifty years, one of [=DuPont's=] successors would likely be dressed no different than the crowds of civilians shown in several shots.

* ''[[NewKashubiaSeries A Boy and His Tank]]'' by Leo Frankowski involves an ethnic group which is forced to live on a planet that is very, very low on organic molecules. For this reason, the sexes are segregated.

* The theocratic government of ''TheHandmaidsTale'' doesn't ban sex but does put very strict rules and regulations in place around it. Women must wear clothing that covers them completely and de-emphasises the hips and breasts. Fertile women have sex exactly once a month with the head of their household for the purpose of conceiving children. Unmarried men are permitted no contact with women. Homosexuality is illegal. People who break these rules are publicly executed.

* The ''Film/DemolitionMan'' example above was parodied (and of course, made much more painful) in an episode of ''JohnnyBravo''.