History Main / NoSexAllowed

** The episode "Up the Long Ladder" had a situation where a crashed colony ship had only five survivors and not a large enough gene pool to produce a healthy society, so they relied on cloning and banned sex to prevent inbreeding. 300 years later, their cloned descendants now find the idea of sex somewhat repulsive.
*** If they're all clones that's probably still a valid response since there's still only five different base codes. Inbreeding's a problem even when there's lots of people if they're all clones.

** The world known as Beta Colony 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.

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

* The Franchise/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." Creator/RussellTDavies has spent the past few years of the new series finding subtle ways to dance all over this trope with hobnailed boots.
** [[Music/TheBeatles Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime?]]

* 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 No Sex Allowed 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 alternate interpretation, encouraged by the author's note, is that this world is a dystopia, and allowing free sex is a way to distract people from complaining against the power.

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

* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'': 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.
** And the female orgasm is especially subversive.
** The banning and hatred of sexuality could be useful to the Party for the purpose of inducing sexual frustration, which results in war hysteria and obsessive loyalty.

* In the tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', all humans are cloned and grown in vats. The sheer amount of drugs that fills most human's diets is mind-boggling, really, and includes much to discourage hanky-panky. There's not even any significant difference between genders. However, when teams of Troubleshooters go on missions that take them out of Alpha Complex and away from their precious drugs, the hormones can come flooding back in an instant...
** Of course, one of the secret societies (the Earth Mothers) is explicitly opposed to this and is one of the few societies that more-or-less know what it's doing, making them rather powerful.
** And if you survive long enough to get to Ultraviolet clearance... well, one of the perks is learning more about the Old Reckoning, which includes all the trouble Old Reckoning people went through to get some action... Long story short, High Programmers tend to maintain personal harems.

* ''Videogame/HalfLife2'':
** It should be noted though that ''Episode One'' reveals that the "suppression field" mentioned apparently doesn't suppress the drive: only the formation of embryos.
** Amusingly, in the ''Videogame/HalfLife2'' 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.
** Also amusingly, after you destroy the Citadel at the end of ''Half-Life 2'', you re-enter City 17 and find Dr. Kleiner addressing the population on the ''1984''-esque telescreens. He notes that now that the Citadel is gone, the suppression field is as well, and it would be a good time for re-population.
--->'''Alyx:''' Did Dr. Kleiner just tell all of us to... get busy?
*** In fact, one of the benefits in joining the Combine forces is to be able to breed (or at least something close to sex) makes sense since the Combine want to use the human race as its new army. Overwatch's official term for this reward is "Non-mechanical reproductive simulation".

* One episode has Ned Flanders briefly become the landlord for ''TheSimpsons'', and after evicting them for Homer's 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 don't 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]].

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

!!Examples

* 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 are the problem. Not that we have examples of passionless sex in films; expanded universe material instead shows 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 and have families in the order.

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Relg had...[[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny issues]] with sex in general, and stated that one of his goals was to build a society like this. The [[RealityEnsues fact that this would have them die out]] was pointed out to him in-universe, and he said he was looking for a workaround. Fortunately, he has enough CharacterDevelopment over the course of the novels to grow out of the desire to build this kind of society.

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

One of the most obvious ways for writers to create a {{Dystopia}}n setting is to remove those things which are most pleasurable to us in RealLife. In the same vein, one of the most obvious ways to create a {{Utopia}}n setting is to remove those things which cause us the most pain and suffering. How do you really MindScrew the audience? By removing that which is both our greatest pleasure ''and'' our greatest pain and suffering. In the design plans for both {{dystopia}}s and [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] {{utopia}}s, sex is the first thing to go.

The hero, who decides that MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch, is most likely to discover both WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove and DeathBySex. This is the unstated reason why writers have these societies use drugs to suppress sexual urges in the populace, rather than surgery: drugs, unlike sterilization, can wear off.

* Joe Haldeman's ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' 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.

* ''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 Creator/ScarlettJohansson around?

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

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* In the epilogue of Elliot Rodger's "manifesto" which he had written before his massacre and death in 2014, he envisioned a world that he could control where sex would not be allowed, where procreation would only be allowed by what he called "intelligent people" through artificial insemination... and all because he didn't have the fortune to get laid or have a girlfriend during his teenage years and early adult life.
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Not to be confused with [[HollywoodToneDeaf the horrible song of the same name]] from the audition round of Series/AmericanIdol Season 7.

* ''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 Creator/ScarlettJohansson around??
* ''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 who has never done it. Kissing or even touching is frowned upon though, if not downright illegal. Their computer sex may be the only intimacy allowed.

* 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 examples of passionless sex in films; expanded universe material instead shows 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 and have families in the order.

* 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 world known as Beta Colony 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.

* In James Tiptree, Jr's ''Houston, Houston Do You Read?'' astronauts find themselves [[spoiler:in a male-less world where all reproduction is done via cloning---plenty of sex, though. Unlike ''Queen of Outer Space'' or ''Fire Maidens of Outer Space'' or ''The Time Travellers'', the women seem quite happy with how things have worked out, though they don't mind taking some semen samples for back-up]]. Note that Tiptree was lauded for [[MoustacheDePlume "his"]] keen insight into what women ''really'' felt.

** Then there are the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' aliens that have a NoSexAllowed policy with regards to other species, like the Deltans (whose sex is so good it drives non-Deltans insane) and the J'naii (an androgynous race which holds "gender neutrality" sacrosanct, and sex with explicit males or females endangers that).

* 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 an 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 of 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.

* ''Videogame/HalfLife2''.

** Also amusingly, after you destroy the Citadel at the end of ''Half-Life 2'', you reenter City 17 and find Dr. Kleiner addressing the population on the ''1984''-esque telescreens. He notes that now that the Citadel is gone, the suppression field is as well, and it would be a good time for re-population.

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

** However it should be noted that in the ''manga'', Hitomi has a possibly human boyfriend. It's unclear whether Yoshi is a human or bioroid. In the manga the grand majority of the city's population consists of clones, cyborgs and other exotic types, but there is no reference to a class system or population control as explained in the movie.

* 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 a 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 material instead shows 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 and have families in the order.

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

* Zamyatin's ''Literature/{{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 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-''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark''-levels of depravity); given that this is what the government in place tells the populace, it should be taken with a pillar of salt.

* 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 an 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.

* Music/NinjaSexParty's "6969". The duo use a time machine to go to the sexiest year ever, only to find that human touch has been outlawed, so they take it upon themselves to save the future from itself.

** Of course, one of the secret societies (the Earth Mothers) is explicitly opposed to this, and is one of the few societies that more-or-less know what it's doing, making them rather powerful.

* Spanners of ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' are banned by the Decision of the Second Atlantean Council from having children with another spanner. Sex itself isn't banned, but there a very real possibility of a spanner trying to 'get it on' and having a Midwife, Exalted, or even Inheritor knocking on the front door. Heterosexual sex with non-spanners is not as heavily discouraged, but can gain a lot of frag or nasty events in the Yet.

** Except with their [[ReincarnationRomance Lunar Mate]], because some things are stronger than the wrath of the Neverborn.

** While not outright banned, the highly-psychic Eldar take very great care when making kids, as lust and pleasure strengthen Slaanesh, the Chaos god of excess and embodiment of desire (who was birthed from millenia of Eldar decadence). The Dark Eldar, on the other hand, pursue hedonism in all its forms, as the Webway they live in is mostly protected from Chaos... but they know not to push it too far. Humans, on the other hand, aren't as psychic as the Eldar and need to go a lot deeper into depravity to get hir attention, so regular intimacy is mostly safe.

** As pointed out in ''Literature/CiaphasCain'', not all Sororitas orders have vows or celibacy or chastity, it's just that very few have the time to engage in it. [[Rule34 Fans, on the other hand...]]

* In the epilogue of Elliot Rodger's "manifesto" which he had written before his massacre and death in 2014, he envisioned a world that he could control where sex would not be allowed, where procreation would only be allowed by what he called "intelligent people" through artificial insemination.

* When John Byrne rebooted the Franchise/{{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'.