History Main / PsychosexualHorror

** An InsectQueen-like LivingAphrodisiac decides to turn Japan into a horde of "rape-zombies" [[RapeLeadsToInsanity out of trauma]] from being raped by everyone around her since she was little. Alice kills her out of self-defense, only for the zombies to destroy the country anyway by violating everyone regardless of gender, age or familial ties. Another antagonist decides the solution to this is to lure a ChildSoldier with ''Dinoponera'' ant venom-coated weapons into getting raped by the zombies in a way that makes her a [[MacGuffinSuperPerson source of antibodies]] for curing the virus, turning her from an innocent girl [[PromiscuityAfterRape to a lewd goofball]].

** When you first catch Astarion hovering over your sleeping body at night (before having admitted to being a vampire), he immediately declares it's NotWhatItLooksLike, then asks permission to have some of your blood. Should you consent, he lays you down in a comfortable position, and asks the next morning if you slept well. After this, he never drinks from you without you explicitly giving him permission first. In Act II, a pushy Drow NPC repeatedly asks for his blood even after he's said no, and the player can reaffirm that they will not overrule his decision or push him to do anything he doesn't want to, even as the team's leader, as he is his own person and not the player's slave. [[spoiler: Astarion later thanks you for this at camp, where the subtext becomes text: [[{{DarkAndTroubledPast}} His abusive sire forced him to seduce people as victims to the point where he's actually forgotten that he has his own free will]], [[{{SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments}} and that you helped remind him that he does]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]", the kids of South Park are forced to endure sex education after Stan unknowingly masturbates a dog as a trick in front of his family. However, Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics on unprotected sex and venereal diseases, along with Mr. Mackey's incompetence, instigate a gender war between the fourth-grade girls and the fourth-grade boys because Ms. Choksondik forgot to mention that sexually transmitted diseases can only be spread through unprotected sex, not regular physical contact. The lesson of the episode is that sex education is an uncomfortable but vital conversation that's best told from parent to child because you don't know how much of a bias educators can have.[[note]][[FridgeLogic As opposed to what biases the parents do (or don't realize they do) have?]][[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse Proper Condom Use]]", the kids of South Park are forced to endure sex education after Stan unknowingly masturbates a dog as a trick in front of his family. However, Ms. Choksondik's scare tactics on unprotected sex and venereal diseases, along with Mr. Mackey's incompetence, instigate a gender war between the fourth-grade girls and the fourth-grade boys because Ms. Choksondik forgot to mention that sexually transmitted diseases can only be spread through unprotected sex, not regular physical contact. The lesson of the episode is that sex education is an uncomfortable but vital conversation that's best told from parent to child because you don't know how much of a bias educators can have.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Heather [[spoiler:or Cheryl Mason]] is a girl in her late teens that gets caught up in the happenings of Silent Hill. The first boss of the game is called Splitworm: a very phallic-looking, purple, eyeless creature that splits open its head to reveal a fleshy interior and big teeth.

** Alice spends the entire first series fighting off threats of rape and feels predisposed into being violent, so she ends up abandoning her OnlyFriend Megumi to go slaughter rape-zombies aimlessly because she couldn't bear the thought of harming or even killing the PsychoLesbian whenever she became too forceful. The unattended Megumi then becomes the She-Devil of the SS to a prison shelter in the apocalypse, letting female civilians get abused by her henchmen while [[MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration repeatedly masturbating]] to the thought of reuniting with Alice.

* The titular creature of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise is rife with Freudian imagery and was originally created as an explicit rape allegory. The facehugger phase of the creature has a vagina-like opening with a phallic proboscis that orally violates the victim. The chestburster itself is entirely phallic-shaped. [[spoiler:The adult phase features a similarly phallic head shape, and the way it kills Lambert is rife with sexual assault undertones.]]

Males and male-coded antagonists use [[PhallicWeapon weapons with phallic connotations]] to kill their victims in an up close and intimate way. In other cases, female and female-coded antagonists can be a [[HoneyTrap woman who seduces males to kill them]]. These antagonists serve as an allegory for sexual activities and anxieties, as sex relies on absolute consent and a level of trust between partners.

** Batman is also a sexually repressed man who was mentally stunted after witnessing his parents' murder. According to Grant Morrison, this version of Batman is afraid of sex and commitment because he's ultimately afraid of being hurt and abandoned.

* ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'', the unrelated sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}}'', ramps up the sex factor, but to serve the narrative: the main character, Curtis, is trying to connect with people and consults with a psychiatrist about his hangups. One of the sexual elements of the game involves Curtis sharing his bisexual fantasies about his two co-workers Trevor and Jocelyn, and during certain parts of the game, goes with another female co-worker, Therese, to a bondage parlour, whom he

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** Daniella: The supernaturallly and chillingly beautiful maid of Belli's estate is another of the {{ArtificialHuman}}s that work/live in the castle [[spoiler:or so it appears at first]]. She envies Fiona's ability to feel pleasure and pain, and, being infertile herself, the girl's abilily to bear children. In the latter case, the maid even caresses Fiona's belly, in the place where her womb is [[spoiler: and, in one of the Bad Ends, although there is a discretion shot, sounds of flesh being torn apart can be heard, implying she ripped out Fiona's abdomen.]]

* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'': Practically every villain/boss represents some kind of sexual threat towards the protagonist Fiona. [[spoiler:In one of the endings, Riccardo (Fiona's "uncle", since he is a clone of her father) caresses a heavily pregnant Fiona, who is implied to be carrying Riccardo's child.]]

* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'': Practically every villain/boss represents some kind of sexual threat towards the protagonist Fiona.

* Music/{{Miserable}}'s touches on themes of psychosexual horror with its ending. The video has the members of Music/{{Lit}}, all of whom are male, performing the song for a beautiful [[GiantWoman giantess]] played by famous sex symbol Creator/PamelaAnderson. Most of the video indulges in straight male fantasy by having the giant woman scantily clad in only a bikini and platform heels, and having the men perform on top of different parts of her body often associated with female sex appeal, notably her butt, hip, legs and breasts. All while she poses seductively and acts like the typical LustObject while the camera [[MaleGaze ogles her]]. However throughout the video the woman is subtley shown to be the real one in control, doing casual displays of power like shaking her shoe while the men are standing on it, causing them to nearly loose balance and fall off, or literally holding them in the palm of her hand, or rolling her eyes at them when they can't see her face. This all comes to a head with the ending, which starts with one man standing atop another part of her body associated with feminine beauty (in this case, her lips), when she casually opens her mouth and eats him alive. The rest of the video abruptly abandons the male fantasy aspect, instead portraying the men as frightened, weak and helpless as their attempts to run, hide or plead for their lives are easily thwarted as the woman picks them off and devours them. At the same time, the giant woman maintains her [[ConsumingPassion hyper-femininity while indulging in her man-devouring spree,]] such as chasing them with a GirlyRun and playfully chowing down on them in ways that, if she wasn't eating terrified men, could almost be seen as fun and coquettish. As if to drive the point home, after eating the last male in the video, she [[SupermodelStrut]]s into the horizon, as if taunting MaleGaze.

[[https://nofilmschool.com/defining-psychosexual-thriller-genre Psychosexuality as a subgenre]] frequently involves fears and anxieties around sexual activities and developments. Most characters (protagonists or otherwise) do have some form of sexual anxiety as the story deals with themes of sexual awakenings, sexual fears, sexual inadequacies, and sexual traumas. However, this can also address themes of puberty, homoeroticism, and losing one's virginity.

* ''Film/{{Shivers}}'' is about a colony of {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s being spread through sexual contact. They were inverted by a perverted old MadScientist who wanted to turn the entire world into "one beautiful, writhing orgy". The infected rapidly lose any and all inhibitions, and we do mean ''any and all'', including rape, incest, and pedophilia.

* In Creator/DeanKoontz's novel ''Night Chills'', Ogden Salsbury, a scientist working on a mind control experiment involving subliminal messaging for the government. Salsbury is a sexual sadist but is noted to be harmless unless he feels he already has power over women, and Salsbury is quick to realize that with the success of his mind control methods, he has total control over ''everyone'' in the town of Black River. He orders a housewife to make love to him in front of her husband and son, and orders ''them'' to sit and watch. When they're interrupted by a boy who was not present for the mind control drugs and subliminal programming due to being away on a camping trip, Salsbury orders the family to kill the boy, then forget it. The hero of the story later finds Salsbury in the act of raping a woman with an automatic pistol. The hero and his family, after dealing with the problem, realize they must leave their home because they know the key phrase to activate the mind control, and don't want to even have the option as a temptation.

* ''Film/BlackSwan'': In this psychological horror, Nina Sayers is the sexually naive protagonist who believes her innocent nature and sexual repression make her lack the passion the Black Swan role requires. She pushes herself to the brink of insanity and is confused by her sexual attraction towards Lily, her rival who plays the black swan.

* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': ZigZagged, the franchise famously uses a lot of sex scenes and it's usually how Jason Voorhees is able to catch and kill his victims. Sex actually does play a role in how Jason originally died, Jason drowned in a lake because the camp councilors left them unsupervised as they ran off to have sex.
* ''Film/GeraldsGame'': In this 2017 film, a woman named Jessie is chained to her bed as part of her husband Gerald's sexual fantasy. Unfortunately, Gerald dies of a heart attack after taking Viagra and Jessie is left trapped in the bedroom and chained to the bed. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to Gerald, Jessie has a fear of intimacy and sex after her father sexually abused her when she was 12 and she drifted towards him because Gerald reminded her of her father.]]

* ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'': The film is a rape-revenge story where Jennifer Hills is sexually assaulted by 4 red rednecks and she seeks revenge for what they did to her.
* ''Film/{{It|2017}}'': Although it's done differently in the novel, Beverly Marsh's fear of puberty and her fear of being seen as sexually desirable are still present. She's bullied by the girls in school for being attractive and they spread rumors of her being promiscuous. [[spoiler:She's also aware that several adults and her own father seem attracted to her, which accumulates in her father trying to rape her and Beverly having to escape him by beating him unconscious with a toilet lid.]]

* ''Film/JennifersBody'': The story centers around Jennifer, a sexually confident teenager who is possessed by a succubus who [[LiteralManeater seduces men so she can eat them]]. With several implications that one of the themes in the story is how Jennifer is actually deeply insecure about being treated as a sex object and that she is dealing with her own attraction to her best friend Anita "Needy" Lesnicki.

* Andrzej Zulawski's ''Film/{{Possession}}'' starts as a rather grounded drama about an unraveling marriage, but it takes a hard left turn into this territory when it's revealed that the female protagonist, Anna, has been having sex with this weird, fleshy... ''[[BodyHorror thing]]'' that lives in an abandoned apartment and gradually starts looking more human as the film progresses.
* In Alfred Hitchcock's ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' (1960), [[spoiler:Marion Crane gets murdered by Mrs. Bates (really a crossdressing Norman Bates) while taking a shower. The brutal murder itself has undertones of rape with the knife representing the male sex organ, the stabbing representing penetration, and the blood gushing representing ejaculation. The fact that she was murdered because Norman's attraction to her or any woman in general set off his jealous mother only adds to the horror.]] The film's third sequel ''Film/PsychoIVTheBeginning'' (1990) further reveals that [[spoiler:because of his mother's sexual abuse on him growing up, Norman hesitates whenever he tries getting physically intimate with any woman on a date and instead he kills her out of homicidal impulse due to his mother's domineering personality over him.]]

* ''Film/{{Shivers}}'' is about a colony of {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s being spread through sexual contact. They were inverted by a perverted old MadScientist who wanted to turn the entire world into "one beautiful, writhing, orgy". The infected rapidly lose any and all inhibitions, and we do mean ''any and all'', including rape, incest, and pedophilia.
* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'': [[spoiler:In this 1983 horror movie, a girl called Angela is the sole survivor of a boat accident that kills her father and brother and she's sent to a summer camp. In the movie, Angela is revealed to be Peter, her brother, who was forced to adopt his better-received sister's identity by his adoptive aunt because she didn't want to raise another boy. As Angela, Peter is kissed by Paul and it reminds him of a time when he saw his father and his boyfriend Lenny after they had sex. Peter doesn't understand sex, never had the talk (or had the talk properly), and he doesn't understand the harmless nature of John and Lenny's relationship. These feelings are horrifying and deeply confusing for Peter and it causes him to go insane and murder people for mistreating him and for treating him as a girl.]]
* ''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre'': In this 1982 horror movie, a group of teenage girls decide to have a SlumberParty but are unfortunately terrorized by a maniac with a power drill who starts killing them one by one. The main antagonist, Russ Thorn, is designed to represent the male sex drive and a woman's fear of penetration. Russ's drill weapon is given a lot of phallic imagery and he makes a few sexual comments.

* ''Film/{{Society}}'': This film mixes psychosexual imagery with visceral BodyHorror in its depiction of the rich, [[spoiler:who are eventually revealed to be a separate species living among humans that regularly performs "[[LovecraftianSuperpower shunts]]", grotesque orgies where members of high society twist themselves into horrifying networks of flesh and feast on the poor]].

* ''Film/TetsuoTheIronMan'': Where to begin with this one? Whether it's the Metal Fetishist's...fetish, the overpowering themes of repressed sexuality or the [[spoiler: gigantic biomechanical penis the two characters merge into]] at the end, this film blurs the line between sex, death, flesh and metal. Often quite literally. And that's not even getting into the Salaryman's...new appendage.

'''Maria:''' So what, she had a nice ass! [[spoiler:''(muttering)'' [[ImAHumanitarian It all tastes the same to me anyway...]]]]
* ''Film/TheWall'': The movie has several animated scenes where sexual imagery is played for horror. The best example is a shadow of Pink's wife during the "Don't Leave Me Now" sequence, which turns into a nightmarish mantis/butterfly/flower/vagina monster.
* ''Film/{{X|2022}}'': In this movie, a group of actors and a small film crew embark on a road trip through Texas to shoot a pornographic film titled "The Farmer's Daughters" for the booming theatrical porn market. In this film, the theme of existential horror is expressed through the fear of getting older, wasting years, and the sexual frustration over no longer being sexually active or sexually desirable. In the movie, the antagonists are intensely envious of the group for being young and sexually desirable in a different, more progressive time, and getting opportunities that they themselves never had during their own youth.

* ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'': The book that introduced the LesbianVampire to the world, Carmilla is in love with Laura but is also slowly draining her life away. In an effort to spare Laura for a time, Carmilla drains several of the local village girls.

* ''Literature/GeraldsGame'': In this ''Creator/StephenKing'' novel, Jessie is chained to a bed as part of a bondage game proposed by her husband, Gerald. However, after Gerald dies suddenly of a heart attack, Jessie is forced to find a way out. [[spoiler:During the story, Jessie is forced to confront her sexual trauma, which was that her father sexually abused her during a solar eclipse. She's been afraid of sex and intimacy ever since and subconsciously married Gerald because he reminded Jessie of her father.]]
* ''Literature/{{It}}'': In the story, Beverly Marsh's childhood trauma is the fear of puberty and her own growing sexuality. As she realizes that her own father is sexually attracted to her. [[spoiler: After defeating [=IT=] in 1957-1958, the Losers Club was so traumatised by the experience that it gets them lost in the sewers. In order to rebuild their bond, Beverly decides to have sex with each member of the Losers Club so the spiritual connection will be rebuilt through a sexual one. This was supposed to represent how the Losers Club had grown up too fast and lost their innocence by fighting [=IT=] but the scene is understandably written out of any adaptation of the book.]]
* ''Literature/NakedLunch'': One of the many themes of this book is sex, homosexuality, pederasty and sexual cruelty. Often intertwining with the sheer depths of suffering and depravity that drug addiction can reduce a person to.
* ''Night Chills'': In this ''Creator/DeanKoontz'''s novel, Ogden Salsbury, a scientist working on a mind control experiment involving subliminal messaging for the government. Salsbury is a sexual sadist but is noted to be harmless unless he feels he already has power over women, and Salsbury is quick to realize that with the success of his mind control methods, he has total control over ''everyone'' in the town of Black River. He orders a housewife to make love to him in front of her husband and son, and orders ''them'' to sit and watch. When they're interrupted by a boy who was not present for the mind control drugs and subliminal programming due to being away on a camping trip, Salsbury orders the family to kill the boy, then forget it. The hero of the story later finds Salsbury in the act of raping a woman with an automatic pistol. The hero and his family, after dealing with the problem, realize they must leave their home because they know the key phrase to activate the mind control, and don't want to even have the option as a temptation.

* "Snow Glass Apples" is a retelling of ''Snow White'' that portrays the mysterious Snow White as a vampiric creature that seduced and killed the Queen's husband.

This trope is when eroticism, sexuality, and scenes of a sexual nature are [[FreudWasRight the theme or genre of a story]], usually done through PersonalHorror, PsychologicalHorror, SupernaturalFiction, or represented by characters and monsters with Freudian associations. This may involve replacing physical threats with psychological ones (e.g. madness, hallucinations), and a thorough exploration of the character's mind during sexual activities.

This genre also explores themes of sexual exploitation, emotional manipulation, sexual violence, and sexual identity. Often involving: power imbalances in relationships, manipulation, [[StalkerWithACrush obsessions]], and traumas that are linked to past sexual abuse, childhood trauma, or other traumatic experiences. Sex is often used as a weapon in these stories by using sexual tension and prowess as a means of control and dominance.

Antagonists serve as an allegory for the consequences of unprotected sex or the human sex drive. The antagonist can be a male who uses [[PhallicWeapon weapons with phallic connotations]] that they use to kill their victims in an up close and intimate way with melee weapons. In other cases, the antagonist can be a [[HoneyTrap female who seduces males to kill them]].

Male and male-coded antagonists have more phallic imagery that involves thrusting and penetrating attacks. Female antagonists will more likely have vaginal imagery and their method of attack involves [[LiteralManeater seducing and devouring their typically male victims]], which is treated as a [[ConsumingPassion visual metaphor for sex]]. In addition to being a visual metaphor for sex, the female antagonist who devours male victims may also symbolize male sexual anxiety, domineering or abusive female partners, or [[AllWomenAreLustful female sexual desire.]]

This trope is when eroticism, sexuality, and scenes of a sexual nature are [[FreudWasRight the theme or genre of a story]], usually done through psychological horror, supernatural horror, or represented by characters and monsters with Freudian associations. This may involve replacing physical threats with psychological ones (e.g. madness, hallucinations), and a thorough exploration of the character's mind during sexual activities.