History Main / STDImmunity

* BuffyTheVampireSlayer gives us at least one example, maybe two. Faith has been stated to have lots of casual sex with no hint of condom usage yet never gets pregnant or infected with anything. This might be because of her being a Slayer, though. Who knows what those powers do to [=STDs=]. Pregnacies are harder to explain, seeing as at least one Slayer had a child (Nikki Wood, the Slayer Spike killed in 1977 and stole his famous leather duster from, is the mother of Robin Wood, principal of the new Sunnydale High and one of the few characters to get PutOnABus in [=BTVS=] and never return). Vampires are also likely immune.

* Averted in VeronicaMars. [[spoiler: That's how she guess who raped her.]]

* Subverted in DragonAge 2, in which the absurdly promiscious Isabela apparantly gets STDs often, but she knows a long-suffering mage called Anders who can get rid of them with no real difficulty. Pregnancy is not an issue because she is sterile.

* Subverted in DragonAge 2, in which the absurdly promiscious Isabela apparantly gets STDs often, but she knows a long-suffering mage called Anders who can get rid of them with no real difficulty. The lack of pregnancy is because she's already sterile for an undetermined reason.

* Subverted in DragonAge 2, in which the absurdly promiscious Isabela apparantly gets STDs often, but she knows a long-suffering mage called Anders who can get rid of them with no real difficulty. Not sure about avoiding pregnancy though, maybe Anders does abortions too.

** While now people should consider this trope [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]], before people understood what was happening and cases of AIDS first began showing up, it was believed to be the direct result of male homosexual activity and was even called the "gay cancer," among other things. Heterosexuals were thus believed insusceptible.

** This applies to the "PokeGirls" world as a whole. What with the ~90% fatality rate of the Red Plague, the ~30% fatality rate the survivors due to post-apocalyptic living, healing magic, and the Pokegirls' nearly invincible immune systems, there literally are no [=STDs=] anymore.

* Averted on ''GossipGirl'' where [[MemeticSexGod man tramp Chuck Bass]] has contracted at least a few STDs in his day, and on one occasion [[{{squick}} bonds with his uncle over what medication they got for gonorrhea]].

* Inverted by the mistaken belief held by some victims of certain scare tactics, that a couple, neither of whom have any STDs, are still at risk of spontaneously generating an STD during intercourse with each other.

** As many quotes on FSTDT can attest, quite a few people are of the opinion that apparently STDs can ''only'' affect gay people, since they never seem to mention that straight sex can spread them just as easily.

*** Considering many people with [=STDs=] don't even know they have them (at least in the early stages), it doesn't matter how "trustworthy" your partner is, unless they have never had sex or been exposed to bodily fluids.

** And the bubonic plague.

* Averted in ''Wasteland'' where sleeping with a hooker will ''always'' give the character "wasteland herpes". This does affect the character's health, though it can be easily cured at any hospital. Also noteworthy in that this is one of only six diseased/poisoned status afflictions in the entire game.

* Averted in ''{{Fable}} II'', having unsafe sex can cause your character to get an STD. This is mostly [[RuleOfFunny played for laughs]], though, as [=STDs=] don't actually do anything.

* Averted in ''{{Fable}} II'', having unsafe sex can cause your character to get an STD. This is mostly [[RuleOfFunny played for laughs]], though, as STDs don't actually do anything.

* Also the case in ''{{FATAL}}'', primarily due to [[RalphWiggum stupidity]].

This is, of course, a terrifying trope because {{All STDs Are AIDS}}.

** Not all Fundamentalists are The Fundamentalist.

* [[GirlsWithSlingshots Angel]] thinks you can only get an STD from contact between a penis and a vagina, which is convenient for her since she's apparently been banging every female who asks for the last ten years. Thea, a similarly-inclined woman who was similarly inclining Angel until recently, is understandably flabbergasted at Angel's delusionality.
** And then exposed as part hypocrite, because regardless of her harping on the subject thereof, she herself failed to practice as she preached and currently (most likely, has yet to be confirmed) has an STD herself.