History Main / SleepingWithTheBoss

* Both Anne and [[spoiler:Raphael]] from ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' were born from a nobleman sleeping with one of their maids. The former was conceived during the short period of time her mother was serving as her father's mistress, while in the case of the latter [[ChildByRape their father used their position to force their mother to sleep with them]].

* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'':
** ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': In season 1, Jeri Hogarth is having an affair with her secretary Pam, while in the midst of a bitter divorce from her legal spouse Wendy. This one ends badly, as Jeri tries to have Kilgrave [[MindRape force Wendy to agree to lesser terms]], only for him to instead order Wendy to kill Jeri through DeathByAThousandCuts. Pam kills Wendy before she can get too far, but is subsequently arrested and breaks up with Jeri, now realizing what she truly is.
** ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In season 2, [[SexySecretary Karen Page]] briefly dates [[BlindJustice Matt Murdock]] before the strain of his double life as Daredevil and a number of misunderstandings (like Karen finding Elektra in Matt's bed and mistaking him for cheating on her) temporarily drive them apart. Many fanfics have theorized that had Matt not turned down Karen's invitation up to her apartment after their makeout session on her front steps in "Kinbaku" to go help Elektra, they probably would have had sex. When Matt and Karen do rekindle things in season 3, this trope is no longer the case because Karen now works at the ''New York Bulletin''.
** ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Luke Cage's mother Etta was seemingly unable to have children. So when Luke was born, he was seen by many as the "miracle baby". During the years before this, his father James Lucas engaged in an affair with his secretary Dana Stryker. The affair culminated in Dana giving birth to a son, [[BastardBastard Willis "Diamondback" Stryker]]. After Luke was born, Willis grew up resenting his legitimate half-brother over perceived {{parental favoritism}}, eventually driving him to frame Luke and throw him in Seagate.

* This is a fundamental part of Webcomic/{{Erfworld}} culture, since a commander can give his units any order, including "take off all your clothes", and they'll obey it. [[AboveTheInfluence This really ]]{{Squick}}[[AboveTheInfluence s Parson out.]]

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive:'' Mr. Verres's personal assistant, [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2007-04-11 Lavender]], [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-08-27 definitely]] [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2011-01-12 has feelings]] for him. [[spoiler: And as of the arc with the WorkingTitle "Title Pending", [[http://egscomics.com/comic/party-008 it looks like he's started to reciprocate]].]]

* ''Anime/PhantomQuestCorp'': In Incident File 03, Mr. Nagasuki gets [[InterruptedIntimacy caught in the act]] of having sex with [[SexySecretary his secretary]], when Detective Karino drops by his office to question him. Nagasuki and his secretary are later [[ModestyBedsheet shown in bed together]] at his condo.
* Happened many times in ''Manga/SakuraGari'', before the series starts. Souma is the handsome leader of the rich Saiki family, and he often takes loves among the younger maids and boarding students/butlers [[note]](high school/college-aged young men who work as servants in {{Big Fancy House}}s during the Taishou Era, in exchange for academic/economic help from the main families)[[/note]]; all of them meet rather screwed up ends [[spoiler: after being harassed, tortured and, in one case at least, ''murdered'' by Souma's sibling Sakurako]]. This also makes the plot of the series itself, as the protagonist of the series is a boy named Masataka who is employed at the Saiki house, and later Souma starts to make passes at him...
* Talia did this with OldFlame Chairman Durandal, under whose authority she helms the flagship in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''. She does end up [[spoiler: trying to assassinate him at the end, but that's more for his general {{Jerkass}} and DarkMessiah qualities -- aside from WMD'ing their own troops --]] than anything about their relationship, which isn't well-developed outside of one depicted instance of this, a {{Flashback}} breakup scene years prior to their current positions, and a lot of him pissing her off.
* ''VisualNovel/PrincessLover'': In the 2-part [[{{hentai}} H-OVA]], Teppei only fantasizes about his maid, [[ShyBluehairedGirl Yuu Fujikura]], giving him fellatio. But, in the [[VisualNovel VN's]] themselves, Teppei actually sleeps with her midway through her character route, which ends with her being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=557JM3Modug pregnant with his child.]]

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': Casca and Guts have a RelationshipUpgrade and TheirFirstTime after she's been promoted to leader of the Band of the Hawk in Griffith's absence, making theirs a boss-employee romance after a fashion. There was no coercion or ulterior motive on either part and they're in a serious relationship, but it does cause some tension later during the rescue operation when they argue with each other about having to put their feelings aside for the mission.
** Interestingly, Casca was at one point accused of [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop sleeping with Griffith]] to get her high position in their army. In actual fact, her feelings toward him ping-ponged between a hopeless crush and HeroWorship, but never went further than that.
* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', Denji's boss [[ManipulativeBitch Makima]] was a FetishizedAbuser who used [[TheVamp the promise of sexual favors to manipulate him]] into doing her bidding, with him [[LoserProtagonist being so starved for affection]] that he initially either doesn't notice or doesn't care.

* A massive ParentalBonus in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' is that the villains of the season—Criasu Corporation—display a toxic work environment that adult viewers would be familiar with. One standout example is implication that the BigBad George Cry abuses his power as the president of the company to engage in this trope with multiple employees. At the very least, it is known that Pupple considered George to be her boyfriend [[spoiler:and was distraught when she found him having an affair with Gelos]].
* Both Anne and [[spoiler:Raphael]] from ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' were born from a nobleman sleeping with one of their maids. The former was conceived during the short period of time her mother was serving as her father's mistress, while in the case of the latter [[ChildByRape their father used their position to force their mother to sleep with them]].
* In ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', this is how Jeanne Valois was born, as her mother, Nicole Lamoriere, was a maid at the castle of Jacques de Valois, Baron de Saint-Rémy, when they were conceived, leaving her in the position to adopt Rosalie when Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, the future [[spoiler:Duchess of Polignac]], got pregnant out of wedlock while at the castle and had to give her daughter Rosalie away.
* In the one shot [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]] ''Maldivian Flight,'' an heiress takes her butler with her on vacation so that he can provide his services to her, and when she convinces him to once again pleasure her, she laments that this may be their last time since her [[ArrangedMarriage parents agreed that she will marry the son of another wealthy family]] so that she can settle down and [[IWantGrandkids have kids like a proper lady should do]]. However, the heiress decides rather than this being their last time, she will instead convince her father to call off the marriage so that she can be with her butler, which her father refuses to allow as he's just a family servant, which is when the heiress' grandmother interjects and tells her son that she met her late husband when she was just a maid. After hearing this, the heiress' father decides to hear her out.

* A rare female on female example in ''Manga/LoveHina'' fanfic ''FanFic/ContractLabor'' with Motoko and her boss Kotoko.

* ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground'': A rare example with a female boss and a male subordinate. Cinder is portrayed as a [[TheQueenpin mob boss]] and she has a casual sexual relationship with [[TheDragon her personal hitman]], Mercury Black. This is common knowledge in the criminal element. And while they don't broadcast it to everyone, neither of them actually make any effort to hide it either. Both of them even openly make quips about it.
* ''Fanfic/{{Mended}}'' combines this with TeacherStudentRomance. Around twenty years ago, Delia began working as assistant of Professor Oak's post-university, after also having been his student as a teenager. Oak was attracted to her but kept his distance until Delia caught her husband Will cheating. After Will ran off with his ex, Delia couldn't afford her apartment so Oak offered the room above his lab to her. They became quickly friends, but one day they gave in to their mutual attraction. Delia ended up pregnant with Ash afterwards. They've been in a SecretRelationship behind Ash's back his entire life, until at seventeen when Ash discovers that Professor Oak is his dad. It was secret more because Delia was technically Oak's student rather than because of the "boss" element of their relationship. Delia wanted to avoid scandal.
* In ''[[Fanfic/HowStormerGotHerGrooveBack Painted Blind]]'', Stormer begins a relationship with Riot. Riot is technically her boss, though that's overshadowed by their musical rivalry

* Mob boss Violet Kincaid [[InvokedTrope tried her hardest]] to make it happen with Roman Torchwick in ''Fanfic/RomansEmpire'' when he still worked for her (everything short of forcing him into it), but he [[DefiedTrope refused to bite]]. He does admit that she's attractive, but he declines on the basis that it would be unprofessional and the fact that she's [[MrsRobinson about thirty years older than him]].
* In the second chapter of ''Fanfic/ASongOfGrumblingAndCottonCandy'', Pizzazz finds Jerrica's belongings in Jem's room. She comes to the conclusion that Jem and her manager Jerrica are ex-girlfriends, not realizing that Jerrica ''is'' Jem. Jem goes along with it by claiming she broke up with Jerrica because their relationship was unprofessional.
* ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' Any fic that pairs Reigen and Serizawa. It's usually lampshaded, too, such as in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18118466 Apparitions Gone Awry]]''
-->'''Reigen:''' I'm sure your boss will be forgiving if you're a little late. ''[laughs]'' I heard he’s got a real weak spot for you.
* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', Tom implies that [[NamedByTheAdaptation Feriss 512]]'s relationship with Visser Three was sexual. Since neither [[MeatPuppet he nor Alloran]] consented to it, he understandably doesn't like to talk about it.

* By seducing the chairman of Omni Consumer Products in ''Film/RoboCop2'', OCP psychologist Juliette Faxx is able to railroad her project through development.
* This is the status of Tony and Pepper's relationship from the finale of ''Film/IronMan2'', throughout the rest of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, until some unknown point between the events of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.
* This is the standard way to land a husband in the world of ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' (give or take actual sex): you meet a successful man by becoming his secretary, then he falls in love with you and you get married.
* This forms the plot of ''Film/{{Secretary}}'', where Lee and her boss Edward engage in a sadomasochistic relationship.
* Subverted to comic effect in ''Film/{{Boomerang|1992}}'', when Marcus (Creator/EddieMurphy) sleeps with Lady Eloise (Music/EarthaKitt), the elderly namesake of the company who just acquired his company. The next day, he boasts to Angela,(Creator/RobinGivens), that he's got the inside track for the upcoming promotion. At which point, Angela breaks it to him that Lady Eloise hasn't been involved with the company for years and is just a figurehead with no power.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/SpiesLikeUs'', when Fitzhume tells his coworker that he's arranged an intimate lunch with the boss. Cut to Fitzhume and his attractive boss in bed. And apparently, he just arranged the "intimate lunch" to try to talk his boss into finding a way for him to not take the Foreign Service Board test.
* This turns out to be a major plot point in ''Film/LakeviewTerrace''. [[spoiler:Turner's wife was having an affair with her white boss, and they died in a car accident together. The affair resulted in Turner hating interracial couples, and it's the reason he harasses the lead couple.]]
* The Wesley Snipes film ''Film/JungleFever'' has this as the trigger for its main plot, in which Snipes' character sleeps with his secretary despite him being a married man and her already being in a relationship. It's more remembered and criticized in-universe for [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt the fact that he's black and she's white]].
* The movie ''{{Film/Disclosure}}'' plays the "female boss, male employee" version of this for all the drama it can. Meredith Johnson, the ex and new boss of Tom Sanders, tries to restart their relationship, but Tom doesn't want to go through with it due to him being married now. Meredith then out-and-out tries to rape him, forcing him to fight her off. The plot gets kicked off when she files charges of sexual harassment against him. When his lawyer investigates her, she finds that several of her male subordinates have abruptly and inexplicably quit, heavily implying that Tom is neither the first nor only employee that she's made unwanted advances to.
* In the Michael J. Fox film ''Film/TheSecretOfMySuccess'', Howard Prescott, CEO of the Pemrose Corporation and the main character's uncle, has an ongoing affair with Christy, one of his employees and the main character's LoveInterest.

* ''Film/FearCity'': Nicky is in a relationship with one of his strippers, but it's apparently a loving one. She also says to him that she doesn't expect any special favors because of the way it will make her look to the other girls.
* ''Film/{{Flashdance}}'': Alex starts a romance with Nick, the owner of the steel mill she works at.
* ''Film/ScannersIIITheTakeover'': After Helena takes over her father's company, she schedules an "appointment" with one of her younger execs at her house. It's at this point that she happens to realize that her psychic abilities also work through television signals, and uses him as a guinea pig for this purpose.
* A particularly grim and sleazy version in ''Film/{{Feast}}''. Tuffy [[SexualExtortion doesn't want to]] and [[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland doesn't enjoy it]], but she has a kid to feed, so whenever Bossman is stoned and horny, it's time to bend over his desk and "take a meeting".
* ''Film/CutToTheChase'': It's revealed Izzy was seeing her boss, the DA, who was also married.

* In the Jamaican play ''Old Story Time'', this is one of the major revelations made toward the end of the story, involving two major characters. George Murchison (the boss) coerced Lois (his secretary at the time) to engage in physical relations with him, in exchange for covering up her misuse of bank funds to finance her then-fiance Leonard's education.
* ''Literature/TheBible'':
** Abram (shortly before his name was changed to Abraham) slept with his Egyptian maid Hagar in order to have a child, with encouragement from his wife Sarai (later renamed Sarah) since she couldn't have children of her own. Unfortunately, since God had specifically told Abram that he would have children with Sarai, this plan backfires horribly -- Hagar starts forgetting her place with Sarai and is eventually thrown out with her son, Ishmael, though God helps them out later. (Ishmael is said to have become the ancestor of the Arabian people)
** There's also a subversion with Joseph, at the time a slave in Egypt under the employment of Potiphar. His master's wife wanted to screw him physically, but he rebuffed her advances on the grounds that she was already married and that giving in to her would be a sin against God. So she chose to screw him [[{{Frameup}} metaphorically]].
---> '''Joseph''': How then could I do this most wicked thing, and sin before God?
* An expanded-universe ''Franchise/StarTrek'' supplement, ''The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition'', lists Rule 113 as "Always sleep with the boss." Interesting when one recalls (and a later commentary book on the rules points out) that in traditional Ferengi culture (barring interspecies employment), [[HoYay all bosses and employees are]] ''[[HoYay male]]''.
* ''Literature/TheMister'' revolves around a playboy earl falling for his housemaid, who is hiding a DarkAndTroubledPast.

* On Showtime's ''Series/ShamelessUS'', Fiona gets a low-paying job at a supermarket, and soon learns that most of her co-workers have been pressured into having sexual relations with the boss, Bobby. When she gets them all together to talk about it, some of them even defend it.
* ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]'' (US) has Michael's rather rocky extended relationship with his boss Jan.
* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': This happens between Kroehner's [[TheDragon Matthew Gilardi]] and his boss. It doesn't stop her from firing him for incompetence.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had Grissom and Sara, although much has changed since he left and she left, then returned.
* In an episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' where for the first time Sam leaps into a woman, his task of the episode is to keep a fellow secretary from committing suicide. The other secretary thinks that her boss is going to leave his wife for her; the wife informs the secretary in no uncertain terms that she's OK with her husband fooling around but she will not under any circumstances allow a divorce. It's also implied that she is the boss's second wife, and he met her when she was his secretary. When the secretary learns this, she tries to jump off a building but Sam talks her down.
* ''Series/BreakingBad''
** Skyler White does this with her boss Ted Beneke. It's much less about any particular romance between them and much more about getting revenge on her increasingly criminal husband, though, and the power equation changes when it becomes clear that Ted is something of an irresponsible twit, driving her back to Walt.
** Subverted in season 3. Walter tries to put the moves on his own boss Principal Carmen in retribution for Skyler's affair. However, while Ted and Skyler already had UnresolvedSexualTension between them, there wasn't even a hint that either Walter or Carmen were attracted to one another, so his out of the blue attempt to seduce her just comes across as weird and pathetic. Rather than turning the cheating into a mutual affair, he is fired from his job as a teacher.
* Shows up a few times on ''Series/MidsomerMurders'', whether as "sleeping up the ladder" or actual romance.
* After Series/LoisAndClark got married, one episode saw Lois being promoted to the Daily Planet's editor. Clark jokingly says he's looking forward to sleeping with the boss.
* In ''Series/WithoutATrace'', Samantha Spade had a brief sexual affair with her supervisor, Jack Malone. It resulted in his marriage dissolving. They rekindled it in the last season, but she ended it in the final minutes of the series finale to make things work with her son's father.

* In the Season 5 finale of ''Series/{{House}}'', the titular doctor winds up having sex with Lisa Cuddy, the hospital administrator and his immediate supervisor, after she comes over to his house to help him kick his Vicodin addiction. [[spoiler:Except their encounter that night never actually happened--it was all a Vicodin-induced hallucination on House's part.]]

* ''{{Series/Cheers}}'': Sam hooks up with his waitress Diane at the end of season 1 (resolving the UST), and they almost get married at the end of season 5.

* The plot of the Turkish SoapOpera ''Binbir Gece'' is kicked off by a mix of this trope and HealthcareMotivation, as the widowed protagonist Sherzat will get the money she needs for her son's treatment from her ''very'' handsome boss Onur... but only if she sleeps with him.
* Eleanor on ''Series/GoodGirlsRevolt'' brings this up at a meeting, asking the researchers who’s slept with their boss, and then asking who’s slept with a man they weren’t sure was their boss or not (i.e. their reporter). There’s also something going on between [[spoiler:Patti and Finn, the editor-at-large, though we’ve only seen them kiss]].
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'':
** ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': In season 1, Jeri Hogarth is having an affair with her secretary Pam, while in the midst of a bitter divorce from her legal spouse Wendy. This one ends badly, as Jeri tries to have Kilgrave [[MindRape force Wendy to agree to lesser terms]], only for him to instead order Wendy to kill Jeri through DeathByAThousandCuts. Pam kills Wendy before she can get too far, but is subsequently arrested and breaks up with Jeri, now realizing what she truly is.
** ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In season 2, [[SexySecretary Karen Page]] briefly dates [[BlindJustice Matt Murdock]] before the strain of his double life as Daredevil and a number of misunderstandings (like Karen finding Elektra in Matt's bed and mistaking him for cheating on her) temporarily drive them apart. Many fanfics have theorized that had Matt not turned down Karen's invitation up to her apartment after their makeout session on her front steps in "Kinbaku" to go help Elektra, they probably would have had sex. When Matt and Karen do rekindle things in season 3, this trope is no longer the case because Karen now works at the ''New York Bulletin''.
** ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Luke Cage's mother Etta was seemingly unable to have children. So when Luke was born, he was seen by many as the "miracle baby". During the years before this, his father James Lucas engaged in an affair with his secretary Dana Stryker. The affair culminated in Dana giving birth to a son, [[BastardBastard Willis "Diamondback" Stryker]]. After Luke was born, Willis grew up resenting his legitimate half-brother over perceived {{parental favoritism}}, eventually driving him to frame Luke and throw him in Seagate.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
** Debra Morgan, a detective at Homicide of Miami Metro Police Department, starts sleeping with and falls in love with Agent Lundy, their task force leader in season 2. He's actually an FBI agent and not her usual direct superior. Deb wants to keep their relationship secret at first but Lundy says it always gets out and that it's better to be honest right from the start. She wants to stay with him but they break up when she realizes they won't manage to make their long-distance relationship work.
** Lieutenant Maria [=LaGuerta=], a boss of Homicide, and Sergeant Angel Batista, her direct subordinate, start a sexual affair in season 4. Their superior Captain Matthews wants them to either break up or have Angel transferred to another department. They decide to marry and the pro-family politics allows them to stay together and both at Homicide department. Season 6 begins with them being AmicablyDivorced.
* In ''Series/Charmed1998'', Jason Dean actually bought the paper where Phoebe works to set up this scenario. Well, meeting and seducing her was at least part of his motivation. He did directly leverage his position by making her write an article defending online dating because she hadn't responded to his profile.
* Cam and Arastoo on ''{{Series/Bones}}'' technically. Brennan is his direct supervisor since he’s an intern but Cam runs the lab and is the overall boss. It’s less of an issue later in the series when Arastoo gets his doctorate and is more consultant than intern.
* ''Series/BehindHerEyes'': The protagonist strikes up a flirtation with a handsome stranger she meets in a bar only to find out he's her married boss. They try to resist each other, but they can't.
* ''Series/TheLWord'': Jodi ends up in this situation when she's hired by the university as a professor, with her grilfriend Bette as the dean who's her superior. This gets awkward when they break up over Bette's cheating.

* In many class storylines of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', you can {{romance|Sidequest}} your companions and technically, most of available companions are subordinates of the PlayerCharacter. Elara Dorne, the Republic Trooper's companion, even lampshades this, observing that intimate relationships between a commanding officer and a subordinate are forbidden by military regulations, but reciprocates your advances, anyway. Elara, being Elara, finds and submits ''official paperwork'' that authorizes the relationship.

* If the Dragonborn in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' becomes Harbinger of the Companions, Arch-mage of the College of Winterhold, Guildmaster of the ThievesGuild, and/or Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, and proceeds to romance/marry any of the faction members of the groups they lead, this trope is technically in play.

* This trope is a favorite among the writers of ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay''. In ''{{VisualNovel/Bloodbound}}'' and ''[[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]]'' for example, the DevelopersDesiredDate is the player character's boss. The same goes for ''VisualNovel/DistantShores'', as the main love interest is the captain of the pirate crew the player character is part of. ''[[VisualNovel/LawsofAttractionPixelberry Laws of Attraction]]'' also features the the player character's boss as one of the love interests.

---> '''Joseph''': How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

* This trope is a favorite among the writers of ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay''. In ''{{VisualNovel/Bloodbound}}'' and ''[[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]]'' for example, the DevelopersDesiredDate is the player character's boss. The same goes for ''VisualNovel/DistantShores'', as the main love interest is the captain of the pirate crew the player character is part of. [[VisualNovel/LawsofAttractionPixelberry Laws of Attraction]] also features the the player character's boss as one of the love interests.

* This trope is a favorite among the writers of ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay''. In ''{{VisualNovel/Bloodbound}}'' and ''[[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]]'' for example, the DevelopersDesiredDate is the player character's boss. The same goes for ''VisualNovel/DistantShores'', as the main love interest is the captain of the pirate crew the player character is part of.

* Technically the case for any of the {{Love Interest}}s in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins, VideoGame/DragonAgeII,'' and ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', since the {{player character}}s of those games are the leaders of their respective RagtagBunchOfMisfits, and the games (usually) require sex to take place before the romance is considered official.[[note]]Sebastian in ''Dragon Age II'' and Josephine and Solas in ''Inquisition'' do not have sex scenes; if Sebastian is romanced on a friendship path, his romance is stated to be explicitly chaste. It is possible to romance Dorian without sleeping with him in a cutscene (by asking to slow things down), but the party banter still suggests that you do.[[/note]]

* Technically the case for any of the {{Love Interest}}s in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins, VideoGame/DragonAgeII,'' and ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', since the {{player character}}s of those games are the leaders of their respective RagtagBunchOfMisfits, and the games (usually) require sex to take place before the romance is considered official.[[note]]Sebastian in ''Dragon Age II'' and Josephine and Solas in ''Inquisition'' do not have sex scenes; if Sebastian is romanced on a friendship path, his romance is stated to be explicitly chaste.[[/note]]

* The plot of the Turkish SoapOpera ''Binbir Gece'' is kicked off by a mix of this trope and HealthcareMotivation, as the DeterminedWidow protagonist Sherzat will get the money she needs for her son's treatment from her ''very'' handsome boss Onur... but only if she sleeps with him.

* This trope is a favorite among the writers of ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay''. In ''{{VisualNovel/Bloodbound}}'' and ''[[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]]'' for example, the DevelopersDesiredDate is the player character's boss. The same goes for VisualNovel/DistantShores, as the main love interest is the captain of the pirate crew the player character is part of.

* This trope is a favorite among the writers of ''VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay''. In ''{{VisualNovel/Bloodbound}}'' and ''[[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]]'' for example, the DevelopersDesiredDate is the player character's boss.

* Becomes a plot point in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Grade School Confidential", where Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel enter a relationship, but have to keep it secret because a principal dating a teacher would be considered a "conflict of interest".

* In the one shot [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]] ''Maldivian Flight,'' an heiress takes her butler with her on vaation so that he can provide his services to her, and when she convinces him to once again pleasure her, she laments that this may be their last time since her [[ArrangedMarriage parents agreed that she will marry the son of another wealthy family]] so that she can settle down and [[IWantGrandkids have kids like a proper lady should do]]. However, the heiress decides rather than this being their last time, she will instead convince her father to call off the marriage so that she can be with her butler, which her father refuses to allow as he's just a family servant, which is when the heiress' grandmother interjects and tells her son that she met her late husband when she was just a maid. After hearing this, the heiress' father decides to hear her out.

* This trope is a favorite among the writers of VisualNovel/ChoicesStoriesYouPlay. In {{VisualNovel/Bloodbound}} and [[VisualNovel/OpenHeartChoices Open Heart]] for example, the DevelopersDesiredDate is the player character's boss.

* ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' Any fic that pairs Reigen and Serizawa. It's usually lampshaded, too, such as in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18118466 Apparitions Gone Awry]]''

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', Denji's boss [[ManipulativeBitch Makima]] was a FetishizedAbuser who used the promise of sexual favors to manipulate him into doing her bidding, with him [[LoserProtagonist being so starved for affection]] that he initially either doesn't notice or doesn't care.

Whether the participants are single or are married to other people, this kind of scenario opens itself to some discrimination [[DoubleStandard depending on the gender of the employee in the equation]]. If the employee is female and the boss is male, the woman may be seen as loose and only advancing her career by [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop sleeping her way to the top]], and she'll be branded by those who are aware of the relationship. If, however, the boss is female and the employee is male, then the man will be seen as extremely lucky, or, at worst, the situation may be given an indifferent shrug.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': It's implied that Reimi Jahana sleeps with her [[RightHandHottie personal aide]], [[HollywoodNerd Washio.]] Such as when Chiho found Reimi straddling him while they were making out. A later scene has him deliver a brief report to Reimi, which concludes with this exchange: