History Main / SourPrudes

* ''BitchyBitch'' invoke this quite often. Her accusations is never portrayed as justified. Unlike her [[BitchyButch lesbian counterpart]], she is not portrayed as [[{{Hypocrite}} being a prude herself]].
* ''BitchyButch'' never seem to quit whining about supposedly prudish women, mostly because she's frustrated that they won't leave their boyfriends and start having sex with ''her'' instead. Ironically, it's hinted that Butchy herself has been quite the Sour Prude to her previous girlfriends (only hinted, since the stories are all told from [[UnreliableNarrator her biased perspective]] where [[NeverMyFault everything was always their fault and never hers]]) .

Often a tragic character portrayed as being overly prudish as a kind of SourGrapes: "I deny myself my sexuality, so why don't these people do the same thing?". Thus "Sour Prudes". For extra irony, Alice might be pulling the EntitledToHaveYou card, based on being such a good girl. This can be especially tragic if she lives in a society where women are economically dependent on men, making her come across as justified -- or at least as a TroubledSympatheticBigot who is only trying to survive in NoWomansLand. In some cases, this might go hand in hand with MaritalRapeLicense. For example, let's say that Alice is outraged at Charlene for saying that oral sex is okay -- and that the real reason for this outrage is that Alice fears that Charlene's opinion may encourage Alice's husband Bob to try to pressure Alice into having oral sex.

* Alot of Lifetime Movies of the week tends to unintentionally veer into this territory. With characters who are straight laced best friends to their promiscuous female friend. Almost the flip side to ToxicFriendInfluence.

* Inverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where Lois moralizes over teenage abstinence. Her argument is not that teenagers should be empowered to make their own choices. Instead, she preaches that abstaining from sex is "just wrong". In other words, the show inverts the "SexIsEvil" stance for laughs. The message of the episode was a whole was criticizing abstinence-only education that uses scare tactics. At the end of the show, Lois did give a nice speech where she told the students that they shouldn't have sex until they're ready. And if/when they do, to please 'use a condom'.

Compare MyGirlIsNotASlut, InternalizedSexism, LieBackAndThinkOfEngland, HeteronormativeCrusader and SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny. Contrast EthicalSlut, ForHappiness and SafeSaneAndConsensual.

* ''BitchyButch'' never seem to quit whining about supposedly prudish women, mostly because she's frustrated that they won't leave their boyfriends and start having sex with ''her'' instead. Ironically, it's hinted that Butchy herself has been quite the {{Sour Prude|s}} to her previous girlfriends (only hinted, since the stories are all told from [[UnreliableNarrator her biased perspective]] where [[NeverMyFault everything was always their fault and never hers]]) .

* Both Ziva and Kate could be prudish toward Tony in ''{{NCIS}}'' (not that it's all that hard to be prudish toward Tony).

* Angela in ''{{The Office}}''. [[spoiler: She also had an affair with [[{{FanDisservice}} Dwight]] while engaged to [[{{DoggedNiceGuy}} Andy]], making her a full-fledged StrawHypocrite]]

* ''The Piranha Club'' has a male example with [[ThisLoserIsYou the protagonist]] Ernie Floyd trying a bit too hard to convince his girlfriend's father that he doesn't pose a threat to the old man's daughter.

* In ''{{Stagecoach}}'', the women who hate [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Dallas]] are given no characterization or social context beyond being hateful out of pure prudishness. No hint of them feeling fear or humiliation that their husbands may be unfaithful to them and that they are at too much of a social disadvantage to dare blaming it on ''them''.

* Inverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where Lois moralizes over teenage abstinence. Her argument is not that teenagers should be empowered to make their own choices. Instead, she preaches that abstaining from sex is "just wrong". In other words, the show inverts the "SexIsEvil" stance for laughs. The inversion is not of the "SexIsGood" kind, but rather "Not-having-sex Is Evil." The message of the episode was a whole was criticizing abstinence-only education that uses scare tactics. At the end of the show, Lois did give a nice speech where she told the students that they shouldn't have sex until they're ready. And if/when they do, to please 'use a condom'.

* Inverted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where Lois moralizes over teenage abstinence. Her argument is not that teenagers should be empowered to make their own choices. Instead, she preaches that abstaining from sex is "just wrong". In other words, the show inverts the "SexIsEvil" stance for laughs. The inversion is not of the "SexIsGood" kind, but rather "Not-having-sex Is Evil".
** The show as such wasn't criticizing abstinence, it was criticizing abstinence-only education that uses scare tactics. At the end of the show, Lois did give a nice speech where she told the students that they shouldn't have sex until they're ready. And if/when they do, to please 'use a condom'.

* Yozora from ''BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her immoral behaviour (shamelessly shaking down her admirers and playing {{Eroge}} and {{Dating Sim}}s, mostly). Resident LovableSexManiac Rika actually uses this against Yozora whenever [[InsultBackfire she tries]] to pull the same attitude on her.

* In ''EasyA'', the main antagonists have this mindset and bring it down hard on our poor protagonist.

* ''BitchyButch'' never seem to quit whining about supposedly prudish women, mostly because she's frustrated that they won't leave their boyfriends and start having sex with ''her'' instead. Ironically, it's hinted that Butchy herself has been quite the {{Sour Prude|s}} to her previous girlfriends (only hinted, since the stories are all told from [[UnreliableNarrator her biased perspective]] where everything was always their fault and never hers) .

* ''BitchyBitch'' invoke this quite often. Her accusations is never portrayed as justified. Unlike her [[BitchyButch lesbian counterpart]], she is not portrayed as [[{{Hypocrite}} being prude herself]].
* ''BitchyButch'' never seem to quit whining about supposedly prudish women, mostly because she's frustrated that they won't leave their boyfriends and start having sex with ''her'' instead. Ironically, it's hinted that Butchy herself has been quite the SourPrudes to her previous girlfriends (only hinted, since the stories are all told from [[UnreliableNarrator her biased perspective]] where everything was always their fault and never hers) .

* Chance from "NoahsArc'' has moments of this, much to Eddie's dismay.

* Angela in ''{{The Office}}''.

* ''BitchyButch'' never seem to quit whining about [[StrawPrude supposedly prudish women]], mostly because she's frustrated that they won't leave their boyfriends and start having sex with ''her'' instead. Ironically, it's hinted that Butchy herself has been quite the SourPrudes to her previous girlfriends (only hinted, since the stories are all told from [[UnreliableNarrator her biased perspective]] where everything was always their fault and never hers) .

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''If'' this Alice has taken a vow of chastity (and she usually hasn't), she might ''also'' be a StrawmanPolitical of the conservative kind. Note that a character who chose to be chaste -- without being a {{Jerkass}} about it -- is ''not'' this trope. If a character is accused of being this trope by another character, without being portrayed as such by the narrative, it counts as "invoked" and does not go on character sheet pages.

Often a tragic character portrayed as being overly prudish as a kind of SourGrapes: "I deny myself my sexuality, so why don't these people do the same thing?". Thus "Sour Prudes". For extra irony, Alice might be pulling the EntitledToHaveYou card, based on being such a good girl. This can be especially tragic if she lives in a society where women are economically dependent on men, making her come across as justified -- or at least as a TroubledSympatheticBigot who is only trying to survive in NoWomansLand.

''If'' this Alice has taken a vow of chastity (and she usually hasn't), she might ''also'' be a StrawmanPolitical of the conservative kind. Note that a character who chose to be chaste -- without being a {{Jerkass}} about it -- is ''not'' this trope... but might be the victim of a StrawPrude accusation. In some cases, this might go hand in hand with MaritalRapeLicense. For example, let's say that Alice is outraged at Charlene for saying that oral sex is okay -- and that the real reason for this outrage is that Alice fears that Charlene's opinion may encourage Alice's husband Bob to try to pressure Alice into having oral sex.

* Yozora from ''BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her immoral behaviour (shamelessly shaking down her admirers and playing Eroge and {{Dating Sim}}s, mostly). Resident LovableSexManiac Rika actually uses this against Yozora whenever [[InsultBackfire she tries]] to pull the same attitude on her.

* Yozora from ''BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her "immoral behaviour" (shamelessly shaking up her admirers and playing Eroge and {{Dating Sim}}s, mostly). Resident LovableSexManiac Rika actually uses this against Yozora whenever [[InsultBackfire she tries]] to pull the same attitude on her.

* Yozora from ''BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her "immoral behaviour" (shamelessly shaking up her admirers and playing Eroge and {{Dating Sim}}s, mostly). Resident LovableSexManiac Rika actually uses this against Yozora whenever [[Insult Backfire she tries]] to pull the same attitude on her.

* Yozora from ''BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her "immoral behaviour" (shamelessly using her admirers and playing Eroge and DatingGames, mostly). Resident LovableSexManiac Rika actually uses this against Yozora whenever she tries to pull the same attitude on her.

* Yozora from ''BokuWaTomodachiGaSukunai'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her "immoral behaviour", only to be reduced to a mumbling, blushing state by [[LovableSexManiac Rika]]'s absolutely shameless fetishism.

* Yozora from ''{{Haganai}}'' will assert her superiority over [[SitcomArchnemesis Sena]] by railing at any chance against her "immoral behaviour", only to be reduced to a mumbling, blushing state by [[LovableSexManiac Rika]]'s absolutely shameless fetishism.