History Main / VirginShaming

* In ''Film/{{Porkys}}'', the main character's mission is to have sex -- even by hiring a prostitute. The film derives its humor by frustrating every attempt until the end.
* All the guys are desperate to lose their virginity in ''Film/AmericanPie'', but Jim is the only one who explicitly meets the "pathetic and maladjusted" definition of the trope. Eventually they decide to forget about the pledge to lose their virginity, deciding to avert this trope and be comfortable with themselves, and have sex when they're ready. Then they all get laid anyway, making it something of a BrokenAesop.

* Discussed in ''Film/{{Chronicle}}''. Steve hears that Matt has gone a long time without sex and Andrew is a virgin. His response? "Then how are you guys so cool?"

->''"I brought you here to bed my son, not throw him a tea party. ... My son is 26 years old and he ain't yet a man. Twenty-six. And since he can't find a willin' woman himself..."''
-->-- '''Magistrate Higgins''' to [[HighClassCallGirl Inara Serra]], "[[Recap/FireflyE07Jaynestown Jaynestown]]", ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

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'''Sid''': ...Shit.

* {{Downplayed}} in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Literature/WhiteNight''. The young and talented Carlos Ramirez, who behaves like a self-styled {{Casanova}}, is identified as a virgin by sex vampire Lara Raith. Harry spends the entire climactic fight scene teasing him about it.

* In the second season of ''Series/Galavant'', a potion to save Galavant's life requires a gray hair from the beard of a middle-aged virgin. King Richard initially insists that such a thing would be impossible to find, before relenting and admitting that he's a virgin (despite being fifty, married, and a king).

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': For the first several seasons Clark was the epitome of the innocent male virgin, to the point that it'd become somewhat of an in-joke amongst fans, who coined the term "Supervirgin." In one episode, a witch who needs the hair of two virgins for a spell successfully uses Clark's, just in case there was any doubt. Subverted in that it was later revealed Clark was worried that in the throws of passion he would lose control of his powers and harm his partner. When he lost his powers in the beginning of season 5, he had sex with Lana the very next episode.

* {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed in ''Literature/YouthInSexualEcstasy'': The protagonist, at first, justifies this trope and his lifestyle by saying that men should acquire experience and dexterity in order to satisfy their future partners and that only a fool would want to arrive as a virgin to marriage, then he gets rebutted by the sex therapist of the story who says that most of his male patients who suffer from sex problems during their marriage had very active sex lives in their youth, and as consequence the experiences accumulated and they de-sensitiviced and mechanized the act, when, according to him, [[DontThinkFeel sex is not about technique and experience it's about feeling]].

* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'': In both the Manga and Anime OVA, May Hopkins always teases and shames [[GirlsWithGuns Rally Vincent]] about being a virgin, because of how obsessed she is with guns instead of traditional female interest and how she [[ObliviousToLove doesn't seem to notice]] when man are attracted to her. Hopkins, on the other hand, has [[SexGod lots of sex and is proud of it.]]

* ''Fanfic/ADifferentLesson'': Tai Lung. He is indeed initially mocked (by Mantis and Monkey) for being a virgin, but this does not lessen his badass nature one bit. Eventually he does lose his virginity...but this has no bearing on his fighting ability, since he in fact loses a major battle right after doing so. And when he does finally defeat the BigBad later, it's as part of a team, and again his virginity or lack thereof isn't brought up nor does it have anything to do with his victory. So even when he ultimately does have sex, the attitude behind this trope still gets subverted.

* A meme brewing the *chans inverts this: if a man reaches age thirty without having known the touch of a woman, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence he becomes a wizard.]]

Contrast SlutShaming, where characters (usually female) are derided for promiscuity rather than virginity. See also UnexpectedVirgin if a character's virginity is a source of surprise. For the "logical" extreme of this trope, see EunuchsAreEvil.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': For the first several seasons Clark was the epitome of the innocent male virgin, to the point that it'd become somewhat of an in-joke amongst fans, who coined the term "Supervirgin." In one episode, a witch who needs the hair of two virgins for a spell successfully uses Clark's, just in case there was any doubt.

* After Rhett Titus had shown the ability to get ''almost'' any woman he wanted and spent many a day in Wrestling/RingOfHonor claiming to have slept with a denying Wrestling/DaizeeHaze. She and [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] eventually made him admit he was a virgin, though the truth of that is also suspect.[[/folder]]

* Inverted in ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', Nick, despite never having been on a date until his mid to late 20s, chooses to [[LetsWaitAWhile abstain from sex with Ki]] until marriage. Then again, when they are married, they seem to [[InsatiableNewlyweds have sex almost constantly on their honeymoon]]. Hey, they had to wait long enough, what would you do in their place?

* ''Fanfic/ADifferentLesson'': Tai Lung. He is indeed initially mocked (by Mantis and Monkey) for being a virgin, but this does not lesson his badass nature one bit. Eventually he does lose his virginity...but this has no bearing on his fighting ability, since he in fact loses a major battle right after doing so. And when he does finally defeat the BigBad later, it's as part of a team, and again his virginity or lack thereof isn't brought up nor does it have anything to do with his victory. So even when he ultimately does have sex, the attitude behind this trope still gets subverted.

Contrast SlutShaming, where characters (usually female) are derided for promiscuity rather than virginity. See also UnexpectedVirgin if a character's virginity is a source of surprise.

Contrast SlutShaming, where characters (usually female) are derided for promiscuity rather than virginity. See also UnexpectedVirgin if a character's virginity a source of surprise.

Contrast SlutShaming, where characters (usually female) are derided for promiscuity rather than virginity.