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Basic Trope: A (usually male) character who thinks Sex Is Evil and who believes that anyone he sexually desires should be blamed for having seduced him.

  • Straight: Bob is a religious fundamentalist who swore off sex, due to sexuality being thought as base and dirty in any and all capacities. Whenever his arousal is tickled by a woman he finds attractive, he either commands her to satisfy his urges since it's her responsibility to have excited him, or scolds her for being a whore and for trying to seduce all the men she can.
  • Exaggerated: Bob can't even stand the sight of a woman. If a woman dares to talk to him, he immediately looks daggers at her and tells her to get back to the brothel where her nauseatingly whorish self belongs.
  • Downplayed: Bob sees a Victoria's Secret ad and starts complaining about the advertisers putting boobies where people don't want to see them.
    • Bob hates being distracted by his sexual urges, but only blames himself for it.
  • Justified:
  • Inverted: Bob believes Sex Is Good and may even comment negatively on a modestly dressed person.
  • Gender-Inverted: Alice is a nun who nonetheless still has pangs of sexual urges from time to time, especially when it comes to Bob. Rather than attributing this to natural human instincts she has a tendency to scorn him for "inappropriate flirting" even if he really was just trying to act like a good friend.
  • Subverted: We see Bob freaking out over Alice's skimpy clothing, but then we learn that Bob and Alice are in a dangerous profession where Alice really shouldn't be wearing that, for her own safety...
  • Double Subverted: ...but off the job he still complains about Alice's clothing.
  • Parodied:
    • Bob sees a cake that he thinks looks like a boob. He blames it for seducing him. Bonus points if the baker didn't even want it to look like a boob.
    • Bob forces himself to think like this, as he can't enjoy sex unless he feels dirty while doing it.
    • Bob is a Large Ham Card-Carrying Villain (or tries to be one) who wants to cement his villainy by being a massive horndog. If he's good, then he completely fails at being a villain as the others point out how good he is in bed.
    Bob: Muahahaha! Sex, IS EVIL! And I... Am horny!~
  • Zig Zagged: Bob flips out at Alice for wearing skimpy clothing and tempting him, but we see later he also has major self loathing for ''being'' tempted. Eventually he succumbs to temptation and hires services from a hooker that looks like Alice, and while he's quiet and demure during the sex, he's massively abusive afterward for 'letting' this whore get the better of him. Later the next day however, he has a massive guilt overload and hires the whore again in order to apologise, sobbing about how he's defiled himself forever and begging for her forgiveness. Eventually, after begging forgiveness from Alice as well, he sends himself to therapy, as he feels the issue is with himself, not with women or with god.
  • Averted:
    • Bob doesn't think Sex Is Evil, or he doesn't attack others regardless of his own beliefs about sex.
    • Bob is a Chivalrous Pervert who has an upstanding moral nature and no qualms about his sexual appetite.
  • Enforced: The author believes Sex Is Good and wants to show the downside of the opposing position.
  • Lampshaded: "Bob, please don't tell me you actually hate Alice because you desire her..."
  • Invoked: Alice acts like this toward Bob, in order to demonstrate the flaws in his thinking.
  • Exploited: Dave uses this along with Bob's Internalized Categorism to drive him to depression and suicide.
  • Defied: Bob decides to masturbate and just moves along to the next activity when his arousal is out of his system.
  • Discussed: "Bob will just end up lonely and bitter if he keeps on interacting with women this way."
  • Conversed: "I just don't get why people still keep on blaming others for their arousal. Is it so hard to admit that everyone has sex organs for a reason?"
  • Played For Laughs: "I'm sad because I masturbate. I masturbate because I'm sad. It's a vicious cycle.
  • Played For Drama: It is Bob's Fatal Flaw, and no matter what else he is given, he cannot be happy as long as he has these urges.
    • Bob is a member of the Puritans. After a hard day of brutally attacking anyone he catchings having sex outside of marriage, he comes home and expects his wife to put out for him. When she refuses, Bob decides to rape her as punishment for not fulfilling her sexual duty to him.
  • Deconstructed: Bob is always sexually frustrated because of his views and no women want to be with him either. He lives a lonely and sad life.
  • Reconstructed: Bob understands that his beliefs around sexuality are damaging to others but also to himself. He works out his issues with time and dedication and eventually makes peace with most of his hangups. However, he remains firmly on the prude side and leads a vanilla sexuality out of principle.
    • Bob embraces antisexualism and realizes that all this time, his desires for sex and the constant chase for sexual desire had made him miserable. By finally discarding his former desires, Bob realizes that there is so much more to life than sex and decides to make the most of it.
  • Implied: Bob is a religious fundamentalist, but at one point he can be seen covertly leering at a woman.

Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny, you whore. So just open your legs, it's your fault for having provoked me in the first place.

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