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+ ''Fanfic/HandsOmori'' has a very dark example. Multiple times Mari is about to prey on someone younger or has amorous intentions (Basil, Aubrey, and Hero) only for either her brother Sunny to jump in and stop it or for the person to refuse. When this happens, Mari gets frustrated and it is heavily indicated that she [[VillainousIncest takes it out on Sunny]].

* ''Film/WildAtHeart'': Just hearing about one of her lover's past encounters makes a young woman, in her words, "hotter than Georgia asphalt."
* ''Film/EyesWideShut'': It seems like the wife was partly trying to get this reaction from her husband when she tells him her fantasies about running off with a sailor, but instead it plunges him into turmoil and doubt. So she eventually [[spoiler:takes the direct approach]].

* ''Film/AMostWantedMan'' (2014). Irna teases fellow intelligence agent Gunther that he fancies the pretty blonde lawyer they're tailing. He replies that [[YoureNotMyType she's not his type]], Irna is. Then they FakeOutMakeOut as the lawyer passes their position, with Gunther eyeing the lawyer while he's kissing Irna.

* ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'': Strickland lusts after the mute Elisa and covers his wife's mouth while they're having sex so that he can imagine he's having sex with Elisa instead.

* ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'': Scarlett is downright terrified when Rhett calls her out on this:
-->'''Rhett:''' Don't you suppose I know that you've lain in my arms and pretended I was Ashley Wilkes?

* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Coupling}}'', a woman doles out (possibly fictitious) stories of her past encounters with women in order to keep her boyfriend interested.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Howard expresses arousal at some girl in a gym they're visiting; Penny is disgusted, so Howard explains that Bernadette 'doesn't care who gets my engine running, as long as I park it in the right garage'. Penny can't believe he's with Bernadette.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Spike has sex with Harmony while [[VillainousCrush thinking of fighting Buffy]] (in a later episode he gets her to dress up as Buffy before sex). Then he has a Buffy SexBot built for him.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Lilah [[GlassesAreSexy puts on glasses]] to jointly seduce Wesley and mock him for being in love with the bookish geek girl, Fred. As they're ripping off each other's clothes to have sex, Wesley interrupts their passion to insist she keep the glasses on. The expression on Lilah's face suggests he may as well have said Fred's name during the height of passion, it stung that much.

* ''Series/{{Sisters}}'': Teddy hooks up with the man who received her late husband's heart. He gets increasingly uncomfortable with her efforts to turn him into a ReplacementGoldfish, finally asking her, "Who were you really in bed with last night? Him or me?"

* In ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', Bert the cop, after watching the slinky Violet walk down the street, says: "Think I'll go home and see what the wife's doing."
* In ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring'', after the married artist and his model have an unplanned steamy moment, they separate. She goes off to have her way with the butcher's boy who always liked her, while he has sex with his wife.
* In ''Film/TheTailorOfPanama'', a married woman has tense and increasingly sexy banter with the spy who may be endangering her husband. After he leaves, she has sex with her husband and he with his new girlfriend.
* In ''Film/WildAtHeart'', just hearing about one of her lover's past encounters makes a young woman, in her words, "hotter than Georgia asphalt."
* It seems like the wife in ''Film/EyesWideShut'' was partly trying to get this reaction from her husband when she tells him her fantasies about running off with a sailor, but instead it plunges him into turmoil and doubt. So she eventually [[spoiler:takes the direct approach]].
* In ''Film/BasicInstinct'', having been thoroughly taunted and titillated by murder suspect Catherine Trammell, Detective Nick Curran more or less forces himself on his on-again/off-again girlfriend, police psychologist Beth Garner. There's a similar scene in the sequel with Dr. Michael Glass, Catherine's own psychologist and his girlfriend.
* Implied in ''Film/BodyOfEvidence''. A scene of sexually charged dialogue between Frank and [[TheVamp Rebecca]] is followed by a love scene between Frank and his wife, Sharon. Sharon remarks that Frank seems different somehow.

* In ''Film/TheShapeOfWater'', Strickland lusts after the mute Elisa and covers his wife's mouth while they're having sex so that he can imagine he's having sex with Elisa instead.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': After being aroused by Daario, Dany takes her pleasure with Irri instead.
** Magister Illyrio also relates to Tyrion he was sexually attracted to Daenerys when he first saw her, but since she was too politically valuable to him, he went and fucked a prostitute to get it out of his system.

* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', it happens several times that Al, turned on by other women, has sex with Peggy (something he normally detests). In the episode, "Live Nude Peg", the "other woman" is actually Peggy, who performs a striptease in Al's favorite strip club wearing a veil.
* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Howard expresses arousal at some girl in a gym they're visiting; Penny is disgusted, so Howard explains that Bernadette 'doesn't care who gets my engine running, as long as I park it in the right garage'. Penny can't believe he's with Bernadette.

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' had this happen when the Scavos got a (young, pretty) nanny and Tom accidentally saw her naked. Lynette figured it out fairly quickly.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Spike has sex with Harmony while [[VillainousCrush thinking of fighting Buffy]] (in a later episode he gets her to dress up as Buffy before sex). Then he has a Buffy SexBot built for him.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Lilah [[GlassesAreSexy puts on glasses]] to jointly seduce Wesley and mock him for being in love with the bookish geek girl, Fred. As they're ripping off each other's clothes to have sex, Wesley interrupts their passion to insist she keep the glasses on. The expression on Lilah's face suggests he may as well have said Fred's name during the height of passion, it stung that much.
* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'':

* ''Series/{{ER}}''. Doug dares Carol to deny that she does this when she's with her boyfriend, ''in front of'' said boyfriend. It gets him punched for his trouble. However, a fanfic has them later admit that they've both done this about each other while with others.

* An episode of ''Series/YesDear'' has Jimmy and Greg visit a strip club and come home to have sex with their wives. An uncaring Christine mentions this is why their husbands were so enthusiastic in bed to Kim - who is furious.

* ''Series/{{Sisters}}'' Teddy hooks up with the man who received her late husband's heart. He gets increasingly uncomfortable with her efforts to turn him into a ReplacementGoldfish, finally asking her, "Who were you really in bed with last night? Him or me?"

* In ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', at the end of the song "I Still Believe", Chris grabs his wife Ellen and kisses her passionately. . .having just awakened from a nightmare about his lost love ''Kim''. It's not hard to imagine that he's transferring his feelings for one woman onto the other (especially the handful of times Ellen has been played by an Asian woman rather than a white one).

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has Stan taking a stripper named Tanqueray into the house so he can help her set up a business. When he goes to wake her up one morning, she accidentally flashes him getting out of bed, and Stan tells her to be more careful. He then casually tells her to meet him in the car in fifteen minutes. He then walks out and, in the same tone of voice, tells Francine to meet him in the shower immediately.

* Actress Mariette Hartley has said that during production of "No Place To Hide" (1981), she would get stirred up filming love scenes with co-star Keir Dullea, then go home and jump her husband. At the end of filming her husband told her, "You know, I'm going to miss Keir..."

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* ''Literature/{{Middlesex}}'': Lefty goes to a church and prays, castigating himself for his attraction to his sister Desdemona. Then he goes to a brothel and has sex with a girl who resembles her, and [[WrongNameOutburst calls her by that name]].

--->'''Desdemona:''' I don't remember what I was thinking that night.
--->'''Lina:''' I do. Third one from the right. With the red hair.

* Many couples, more than is often reported, watch pornography together or separately to get their libido going.

* Joyous Release from ''[[Recap/TriptychContinuumAMarkOfAppeal A Mark Of Appeal]]'' has the power to induce overpowering desire in everyone she interacts with for more than a few seconds. The Diarchs deal with this via icing off, cold showers, and [[ADateWithRosiePalms private time]]. Cadence, under another hoof, goes looking for Shining Armor.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Feelin' Frisky", Homer hints at a heightened desire for Marge after watching women's volleyball on ESPN.