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Consummation Counterfeit
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Few brides relish the thought of consummating an Arranged Marriage. The servants are sure to gossip if they don't see the "blood on the sheets" the next morning, too. There's just one problem — you've already done the nasty with someone else, but they need to see that blood. If they don't, you could be facing execution (either at the hands of your family or the state), banishment, or good old Slut-Shaming from everyone who hears about it. The solution? Fake it, in order to prove that you were a virgin on the wedding night and/or the wedding was consummated. The most common way is faking the "blood on the sheets" by using the bride's own blood or that of an animal's — the husband will think the marriage was sufficiently consummated. This is common among noble women who don't go to their marriage bed virgins, especially in societies that value ladies' maidenheads. A variation is to not actually consummate the marriage at all — render your husband incapable of consummating, then fake the blood and let everyone believe you did it. Yet another is to have your husband in on it, which is often the case for more sympathetic grooms. Of course, false "evidence" may be required even if the wife was a virgin, as the majority of women do not actually bleed after their first time having intercourse. Try telling the writers that, though. This is something of an Undead Horse Trope — while the myths of the hymen as an indicator of virginity and that a woman bleeds during her first time having sex have been discredited, there are still cultures that place a high value on a woman's virginity and require physical proof of it. And of course, it gets mileage in period works. Subtrope of Virginity Flag. See also Common Hollywood Sex Traits. Examples |
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Accidentally done in Grave Mercy. The protagonist, Ismae, is pretending to be the mistress of Viscount Duval in order to explain her presence at court. He visits her bedchambers every night for a few hours to keep up the ruse, but they do not have sex and Ismae is a virgin. However, when Duval tries to wake her from a nightmare, she immediately lashes out at him with a knife and ends up cutting him. The next morning, the housekeeper sees the blood on the sheets and kindly assures Ismae that "it will not always hurt so", much to Ismae's embarrassment. | |
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In A Thousand Splendid Suns, after her husband falls asleep, Laila cuts her finger the night she consummates her marriage and lets the blood stain the sheets. | |
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Camelot: Guinevere puts some pig's blood on her bedsheets after her wedding night with Leontes, worried he would know she lost her virginity to Arthur otherwise. | |
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The White Princess: Having already raped Elizabeth prior to their wedding, Henry takes a knife to their wedding bed and cuts her foot to get blood on the sheets. He knows she's pregnant and won't have talk of their son being conceived extramaritally. | |
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The Pornographers: Ogata, the titular pornographer, has a side business as a pimp. An extremely creepy businessman demands that Ogata find him a virgin to deflower. Ogata winds up finding a hooker who specializes in pretending to be a virgin for gullible johns to deflower. She even gets a fake doctor's certificate to "prove" her virginity. | |
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In The Handmaiden, there's a scene from Sook-hee's perspective where she hears Hideko and Fujiwara having sex next door and Hideko's sheets are shown to have a bloodstain on it the morning after. In the replay of this scene from Hideko's perspective, however, it's shown that Hideko pulled out a knife to prevent Fujiwara from getting into bed with her, masturbated on her own to make it sound like they were having sex, and then cut her hand with the knife to leave the bloodstain on her sheets. | |
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Mentioned in Aztec as one of the services provided by a local witch-woman. She provides a type of pigeon egg that "bleeds" when broken, which a woman may insert before her wedding night. | |
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The Wild Tales short story The Seed of the Dervishovs by Bulgarian writer Nikolay Haytov has the trope inverted and deconstructed. In a mountainous village, an Arranged Marriage happens between a boy and a girl. They fall for each other, but both are shy and he doesn't want to force himself on her. They fake the consummation in order for the village to leave them alone and let them stay together. It works, however when a brutish neighbor notices that the girl isn't getting pregnant for a long time, he deduces she's still a virgin. He bribes her brothers into kidnapping her and forcefully marries her, making everyone's life miserable. | |
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The trope gets used again in The Cousins' War Series. In The White Princess Henry Tudor cuts Elizabeth of York's foot in order to fake it. In this instance, it's because not only had Henry and Elizabeth had slept together prior to their marriage, but Elizabeth had previously slept with Richard III too. | |
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A variant in Warbreaker. Princess Siri of Idris needs the priesthood of Hallendren to think that she's sleeping with their God-Emperor (since she was sent down from Idris as an Arranged Marriage to produce an heir), but the God-Emperor in question is something of a Manchild and has no clue how sex works (at least at first). Eventually, she just starts bouncing up and down on the bed and moaning, satisfying the listening observers. The God-Emperor, of course, has no clue what to make of this until much later. | |
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In The Serpent & Dove Trilogy Lou and Reid need to consummate their marriage, or it won't be official. However Lou does not want to sleep with him and Reid doesn't want to force her, so she cuts open her arm and lets her blood drip on the bed to fake a consummation. | |
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Invoked in The Fire's Stone when Aaron offers to kill a chicken to stain the sheets on Chandra and Darvish's wedding night. | |
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Happens in the second duology of Arcia Chronicles: Dariolo Kerna is supposed to be a virgin when she marries Arthur Barrot, when, in fact, she already has two (illegitimate) children from Alexander. Arthur, automatically assuming that his wife was a victim of sexual abuse (and that that's why she ran away from home), cuts himself to produce a stained bedsheet as proof that his wife was a virgin before marriage, as the nobility custom dictates. | |
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Easy A but with noises rather than physical proof Brandon when asks Olive to pretend to have sex with him at a party so the other students will believe he is straight, to which she agrees. | |
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Suggested on Chronicle of a Death Foretold to keep rich suitor Bayardo San Román from finding out that �ngela Vicario (who he had just married) is not a virgin. Unfortunately, the plan needed him to fall asleep drunk for �ngela to perform the simulated motions... and his high tolerance to alcohol became a Spanner in the Works, and the ensuing panic over the loss of honor became the trigger for the titular murder. | |
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In Yentl, the title character is a woman pretending to be male so she can go to school. She gets trapped into an arranged marriage with a woman who doesn't particularly want to marry "him" either. On their wedding night they play around non-sexually in their bedroom and Yentl "accidentally" spills some red wine on the bed, which is taken by the others at the wedding night party as proof of consummation. | |
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In Malediction Trilogy human girl Cecile is married to troll prince Tristan in order to fulfill a prophecy. He is a decent guy and does not want to force her, he even goes to sleep on the sofa — but his father demands that marriage be consumed and offspring produced. Since trolls themselves Cannot Tell a Lie, Tristan tells his wife to lie about what happened during the night. He also pretends to be totally disgusted by his wife so that she does not have to lie too often. | |
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In the Young Royals book Patience, Princess Catherine (a historical fiction about the early life of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII) Catherine of Aragon and Arthur Tudor use goats' blood as proof of consummation so they don't have the pressure of having to consummate the night of the wedding for the bedding ceremony. They never actually have sex together, but the "proof" (along with some cuddle sessions in the same chambers) causes problems when Arthur dies and she wants to marry his brother Henry, as a church doctrine prohibits the marriage of a widow to the brother of her deceased husband if the marriage was legal and had been consummated. | |
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