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Contraception Deception
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Ideally, partners in a sexual relationship are in agreement over whether or not they're willing to have a child together. This doesn't always happen. Contraception Deception is when one partner lies about their reproductive status in order to have sex with the other partner. It comes in three varieties: |
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Big Love: Nikki Grant (raised as a fundamentalist Mormon) tells her family she wants to get pregnant. When she doesn't, the family takes her to a doctor who informs her that she won't get pregnant as long as she's taking birth control. She quietly accepts the doctor's offer to refill the prescription. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Bang" involves a high-powered businessman (John Stamos) who is a "reproductive abuser", meaning he purposefully lies about using birth control and pokes holes in condoms in order to impregnate as many women as possible. He convinces his partners to get pregnant while cheating with multiple women and getting them pregnant. He gets killed because a domestic violence activist believes that There Should Be a Law. | |
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A common plot thread in Desperate Housewives. In Season 1, Crazy Jealous Guy Carlos replaces Gaby's birth control pills with sugar pills, and she gets pregnant. She has a Convenient Miscarriage, just as she's starting to warm up to the idea of having children. In Season 3, Edie and Carlos agree that they'll try for a baby, but Edie continues taking birth control pills. When Carlos finds out, he breaks up with Edie. In Season 6, Carlos reveals he lied to Gaby about having a vasectomy, because he hoped they'd have a son. (They already have two daughters. However, they ultimately don't have another child, but Gaby forgives him easily.) |
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In 365 Days, Massimo pulls off both variations. First, he implants birth control into Laura's arm without her permission or knowledge. Then it turns out he lied about this and it was a tracker he had implanted; he actually wants to get Laura pregnant so she will be more inclined to stay with him. He's the love interest, by the way. | |
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In Gilmore Girls, when Sookie is in the hospital giving birth to her second child with Jackson, she demands he have a vasectomy on the spot. Later in the series, it turns out he lied about getting it. This was a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, as Melissa McCarthy was expecting and the producers didn't want to engage in any Hide Your Pregnancy antics; as a result, Sookie and Jackson add a third child to their brood. | |
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There was a House episode where the illness turned out to be caused by taking fertility treatments and birth control pills at the same time. Turns out that the woman was married to a man who really wanted kids, but she didn't and was unwilling to admit it to him. She went through the whole process of actively trying to get pregnant, while secretly sabotaging it, reasoning that he'd be more likely to accept infertility than a wife who just didn't want more children. | |
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Weeds: Silas and Megan's relationship threatens to finish once she leaves for college (she, a very serious student, is going to Princeton, while mediocre student Silas is going to a local school). While having a sexual marathon, Silas punctures a hole in one of their condoms in an attempt to get her pregnant so she won't leave for college. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: While trying to figure out who got Dee pregnant, Mac and Charlie interview all the men she slept with in that time frame, including Bill Ponderosa. Bill admits that it could be him as he lies to every woman he sleeps with that he had a vasectomy simply because he doesn't like wearing condoms. While Bill finds it hilarious, it causes Mac and Charlie to stare at him in utter disgust. | |
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A variation in The Simpsons; after Santa's Little Helper had puppies with Dr. Hibbert's dog, Homer reveals that he didn't have the heart to get him neutered after the last time Santa's Little Helper fathered puppies. Another variation: Mrs. Krabbapel mentions that Bart had swapped out her birth control pills with Tic-Tacs in a Noodle Incident. |
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A rich girl was knocked up on Santa Barbara. Kirk Cranston knocked up his rich wife Eden after replacing her birth control pills with placebos. | |
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The Good Wife: Sleazy rich guy Colin Sweeney is sued for child support by an ex-mistress claiming he got her pregnant. He insists to his attorneys at Lockhart and Gardner that he always used condoms with her, but after a paternity test comes back positive, family law specialist David Lee theorizes that she impregnated herself with a used condom. Ultimately, she admits to it, and Sweeney is so impressed with her audacity that he settles the suit and even resumes dating her (for a couple of seasons at least). | |
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In About a Boy: Andy thinks Laurie is pregnant since she's showing all the usual signs. It turns out Andy never got the vasectomy Will badgered him not to get - then "faked" a vasectomy for Laurie's benefit. | |
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Scrubs: Zig-zagged over a multi-episode plotline. After being incredibly relieved his ex-wife Jordan is not pregnant again, Dr. Cox gets a vasectomy without telling her. After a heartwarming speech about how she might want more kids someday, he has it reversed, again without mentioning it to her. After some Spotting the Thread on his attempts to explain away two surgeries, she and Cox have a heart-to-heart and decide they don't want more kids and Dr. Cox should get the vasectomy. Again. This one is botched, and Jordan gets pregnant again next season. In one episode, Turk was slipping Carla birth control pills because she wanted to have kids before he was ready. It's somewhat played for humor when J.D. accidentally eats a brownie Turk baked the pill into and it comes up on his urine test. |
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In Headhunters, Clas Greve enlists Diana Brown's help in killing her husband Roger by promising to give her a child, the one thing Roger has consistently denied her. Clas neglects to mention that he happens to be sterile, the result of a grievous testicular injury he received years earlier, and thus would never be able to impregnate her. | |
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In Your Sister's Sister, Jack and Hannah (who is a lesbian) get drunk and sleep together. Later, Hannah's sister Iris brings up in conversation that Hannah wants a child. After hearing this, Jack inspects the used condom, and to his horror finds multiple small holes in it. The film ends with all three waiting for the results of a pregnancy test. | |
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The New Adventures of Old Christine: Tired of the side effects of her birth control pills, New Christine convinces Richard to get a vasectomy, only for Richard to chicken out and not have it done, but telling Christine he did. And just as Matthew tried to warn Richard, Christine ends up pregnant. | |
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In one episode of King of the Hill, cousins Bobby and Luanne become engaged in an Escalating War with pranks, and Bobby ends up replacing some of Luanne's birth control pills with Sweet Tarts. Fortunately, she notices immediately but then escalates it with the help of Hank and Peggy, who convince Bobby that his sabotage led to her getting pregnant, and therefore he must marry her. | |
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In one episode of Married... with Children, Al and Peg are trying for another child, because the first child born in the family would inherit a lot of money from a relative. Only Peg does not want to get pregnant again, so she is taking birth control in secret (telling Al that these pills are to improve her fertility) and enjoying much more sex than usual. Eventually, her deception comes to light and at the same time, another family member appears with a newborn baby that would get the money, so they can stop trying. | |
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Attempted by Gaz in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. When Donna insists he start wearing condoms when they make love, Gaz (who wants offspring) pokes a hole in the condom, intending for Donna to get pregnant. This plan fails when Gaz finds himself unable to perform while wearing the condom. | |
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In Kara no Shoujo, Touko Kuchiki's mother was involved with Rokushiki at the time Touko was conceived, but he never told her that he was completely sterile. The implication therefore becomes that Touko has no father. The exact nature of her conception is ultimately left as a Riddle for the Ages. | |
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My Name Is Earl had an example where the deceiver is not one of the two who have sex. (Good thing since he's underage at the time.) It turns out that when Earl was a kid, he had a crush on his babysitter. When he finds out she has a boyfriend, he pokes holes in the boyfriend's condoms and she gets pregnant as a result. | |
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American Dad! Stan is alarmed to find out that Francine wants another baby. He books himself in for a vasectomy, without mentioning this to Francine, and she is utterly betrayed and angry when she finds out. Stan and Francine go looking for some other adult friends so they have people to share their experiences with. Things start off good, but the younger couple turns out to be too energetic for them to keep up with. After finding out how they never have sex without multiple forms of contraceptives, Stan and Francine sneak into their house and intentionally sabotage the condoms and spermicide in order to force her to get pregnant and finally start to slow down in their lives. The truth is eventually revealed and Stan and Francine are called out for such monstrous behavior. |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: In "Ill-Bred", a wife spikes her husband's chewing tobacco with fertility drugs while simultaneously sabotaging his condoms to ensure that he knocks up his employer, with whom he is having an affair, in an elaborate variation of the Baby Trap. | |
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The Duke and I, first novel of The Bridgerton Series, plays both Type 1 and Type 3 with a side of Miss Conception. The series is set in Regency England, and it's a plot point that romantic lead Daphne Bridgerton does not know how babies are made — especially as her mother Violet botches The Talk quite badly. Thus, when Daphne's new husband, Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings — who refuses to have children to spite his late father — uses what The Other Wiki calls coitus interruptus, she doesn't understand the significance. Once she does, she engages in a Type 3 Baby Trap by seducing him while he's too drunk to protest — or control himself. This is, by any legal definition, sexual assault, and the novel attracted some controversy for not addressing the Double Standard Rape: Female on Male. (Imagine how we'd treat the situation if it were Gender Flipped.) | |
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City of No End: Layna Kendar is secretly taking contraception to hide her affair. Ywain Kendar and Maud Atlee investigate her in order of making her stop so that she can produce an alternate heir for House Kendar. | |
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Vow of Nudity: Fiora's mother offers to smuggle her some silphium to sabotage the Mating Ceremony she's about to unhappily participate in for their clan. | |
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2point4 Children: In "Whoopee We're All Going to Die", Rhona wants a child and gets her boyfriend Tony to agree he will impregnate her promising him that won't have to have a role in the child life if he didn't want. However, when it comes down to doing the deed, Rhona struggles to get an unresponsive Tony in the mood who finally confesses at the end of the episode that he's just not ready to be a father even if he wasn't involved. Seemingly accepting it, Rhona suggests as they're already here to just have sex for the fun of it, which Tony can agree with. However, the last shot shows her poking a hole in his condom with a needle. | |
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In The Skeleton Twins, Maggie is secretly taking birth control pills to prevent having a child with her husband Lance to the point where he thinks he's infertile. He finds out about the pills — and her infidelity — later on. | |
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In Kris Longknife: Unrelenting, Kris and about 70 other women under her command have Surprise Pregnancies because a disgruntled supply noncom sabotaged their contraceptive implants. This was meant as a protest against Kris relaxing fraternization regulations for practical reasons and ends with the petty officer being summarily discharged and sentenced to hard labor in the manure works. Kris and her husband decide to keep the baby. | |
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In The Invisible Man (2020), Cecelia confesses that she had been secretly taking birth control pills without telling her husband Adrian because she knew if they had a child, then she would never be able to leave him. However, Adrian's brother Tom tells her that Adrian found out about her deception and swapped her birth control pills for "something else". Late in the film, Cecelia learns that she is pregnant. | |
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In Incorporated, Ben secretly installs a contraceptive implant in himself after promising his wife that they'd have a child. | |
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In an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Lois and Hal are fighting because he lied about getting a vasectomy years earlier, which led to Lois being currently pregnant with their fifth son, Jamie. When Hal tries to counter her argument on him needing a vasectomy, Lois fires back that they have a "rhythm child," a "diaphragm child," a "condom child," and "two abstinence children." | |
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There's a CSI: Miami episode where the victim turned out to have about a hundred children via sperm donation. He'd had a secret vasectomy and told his wife he was infertile; she found out the truth after she was too old to have children, so she killed him. | |
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Shameless (US): By the end of Season 5/start of Season 6, Debbie deliberately gets pregnant by lying to her boyfriend that she's on birth control in order to keep him with her. When he finds out, he says Screw This, I'm Outta Here and leaves her. Debbie still refuses to abort the pregnancy though. | |
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In Pretty Girls, Claire lies to Paul that she wants children (which he does), but she continues taking birth control, because of her Freudian Excuse of losing her older sister Julia when she was a kid and Julia was a teenager. This turns out to be Laser-Guided Karma, though, for Paul, who created videos of himself raping, torturing, and killing kidnapped girls, and there's a pretty strong implication that he wanted kids to abuse. | |
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In The Bible, the tale of Onan involves a variation on "claiming fertility", as Onan was (for inheritance reasons) unwilling to father a child to his late brother's widow. Yet he pretended to go along, with fatal results. | |
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The first season of Bridgerton, the Netflix series produced by Shonda Rhimes, preserves the sexual assault from the original novel, though it is downplayed by having Daphne instead get on top of a sober Simon and stay there. This trades rape for the lesser charge of "Nonconsensual insemination," which is still a form of criminal battery (even if it's the woman who consents to the batter). | |
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Discussed on Saturday Night Live back when Pete Davidson was dating Ariana Grande, he joked about replacing her birth control with sugar pills because he was so afraid she would leave him. | |
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In Harley Quinn (2019), Harley talks about her girlhood crush on Frankie Muniz and admitted to Ivy that she had planned to lie about being on the pill so that she would have his kid. Ivy is understandably disturbed by that. | |
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In Eden: It's an Endless World!, Sophia the cyborg hacker did that in her youth, having unprotected sex claiming she was on the pill, undergoing pregnancies, and giving the resulting kids to adoptive homes. | |
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Earth's Children In The Clan of the Cave Bear, Iza, a medicine woman, would secretly prepare and drink a contraceptive herbal tea to stick it to her abusive mate, as he felt humiliated by the fact he hadn't fathered any sons. She did eventually get pregnant as the tea isn't 100% reliable, but her mate died before the baby was born and she gave birth to a girl. Ayla secretly provides Ovra with the contraceptive tea Iza told her about, as Ovra will probably never have a living child, and the physical and emotional toll of the multiple pregnancies, miscarriages, and stillbirths she goes through could end up killing her one day. Ayla herself starts taking the contraceptive tea without telling her lover Jondalar in The Plains of Passage; they both want children but as they're in the middle of a long and dangerous journey to Jondalar's homeland a pregnancy would be far from ideal. She does consider telling him but doesn't get around to it, as Iza had ingrained in her not to tell men about the tea as some may react badly to finding out women can control their fertility. It doesn't help that most people in the setting don't understand how pregnancy occurs, namely not realizing that sexual intercourse is a big component; Ayla figures it out and tells Jondalar of her theories, but he's a bit skeptical. Jondalar privately worries over the fact Ayla hasn't gotten pregnant yet, believing there may be something wrong with him (as he knows Ayla has previously given birth) although a shaman he confides in suggests that the Great Mother knows they're not yet ready for a baby. After the most difficult part of their journey is over, Ayla impulsively decides not to drink the tea and quickly gets pregnant. |
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In Parenthood, Susan pokes holes in her diaphragms to get pregnant. | |
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In the last episode of Mad About You, Jamie convinces Paul to have a vasectomy, then to have the vasectomy reversed, then to have the vasectomy again. He doesn't go through with it the last time, and Jamie ends up pregnant (though she loses the baby in a miscarriage). | |
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Unsounded: Vienne and Mathis had discussed children and both declared they didn't want any and that to have them was to fall for the party line, so when Vienne got pregnant Mathis comforted her assuming it was unwanted and she'd be needing an abortion. She decided to keep it without contradicting him resulting in a son. | |
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In The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Steven never told his wife that he had gotten a vasectomy before they met, despite knowing she wanted kids. In the epilogue, she's shown to be pregnant, indicating that Steven had the vasectomy reversed. | |
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A flashback in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a younger Jacqueline bragging that she's sleeping with a very rich man and lying about being on birth control. We don't hear anything more about it, but at the start of the series she's married to a very rich man and has a child with him, so... In one episode, Kimmie is dating a rich guy and asks Jacqueline for advice on the relationship. Jacqueline's immediate response is "you'll need a condom and a needle". |
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The Casual Vacancy (as well as its TV series adaptation): Krystal Weedon is trying to get pregnant as a teen mother to qualify for government housing (because she intends to take her baby brother along). Thus she dissuades Fats Walls, her boyfriend, from using condoms by lying that she is already on contraceptive pills. | |
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Discussed in Conspiracy (2001); when one Nazi official mentions that Jews and other undesirables could be sterilized instead of killed outright, another official mentions that they themselves could get a (false) certificate that they too have been sterilized, in the event of future sexual encounters. | |
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In at least one episode of Family Guy, Quagmire has sex with a woman, then reveals he didn't put on the condom he said he was going to put on. | |
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Charmed (1998): Cole becomes possessed by the Source of Evil midway through the fourth season. After he and Phoebe get married, The Seer provides him with chocolates to give Phoebe that have been laced with a tonic that will override any birth control measures she's on. Two episodes later, Phoebe's doctor confirms that she's pregnant (after first getting a false negative on a home test). | |
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black•ish episode "Sex, Lies, and Vasectomies": Bow learns that her husband Dre never had the vasectomy he had supposedly scheduled a few years ago and waits to see if he'll tell her the truth. | |
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In Lakeview Terrace, the wife Lisa gets pregnant even though she and her husband Chris had agreed to wait, especially when they're dealing with a psycho cop neighbor. Chris is not happy about this, and it turns out she had stopped taking her birth control pills. She claims she forgot, but it's pretty clear she was getting fed up with waiting and probably did it on purpose. They ultimately decide to have the child. | |
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Subverted in Downton Abbey, Bates and his wife Anna agree to try to have children but after some time passes Anna is still not pregnant. Then Bates finds a diaphragm in Anna's stuff, leading him to believe that she is sabotaging their attempts to have children. It turns out that she is not; the diaphragm is for her employer Lady Mary, who is sleeping with Anthony Gillingham but doesn't want any extra-marital children. | |
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