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A spouse threatens to remove sex from their marriage (gasp!) to force something or as a punishment. Can also occur in really close non-marital relationships. A more adult version of Exiled to the Couch or I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!. It is Older Than Feudalism; the Trope Namer comes from Lysistrata, a Greek comedy by Aristophanes. It was considered comically absurd at the time, due to the prevailing idea that All Women Are Lustful. To understand the humor in modern western culture, imagine if it was all the men who refused to have sex. While its original implementation was more complex, it was Flanderized (specifically by Hollywood) as "the woman threatens to withhold sex from her man". Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Lesbians in fiction never withhold sex from each other, either because they understand each other well enough that this is unnecessary, or because women don't want sex and you can't withhold what you aren't having in the first place, or because doing so would trigger the collapse of the Internet. And men, of course, are incapable of withholding sex (which is why withholding sex from them is so effective), so they can't try this on their women. Plus, as noted earlier, women don't even want sex in the first place, so it wouldn't work on them anyway. Well, except on cable, where the standards of drama have (only just) caught up to those of ancient Greece, where All Women Are Lustful. Hollywood's idea of men, women, and heterosexual relationships are peculiar compared to other times and places. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })As it's a sex-related trope, No Real Life Examples, Please! Examples: |
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In the Gone series, Lana threatens to never have sex with Sanjit again unless he returns her cigarettes. | |
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The backstory to Separate Tables reveals that back when Tom and Ann were married, she withheld sex from him just to mess with his head. | |
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Just one example of many on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: The family hasn't had reliably running water for days, but Uncle Phil is stuck on a do-it-yourself frenzy and refuses to call a plumber. In desperation, Will begs his Aunt Vivian, "There's gotta be something you can do... or not do..." Later: | |
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One story in Franken Fran has the girls of a high school ask Fran for something that will make the boys less horny. Fran obliges, and soon there is no longer any sexual harassment at the school. However, this leads to the boyfriends becoming cold and distant, on the verge of breakup, so the girls ask Fran what she did in the first place: create a mass of living flesh emitting human hormones that the boys see as a giant pile of naked, inviting women, which they have sex with. If there's An Aesop in there, besides the manga's overarching message of "Be careful what you wish for, especially if you use mad science to make it come true" it's a really messed-up one. | |
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That '70s Show: An episode plays with this. Eric and Donna have an argument over something involving politics of the era, and both decide to withhold sex from the other until one of them conceded that he/she wanted it more, thereby losing their political debate. Near the end, they get really steamy but Donna backs out claiming that as a woman, she can get too really horny and then turn it off at will, causing Eric to admit defeat. Seconds later, she marches back into the room while really horny and says, "Oh thank God, I was bluffing." At one point Donna also asks her mother, Midge, if it's ethical to do this just to get them to do something. Midge is astonished that the option existed ("You can do that?") and offers no valuable advice at all. ("Who cares? I'm getting the bathroom repainted!") Jackie and Donna have a conversation where they agree it's really important men don't understand that women want sex just as much as guys do. Cut to Hyde and Eric getting high in Eric's basement, and Hyde suggesting, "You know, I think women like sex just as much as we do." Eric laughs and dismisses it as another one of Hyde's "crazy conspiracy theories." |
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Cheers: Diane would tease Sam with the threat of this during their first romance (Season 2), whenever he was being difficult. (He would always surrender right away.) Lilith would do this to Frasier as well —increasingly — one episode has him begging her to look at him — as their relationship grew more stormy over the course of the show. To the point where she cheated on him. | |
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In an episode of the show Cybill, Cybill's pregnant daughter wants her mother's advice since her husband hasn't shown any interest in sex since her pregnancy started showing. The advice? | |
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In The Simpsons episode Four Great Women and a Manicure, Marge forces Homer to kill all of the other Springfielders so that he can can be the best actor in a production of Macbeth. When the ghosts of Homer's victims confront Marge, insisting that it's her fault Homer killed them, Lenny invokes the trope when Marge tries to deflect blame. | |
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In an episode of Too Close for Comfort, Murial threatens to stop cooking dinner for Henry "among other things." Subverted when Henry tells her he can go out to eat... "among other things." | |
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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers move to a mountain cabin with a trio of Distaff Counterparts. When Franklin tries to delegate the women to cooking and cleaning duty, they in turn threaten to withhold sexual favors. When they put it to a vote, Fat Freddy sides with the women. The impasse is broken when the guys abduct Freddy in the night, tie him up, and just out of reach start eating all their food. His tortuous wails drive the women to surrender. (Lysistrata is referred to by name in the narration box.) | |
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In the spoof French spy movie OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, the title character OSS 117 does this to an Egyptian princess (who tried to kill him two minutes ago) in order to get information. | |
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On Alien Nation, Tenctonese are implied to be culturally more rational about sex; it happens, it's enjoyable, it shouldn't be taken lightly (they find oversexualized things such as pornography silly), and it doesn't matter what gender both partners are. One of Susan's coworkers boasts about the effectiveness of this technique just as a rather complicated issue pops up; the "binnaum" who helped conceive her children wants her husband to sire a child on his wife — and must therefore forego sex with her for several weeks. Susan is curious, but by the end of the episode the woman is divorced: her husband just became sick and tired of being screwed with, to the point where he said "Take as much money as you want, just never come near me again!" | |
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Melanie Martinez song "Cake" is about a sexual relationship without emotional meaning. The singer is tired of this and offers this solution to earn some respect from her partner. | |
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Grey's Anatomy: Christina does this to Owen for one episode but for a slightly different reason. Owen has been asked by the Chief to pick the next Chief Resident. Christina was upset because Owen would likely avoid picking her because of their marriage. So her goal in this case is to avoid letting sex cloud Owen's judgment (i.e. she wants for him to think of her as a doctor rather than his wife). He ends up picking someone else anyway. She's initially upset but cools down after he tells her that a Chief Resident is primarily a managerial position, and all Christina wants to do is be a great surgeon. Later on, both of them are shown to be extremely lustful, doing it at any time of day in almost any room in the hospital until Owen finally tells her they have to do stop doing that. Lexi also tells this to Alex at one point but only because he's been treating her like crap that episode. She even tells him that she wants sex but not at the expense of her self-esteem. Notably averted for most of the characters. All Women Are Lustful is in play here. |
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Subverted and played with in Martin. Both Gina and Martin make a bet with Pam that they both can go without sex for a week to prove that their relationship is more than just physical. Both end up on edge as a result and both try to sabotage the other into giving up. | |
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Loved and Lost features something of a G-rated example of this when Princess Cadance says that while she can forgive Shining Armor for his mistakes, he should reconcile with Twilight before they try to get married again. While Cadance doesn't mean this as an ultimatum, Shining interprets it as such. In his mind, it means that his relationship with the mare he loves now hinges on him reconciling with his sister. | |
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Doonesbury. Attempted gender-flip◊: the other end of this trope is played perfectly straight when done by a man: "That's an offer, not a threat. Do you even know how blackmail works?" | |
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In The Merchant of Venice, Portia and Nerissa, in male disguise, trick their new husbands out of the rings that they had made them promise never to take off. Later they mess with them further by acting furious and refusing to come into bed with them until they see the rings. (In the end, they hand them back the rings and admit to everything, and all is happy once more.) | |
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Scrubs: The episode "My Musical", after Carla and Turk's fight at hand gets derailed by his confusion of her ethnicity and the fight devolves into an increasingly antagonistic Tango. (Have at You) At one point, Turk threatens to do the same to Carla. The simple response is something along the lines of "Like THAT'll work!". Thankfully she's the only one like that, and in a later episode, she is told by an elderly couple that things like that ruin marriages. Carla is so bad that Elliot has the power to withhold sex from Turk just by being friends with her. Twisted elsewhere in the series by Jordan and Dr. Cox. In order to get him to do what she wants, Jordan threatens to stop having sex with him and start "making love" to him. Elliot and Keith go through a big fight (instigated by a bored Jordan) and she goes so far as to email him a video of her pole dancing to show him what he's missing. |
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In House of Leaves it's mentioned at some point that Karen once wouldn't let Will Navidson touch her. For thirteen months. | |
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On The Bernie Mac Show, Bernie becomes very possessive once his nieces and nephew move in, only allowing them to drink the dregs of the household's orange juice, and so on. His wife Wanda gives him a stern talking-to and forbids him from having sex with her until he treats the children more hospitably. | |
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The Luna rebels have trouble getting the ill-disciplined Loonies to man the defences during the long, boring wait for the Earth military to attack. Fortunately due to the chronic gender imbalance on the Moon, women have a great deal of power and a Lysistrata Corps is formed to help with the defence. It's not mentioned whether the women promise sex or threaten to withhold it, but the next time the protagonist does an inspection he finds three female soldiers and no shortage of men. | |
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Married... with Children: Inverted: on numerous occasions, Peggy uses having sex as a punishment when Al does something wrong. When Marcy was married to Steve, there is an episode where Steve comes back from a camping trip and plans to keep his beard. Marcy absolutely hates it and pulls this gambit to make Steve shave the beard. As the episode goes on, both are showing signs of sexual frustration, but in the end, Steve shaves his beard (Status Quo Is God after all). |
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"No Sugar Tonight" by The Guess Who is an example of this, apparently inspired by an actual conversation between a would-be mugger and his partner when she caught him trying to mug a member of the band. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Penny notes that while this is usually the first trick in a girls bag, Amy cannot use it against Sheldon. | |
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Done in song form in American Dad! during an argument between Francine and Stan about a hot tub he's just purchased. | |
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An Everybody Loves Raymond episode centered around Ray discovering the "power of no", i.e. that turning Debra down when she wants sex will make her act nicer and flirtier. Debra, who consequently began to worry about her age, was not amused when she found out. Ray and Debra then decided to have a bet over which of them could go without sex longer. After a month, Ray gave in and begged her for sex. After a beat, Debra responded, "Are we still doing that?" (She later admitted that she did remember that, however.) | |
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Kitai does this in the sixth Codex Alera book, First Lord's Fury, demanding that Tavi court her properly rather than the casual romance they've enjoyed thus far. Though part of the reason ends up being Kitai hiding her pregnancy from him. Though she also threatens to strangle him in the same sentence. | |
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An episode of The Secret Life of the American Teenager has nearly all the girls in school agreeing to take matters into their own hands and not sleep with the guys as an act of revenge against their philandering (or perceived to be cheating/thinking about cheating) boyfriends. It doesn't last, though. | |
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Gender-flipped in A Brother's Price. Kiefer threw violent tantrums and withheld sex from his wives in order to get what he wants, and it largely works. He also cheats on them on those nights. With his sister. | |
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In The Windsors, Camilla withholds sex from Charles to get him to agree to host a dinner for the Chinese president, which he originally refused to do because of a hypocritical stance on the environment. He gives in very quickly. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_6d6775af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_6d6775af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Windsors | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_6d6775af | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_704d43b3 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_704d43b3 | comment |
In Exodus chapter 19, Moses commanded the men of Israel to go on a sexual fast and not come near their wives in preparation for the "third day" when the Lord would meet with His people on Mount Sinai. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_704d43b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_704d43b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Book of Exodus | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_704d43b3 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_70c7b114 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_70c7b114 | comment |
In an episode of Gilligan's Island, when the women feel they're being unfairly treated, Mrs. Howell tells Ginger and Mary Anne about how Lysistrata "convinced all the women in her town to ignore the men completely until they got what they wanted," giving her husband a look to let everyone know exactly what the emphasis on "completely" means. What exactly that implies about the after-hours activities of the castaways is mind-blowing. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_70c7b114 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_70c7b114 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gilligan's Island | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_70c7b114 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72262aee | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72262aee | comment |
Another G-Rated example on Avatar: The Last Airbender: Mai repeatedly refuses to let Zuko touch her while the two of them are having a fight in the Beach Episode. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72262aee | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72a1ac51 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72a1ac51 | comment |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in one of the commercials. "I want a new fence! That's IT! We're never having sex AGAIN!" | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72a1ac51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72a1ac51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_72a1ac51 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_75f21786 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_75f21786 | comment |
A light-hearted version happens to the eponymous character in Good Will Hunting. The girl he has been seeing for the last few weeks is annoyed that he hasn't introduced her to his friends yet, and half-jokingly promises to withhold the sex until the situation changes. It's the middle of the night, but that doesn't stop him from making a call to one of them. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_75f21786 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_75f21786 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Good Will Hunting | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_75f21786 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7680545c | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7680545c | comment |
At the advice of her mother, Fran attempts this with Maxwell on The Nanny during one of their first arguments as husband and wife, but ends up being so turned on by him that she gives up before the first night ends. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7680545c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7680545c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Nanny | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7680545c | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7ab7da61 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7ab7da61 | comment |
Helen once tried this on Stanley on Three's Company. Of course, Stanley being who he is, it didn't work. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7ab7da61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7ab7da61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Three's Company | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7ab7da61 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7dbde88b | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7dbde88b | comment |
G-rated version on Drake & Josh: Mindy refuses to kiss Josh until he shaves off his mustache. The lip gloss scene on the couch, however, makes it pretty clear what it's supposed to parody. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7dbde88b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7dbde88b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Drake & Josh | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7dbde88b | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7fc4cb80 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7fc4cb80 | comment |
In Don Jon, Barbara is straightforward with Jon, explaining that he has to take a night school class (to further his career) before she will sleep with him. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7fc4cb80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7fc4cb80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Don Jon | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_7fc4cb80 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_82439e64 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_82439e64 | comment |
Male-to-female example: threatened by Michael to his boss/romantic partner Jan in the American version of The Office, much to general astonishment. Also notable that what he's demanding is completely unethical, and a perfect illustration of why employer/employee relationships like theirs are forbidden by the company. Their relationship is a complete inversion of the traditional TV relationship. She outranks him (at first), she's in it for the sex, even though she knows he's a boorish idiot because she can't help herself and he's in it because he wants a wife and kids. Given that he gets that pay raise, it seems like it worked. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_82439e64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_82439e64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Office (US) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_82439e64 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_850c9f7d | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_850c9f7d | comment |
Aversion: Ben and Lily of Goblin Hollow specifically agreed never to do this to each other, as they consider it immature and unlikely to earn sincere apologies. Besides, in Lily's words, when a friend asks her why she didn't withhold sex after Ben did something which upset her, "Hey, it ain't like I did anything wrong." | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_850c9f7d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_850c9f7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Goblin Hollow (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_850c9f7d | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_876c7452 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_876c7452 | comment |
On Sports Night, Natalie threatens Jeremy with this during a fight ("There will be no 'precious moments' tonight, if you know what I mean. No 'precious moments' of any kind.") When Dan suggests that Jeremy retaliate... | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_876c7452 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_876c7452 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sports Night | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_876c7452 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_887acd55 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_887acd55 | comment |
On New Girl, when Jess tries to bond with Coach by being a Pistons fan, Nick objects based on the rivalry with his team, the Bulls. When she refuses to give up her scheme, he declares he's "turning off the tap". Things escalate between them until she retaliates by declaring she's turning off her tap. In the end, they both cave simultaneously, him in a Pistons' jersey, her in a Bulls'. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_887acd55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_887acd55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
New Girl | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_887acd55 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8bf470e9 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8bf470e9 | comment |
Lysistrata Jones is another Broadway Musical based on Lysistrata (2011), based in a high school and featuring cheerleaders and a basketball team as the leads. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8bf470e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8bf470e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8bf470e9 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8c075344 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8c075344 | comment |
Times Like This: Agent Scott's wife isn't above using this tactic to get him on board with Cassie's current scheme. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8c075344 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8c075344 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Times Like This (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8c075344 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8d814070 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8d814070 | comment |
M*A*S*H: A season one episode of features all the females in the unit withholding intimacy of any sort from the men of the unit until one of the men agrees to be "close" with a clumsy virgin nurse due to be discharged in a few weeks. (It's never explicitly stated that Margaret was in on the plot, although Frank seems rather downcast and meets with the other men about the issue.) Several other episodes have Margaret cutting Frank off in this manner when she's pissed at him about something. |
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Lysistrata Gambit / int_8d814070 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8d814070 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
M*A*S*H | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8d814070 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8f1f4b97 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8f1f4b97 | comment |
Summertime Saga: MC can pull one on Melonia Rump, the vapid Trophy Wife of the town's mayor. If he gets her pregnant, the only way to convince her to keep it is by threatening to stop having sex with her. She immediately agrees but ignores the child when it is born and hands it off to her Robot Maid. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8f1f4b97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8f1f4b97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Summertime Saga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8f1f4b97 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8fc868f5 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8fc868f5 | comment |
Subverted on The Brittas Empire. Mr Brittas's wife Helen tries withholding sex as a sign of displeasure at a proposed move to Belgium. A few weeks later she admits to a friend "it's been Hell!" for her while he hasn't even noticed. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8fc868f5 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8fc868f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Brittas Empire | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_8fc868f5 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_976efc02 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_976efc02 | comment |
Inverted as a joke in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffing of Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, wherein Mike asks if Merlin's wife just threatened him with sex if he didn't go out and look for a stolen item. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_976efc02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_976efc02 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_985979f0 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_985979f0 | comment |
Subverted in the sitcom The War at Home, in which Dave (the father of the household) and Vicky (his wife) are in the middle of an argument. Dave antagonistically assumes that she's going to withhold sex from him, but she instantly shoots the idea down, remarking that she wouldn't want to deny herself and claiming that she had something else in mind. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_985979f0 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_985979f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The War at Home | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_985979f0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9888f901 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9888f901 | comment |
A few times on Daria, Brittany threatens to "get a headache" if Kevin doesn't do something she wants. He never gets what she means, though. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9888f901 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9888f901 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Daria | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9888f901 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_99055407 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_99055407 | comment |
Family Matters: Carl was getting rather high and mighty with regards to his being the breadwinner. Harriet decided, since he was so hung up on money, that she would start charging him — for laundry, cooking, cleaning, and (yes) sex. Harriet addressed the problem more effectively down the road by getting a job making more than him. |
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Lysistrata Gambit / int_99055407 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_99055407 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Family Matters | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_99055407 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b3518ef | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b3518ef | comment |
A less obnoxious version comes from Johann Sebastian Bach's "Coffee Cantata" (formally titled Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht): the main character is a young woman who loves coffee so much that it worries her father, and he tries to bribe her into quitting by finding suitors for her. She then secretly tells each suitor that she will only marry him if he lets her keep drinking coffee (in essence, "You will never touch this unless you promise never to touch my joe"). | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b3518ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b3518ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Johann Sebastian Bach (Music) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b3518ef | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b530c26 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b530c26 | comment |
In an old Archie one-panel gag, this backfires on Ethel. It does help that Jughead has little more than animosity toward her. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b530c26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b530c26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Archie Comics (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9b530c26 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9c628c0a | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9c628c0a | comment |
Meghan Trainor's "Dear Future Husband" implies this is happening, with sex being used as a reward for apologizing to the girlfriend who's in the wrong. This song isn't ironic. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9c628c0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9c628c0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Meghan Trainor (Music) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_9c628c0a | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a5f636f8 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a5f636f8 | comment |
In Up the Chastity Belt, Lurkalot and Sir Coward disguise themselves as women and persuade Saladin's Bedlah Babes to withhold sex from the crusaders so that King Richard will become despondent, call off the Crusade, and return to England. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a5f636f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a5f636f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Up the Chastity Belt | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a5f636f8 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a62dae97 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a62dae97 | comment |
A similar passage in The Qur'an damns wives who do this. On the other hand, a husband who fails to satisfy his wife in bed prior to satisfying himself is equally guilty. That's right: Muslim men are required to go down on their wives. Still, passage "4:34" advises men to punish disobedient wives by withdrawing sex (for up to 4 months, according to "2:226") and with beatings. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a62dae97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a62dae97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Qur'an | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a62dae97 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a6706695 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a6706695 | comment |
In The Nowhere Girls, the protagonists declare a strike on all sexual activity, from intercourse to kissing, until the boys of Prescott High start behaving better. The strike is meant to get the attention not of the rapists, but of the other boys who allow the rapes to continue through their silence. Enough of the female students go along with the strike to make the popular boys want revenge. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a6706695 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a6706695 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Nowhere Girls | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a6706695 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a8e4ca16 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a8e4ca16 | comment |
Step by Step used this trope a lot, though often inverted in that Carol was far more fond of promising lots of sex if she got her way than she was of threatening to withhold it if she didn't. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a8e4ca16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a8e4ca16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Step by Step | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_a8e4ca16 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ac4b6a62 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ac4b6a62 | comment |
In one strip of Questionable Content, a female member of a newly formed rock band uses this to force her boyfriend (also a member of the band) to support her choice of band name. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ac4b6a62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ac4b6a62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Questionable Content (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ac4b6a62 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ad82ae3f | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ad82ae3f | comment |
Parodied in a Life in Hell strip that said women have two choices: withhold all sex and be rewarded with dog-like devotion, or screw his brains out, which will also be rewarded with dog-like devotion. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ad82ae3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ad82ae3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Life in Hell (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_ad82ae3f | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
A legendary Saturday Night Live Weekend Update sketch from 1978 involved Jane Curtin proposing that all women withhold oral sex from all men until the Equal Rights Amendment passed. She backed down when Bill Murray pointed out that "oral sex is a sword that cuts both ways". | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b0fc9724 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2314993 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2314993 | comment |
Blacksad: Jezebel Karup denies sex to her husband Hans because she privately despises him while playing the "good wife" in public. She also carries on an affair with his associate Huk just to humiliate him further. There's a salient reason for this: she's actually his daughter. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2314993 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2314993 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Blacksad (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2314993 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2e4a147 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2e4a147 | comment |
After catching her husband with Lady Lowborough in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Helen tells Arthur point-blank that "we are husband and wife only in name." It fails to get him to change anything, but at least she doesn't have to have sex with him anymore. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2e4a147 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2e4a147 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b2e4a147 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b30ae4db | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b30ae4db | comment |
Game of Thrones: A rather atypical example is provided by a same-sex couple. Feeling slighted by Brienne of Tarth's appointment to Renly Baratheon's Kingsguard, Ser Loras Tyrell not only withholds sex from his boyfriend, but he punishes his beloved even further by bringing Margaery (Loras' sister) to Renly's bed, knowing full well that Renly utterly dreads the prospect of having to consummate the marriage. Invoked during Tyrion's trial for regicide. Shae gives false testimony that Sansa Stark had refused to sleep with him unless he murdered King Joffrey. Instead it was Tyrion who refused to sleep with Sansa because she was being forced to marry him and it was akin to rape in his eyes. Queen Margaery does a low-key version with King Tommen. She gives sex, just not as much as he wants, so he's always eager for her and thus more easy to manipulate. |
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Lysistrata Gambit / int_b30ae4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b30ae4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b30ae4db | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b3f687d1 | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b3f687d1 | comment |
FoxTrot: Andy hinted once that she did not give birth to any of their kids in November as a direct result of withholding sex from Roger as punishment for his stupid Valentine's Day gifts. The comment is prompted by receiving an exceptionally stupid gift in the form of a spatula. One arc has Roger trying to grow a beard. It looks awful, but Andy finally relents... and says that by the same token, these are her leg hairs. |
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Lysistrata Gambit / int_b3f687d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b3f687d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_b3f687d1 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_bf7b26ea | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_bf7b26ea | comment |
In Clan of the Cats, Jubal threatens to withhold sex from a shape-shifted Chelsea in heat when she breaks off the amulet that helps control her shape-changing. It ends with him observing, "Never argue with a PMSing panther." | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_bf7b26ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_bf7b26ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clan of the Cats (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_bf7b26ea | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_c4076b9e | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_c4076b9e | comment |
In a Gunslinger Girl Biff & Little Britney fanfic, Triela tries this with her handler Hilshire, only to have an Oh, Crap! moment when he calls her bluff. She quickly withdraws her threat and instead offers 'something special' that night in exchange for his cooperation. | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_c4076b9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_c4076b9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gunslinger Girl (Manga) | hasFeature |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_c4076b9e | |
Lysistrata Gambit / int_c4f9442f | type |
Lysistrata Gambit | |
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In the Here Come the Brides episode "The Stand Off," the women of Seattle are sick of seeing their men get beaten up by Stempel's goons, so they all agree to withhold all forms of affection, from sex to hand-holding, until the loggers can come to some kind of agreement with Stempel. | |
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Karin-dou 4koma: When Aiina visits, she decides to withhold sex while walking around in a Naked Apron and such until Elza properly answers Mifi's feelings. By the time Aiina departs, Elza is wandering around aimlessly with bloodshot eyes. | |
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Deer Avenger did this with Furries — Bambo is a deer whose wife told him she will not let him touch her until he gets rid of all hunters in the forest. Bambo takes a gun and does this. | |
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Male-to-male example: Harley in Boy Meets Boy threatens not to have sex with his boyfriend Mikhael unless the latter buys him a PS2. | |
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In 1st Corinthians 7:5 of The Bible, Paul the apostle both defies and deconstructs the trope, telling the Christian couples in regards to sex, "Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control." | |
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South Park has another G-rated example: in season 20, an Internet Troll named Skankhunt42 begins harassing all the girls at school, leading them to believe all of the boys at the school shared the troll's opinions on women. When the boys' attempt to find and stop the troll fail, the girls all break up with their boyfriends en masse, leaving nearly every boy in school crying on the floornote The only exceptions being Cartman, who is actually one of the victims of the boys' misguided attempts at stopping the troll, and whose girlfriend is so alienated from the other girls she isn't in on their plan; Tweek and Craig, who are a gay couple; and Kyle, seemingly the only single boy in the school, though he still ends up crying, but out of guilt for having blamed and attacked Cartman. By the end of the season, this situation does not change. | |
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Done gender-flipped on Gossip Girl. Chuck refuses to have sex with Blair until she can say those three words, eight letters. | |
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Carmen in The Color of Money uses this to force Vincent to return to their plan and intentionally lose a game of pool. | |
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One story in Wally Wood's Sally Forth features a group of naked Women's Lib protesters marching on the Pentagon, trying to force an end to the Vietnam War with this trope. | |
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Private Practice: Addison does this to Sam after they disagree about a comatose patient whose husband has been having sex with her. Addison thinks it's a crime equivalent to rape, while Sam is of a different opinion. When Sam tries to point out that their personal and professional lives and relationships have to be separate, she disagrees and kicks him out. Several characters try to point out to Addison that Sam has a right to his own medical opinion. Addison's usual answer is "I'm right, and he's wrong". In the end, they reconcile, but not because Sam admits to being wrong. In fact, he thinks Addison is the wrong one and wants to yell at her for calling the cops of the husband... but he'll do that the next day at work to avoid being a hypocrite. Additionally, Sam is more concerned with what Addison's behavior is doing to their relationship, although he still wants sex. Charlotte also occasionally does this to Cooper. It only works because Cooper is a sex addict, although Charlotte is also constantly horny. |
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Empowered: Emp blows her stack over a one-night-stand her lover ThugBoy had with Sistah Spooky a month before they met. Then he manages to tap further into her insecurities by comparing her favorably in the skill department. He then spends several weeks on the couch in a "sexual Siberia", till there is no further doubt who is the alpha-wench in their relationship. Of course it is implied, and eventually outright stated, that Emp needs a good snuggling almost as much as her lover. In fact, in later volumes, it is shown that future attempts at this trope are made to even less success. She consistently cracks from the isolation ending the gambit prematurely (not that those days aren't Hell on Earth for ThugBoy regardless). |
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Firefly: Zoe is willing to use this on Wash from time to time. | |
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In Drive Angry, Piper withholds sex from her boyfriend till he proposes. It takes him two days to break down and pop the question. | |
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This trope is invoked with alarming frequency in the later episodes of My Wife and Kids.It should be noted that this was about the time Damon Wayans got divorced. | |
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In the The Bartimaeus Trilogy fanfic The Forbidden Heir, Kitty refuses to sleep with Nathaniel after he captures her almost all of her ex-comrades from the Resistance and throws them in the Tower. | |
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Susan on My Family actually went through with this once, when she found out that Ben had ripped off the poem he claimed to have written for her. It then subverted how it's supposed to go, with Susan getting tetchier by the day, and giving us this: | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Gender-flipped in an episode where Marshall withholds sex from Lily until she starts treating Ted a little better. This is played as a ridiculous, futile gesture in the same way that most other stories do when a man tries to withhold. Bizarrely, elsewhere in the show's run Lily has been portrayed as every bit as sexual as Marshall (if not more so), to the extent that she developed the shakes upon going a few weeks without. | |
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Happens in an episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie with specific reference to the Greek story, though Sarah finds the lack of sex at least as difficult as her husband does. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In the fifth episode, Louis de Pointe du Lac withholds sex from his boyfriend Lestat as payback for the latter's cruel Tough Love stance during the Charlie incident which drove their vampire daughter Claudia away. | |
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Frasier: Maris used sex on Niles to get what she wanted, and according to Niles, Maris had incredible willpower to withhold sex for months on end. | |
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Friends: The Chandler/Monica relationship kind of used it, with the Double Standard front-and-centre. When Monica forgets to make Chandler a valentines day present, she says "I will make anything you want in there [pointing to the kitchen] and do anything you want in there [pointing to bedroom]." When it turns out Chandler's gift was actually one Janice had made for him, he makes the same offer and gets this response: There was also an episode where Chandler was withholding sex because Monica was mad at him (they were trying to have a baby, and her ovulation diary said they needed to have sex whether they wanted to or not). Monica pretended the fight was over until they'd done it, and then said it wasn't. Chandler was outraged by this until Joey asked him if he was really complaining that he had sex. And another episode where Monica and Chandler get into a fight, and Chandler is so annoyed he tells her that he's 'not putting out tonight' much to Monica's annoyance. So, as examples go, they're actually one of the least sexist examples. |
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In the Wanted: Dead or Alive episode "To The Victor," Josh Randall's problem is a town where the women (led by Liz, the daughter of Sheriff Strata - get it?) withhold themselves from the men in a protest against guns. After an attack on the town which they can't protect themselves against, the women give in unaware that Josh had arranged for the attack. | |
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