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Sexless Marriage

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Sexless Marriage	comment	Usually appears in fiction (and real life) in the form of furiously whispered rumors. "I hear Alice and Bob don't even sleep in the same bed anymore." Mostly used to indicate a marriage that has hit the rocks for whatever reason—sometimes a particularly bad betrayal of a spouse, sometimes serial small betrayals, sometimes simply a marriage where the love has died over the years. There are a few times where this trope can be in play for other reasons. Sometimes there are uncomfortable sleep issues involved (snoring, etc.) and one side will be banished from the bed. The trope will also occur with either a Citizenship Marriage or someone who has Settled for Gay, although in those cases this may be the default state of the marriage. In neither case does this trope suggest the romantic problems that it will under the more stereotypical circumstances. In one case because the romance is fine — it's just the sleeping patterns that are bad, and in the other because there wasn't supposed to be any romance to begin with. Another possibility is that one or both of the couple are having medical or other problems that interfere with having a sex life. For that matter, people with an Asexual orientation can still experience romantic attraction and have perfectly healthy relationships where sex simply isnâ€™t an interest. Note that characters who are implied to have sex and simply aren't shown sleeping in the same bed for propriety reasons are covered under Sleeping Single, although nowadays, the default assumption tends to be that a couple that doesn't sleep in the same bed falls under this trope, unless sex between the two is explicitly mentioned on camera. However, for this wiki's purposes, the reverse holds—unless it's explicitly mentioned that it's a Sexless Marriage, it goes under Sleeping Single. If it's subverted, then there still needs to be an explicit mention somewhere in the work itself that the couple is thought to be in a Sexless Marriage. If sex is not included in a marital relationship in order to demonstrate the purity of the love the couple has, or due to some other restriction such as a Self-Imposed Challenge, it should go under Chastity Couple. Compare Lysistrata Gambit where one (usually female) partner withholds sex until the other (usually male) does what she told him to do.
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Sexless Marriage / int_11360412	comment	Elena Undone: Elena tells Peyton she and her husband no longer have sex, after they failed to conceive another child.
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Sexless Marriage / int_12b2b8a6	comment	David and Audrey in Unbreakable, even sleeping in separate beds. Wonder if M. Night Shyamalan is trying to tell us something?
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Sexless Marriage / int_135f4195	comment	Dune: Emperor Paul Muad'Dib and Princess Irulan, while Paul's "real" wife, Chani, is a Hot Consort who is his wife in everything but name. Of course, Paul and Irulan were never in love in the first place (at least on Paul's side) and they both knew that the marriage was purely political, not to mention that Paul knew that sleeping with her would just play into the Bene Gesserit's plans. Despite mostly ignoring her he does seem to at least somewhat care for her, and in Dune Messiah spares her when the details of the conspiracy she was involved in, in particular Chani's infertility due to Irulan feeding her contraceptives and later Death by Childbirth, come out into the open, and he has to talk Chani out of having Irulan killed with the rest of the conspirators. It seems that at the very least he values her as an adviser, and after he exiles himself Irulan refers to him with some affection and helps raise his children. There is also marriage between Leto II and his twin sister Ghanima. Said union is purely symbolic and since Leto II becomes sterile after his transformation, Ghanima has to take another man as her real mate to ensure the continuation of the Atreides line. Later in God-Emperor of Dune, Leto prepares to marry Hwi Noree out of mutual love, but it's obviously going to be sexless because, in addition to being sterile, Leto is now also a giant sandworm with a human face. They end up dying together on their planned wedding day anyway. Count Fenring and his Bene Gesserit wife Margot are Happily Married, but because the Count is a failed Kwisatz Haderach, he's a gene-eunuch who is physically incapable of sex. It's why he's okay with Margot seducing Feyd-Rautha to preserve his genes before the final duel with Paul.
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Sexless Marriage / int_15022c3d	comment	This is a possibility in the marriage between Sasha and Joe in The Tenets of Futilism. They do sleep separately at the beginning of their marriage, but that's understandable given they were more or less forced to get married. It's not explicitly said whether or not their relationship becomes physical after they fall in 'love', but its hinted that it might not have. They're not prudes in the traditional sense. However, said hints combined with their romantic awkwardness and Sasha's resentment for men wanting her only for sex makes this trope rather likely.
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Sexless Marriage / int_1a80880b	comment	Jacky and Higgins in The Wake Of The Lorelei Lee—which is to be expected, since Higgins is gay and Jacky is promised to another.
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Sexless Marriage / int_1df8f66b	comment	In the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Inspector Robinson reveals half-way through the first season to be in one such marriage, with the implication that he changed a great deal during the Great War and his wife wasn't happy about it. They eventually divorce.
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Sexless Marriage / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, Krauss and Natsuhi apparently do not share a bed and sleep in separate bedrooms.
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Sexless Marriage / int_261c8d3f	comment	In an episode of The Simpsons when Milhouse's parents Kirk and Luann were still married, after purchasing some of Grandpa's tonic, Kirk remarks: "Tonight, we'll push the twin beds together." This may have been foreshadowing of the upcoming divorce storyline. After Apu cheated on Manjula, they still slept in the same bed, but with considerable distance between them. A Christmas Episode had Abe Simpson meet his brother Cyrus in Tahiti. When Grandpa makes a comment on his brother having lots of sex due to now having multiple wives, Cyrus angrily replies "They're wives, not girlfriends!" In "The Last Barfighter," Moe, privy to the community's darkest secrets due to belonging to a Mason-like circle of bartenders, comments that Reverend and Helen Lovejoy "haven't pushed the ol' twin beds together since before the election...of Obama...to the senate."
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Sexless Marriage / int_27817af1	comment	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: In "Human Is" Vera and Silas's marriage is implied to be one before his return. After this, he starts showing sexual interest in her, which greatly surprises Vera. After they have sex, she says he never before touched her that way, so apparently they hadn't even consummated it.
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Sexless Marriage / int_28b5db60	comment	Darrow/Dundee and Claire in The Anubis Gates. She's not at all happy that he apparently hasn't even tried to consummate their marriage. (He fully intended to have sex with her — siring an heir was a large part of what he married her for in the first place — but he has a physiological impediment. And he can't tell her that's the reason, because explaining the nature of the impediment would reveal too much about his past.)
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Sexless Marriage / int_2a88f407	comment	Mika and Takeshi Yabuki from Futari Ecchi haven't had sex in over a year, which makes Mika feel sexually frustrated and insecure about whether her husband still likes her. Fortunately it turns out that Takeshi just had erectile dysfunction caused by stress at work, which is remedied as soon as he admits the problem to Mika and is advised to take Viagra. They rekindle their sex life, and soon after that they conceive a child.
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Sexless Marriage / int_2af8496f	comment	In If Them's the Rules Melania and Arcturus Black only slept with each other twice in their marriage but only to conceive and the second time happened because their first child was a girl.
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Sexless Marriage / int_2e250f69	comment	Strange Empire: Thomas and Rebecca have one, as it's just so he can remain her legal guardian. When she grows interested in sex, Thomas is too hampered with his injury for it. Even after he feels that his manhood is threatened and he gets protective about her as his wife, they still never have sex.
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Sexless Marriage / int_2e621178	comment	In The Good Wife, Alicia and Peter's marriage went through a number of rough patches, especially after it was publicly revealed that he had sexual relations with several women on his staff. After he is released from prison, they reconcile, but then Alicia finds out that one of those women was her new best friend Kalinda. She immediately buys him an apartment and forces him to move out. She even has a brief sexual relationship with her boss Will. They then get back together until Will is shot and killed by a client, causing Alicia to suddenly lash out at Peter that she has never forgiven him about his earlier indiscretions. They resolve to stay married for their careers and show up for each other's official functions, but that's it. Their son even calls them Bill and Hillary.note Ironically, in real life it is quite obvious that Bill Clinton is still absolutely besotted with his wife, his history of philandering notwithstanding — not that this stops the tabloids from speculating otherwise.
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Sexless Marriage / int_2f3162e4	comment	Trey and Charlotte from Sex and the City. Early in their marriage, it becomes apparent that Trey struggles with impotency, and they sleep in the same bed but don't do anything with it. Over time, their situation becomes more strained, particularly as the struggle shifts from Trey's impotency to Charlotte's infertility, and in the weeks before their separation, Trey moves to the guest room.
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Sexless Marriage / int_33fdae4d	comment	Heavily implied between Salvatore Romano and his wife in Mad Men. In fact, it appears that the two of them barely even speak.
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Sexless Marriage / int_3494d171	comment	In Bramwell, the title character's colleague admits that his wife stopped sleeping with him after the death of their infant son, thus explaining (a) how he never noticed the mass in her breast, and (b) why he regularly visits a brothel.
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Sexless Marriage / int_35561809	comment	A Royal Affair: After giving birth to their son and heir, Caroline stops trying to encourage Christian to share her bed and they don't sleep together for years; she finds sex with him repulsive and he carries on affairs with prostitutes anyway, though the situation is still humiliating for Caroline. This becomes a problem when Caroline finds out she's pregnant with Struensee's child; everyone at court knows she and Christian aren't intimate, which risks her affair being exposed. She and Struensee have to persuade Christian to sleep with her so they can pass off the child as his, though some courtiers are still suspicious.
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Sexless Marriage / int_3a11ddef	comment	The Man Who Wasn't There (2001): After the doctor congratulates Ed on his wife Doris being pregnant, Ed's nonchalant reply is that they haven't had sex for years, causing the man's awkward reply of "Well, it's none of my business."
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Sexless Marriage / int_3acfd676	comment	In Dauntless (Allora Gale) Lelouch is forced into a political marriage by the Emperor but refuses to consummate the relationship. He's eventually coaxed into having sex as the price of getting her political support.
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Sexless Marriage / int_3cd90f30	comment	Tobias and Lindsay in Arrested Development. Tobias is heavily implied to be in the closet or in serious denial. Lindsay's nephew George Michael has a crush on their daughter Maeby and is tantalized by the possibility that she may be adopted. He and Maeby accidentally got married, but never became an official couple.
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Sexless Marriage / int_43576f5	comment	Implied in season seven of Supernatural, between Daphne and an amnesiac Castiel. The marriage appears to be one of convenience/necessity rather than romance, with Daphne as more of a caretaker than a lover — they likely married simply to stay together so she could look after him. A religious woman, she seems to view her husband as sacred due to his gifts, and while they show of measure of care for each other, there's little displayed in the way of physical affection. And in season nine, when Castiel has sex with April, it's treated as him losing his virginity, so it's more or less retroactively confirmed.
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Sexless Marriage / int_442535a4	comment	Novoland: Eagle Flag: Asule and Yu Ran are friends who were forced to marry for political reasons, so their marriage is never consummated.
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Sexless Marriage / int_455e3038	comment	Dale and Nancy's marriage was like this in King of the Hill, with the two sleeping in different rooms and only having sex on birthdays and Christmas because Dale felt that abstaining from sex would help him live longer. Nancy, however, was getting plenty of sex from John Redcorn. At least until a double date with Hank and Peggy reminds Nancy of why she fell for Dale in the first place.
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Sexless Marriage / int_4617a9f2	comment	In Married... with Children, although Al and Peggy's marriage is not entirely sexless, in a few episodes Peggy has stated that she and Al have often gone several months without sex.
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Sexless Marriage / int_4962e658	comment	Mean Girls: According to Gossip Queen Gretchen Weiners, at least part of reason for Regina George's bad attitude is that her parents are having marital problems to the point of sleeping in separate beds.
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Sexless Marriage / int_4d8dcb24	comment	In Superdome, football player Dave Walecki hasn't had sex with his wife in ages, due to his drug addiction and the fact that he's Married to the Job. Whenever she tries to initiate, he isn't interested.
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Sexless Marriage / int_5286b26c	comment	Since Eric only married June for her money in the film Fallen Angel, they don't spend their wedding night together.
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Sexless Marriage / int_544fb5a2	comment	In Death series: Imitation In Death reveals that Pamela and Niles have this sort of marriage. They pretty much hate each other's guts. Here's the kickerâ€¦ Pamela is an Ice Queen with a total Lack of Empathy who knows that her husband is the psychopath and a Serial Killer, as well as knowing that he rapes the nanny, using his wife's frigidness as an excuse. Pamela does not care, because at least it doesn't affect her own little world. To add to the heinousness of the situation, they have a kid, and while the kid hasn't been harmed, Pamela didn't even think about kid's safety and well-being once!
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Sexless Marriage / int_554e431b	comment	In A Little Night Music, Fredrik and Anne's marriage lasts for eleven months without being consummated, though they both consider attempting it.
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Sexless Marriage / int_5b42bbed	comment	Hard to say just how long it lasts, but definitely longer than it should: In Disgaea 3, after Almaz and Sapphire get married, and part-way through the honeymoon, Almaz complains that he hasn't even had the opportunity to kiss his wife yet. Implied not to be because the couple is not in love, but probably because the husband is the universe's ultimate Butt-Monkey.
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Sexless Marriage / int_5cdcf8ec	comment	Implied in Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns with Alicia, the only bachelorette in the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons series whom you can marry, but not have children with.
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Sexless Marriage / int_5e3f9611	comment	The Handmaid's Tale: While the Commanders aren't supposed to have sex with the Handmaids outside the Ceremony, it's unclear whether the same goes for their Wives. When Fred can't get an erection during one Ceremony, Serena Joy desperately offers to 'help him' via giving him a blowjob - which he rebuffs. Later they finally do have sex, after what has clearly been a very long time without.
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Sexless Marriage / int_5eee9172	comment	The Crowner John Mysteries: At the start of their Arranged Marriage, John and Matilda attempted to have children, but this only resulted in several miscarriages. Since then, they have not slept together (more-or-less by mutual agreement). John deals with his urges by having a string of mistresses scattered across the county, while Matilda concentrates on her ruthless social climbing.
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Sexless Marriage / int_5fdebb9f	comment	In Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, the Duke of Bedford arranges one of these with the much younger Jacquetta of Luxembourg because he believes a young virgin girl can help him with his alchemical experiments. There's no Real Life evidence to suggest this, although their marriage was short and childless (and it certainly wasn't due to infertility on Jacquetta's part, as her second marriage produced fourteen children).
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Sexless Marriage / int_60430ff4	comment	Karl Oskar and Kristina in The Last Letter Home after it becomes clear that Kristina won't survive another pregnancy. It doesn't last for long, however.
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Sexless Marriage / int_627b3897	comment	Discussed but then ultimately averted in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond: Marie claims that she and Frank have gotten to a point in their marriage (both are in their sixties) where this trope simply comes about naturally, only having sex once or twice a year "on average". However, when Frank is interrogated on this, he claims that they are in fact still quite active and have sex multiple times a week. In the end Marie admits she was simply lying because she found the topic inappropriate, but now that it's out in the open she decides to own it, much to Ray's displeasure.
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Sexless Marriage / int_630755ab	comment	In the Codex Alera novel series, First Lord Gaius Sextus has one of these with his much younger wife Caria. They haven't so much as touched one another since their marriage was for political reasons. Later in the series, Maximus, shapeshifted into Gaius to cover up the real Gaius's failing health, is forced to think fast when Caria puts her 'husband' on the spot, and decides to kiss her passionately in lieu of saying anything that might blow his cover. This gives Caria the impression their marriage might not be so sexless after all — and nearly gives the real Gaius a heart attack when, after recovering, his wife decides to slip into his bath while he's still in it.
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Codex Alera	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_630755ab
Sexless Marriage / int_695bc26c	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_695bc26c	comment	SPYÃ—FAMILY focuses on a Marriage of Convenience between Loid/Twilight and Yor, who are on good terms and take being parents to Anya seriously, but don't see their relationship as sexual and sleep in different beds. Some romantic feelings do begin to develop between the two, but they're not remotely close to having sex—Loid would be fine with it just to advance his personal goals, but Yor is near catatonic when they just have to kiss to make their marriage seem legitimate.
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SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_695bc26c
Sexless Marriage / int_696b75c2	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_696b75c2	comment	In A Brother's Price a man marries all the sisters of a family, but as the younger wives may not yet be interested in men, they can have a sexless marriage with him until they come of age. Or forever, considering that some wives may still be toddlers when the wedding takes place. With between ten and thirty women sharing one husband, it is presumably no problem if one or two sisters want to be celibate.
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A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_696b75c2
Sexless Marriage / int_6a8d182d	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_6a8d182d	comment	One of the Spenser books subverts this. Quirk mentions to Spenser that after their kids moved out, he and his wife now sleep in separate rooms. Subverted in that though people who know about it think the marriage is in trouble, it's strictly for comfort reasons, and the marriage is actually stronger, as they now sleep together when they want to, rather than because they have to. This was actually Truth in Television for author Robert B. Parker, who lived on a different floor of his home with his wife, and was quoted as saying "I never want to sleep with my wife again, but I hope to continue making love to her for the rest of my life."
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Spenser	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_6a8d182d
Sexless Marriage / int_6d87b845	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_6d87b845	comment	Archie and his wife in A Fish Called Wanda
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A Fish Called Wanda	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_6d87b845
Sexless Marriage / int_6dc42ab	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_6dc42ab	comment	There is also marriage between Leto II and his twin sister Ghanima. Said union is purely symbolic and since Leto II becomes sterile after his transformation, Ghanima has to take another man as her real mate to ensure the continuation of the Atreides line. Later in God-Emperor of Dune, Leto prepares to marry Hwi Noree out of mutual love, but it's obviously going to be sexless because, in addition to being sterile, Leto is now also a giant sandworm with a human face. They end up dying together on their planned wedding day anyway.
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Children of Dune	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_6dc42ab
Sexless Marriage / int_6e17a0d1	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_6e17a0d1	comment	John McClane is separated from his wife, and thus not sleeping with her, in Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance. For that matter, perhaps Bruce Willis is trying to tell us something?
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Die Hard	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_6e17a0d1
Sexless Marriage / int_701f0ece	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_701f0ece	comment	The royal marriage of the Kingdom of Midland in Berserk is shown to be this. The King's first wife died young, and he has not been able to get over it and consummate his marriage with the new Queen of Midland. This makes the Queen cheat behind his back with his younger brother, Julius. This comes up as a minor plot point when Griffith assassinates Julius, and a major plot point later on when the King himself is turned out to be a paedophile lusting after his own daughter, because she's near-identical to her mother.
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Berserk (Manga)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_701f0ece
Sexless Marriage / int_705f9751	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_705f9751	comment	The titular character of Florence Foster Jenkins and her husband, St. Clair, adore each other but have a chaste marriage because she was infected with syphilis by her first husband. St. Clair maintains a discreet affair where his physical needs are met with the film implying that Florence knows what's going on.
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Florence Foster Jenkins	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_705f9751
Sexless Marriage / int_759dba7a	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_759dba7a	comment	Holiday on the Buses: The Briggs are in one, although Wally tries his hardest to change this: The Coombs are implied to be in one as well, sleeping in seperate beds.
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Holiday on the Buses	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_759dba7a
Sexless Marriage / int_7871793	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_7871793	comment	The lead couple in Eating Raoul lead a life without sex, before their mercenary involvement in the orgy scene. They seem happy, though, and if the man were into sex he seems like he'd go a different way.
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Eating Raoul	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_7871793
Sexless Marriage / int_78956c00	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_78956c00	comment	The plot of My Wife is a High School Girl involves Asami Onohara, a seventeen-year-old high-school student who is married to Kyosuke Ichimaru, her physics teacher in the same high school she attends. However, even though they are officially a married couple, Asami's father forbids them to have any sexual contact until after Asami has graduated.
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My Wife is a High School Girl (Manga)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_78956c00
Sexless Marriage / int_792fa7f	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_792fa7f	comment	In The Little Foxes, Regina has not let her husband sleep with her since ten years before the events of the play. She claimed that there was something medically wrong with her, and hated him for believing her lie.
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The Little Foxes (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_792fa7f
Sexless Marriage / int_79f0fa88	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_79f0fa88	comment	Referenced in the pilot of Ned & Stacey, when Ned explains his Marriage of Convenience offer. "I mean, it doesn't have to be a real marriage, just a marriage minus the love, sex, and intimacy, which, now that I think about it, is more real than the "real" kind."
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Ned & Stacey	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_79f0fa88
Sexless Marriage / int_7e1bd3	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_7e1bd3	comment	In City Slickers Phil had an affair with one of his employees because he and his wife hadn't had sex for twelve years.
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City Slickers	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_7e1bd3
Sexless Marriage / int_7e79f5bd	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_7e79f5bd	comment	In Wizard and Glass from The Dark Tower series, mayor Thorin and his wife Olive stopped sleeping together a long time ago, as he began pursuing younger women.
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Wizard and Glass	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_7e79f5bd
Sexless Marriage / int_7f9706ac	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_7f9706ac	comment	Holly Slept Over: Pete complains repeatedly to Noel about his wife Marnie no longer having sex with him since they had kids. By the end, they're in marriage counseling, having started to be sexual together as well again.
Sexless Marriage / int_7f9706ac	featureApplicability	1.0
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Holly Slept Over	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_7f9706ac
Sexless Marriage / int_824b0232	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_824b0232	comment	Daily Grind: Howlett and Jo, Tharka and Gana, Constance and Alban. Mostly due to incompatibility issues - Tharka's sex drive was genetically converted into pure adrenaline for killing stuff.
Sexless Marriage / int_824b0232	featureApplicability	1.0
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Daily Grind (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_824b0232
Sexless Marriage / int_833ad429	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_833ad429	comment	Possible in Daughter for Dessert with Moe Mortelli and his wife, given his great interest in other women and the lack thereof in his wife.
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Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_833ad429
Sexless Marriage / int_8358166f	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_8358166f	comment	In Are You Being Served? (released in July 1977), Mr. Grainger claims he hasn't had sex with his wife in 23 years:
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Sexless Marriage / int_8358166f	featureConfidence	1.0
Are You Being Served?	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8358166f
Sexless Marriage / int_83bf844d	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_83bf844d	comment	In Tales of Kolmar, Lanen's cousin offers one of these to her after her father dies; he's the one with the passion to run the horse farm, she's the one who inherited. Lanen is offended by this and hits him, then decides to turn the farm over to him, keep a share of the profits, and go adventuring.
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Tales of Kolmar	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_83bf844d
Sexless Marriage / int_85b79d17	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror, "Beyond the Sea": In contrast to David and his wife, who are obviously loved up, Cliff and Lana have a more frigid marriage. Lana has been lonely ever since Cliff uprooted them to live in a rural farmhouse, and even though Cliff can spend time with her in his replica they are aloof with each other. She briefly entertains the seduction of David-in-Cliff's-body before collecting herself because it felt like her husband was back and actually wanted her.
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Black Mirror	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_85b79d17
Sexless Marriage / int_8667f7b0	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_8667f7b0	comment	Captain Mainwaring and his wife Elizabeth from Dad's Army seem to have one of these. Mainwaring learned to play the bagpipes during his honeymoon in Scotland because it rained solidly all week and there was nothing else to do.
Sexless Marriage / int_8667f7b0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dad's Army	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8667f7b0
Sexless Marriage / int_869c1356	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_869c1356	comment	Bad Boys (1995): At the start, one of our protagonists is griping about this. A later scene shows that Marcus and his wife still desire each other, but between Marcusâ€™ late nights and three young children, they canâ€™t find the time.
Sexless Marriage / int_869c1356	featureApplicability	1.0
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Bad Boys (1995)	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_869c1356
Sexless Marriage / int_87db5e83	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_87db5e83	comment	Terminator: Dark Fate: Carl, a Terminator who Grew Beyond Their Programming and assimilated into humanity, is married to a human woman. The heroes are mildly disturbed by the implications, prompting Carl to explain that their relationship is not physical in any way. In this case, it's not because of any problems in the marriage; they're a perfectly happy couple. They just physically can't have sex, given that Carl is a robot with no genitals or sex drive that weighs 400 pounds, while his wife had traumatic experiences with her previous husband that left her largely disinterested in sex. A purely emotional relationship suits them both.
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Terminator: Dark Fate	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_87db5e83
Sexless Marriage / int_8d7f29ec	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Emma and Carl on Glee, mostly because Emma's OCD has made her afraid of sex.
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Glee	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8d7f29ec
Sexless Marriage / int_8d814070	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_8d814070	comment	Klinger and his first wife, Leverne, from MASH. Klinger marries his Toledo sweetheart while in Korea, and the divorce happened before Klinger has a chance to return.*
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MAS*H	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8d814070
Sexless Marriage / int_8d81f086	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk is a highly germophobic man, and it was implied that he didn't have sex with his wife, though they loved each other. Note that later in the series he regrets never having children with her. Also later in the series, when Monk is reunited with an old crush, he tells her that he was married and that they "went all the way." So it's probably a safe bet that they did it at least once.
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Monk	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8d81f086
Sexless Marriage / int_8fbd67b8	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_8fbd67b8	comment	A French Village: Hortense mentions to Daniel that they haven't been having sex for a while. He rebuffs her advance, and this seems to be the reason she cheats on him.
Sexless Marriage / int_8fbd67b8	featureApplicability	1.0
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A French Village	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_8fbd67b8
Sexless Marriage / int_910a517b	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_910a517b	comment	Sex/Life: By the time of the series' start, Billie and Cooper's marriage has become largely this, to Billie's unhappiness. This is the reason she starts getting tempted by her ex-boyfriend Brad.
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Sex/Life	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_910a517b
Sexless Marriage / int_91a5beed	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_91a5beed	comment	The Twithamptons from Up the Front have one according to Lurk:
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Up the Front	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_91a5beed
Sexless Marriage / int_956ff164	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_956ff164	comment	In Petals on the Wind, Paul reveals to Cathy that his wife Julia cut him off after they had their son, having always hated sex thanks to "a cousin who'd done something to her when she was four".
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Petals on the Wind	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_956ff164
Sexless Marriage / int_974e8693	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_974e8693	comment	Wagons West: In Independence!, Cathy suffers from this, as the one time Otto tried to have sex with her was their wedding night, and he was unable to function.
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Wagons West	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_974e8693
Sexless Marriage / int_9a705938	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_9a705938	comment	In The Story of Luke, Paul and Cindy are at each other's throats most of the time and haven't had sex in a year.
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The Story of Luke	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_9a705938
Sexless Marriage / int_9aabb65c	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_9aabb65c	comment	Lloyd and Caroline from The Ref have had a sexless marriage for years, apparently.
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The Ref	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_9aabb65c
Sexless Marriage / int_9bcc183b	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_9bcc183b	comment	In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Esmeralda marries Pierre Gringoire only to save his life and doesn't let him touch her. He accepts that pretty easily.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_9bcc183b
Sexless Marriage / int_9c098a3	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_9c098a3	comment	On the Buses films: On the Buses: Olive and Arthur only have it off once a year, a fact that deeply annoys Olive: Holiday on the Buses: The Briggs are in one, although Wally tries his hardest to change this: The Coombs are implied to be in one as well, sleeping in seperate beds.
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On the Buses	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_9c098a3
Sexless Marriage / int_9d47a2a2	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A number of the political marriages in A Song of Ice and Fire are this. Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister hate each other's guts, and it's explicitly stated that the only consensual sex they had happened during their wedding night. Robert fathered a lot of bastards and none of his three "legitimate children" are his. By the time the series starts, the sole reason they still keep the pretense of a marriage is because it holds the Seven Kingdoms together. Tyrek Lannister and Lady Ermesande, due to the fact that the latter is less than a year old. Margaery Tyrell has so far married three different men and remains a virgin. Her first marriage is to Renly Baratheon, who is more interested in Margaery's brother Loras and she knows this well enough. Her second marriage is to Joffrey Baratheon, who dies at his own wedding. Her third marriage is to Tommen Baratheon, who is eight years old. Myrcella Baratheon and Trystane Martell. She's nine and he's twelve. That said, they seem to love each other. Like Margaery, Sansa is still a virgin in spite of having been married. She's unwilling to consummate the marriage and Tyrion Lannister won't exercise the Marital Rape License to force the issue. While age is sometimes cited (Sansa is thirteen), it should be noted that Daenerys Targaryen loses her virginity at age fourteen and no one makes a big deal about it. Stannis Baratheon and Selyse Florent, while not quite as dysfunctional as Robert and Cersei, have a very blatantly cold and loveless marriage. It is noted by multiple characters that Stannis seems wholly uninterested in sharing Selyse's bed, and unlike his older brother it has nothing to do with him sleeping around, but simply that he finds the act of sex undesirable. He sleeps with Selyse often enough to fulfill his nobleman's duty to sire heirs, and nothing more.
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A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_9d47a2a2
Sexless Marriage / int_a037ae41	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a037ae41	comment	In Fate/Zero, the marriage Saber (a.k.a. Arturia Pendragon) had with Guinevere was devoid of sex due to the fact that Saber had to conceal her gender in order to be King. It was because of this that Guinevere started looking for love in other places—Lancelot, for example. Saber was actually alright with Guinevere's affair because she wanted her to be happy but was forced to act when it became public to preserve her image and authority. In the end, all three suffered as a result.
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Fate/Zero	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a037ae41
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Sexless Marriage / int_a06398d4	comment	Vampire Game: Ashley admits to never having slept with Leene, presumably because of her love for Yuujel. This has clearly changed by the epilogue, as they have a kid. A tragic case for Lady Ramia, whose husband refused to have anything to do with her due to their relationship. As a result, all three of their sons are adopted. And Seileiz, the eldest, is The Unfavorite for being the king's bastard son—seeing living evidence that her husband was perfectly willing to sleep with other woman has pissed Ramia off for decades.
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Sexless Marriage / int_a144cb39	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a144cb39	comment	Moral Orel's parents are this. They even sleep with a wall between them. Clay's own parents were like this too-because he was his mother's first child after ten miscarriages, she lavished him with attention at the expense of her husband. This led to Clay having a strained relationship with this father, which only got worse after he accidentally caused his mother's death when he was 12.
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Moral Orel	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a144cb39
Sexless Marriage / int_a47c82f2	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a47c82f2	comment	In Devious Maids, Evelyn and Adrian share a bed but don't sleep together for over a decade, which is why Adrian resorts to "his disgusting little hobby".
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Devious Maids	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a47c82f2
Sexless Marriage / int_a5549ed0	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a5549ed0	comment	In The Bible this is implied to be the case with Abraham and Sarah after a long time of being unable to conceive children, when God's angels visit the couple in Genesis chapter 18 and tell them that Sarah was going to have Abraham's child, and Sarah laughs, saying, â€œAfter I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?â€�
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Sexless Marriage / int_a59b5e9d	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a59b5e9d	comment	In The Giver, every marriage is this, since sexual desires are suppressed by pills.
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The Giver	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a59b5e9d
Sexless Marriage / int_a5f98cbf	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a5f98cbf	comment	In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, the sketch "Every Sperm is Sacred" about a Catholic couple having a horde of children due to their religion discouraging the use of contraceptives is followed-up by to a short cut away to a Protestant couple, with the husband criticizing that behavior thusly:
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a5f98cbf
Sexless Marriage / int_a655465b	type	Sexless Marriage
Sexless Marriage / int_a655465b	comment	In the Colleen McCullough novel The Touch, Elizabeth and Alexander settle for this. Ostensibly because it's too dangerous for her to conceive again—she suffered eclampsia in both pregnancies and nearly died in childbirth both times—but Elizabeth is relieved, as she doesn't love Alexander and hates sleeping with him anyway.
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The Touch	hasFeature	Sexless Marriage / int_a655465b
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Sexless Marriage / int_a7963b76	comment	Trigonometry: Gemma and Kieran are having trouble with their sex life starting out as his job as a paramedic puts him on night shifts, while he has to sleep during the day so they find it hard getting much time together for this. Then after he's injured, their difficulty (while he's at home recuperating) is then finding a position which won't hurt him. Later they manage to have sex in bed though, and it's solved finally after Kieran switches to day shifts. It turns out Nick and Carolina have been going through this too, as he helps out so little with household chores she doesn't want to have sex with him.
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Sexless Marriage / int_a812c87	comment	Naked Came the Stranger: Morton Earbrow and his wife Gloria live in a house that's in such bad shape that they spend virtually all their free time fixing it, leaving Gloria too tired for sex.
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Sexless Marriage / int_ad7edd1f	comment	In Kaamelott, Arthur hasn't touched Gueneviere since they met (that is, even during the wedding night), which hasn't stopped him from sleeping with just about every other woman in the castle or his in-laws from repeatedly slipping them fertility potions. It turns out that he does this out of faithfulness to the woman he truly loved and wanted to marry, though she did allow him to take mistresses. And while he's briefly married to one of his flings, Love Ruins the Realm to such a degree that he quickly backs down.
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Sexless Marriage / int_af10f209	comment	In Creator/Isabel Allende's Portrait in Sepia, Aurora's marriage to Diego Dominguez becomes this, confirmed when he furnishes their bedroom with twin beds. She can't figure out why, wondering if he finds her undesirable until she catches him and his brother's wife having a Roll in the Hay.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b0028436	comment	Lucy and Stephen Steel of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Steel Ball Run. Given their respective ages and the circumstances behind their marriage, this is played less as a demonstration of a lack of romance between them, and more as an incredibly strong Intergenerational Friendship.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b2314993	comment	In the French comic Blacksad, the second arc features the chief of police who's part of a white(-furred) supremacist group, about whom rumors of pedophilia abound, because of further rumors that he and his wife have never slept together. The former rumors are false, but the latter ones are most definitely true: It's because she knows, but he doesn't, that he's actually her father; their marriage was part of an elaborate plan by the daughter to get revenge on him for the way he treated her black mother after he started buying into white supremacist rhetoric. In this case, the romantic implications are brought up, but that was kind of the idea to begin with. The wife is also having sex with her husband's right-hand man, less out of attraction and to ensure he'll do as she says, but this also backfires when he murders a woman (unbeknownst to him, the wife's sister).
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Sexless Marriage / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Cersei reveals to Sansa that she and Robert never had sexual intercourse after their first son had died.note In the books, she aborted Robert's baby, but in the tv show it was changed to a natural death He mostly spent his nights with prostitutes while she preferred the company of her twin brother. In the extremely rare instance that he would drunkenly burst into her bedchamber demanding sex, she used non-vaginal means to get him off, and he'd wake up the next morning with no memory of what happened. This is why he never realized his three children with Cersei weren't biologically his, because he could never keep track of the few times per year they had sex. Renly and Margaery also had a sexless marriage on the account that he was gay and preferred sleeping with her brother instead. Margaery was well aware of this and it's implied that she had a sidepiece as well
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Sexless Marriage / int_b5c89107	comment	In Carrie, Carrie's Christian fundamentalist parents wanted to have a marriage like this, because they believed that Sex Is Evil. Her father once couldn't resist the temptation, and raped her mother; that's how she was conceived.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: A few remarks by Mike and Nancy imply that this has become the case between their parents Karen and Ted Wheeler. Ted seems to be permanently Exiled To The Armchair.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b8411682	comment	Tristana: Young innocent Tristana lets Don Lope have sex with her, but when a more worldly Tristana marries Don Lope, she won't let him touch her.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b96564e6	comment	Most likely, Basil and Sybil in Fawlty Towers. They sleep in separate beds, and once, when he kisses her on the cheek (to throw her off), she tells him not to. In "The Psychiatrist", Basil claims that they have sex two or three times per week, but he's probably lying.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b96adef8	comment	In Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Myra indicates to Horace that she's willing to settle for this, "Lots of marriages are just...friendship marriages.", if he can't get over his anxiety about making love to her (he's a virgin, she's a former prostitute). He's so touched by her devotion that they end up finally consummating the marriage after all.
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Sexless Marriage / int_b9e260e4	comment	Fanny: When gorgeous young Fanny gets knocked up, wealthy merchant Panisse, at least 40 years her senior, agrees to marry her. Later he admits that he never asked Fanny to have sex with him.
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Sexless Marriage / int_bad0166a	comment	Eirik and Blodeuwedd from Dead In Vinland have been mostly this for many years, which is why they only have one child in a time period where that was uncommon. Depending on how you play, they may rectify this with an Optional Sexual Encounter explicitly stated to be their first since arriving on the island.
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Sexless Marriage / int_bd0d2c55	comment	Horace and Hilda Rumpole in Rumpole of the Bailey had sex once on their honeymoon, which produced their son. They still share a bed, but that's it.
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Sexless Marriage / int_bd7d03c7	comment	The protagonist in Extract has a great deal of sexual frustration due to this trope. In one scene he laments that if he doesn't make it home before 8, his wife will put on her sweatpants, which will not come off for the rest of the night.
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Sexless Marriage / int_c19424b6	comment	In the first series of Black Adder Edmund is married off to princess Leia of Hungary... who is ten years old at the time, and their marriage is purely one of political necessity. However, all's well that ends well; Edmund quickly becomes a big brother-surrogate to Leia and his apparently deep and genuine affection for her is one of his very few Pet the Dog-traits. The episode where she is introduced ends with Edmund sitting at Leia's bedside, telling her a bedtime story.
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Sexless Marriage / int_c7cca04f	comment	Ned and Chuck's relationship in Pushing Daisies. For special reasonsâ€¦
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Sexless Marriage / int_cb840c8f	comment	Malcolm and Anna throughout The Sixth Sense (if you've seen it, you know why.) They do seem willing and able in the first scene, but then Malcolm's vengeful former patient breaks in.
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Sexless Marriage / int_cd8905f6	comment	As of 2002 in Baccano!, Firo and Ennis take Twice Shy beyond humanly possible levels: they have lived under the same roof for seventy-two years, have been married for about twenty of those, and still haven't gotten as far as second base.
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Sexless Marriage / int_cf840e53	comment	Tales of Dunk and Egg: King Aerys is said to have no interest in his wife whatsoever. Admittedly, his wife is also his cousin, but he shows absolutely zero interest in having sex with anyone, which is not the best attitude to have when you're a king without issue (and he didn't seem terribly interested in kinging, either). Rumor abounded that he was more likely to sleep with a book than a human being.
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Sexless Marriage / int_d2d206b6	comment	Lester and Carolyn Burnham in American Beauty, hence Lester's morning habit of jacking off in the shower (and Carolyn's afternoon habit). They do attempt to get it on once, but Carolyn's desire to keep the sofa clean puts the kibosh on that.
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Sexless Marriage / int_d46cc708	comment	Double D's parents in Ed, Edd n Eddy, based on the single beds in their bedroom and Double D's statement that "displays of affection aren't allowed in his parents' bedroom". If they're anything like their son, it's related to germophobia.
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Sexless Marriage / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode "The Ring", Kenny's new girlfriend has him wearing a purity ring as a promise that they won't have sex until they're married. When Butters learns about this, he remarks:
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Sexless Marriage / int_da13d925	comment	This is the premise of Julia Valerian's relationship with her third husband in A Voice in the Wind—he is gay and has a live-in catamite, and she is using the marriage as a cover to carry on an affair with a gladiator. It is superficially beneficial to them both (although it backfires on Julia; her lover isn't exactly thrilled to hear that she's gotten married), but they hardly interact with one another at all.
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Sexless Marriage / int_dab7c96c	comment	In the movie Pleasantville, it was revealed before the main characters arrived in town, sex was a concept no one could understand. When the mother was told teenagers were having sex, she had to be given a talk from her teenage daughter about what it was. This is because Pleasantville is an amalgamation of old TV show concepts and tropes from a time when sex was a taboo subject, and so a mother having a child without ever having sex isn't the only thing very off about this place.
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Sexless Marriage / int_dd51f005	comment	Julia and Pete Thomas in Lust for Gold. When the audience first sees Pete, he is lying on Julia's bed. Julia angrily tells him off, saying the he knows he is not allowed in her bedroom. He attempts to insist on his conjugal rights, but is given the cold shoulder. The implication is that she has cut off sex ever since he lost all their money in a land scam, stranding them in Phoenix, which she regards as a backwater. The situation becomes worse when Julia banishes Pete from the house as part of her plan to seduce Walz.
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Sexless Marriage / int_e144ba19	comment	Female!Hawke could have something like this in Dragon Age II if she romances Sebastian, who took a vow of chastity before meeting her. After Carver mocks this aspect of his sister's marriage, Hawke jokingly replies;
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Sexless Marriage / int_ea4f62db	comment	Stewie and his "wife" Olivia in Family Guy. In the episode "The Perfect Castaway", when Peter disappears at sea and declared dead, Lois and Brian get married but don't have sex (though he would really like to).
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Sexless Marriage / int_f0a86c12	comment	In How I Met Your Mother, this happened to Robin's boyfriend Don and his ex-wife, and they eventually got separate twin beds. He then found out she was cheating on him with her personal trainer. Lily and Marshall decided to get twin beds for themselves because they found it to be more comfortable, though they were still sleeping together (euphemistically), and went back to sleeping together (literally) at the end of the episode.
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Sexless Marriage / int_f0c816fb	comment	Skyler and Walter White as of the pilot of Breaking Bad, if the fact that she considers a half-hearted handjob that she can't even be bothered to look away from her laptop for to be a special birthday treat is any indication. This changes when Walt's exploits as Heisenberg have him rediscover his confidence (and sometimes want Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex), but later changes back when his deceptions cause a rift in their relationship.
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Sexless Marriage / int_f2cbb5c5	comment	In the 1981 comedy The Incredible Shrinking Woman, as the tiny housewife struggles onto the bed next to her full-sized husband, she pauses to look at the book he's been reading: Marriage Without Sex.
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Sexless Marriage / int_f655ed11	comment	In Frasier, Niles and Maris don't even sleep in the same room.
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Sexless Marriage / int_f74b5f80	comment	Londo Mollari, the Centauri Ambassador to Babylon 5, has three loveless marriages. He purposefully left all three of them back on Homeworld when he went to Babylon 5, and no matter how bad things seem at the station the thought that the three are back home waiting for him makes him firmly want to stay there. This is normal for the Centauri aristocracy. All marriages are arranged for political reasons. Love is not a factor. Divorce is not allowed, except under special circumstances. One episode deals with Londo being granted favor by The Emperor and asks to divorce his wives. The Emperor allows him to divorce only two of them in order to ensure that Londo's line continues. Cue two of his wives trying desperately to please him (including a night that averts this trope), while his oldest wife doesn't change her attitude of disgust towards him. Of course, being Londo, he ends up picking her because he knows exactly where they stand.
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Sexless Marriage / int_fa450b94	comment	Carrie (2013): Margaret indicates that she had this with Carrie's father (by her choice), until he snapped, raping her and conceiving Carrie.
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Sexless Marriage / int_fade5b0f	comment	The Change Room: Eliza complains how she and her husband now have sex rarely, going months without anything. When she and Andrew finally start to have sex in the book, it's soon interrupted by their sons (who she blames for this overall). Once they do manage later, she's already started an affair.
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Sexless Marriage / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's parents in Dexter's Laboratory are heavily implied to have this kind of romance. One episode has Dee Dee disguised as her mom and when her dad gets romantic with her she gets understandably grossed out. Her dad simply shuffles away and grumbles "What else is new?". Another episode has Dad mistaking Mandark for his wife and asking her to go to bed, but when Mandark declines he says she "always says the same things". It's unknown if it's related to Mom's mysophobia but they're a fairly affectionate couple. That explains the cheatings joke and "special bathroom privacy time" line.
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Sexless Marriage / int_fc4cce34	comment	On Chesil Beach: Florence suggests this to her husband Edward, albeit it would be an open marriage in which Edward would be free to sleep with other women. Edward angrily rejects this as the only person he wants to have sex with is his wife.
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Jules and Jim / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Lady Macbeth / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Little Children / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Marie Antoinette (2006) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Midsommar / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Mona Lisa Smile / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
mother! (2017) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Muriel's Wedding / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Nobody / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
On the Buses / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Pleasantville / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Run Lola Run / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Safe (1995) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
sex, lies, and videotape / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Superdome / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Surrogates / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Bad Sleep Well / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Comedy of Terrors / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Dig (2021) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Eyes of Tammy Faye / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Founder / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Gold of Naples / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Light Across the Street / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Mirror Has Two Faces / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Painted Veil / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Passionate Friends / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Piano / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Road to Singapore / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Sixth Sense / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Story of a Cheat / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Whole Nine Yards / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Topsy-Turvy / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Tully / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Up the Front / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Dune (Franchise) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
A Brother's Price / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Andersonville / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Anna Karenina / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Baccano! / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Bloodlines / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Blott On The Landscape / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Book of Genesis / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Breakfast at Tiffany's / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Capital / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Carrie / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Christine / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Don Juan / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Dune Messiah / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Eugénie Grandet / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Fahrenheit 451 / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
I, Claudius / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Imperium / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Independence! / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Jude the Obscure / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Married Thrice To Salted Fish / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Masters of Rome / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
My Sweet Audrina / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
On the Street Where You Live / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Petals on the Wind / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Phantom / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Phryne Fisher / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Redeeming Love / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Song of Solomon / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Accursed Kings / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Bedwyn Saga / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Black Company / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Bone Palace / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Cousins' War Series / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Crowner John Mysteries / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Emigrants / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Far Pavilions / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Forsyte Saga / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Fourth Protocol / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Giver / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Howling (1977) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Joy Luck Club / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Last Hours / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Man Who Laughs / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Pale Ancient and the House of Mirrors / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The State of Affairs / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Touch / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Way West / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Woman in White / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Tristan and Iseult / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Trylle Trilogy / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
MAD (Magazine) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
MAD (Magazine) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto (Manga) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Thermae Romae (Manga) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Tyler Cassidy (Music) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Ilasgoc	seeAlso	Sexless Marriage
Towergirls (Roleplay) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
A French Village / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Alma GÃªmea / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
And Just Like That... / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Bramwell / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Dad's Army / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Devious Maids / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Fawlty Towers / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Galavant / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
George & Mildred / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
It's Me or the Dog / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Kaamelott / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
La que se avecina / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Marie Antoinette (2022) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Murder In Mind / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Ned & Stacey / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
9-1-1: Lone Star / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
On the Buses / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Rules of Engagement / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Rumpole of the Bailey / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Scandal / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Scandal (2012) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Sex/Life / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Shameless (US) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Strange Empire / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Strong Medicine / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Thanks / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Curse (2023) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Handmaid's Tale / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Prime Minister and I / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Ropers / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The White Queen / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Upstairs Downstairs / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
W817 / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
A Delicate Balance (1967) (Theatre) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatre) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Head Over Heels (Theatre) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Theatre) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Little Foxes (Theatre) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Guenevere (Video Game) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
When Heaven Spits You Out (Visual Novel) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Gayle (Web Video) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Nip and Tuck (Webcomic) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
There Must Be Happy Endings (Webcomic) / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Moral Orel / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Baccano! / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Scarlet Pimpernel / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage

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