History Main / RomanceAndSexualitySeparation

* In ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'', [[SecondYearProtagonist Tanukichi Okuma]] was in love with Anna Nishikinomiya because of [[PeerlessLoveInterest her pureness and tender personality]], so he joins the same high school as Anna to be closer to her. But after [[spoiler:she became a [[ExtremeLibido nynphomaniac]] {{yandere}} that [[NearRapeExperience tried to rape him several times]]]], Tanukichi started to feel the opposite about her and [[AbhorrentAdmirer tried to avoid her like the plague]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Spooner Street's resident pervert Quagmire is perfectly capable of having emotion-free impersonal sex with just about AnythingThatMoves and quite a few things which normally do not. He has a long-standing desire for the one woman who is unattainable to him - Lois Griffin. His infatuation for her includes passive stalking and building a shrine in her honor. On the one occasion where Lois becomes attainable - she has tired of Peter's stupid antics - she indicates her availability to Quagmire. However, his long-standing romantic infatuation combined with PerformanceAnxiety and guilt that he is somehow betraying Peter - and above all the realization he is in love with her - all combine to devastate his libido. While Peter has a last-ditch play to get her back, he is seen escalating a Viagra overdose, electric shock therapy, direct injections into his penis, and finally hitting himself very hard with a hammer. All to no avail.

* In one exchange from ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' (UK), Vince wonders if Cameron is now his boyfriend. Alex asks him if he thinks about him when he masturbates, Vince says no, and Alex says that means he is.

Of course, for both genders, the portrayal may very well limit itself to the character being messed up in general. Or simply [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast portrayed as inherently incomprehensible]]. On the more neutral end, this can also be found in characters whose romantic and sexual orientations don't match, such as alloromantic UsefulNotes/{{asexual}}s and allosexual aromantics in relationships with people who aren't.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'', [[SecondYearProtagonist Tanukichi Okuma]] was in love with Anna Nishikinomiya because of [[PeerlessLoveInterest her pureness and tender personality]], so he joins the same high school as Anna to be closer to her. But after [[spoiler:she became a [[ExtremeLibido nynphomaniac]] {{yandere}} that [[NearRapeExperience tried to rape him several times]]]], Tanukichi started to feel the opposite about her and [[AbhorrentAdmirer tried to avoid her like the plague]].

* In one exchange from ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' (UK), Vince wonders if Cameron is now his boyfriend. Alex asks him if he thinks about him when he [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates]], Vince says no, and Alex says that means he is.

** Lancelot's love for Guenievre was such that he never showed interest in any other woman, romantically or even sexually. As a result, not only do most of his fellow knights think he's gay or taken a vow of chastity but when he finally kidnaps Guenievre neither of them knows what to do.

Of course, for both genders, the portrayal may very well limit itself to the character being messed up in general. Or simply [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast portrayed as inherently incomprehensible]]. On the more neutral end, this can also be found in characters whose romantic and sexual orientations don't match, such as romantic UsefulNotes/{{asexual}}s and allosexual aromantics in relationships with people who aren't.

For a male character, it often comes with a mindset of MyGirlIsNotASlut. Either in the form of "I don't want to make my girl a slut by sleeping with her" or in the form of "she's a slut for sleeping with me, so I don't want her". This phenomenon is otherwise known as the MadonnaWhoreComplex, its SisterTrope that is only applicable to women, either from a cultural standpoint or from an indivivual one.

Of course, for both genders, the portrayal may very well limit itself to the character being messed up in general. Or simply [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast portrayed as inherently incomprehensible]]. On the more neutral end, this can also be found in characters whose romantic and sexual orientations don't match, such as {{Romantic Asexual}}s and allosexual aromantics in relationships with people who aren't.