Sexuality Sexuality was the expression of sex ual attraction or desire . This could be for an individual of a different gender or sex , of the same gender or sex , or even of a different species . It was a crucial aspect of the psychological examination of human s . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) Sexuality was in truth the sum of a person ' s emotions , an amalgamation of their energy . ( PROSE : " Rags " ) This sexual passion was usually stemmed in the aesthetic beauty of the subject of desire . Vladimir Garudin regarded Dusha as " a Golden Fleece of womanhood " , " so infinitely desirable , so infinitely powerful in her beauty " . ( PROSE : " Emotional Chemistry " ) It began as , in the words of the Seventh Doctor , " the urge for the alpha - being to mate with other alpha - beings whenever possible , to fight wherever not . " According to his interpretation , sexuality — or , rather , the repression of sexuality in its homosexual form — was the source of much of Earth ' s oppression . ( PROSE : " Death and Diplomacy " ) The buttocks were a common focal point of sexuality . ( PROSE : " Just War " , TV : " The Unquiet Dead " , " End of Days " ) Jason Kane in " Nights of the Perfumed Tentacle " commented that he was in total control of his alien lover , as he knew what she wanted . ( PROSE : " Beige Planet Mars " ) Carys Fletcher used her sexuality to get into an exclusive bar ; she simply kiss ed the guard , and he let her through . ( TV : " Day One " ) In this fashion , sexuality was power . Sexuality could serve as power in a literal sense too , though . The Sex Gas belonged to a species that fed off orgasmic energy . It therefore came to 21st century Earth , a culture that could easily satisfy its sexual needs , and took over Carys Fletcher . From within Carys ' body , she had sex with nearly every man she came across , killing them and turning them to dust in the process . When Gwen Cooper , attracted to the gaseous entity ' s increased pheromone s , began kissing Carys , though , she pulled away — " It has to be a man . " ( TV : " Day One " ) Bernice Summerfield found solace in sexual thoughts and dream s when she was feeling lonely or unloved . ( PROSE : " Death and Diplomacy " ) Bernice noted that her husband Jason Kane had " turned himself into a doll for aliens to pleasure themselves with " , and had essentially made himself into a product to be consumed by selling pornographic accounts of his encounters " for random strangers to wank over " . ( PROSE : " Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants " ) An android duplicate of Jason — under the alias of Professor Cockshaft — lectured that " Mr Kane ' s work treats sex as an erasure of the boundaries between the familiar and the foreign , the self and the not - self . " Benny , watching the presentation , concurred — the main source of attraction to Jason for her was how different he was to her . ( PROSE : " Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants " ) Fitz Kreiner once had a dream in which he rubbed buttocks with the Eighth Doctor . When he queried this dream - state Doctor , he was assured that it was not " [ his ] subconscious telling [ him ] anything about [ his ] sexuality . " ( PROSE : " Halflife " ) As the Tenth Doctor suggested to Chris Pirelli , teenagers were often confused about their sexuality . He called this " teenage angsty stuff " . ( PROSE : " Forever Autumn " ) Bernice Summerfield thought that one must at least have suspicions about their sexual preferences by the age of fifteen . ( PROSE : " Death and Diplomacy " ) She was glad she ' d never have to be a teenager again after meeting Emile Mars - Smith , obviously gay , though he didn ' t yet know this himself . In fact , Emile never gave it much thought until Tameka Vito confronted him about it . He was at first shocked his sexuality was so obvious , and only then admitted it to himself . He realised that he ' d truly known all along : Even people who identified as heterosexual have been shown to have occasional same - sex tendencies , proving that sexuality was fluid . ( TV : " Everything Changes " , " Greeks Bearing Gifts " ) David Daniels had reportedly " slept with enough straight men to know that hope never died " , and did not take someone ' s choice of category to mean much of anything . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) As Jack Harkness commented to Toshiko Sato upon viewing heterosexual Gwen Cooper kissing Carys , " You people and your quaint little categories . " ( TV : " Day One " ) No matter how one identified , they could still derive sexual pleasure from watching people of another orientation . For instance , Fern " touched himself " while watching pornography that depicted sex between a man and a woman , two women , and two men . ( PROSE : " A Rose by Any Other Name " ) Owen Harper recorded Gwen Cooper ' s kiss with Carys Fletcher for later , calling it a " treat " . ( TV : " Day One " ) History . According to the Seventh Doctor , the ancient Greek s and Romans linked war with homosexuality . ( PROSE : " Death and Diplomacy " ) Though many rumours claimed that William Shakespeare was homosexual , the Ninth Doctor assured Rose Tyler that he was " " very " straight " . He was , in the words of Rose , " hitting on [ her ] " , ( COMIC : " A Groatsworth of Wit " ) and did the same with Martha Jones . Despite this , Shakespeare still flirted with the Tenth Doctor as well , who commented , " academics just punched the air . " ( TV : " The Shakespeare Code " ) The Ninth Doctor also implied that Christopher Marlowe was interested in men ; ( COMIC : " A Groatsworth of Wit " ) in fact , Marlowe flirted extensively with Steven Taylor . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " ) According to Bernice Summerfield , the 1880s " weren ' t as enlightened " as her time when it came to sexuality . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) Around the 1890s , Warren Gadd targeted gay s , and attempted to blackmail Oscar Wilde by threatening to reveal his secret . ( AUDIO : " Beautiful Things " ) Vastra and Jenny Flint were married by Christmas of 1892 . This couple was not only same - sex , but different species — Vastra was a Silurian , while Jenny was a human . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) An inspector the two worked with could barely take this in . ( TV : " " ) Another female same - sex couple around this time was that of Torchwood Three members Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd . ( TV : " Fragments " ) In 1869 , Gwyneth called Rose Tyler , who was native to the 21st century , " some kind of wild thing " for expressing the criteria she used in picking boys : " good smile , nice bum . " ( TV : " The Unquiet Dead " ) In the 1920s , Roger Curbishley was forced to keep his relationship with Davenport secret , ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) and Angelo Colasanto was not allowed to join the Three Families because he did not hide his with Jack Harkness . ( TV : " End of the Road " ) According to the Seventh Doctor , gays were sent to concentration camp s during World War II , along with anyone else even slightly different . ( PROSE : " " ) In and around the 1950s , sex in general was somewhat taboo ed . Emma - Louise Cowell ' s mother would tell her that " no man wants to marry soiled goods . " Sex was generally only performed with spouses , although some people like Diane Holmes , who claimed to " not exactly [ be ] marriage material " , had lovers . While Owen Harper was under the impression that the ' 50s were uptight and sexually repressed , Diane assured him , " You didn ' t invent it , you know . " ( TV : " Out of Time " ) In 1940s Britain , homosexuality was viewed as heavily abnormal , and Jack shocked everyone around him by dancing with and kissing another man at a goodbye dance at The Ritz . Heterosexuals at that dance , though , had no problem even having mild sex in public ; there was indeed a " lover ' s corner " intended for just this . ( TV : " Captain Jack Harkness " ) Alan Turing was persecuted for his homosexuality , but strongly believed that it was unalterable and perfectly natural . ( PROSE : " The Turing Test " ) The gay minority was persecuted well into the 1960s , ( AUDIO : " The Cold Equations " ) Canton Delaware getting kicked out of the CIA for wanting to marry a black man . ( TV : " Day of the Moon " ) Companion Oliver Harper was facing arrest by the Metropolitan Police Service for his homosexuality when he first met the First Doctor in 1966 . ( AUDIO : " The Cold Equations " ) Policewoman Barbara Redworth once saw the corpse of a homosexual , having been murder ed by " queer - bashers " . ( PROSE : " The Scales of Injustice " ) Bob Campbell linked homosexuality with illegal drug s , and called gays ' lifestyles impermissible . ( PROSE : " The Devil Goblins from Neptune " ) In the 1990s , one version of Samantha Jones identified as the only person in her high school class that didn ' t think homosexuals " ought to be shot on sight " . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) By the early 21st century , though , homosexuality was more accepted , and children just accepted that some people had two mothers or two fathers . ( TV : " " ) April MacLean was able to say " good for you " when she found out Charlie Smith was gay , and no one took any issue with Charlie taking a boy to the prom . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Homophobia still stuck around , though , and people like Rex Matheson maintained the prejudice . ( TV : " The Categories of Life " ) When Rex said , " The whole world got screwed because two gay guys had a hissy fit , " Gwen Cooper replied , " Rex , get back in your cave . " ( TV : " End of the Road " ) In 2016 , Matteusz Andrzejewski ' s deeply religious Polish parents shouted at him and later grounded him for going to the school prom with a boy , Charlie . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) Matteusz ' s parents subsequently kicked him out of the house because of his relationship with Charlie . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) By this point , one did not need to be in love to have sex with someone ; according to Gwen Cooper , " sex could just be about having a good time together . " As Gwen elaborated , " as long as it ' s safe and between two consenting adults , no one cares . " People had casual sex with " fuck buddies " , and pornographic magazines such as " Peach " were sold to the general public without consideration for child ren who might see them . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) People kissed in public , and sexualised advertisements marked nearly every shop window . ( TV : " Day One " ) When John Ellis , Diane Holmes and Emma - Louise Cowell accidentally travelled from 1953 through the Cardiff Rift to 2007 , both John and Emma were disgusted by what they saw . Emma expected to just have " a kiss and a cuddle " with a guy she met at a bar , but then found out that he wanted more . Diane , however , was perfectly comfortable with the 21st century attitude towards sex , as she had held much the same attitude in ' 53 . ( TV : " Out of Time " ) Internet chat room s existed for people craving sexual partners online . DrLuvin entered the channel # areyoulonely , thinking from the title it was a sexual nature . He wanted to know what Shirley1968 was wearing , if it was something cute , hoping it was something tight - fitting and " slinky " . ( PROSE : " Lonely " ) Around 2030 , Fiona , or " Fee " , was indifferent about people ' s sexual preferences , commenting , " Fine , if that ' s what turns them on , " after being told that two women were lesbians . ( PROSE : " Warchild " ) Yuri Kerenski told a story about his brother Mikail and his husband to Maggie Cain in 2059 . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) In the 26th century — the home era of Professor Bernice Summerfield — bisexuality was the norm . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) Steven Taylor , who came from sometime between the 22nd century and the 41st , ( AUDIO : " Return of the Rocket Men " , TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) told Oliver Harper of the 1960s , " In my time , [ homosexuality ] doesn ' t matter . No one thinks twice about it . " He laughed when he realised that something like sexuality was Oliver ' s reason for fleeing his world in the TARDIS — " why would it be [ illegal ] ? " he asked rhetorically . ( AUDIO : " The Cold Equations " ) Chris Cwej , from the 30th century , noted that his society had many sex - related problems , but only " once in a blue moon " did they involve sexual orientation . ( PROSE : " Damaged Goods " ) The taboo simply did not exist . ( AUDIO : " Damaged Goods " ) The people of the 51st century were sexually active with not only more than one gender , but in fact many different non - human species . John Hart even found himself attracted to an Earth poodle . ( TV : " Kiss Kiss , Bang Bang " ) As the Ninth Doctor quipped , " So many species , so little time . " He explained to Rose Tyler that they were " just a bit more flexible when it [ came ] to dancing . " ( TV : " The Doctor Dances " ) Jack Harkness , a native of this century , would " shag anything if it ' s gorgeous enough " according to Toshiko Sato . ( TV : " Day One " ) The Thin One and the Fat One declared proudly that they were the " Thin / Fat Gay Married Anglican Marines " . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) By the year 5 , 000 , 000 , 053 , same - sex couples were just as common as opposite - sex ones , and both were unremarkable , although New Earth Cat Thomas Kincade Brannigan jokingly called partners Alice and May Cassini sisters , claiming to be old - fashioned . ( TV : " Gridlock " ) Human sexuality . Heterosexuality . Heterosexuality was sexual attraction to people of the opposite gender . Heterosexuals were often known as " straight s " . Such was considered the norm into the 21st century . Bernice Summerfield noted that religious texts made heterosexuality compulsory , something which she found maddening . ( PROSE : " Beyond the Sun " ) Creed McIlveen felt drawn to images of young women who were " limber and tanned " , and traced the legs of one with his salivated finger . ( PROSE : " Warlock " ) Jack Harkness noted that Gwen Cooper had " all the right curves in all the right places " . ( TV : " Day One " ) Gilgamesh , king of Uruk , had a substantial sex drive , and many women reportedly felt " honoured " to sleep with him according to Avram . He could essentially pick whom he wanted , though he knew to stay away when he was not wanted . ( PROSE : " " ) When Gwen and Owen had to hide together in a storage space to hide from Lisa Hallett , their closeness drew Owen to kiss her . She later intimated that " I could feel your hard on . " ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) They soon began an affair , much to Gwen ' s guilt . When Toshiko Sato listened in on their thoughts , they had had sex two times already that day , Gwen was considering taking him down to the Vaults for a third , and Owen was getting aroused by the thought of Gwen ' s tongue running across his teeth . After Gwen called their affair off , Owen yelled out , " I was getting bored of your fuck tricks anyway . " ( TV : " Combat " ) Amy Pond did not look away as the newly - regenerated Eleventh Doctor got fully naked and changed into his new outfit at Royal Leadworth Hospital . ( TV : " The Eleventh Hour " ) She later attempted to have sex with him . ( TV : " Flesh and Stone " ) A young Blondie programmed a hologram to appear as a ten - centimetre woman named Tinkerbell , whom he kept in his locker . It took him thirty - six hours to complete , but his teenage libido urged him on . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) The Master married a human woman named Lucy Cole who was in favour of his evil actions , but fell out of love with him when their relationship became abusive . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) He also implied an attraction to his female incarnation . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) Homosexuality . Homosexuality was sexual attraction to people of the same gender . According to the Seventh Doctor , some people believed that certain gene s lead to homosexuality . ( PROSE : " Utopia " ) Alan Turing maintained that " my condition is an unalterable and natural , if variant , behaviour . . . but this axiom is in direct conﬂict with that held with equal certainty by others . " ( PROSE : " The Turing Test " ) Jack Harkness was perfectly capable of detecting homosexuality in others , in order to choose his mates . " [ It ' s ] just [ through ] experience , that ' s all . " He expressed to Angelo Colasanto , though , that others would not discover should he not choose to share . ( TV : " Immortal Sins " ) Homosexuals were forced to endure homophobia , something which Bernice Summerfield — and everyone else from her home period of the 26th century — could not understand . ( PROSE : " Sky Pirates ! " ) Words used to describe and insult homosexuals included gay , queer , poof , fairy and faggot . ( TV : " " , PROSE : " Endgame " , " Death and Diplomacy " , " Timeless " , " Blue Box " , " The Forgotten Son " , et . al ) Benny later referred to her son , Peter Summerfield , as being gay . ( PROSE : " Big Bang Generation " ) Christianity denounced homosexuality , leading Angelo Colasanto to believe that God " doesn ' t hear me " . ( TV : " Immortal Sins " ) In the 1890s , George Litefoot expressed the hope that homosexuals such as Oscar Wilde and Warren Gadd ' s victims would be able to practice their love freely in a more enlightened time in the future . ( AUDIO : " Beautiful Things " ) In 1960s Britain at least , homosexuality was a crime punishable by law ( as Alan Turing experienced ) , but Steven Taylor — from centuries later — retorted , " Why would it be [ illegal ] ? " The Doctor , for his part , commented in his first incarnation , " I shall say it ' s society ' s crime , not [ referring to Oliver Harper ] yours . " ( AUDIO : " The Cold Equations " ) Homosexuality was far more accepted on Rhodia than on Earth . Even in the 21st century , Matteusz Andrzejewski ' s deeply religious Polish parents shouted at him and later grounded him for going to the school prom with a boy , Charlie Smith . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) Some heterosexuals found homosexuality daunting , and " Chick " Peters was forced to tell Ace to " relax ; you ' re not my type . " ( PROSE : " Blue Box " ) Homosexuality also meant to heterosexuals that the person was unavailable . It was thus an undesirable trait . Samantha Jones complained to Ramadan that " the good ‐ looking ones are always gay . " ( PROSE : " Seeing I " ) When Donna Noble was brought to a party on 8 December 1926 , she was disappointed that both Davenport and Roger Curbishley were gay — " Typical . All the decent men are on the other bus . " ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) Tallulah mistakenly thought the Tenth Doctor was " [ such ] a waste " because he was " into musical theatre . " ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) When April MacLean found out that Charlie was gay , she remarked , " Of course he is , " disappointed . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Some associated certain stereotypes with homosexuality , including being " into musical theatre " . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) During a discussion on Jack Harkness with his Torchwood Three colleagues , Owen Harper voiced his belief that he must be gay , saying that " period military is not the dress code of a straight man . " ( TV : " Day One " ) Growing up , Amy Pond believed her best friend Rory Williams to be a homosexual as he never showed any interest in girls in her mind . However , she completely missed the fact that he was in love with her and thus had only been paying her attention since they were children until their friend Mels , their future daughter , pointed out that Rory was in love with her . When Rory learned that Amy thought he was gay , he ran out of the room chased by Amy once she realised the truth . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) Bill Potts had a crush on a girl who attended the Twelfth Doctor ' s lectures , giving her extra chips at the university canteen . Her interest seemed to cease when the extra chips eventually caused her to become overweight . Bill also developed an interest in another young woman , Heather , ( TV : " The Pilot " ) whom she eventually kissed and travelled the universe with . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) Her virtual self also briefly developed a crush on a woman called Penny . ( TV : " Extremis " ) Her real self eventually did the same thing with the real Penny . ( TV : " The Pyramid at the End of the World " ) Bisexuality . Bisexuality was sexual attraction to both sexes . Gwen Cooper thought that being bisexual must be great — " best of both worlds " — but Ianto Jones , who identified as one , said it made him feel insecure , like he belonged nowhere . ( PROSE : " The Twilight Streets " ) Bisexuality was the norm in the 26th century . ( PROSE : " All - Consuming Fire " ) Oswin Oswald , who lived in a time period beyond the 21st century , claimed to Rory Williams that the first boy whom she ever fancied was called Rory , but quickly admitted that " Actually , she was called Nina . I was going through a phase . " ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) As a teacher , Clara Oswald described Jane Austen to a class as a " phenomenal kisser " , suggesting that Clara has shared some sort of experience with her . ( TV : " The Magician ' s Apprentice " ) River Song was at least bisexual , as she had two wives in addition to the Doctor , Ramone and King Hydroflax as her husbands . ( TV : " The Husbands of River Song " ) In an alternate timeline , Adric had a wife and children , and after her death he married a man . ( AUDIO : " A Full Life " ) Exosexuality . Exosexuality , or xenophilia , was the sexual attraction towards members of other species . While not widely practised , exosexuality was oft thought of , and Jason Kane made a living selling pieces of literary xenopornography such as " Nights of the Perfumed Tentacle " , based off his own personal experiences . These erotic works were targeted at both human s " and " " alien s " , and included several sex scenes between individuals of different alien species . ( PROSE : " Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants " , " Beige Planet Mars " , " The Infernal Nexus " ) On a hen night in the 34th century , Andy Hansen noticed that inter - species couples were very common . ( PROSE : " The Three Faces of Helena " ) Chris Cwej once found a xenopornographic magazine in one of the TARDIS ' guest rooms , and was reminded of what he saw inside when he saw a gynoid giving birth . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) Jenny Flint and Vastra were exosexual , the pair being married . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " , " The Name of the Doctor " , " Deep Breath " ) Omnisexuality . Omnisexuality was the term that Jack Harkness applied to himself . As his boyfriend Ianto Jones explained , " it ' s the polite way of saying he ' ll sleep with anything — men , women . . . cephalopod s . " ( PROSE : " The House That Jack Built " ) Indeed , this was the norm in Jack ' s native 51st century — having spread out across the galaxy , human s began having sex with not only all genders , but many different alien species — " So many species , so little time . " The Ninth Doctor explained to Rose Tyler that they were " just a bit more flexible when it [ came ] to dancing . " ( TV : " The Doctor Dances " ) Toshiko Sato had " seen him in action " , and assured her Torchwood Three colleagues that Jack would " shag anything if it ' s gorgeous enough " . ( TV : " Day One " ) John Hart , a contemporary of Jack Harkness , even found himself attracted to a poodle , which he considered " gorgeous " . ( TV : " Kiss Kiss , Bang Bang " ) Another word for this was ambisexuality , which Bernice Summerfield applied to " her " culture , the human s of the 26th century . ( PROSE : " Sky Pirates ! " ) Jason Kane , though from the 20th century , was also omnisexual , having relations with both genders while on Earth and with many different species after getting whisked away to the planet t ' Kao at age fifteen . ( PROSE : " Death and Diplomacy " ) Vince Cosmos , a musician from the planet Glam brought up on 20th century Earth , also identified as ambisexual . ( AUDIO : " " ) Other . Charles " Chick " Peters was born with both an X and a Y chromosome like a man , but his body did not respond to the hormones like it should have . He was brought up as a girl by his parents , and only found out his true identity at the age of fifteen . Chick did not have a womb . He dated women , and " never had any complaints " about his " female " body . Chick identified as a man , and did not consider himself a lesbian . ( PROSE : " Blue Box " ) According to Kane , Avron Jelks ' pieces occasionally went off on useless , sexual rants about " child ren , chainsaw s and excrement " . ( PROSE : " Burning Heart " ) Jack on at least one occasion felt sexually attracted to a dog , Sheba . ( PROSE : " Warlock " ) Sexuality in other species . Not all species experienced sexuality in the same way human s did . Female Rill s were sexually attracted to a giant skull , ( PROSE : " Galaxy Four " ) while the Delphons found the amputation of limbs sexually alluring . ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " ) Miss Quill was attracted to Coach Dawson ' s buttocks , and said she liked Mr Armitage . She kiss ed an android called the Inspector . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) She later referred to him as " the really quite hot dragon tattoo guy " . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) Obviously , species that reproduced asexually or that did not have distinct gender s like Sloathe s or Sontaran s did not have sexuality at all , and could not understand the human concept . ( PROSE : " Oblivion " , TV : " The Time Warrior " ) The Doctor . The Doctor himself was not explicitly prone to sexual attraction until his eighth incarnation . It was only then that he began feeling , not quite an urge , but the desire for more , for " the excitement of being close to someone , the need to exchange ideas on a more personal level , to be able to tell someone what you really believe " — romance . He stressed , though , that he ' d only been feeling this urge " since I regenerated into this body " , and told I . M . Foreman it wouldn ' t be fair on any of his companion s to get involved sexually with them . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) Despite the Doctor ' s discussion about his " newfound " feelings , the Twelfth Doctor recalled that he had a long - time crush on the Master in his first incarnation , while at the Time Lord Academy . The Master was his first friend , and his " man - crush " , who he thought was " so fast , so funny " and " always so brilliant " . ( TV : " World Enough and Time " ) By the time the First Doctor regenerated , he had had " some experience with the fairer sex " . ( TV : " Twice Upon a Time " ) Further on , his fourth incarnation once openly referred to Romana I as being attractive , ( TV : " The Pirate Planet " ) and the First Doctor flirted with an Aztec woman named Cameca . ( TV : " The Aztecs " ) At some point in his lifetimes , the Doctor built an android boyfriend and had difficulty getting rid of him . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) He once met an emperor made of algae that fancied him . ( TV : " Smile " ) The Doctor ' s seventh incarnation , while in his John Smith guise , romanced and proposed to a human woman named Joan Redfern ( PROSE : " Human Nature " ) According to another account , the Tenth Doctor entered a similar human persona with another woman called Joan Redfern . ( TV : " Human Nature " / " The Family of Blood " ) Still , though , the Eighth Doctor kiss ed Grace Holloway mere hours after his regeneration . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) This incarnation was implied to have had sex with Bernice Summerfield ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " , AUDIO : " Benny ' s Story " ) and kissed Fitz squarely on the lips after finding out that he was still alive . ( PROSE : " Dominion " ) He even actively flirted with Fitz on occasion : " I ' ll show you my tattoo if you ' re lucky . " ( PROSE : " Eater of Wasps " ) The Eighth Doctor eventually married a woman named Scarlette that was initially intended to bind him to Earth , but the union had deeper meaning for both individuals . Scarlette , who Sabbath stated was the only woman the Doctor ever got close to , eventually faked her death because she believed the Doctor ' s feelings for her would keep him on Earth instead of going to people who needed his help . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " , " Camera Obscura " ) The Doctor ' s next incarnation , the War Doctor , was not quite as sexual as his predecessor or successors , perhaps because he spent his entire life fighting in the Last Great Time War . After meeting his tenth and eleventh incarnations , he asked if his future held a lot of kiss ing ; the Eleventh Doctor replied , " It does start to happen , yeah . " ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Indeed , although he rejected Jackie Tyler ' s advances , ( TV : " Rose " ) the Ninth Doctor flirtatiously gave Jabe " air from [ his ] lungs " and suggestively told her he had " more where that came from " . ( TV : " The End of the World " ) He assured Rose Tyler that , in the 900 years of his life , he had at some point " danced " . He flirted with Jack Harkness too , proposing to dance with him , ( TV : " The Doctor Dances " ) and promising to give him what Rose Tyler had with Mickey Smith should Jack buy him a drink . ( TV : " Boom Town " ) He did not protest a goodbye kiss from the man . One of the Ninth Doctor ' s final actions was saving Rose with a kiss ; the excess vortex energy was transferred to him through the contact . ( TV : " The Parting of the Ways " ) After getting stranded in the year 200 , 100 and teleporting to the late 19th century , Jack promised , " First I ' m gonna kiss him , and then I ' m gonna kill him . " ( TV : " Fragments " ) The Tenth Doctor told Sally Sparrow that he was rubbish at weddings , especially his own . ( TV : " Blink " ) He also shared a kiss with companions Rose Tyler , ( PROSE : " The Stone Rose " ) Martha Jones ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ) and Donna Noble ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) — as well as Jackie Tyler , ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) Madame de Pompadour , ( TV : " The Girl in the Fireplace " ) Astrid Peth , ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) Joan Redfern , ( TV : " Human Nature " ) Christina de Souza , ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) Queen Elizabeth I , and a Zygon duplicate of the same Queen . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Soon after his regeneration , he was glad to find that he " still got it " after Cassandra O ' Brien , in Rose Tyler ' s body , kiss ed him enthusiastically . ( TV : " New Earth " ) He gave both Martha and Frank the option of kissing him later , as he was busy at the time trying to defeat the Dalek s . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) Though Martha fancied him , ( TV : " Partners in Crime " ) he did not return the favour . She told John Smith , " [ the Doctor ] is everything to me , and he doesn ' t even look at me , but I don ' t care , because I love him to bits , and I hope to God he won ' t remember me saying this . " ( TV : " The Family of Blood " ) She spent all of her travels " pining after him " , and ultimately left the TARDIS to " get out " of what she considered a one - way relationship . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) Near the end of his tenth incarnation , he accidentally proposed to Elizabeth I , believing her to be a Zygon , and followed through with the proposal by marrying her so he could stop the Zygon invasion . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) He told Ood Sigma that the marriage was a mistake , stopped just short of telling Ood Sigma that her nickname , " the Virgin Queen " , was no longer accurate . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) The Eleventh Doctor fought off Amy Pond ' s attempts to have sex with him . She " did " get as far as kissing him , ( TV : " Flesh and Stone " ) which he enjoyed ; he later expressed to Rory Williams , though , that it was incidental , and it should have been him in his place . ( TV : " The Vampires of Venice " ) He accidentally became engaged to Marilyn Monroe , married her , and later claimed the marriage wasn ' t valid due to the venue . ( TV : " A Christmas Carol " ) Though he was married to — and was implied to have an active sexual life with — River Song , ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) the Doctor ' s eleventh incarnation had zero issue with kissing Rory Williams on two occasions , ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " , " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship " ) and nearly kissing Craig Owens on another . In fact , the Doctor and Craig were mistaken for a married couple by Val , who took Alfie as their baby . She said , " it ' s nice for a baby to have two daddies who love each other . " ( TV : " Closing Time " ) The original Clara Oswald could not imagine having a sexual relationship with the Eleventh Doctor , ( TV : " Hide " ) while her Victorian copy kissed him soon after meeting the man . She claimed he blushed . ( TV : " The Snowmen " ) After Clara told stories of a non - existent boyfriend to her family , she was forced to invite the Doctor over , pretending to be dating her . The Doctor enthusiastically agreed : " Ding - dong ! Okay , brilliant . I ' m maybe a bit . . . rusty in some areas , but I will glance at a manual . " He also displayed attraction to her at times , and Clara , under the influence of a Truth Field , admitted she fancied him . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Following his regeneration , the Twelfth Doctor indicated that his predecessor had seen himself as Clara ' s boyfriend , something that he made clear he did not continue , seeing it as a mistake . ( TV : " Deep Breath " ) Upon meeting him , kissed the Twelfth Doctor passionately . His reaction : a fearful " Clara , is it over now ? " ( TV : " Dark Water " ) He later quickly returned the favour in thanks . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) The Twelfth Doctor thought of kissing , " As an activity , it ' s not hugely varied , " asking , " Doesn ' t it get dull after a while ? " ( TV : " The Husbands of River Song " ) River Song told him she ' d let him know what she thought of his new body after she ' d seen more of it than just his face . ( TV : " The Husbands of River Song " ) Behind the scenes . " No hanky - panky in the TARDIS " . Because it was generally considered a children ' s programme , " Doctor Who " stayed away from topics such as sexuality from its birth . William Hartnell , who played the First Doctor , specified that the show had " no sex or swearing " in a 1964 interview . ( REF : " The First Doctor Handbook " ) In fact , aside from Susan falling in love with David Campbell in " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " and Jo Grant marry ing Clifford Jones in " The Green Death " , sexuality and even love were barely themes in the early decades of the show . In fact , the " Doctor Who " production team often went out of their way to make sure sexuality could not even be " construed " . An early example of this is the 8 July 1963 decision to make Susan the Doctor ' s granddaughter , to avoid any possible sexual connotations of a young girl travelling alone with an old man . ( REF : " The First Doctor Handbook " ) In the " monochromatic era " of the show , companions were always accompanied by others in the TARDIS , who served as " chaperones " of sorts . As times progressed , though , the show slipped further and further away from its non - sexual origins . 1980s producer John Nathan - Turner admitted he introduced Nicola Bryant ' s Peri Brown mainly for her sex appeal in an attempt to compete with other programmes airing at around the same time . ( REF : " The Companions " ) Nevertheless , it was JN - T himself who began what Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker referred to as " the golden rule " : " No hanky - panky in the TARDIS . " ( REF : " The Television Companion " ) The Doctor ' s female companions were allowed limited physical contact with the Doctor , and were for a time restricted to non - revealing costumes . With the return of the show in its BBC Wales incarnation , " Doctor Who " became far more sexualised , there being less taboos surrounding sexuality by the 21st century . Waris Hussein , who directed the programme ' s first serial in 1963 , criticised this , saying it removed much of the Doctor ' s mystery . Matt Smith , however , disagreed — " For sure , Karen is hot , so too Billie and Jenna , but is that a bad thing ? I don ' t think so . [ . . . ] Look at the history of the show ; there were women in Tarzanian outfits , were there not , back in the early days ? " Not quite ready . In an interview included in the DVD release of " The Curse of Fenric " , writer Ian Briggs revealed that the story ' s Dr Judson was intended to be — like the man he was based on , Alan Turing — struggling with his homosexuality , but this was ultimately cut as it was not at the time considered appropriate to discuss such topics in a family programme . Briggs instead transformed Turing ' s frustration at being unable to express his true sexual identity into Judson ' s frustration at being crippled . ( DCOM : " The Curse of Fenric " ) The " gay agenda " . Sexuality was approached fairly often , though , in " Doctor Who " novels released in the 1990s , and the Doctor received his first televised non - heterosexual companion in 2005 in the form of Captain Jack Harkness . From then on , the programme — not to mention its more adult - oriented spin - off , " Torchwood " , with Jack in the lead — contained many references to all sexual orientations , and demonstrated the evolution of views towards homosexuality in the future . Some critics have called this show runner Russell T Davies ' " gay agenda " — a phrase which Davies himself in an interview called " abhorrent " . His intention was not in fact to rally homosexuality , but rather to express that , in his own words , " sexuality is fluid " . Steven Andrew , then Head of Drama and Acquisitions for CBBC , also requested that Davies put a gay character in " The Sarah Jane Adventures " , in an attempt to introduce a " normal " gay teenager into children ' s television . Before the show ' s cancellation , the plan was to have Luke Smith and eventually have a boyfriend , Sanjay . ( DCOM : " Death of the Doctor " ) The Doctor : asexual ? The question of the Doctor ' s sexuality was a controversial one . It was fanon for decades that he was ; fans used the Fourth Doctor ' s line in " City of Death " that Countess Scarlioni was " probably " beautiful as proof . Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker agreed with this theory , saying , " Love is a human emotion and the Doctor isn ' t human . " ( REF : " The Television Companion " ) Both Matt Smith and Tom Baker ( DOC : " Getting Blood from the Stones " ) have identified that their respective Doctors are asexual and clueless to human sexuality ; both exploited this for visual humour . It was therefore heavily controversial when the Eighth Doctor , in the words of Steven Moffat , " hit puberty " ( DOC : " The Doctors Revisited - The Eighth Doctor " ) and shared his first kiss with Grace Holloway in the 1996 tele - film . Moffat was in fact completely against the fan theory of the Doctor ' s celibacy , saying in an online forum in 1996 that it " flies directly in the face of established continuity " . From the TV movie on , the Doctor had an active sexual and romantic life in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures and the BBC Wales version of " Doctor Who . " River Song . Steven Moffat has revealed on Twitter that River Song , coming from the same 51st century as Jack Harkness , is just as omnisexual .