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Be a Whore to Get Your Man
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A Hard Truth Aesop which often goes hand-in-hand with Unnecessary Makeover. The Ingenue learns to dress and act in an overtly-sexual manner in order to snag her man, usually with the help of her "friends". Heaven forbid she should pick someone who likes her the way she is. Fridge Logic wonders, will she have to keep up her new sexy look and attitude forever, and will she resent it? Most (in)famously done in Grease. Commonly used in fanfiction, leading to Possession Sue. Can be coupled off with Corrupt the Cutie. Compare My Girl Is a Slut; contrast My Girl Is Not a Slut. Also compare Beautiful All Along (which this trope tries to be, with an unfortunate "beauty = slutty" message) and She Cleans Up Nicely. When the trope is portrayed as an effective way to attract men, it may be because All Men Are Perverts. Often overlaps with Operation: Jealousy and The Tease. Contrast No Guy Wants to Be Chased when the direct approach backfires. You will not often see this trope in shows produced before the 1960s or so, except in cases where the woman is already married to the man whose interest she wants to (re)acquire. The common trope before the 1960s was that men would happily tumble into bed with women who said "yes" but would only marry the woman who said "no". This makes Grease, set in the 1950s, somewhat anachronistic, as a real-life Sandy would have been seen in her time frame as doing exactly the wrong thing to catch Danny — unless she only wanted to catch him for the night. As the bad boy, however, Danny is intentionally at odds with the conventional morality of his time. Subtrope to Changing Yourself for Love. noreallife |
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Subverted in Zoey 101: Quinn does this to get Mark back, but fails. Logan does fall for her, but only after he puts her glasses back on. | |
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Mocked mercilessly and then torn apart in Clone High's two-part finale: after a series of embarrassing makeovers from Abe and Toots, Cleo completely tarts up Joan of Arc. She hates the makeover but decides to keep it because it makes Abe say she's "hot" for the first time in the whole series. She still ends up going to prom with JFK, because Abe is preoccupied with Cleo. Then JFK admits that he's liked her all along "even when she's not being a slutty whore" and they sleep with each other, just in time for Abe to realize he likes her and burst in on them. | |
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Hobgoblins plays this one utterly straight, with the protagonist Kevin's girlfriend Amy starting off the film as frigid, prudish, and impossible to please (she calls him "pathetic" because he lost an impromptu mock battle against a friend who'd just gotten back from the Army). Then the hobgoblins use their Mind Control powers to lower her inhibitions, which makes her go to the local nightclub and start stripping before her friends intervene. By the end of the film, it's clear both Kevin and Amy are happier now that she's "loosened up". | |
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Invoked in Arrow when Sin has to dress like an actual prostitute to catch the Villain of the Week. So Roy pretends that Sin has a date and asks his girlfriend Thea if she can borrow something slutty to wear. Thea donates one of her short skirts that she promises will guarantee a second date. | |
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In one episode of That '70s Show, Kitty wants to re-acquire Red’s interest and asks Hyde’s stripper wife to teach her some moves. She finally succeeds when she accidentally gets her hair burned and changes her hairdo. | |
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Lampshaded in The Untold Story. The lone female cop dresses in a slutty fashion in order to impress the men in the precinct. They are impressed, but the chief tells her she looks "like a whore". She replies, "But this is the way your girlfriends dress," and he quickly responds, "But they are whores, my dear." | |
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Live musical performances of Grease follow this trope, having girl-next-door-type, sweet Sandy change to look like a vamp-y bad girl at the end—to be with Danny and to fit among his friends. | |
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In Double Homework, the normally shy Johanna becomes more sexually aggressive to endear herself to the protagonist. | |
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My Rosy Life: The patriarchy of 2005 South Korea is reflected when Soon-yi's own sister Young-yi says that Sung-moon is cheating on her because she isn't putting enough effort into her appearance, and she needs to get tarted up to take care of her man's needs. She puts on some makeup and some lipstick, and tries to have some sex with her husband, but it doesn't work, as Sung-moon only has thoughts of his mistress. | |
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Discussed in A Brother's Price, set in a world where males are rare and secluded and very feminine by our world's standards. Jerin is approaching the age of marriage, and one of his sisters, paging through a men's fashion magazine, wants him to make himself tight-fitting pants with a codpiece. Such clothing would let prospective wives see what they were getting. | |
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Married... with Children: One episode has Steve and Marcy falling out over his refusal to shave off the beard he's grown. Marcy finally wins by appearing wearing only some lacy black underwear and carrying an electric razor. The situation is reversed with Peg. There are several episodes where she dresses in a sexier manner to entice Al, and while the audience would react in kind, Al himself would react with his usual indifference. The truth is, if she had spent less time trying to be a sexpot and more time being an ideal housewife (cooking, cleaning, etc,) then Al would spend a lot more love and attention on her. This fact was highlighted in one episode where Peg was cleaning the backyard for the family's Labor Day barbecue and Al couldn't keep his hands off her, and for once she didn't want sex because she was exhausted from the manual labor. In the episode "Rain Girl", Kelly is hired for her looks as a TV weathergirl, but her first appearance is a disaster because she can't read the words on the teleprompter. Sensing her job is in jeopardy, she quickly props herself up on the counter and hikes up her already short skirt to flash some thigh at the camera. It doesn't save her from getting fired. |
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The Brothers GarcÃa had Lorenna wear a tube top and don lots of makeup to try and get a boy to notice her. Deconstructed then when he shows interest in another girl who isn't wearing makeup at all. Sonia gives Lorenna a Be Yourself speech and suggests the boy went for the other girl because she was more confident in her own skin. | |
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In Return to the Forbidden Planet, Miranda tries this on Captain Tempest after he sings about how she's much too young for him. "Good morrow, big boy!" It doesn't work quite the way she wants it—on the one hand, it does get the Captain's attention, but the robot Ariel has to remind her that it was her sweetness and charm that attracted the Captain to her in the first place, not a frou-frou frock. | |
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The Draco Trilogy: During Draco Veritas, Ginny suggests Hermione spice up her stalling relationship with Harry in this fashion. However, Harry is so caught up in angsting over everything that he barely even notices how Hermione is changing. | |
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Played every which way in The House Bunny. Former Playboy bunny Shelley falls in with a group of misfit sorority girls and helps them update their image, which greatly improves their standing on campus and helps several of them score a guy. Shelley herself falls for a guy who resists her every attempt to flirt with him until the girls figure out he's one of those rare guys who's interested in (gasp!) conversation. So she starts to dress conservatively and puts up an intellectual facade, with cringe-worthy results. Meanwhile, the other girls realize that they've started to become the same vapid, judgemental people who used to look down on them and decide to go back to their old frumpy ways. Eventually everyone settles on a happy medium. | |
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Madam Satan: After Angela finds out that her husband Bob is cheating on her, Martha the maid expressly tells Angela this, saying "You must make yourself so attractive to him that he won't want to leave you." Then she sings a song about it. Angela eventually follows up on this advice, appearing half-naked at the ball as Madam Satan and enchanting her husband. | |
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MAD Magazine's parody of Grease (titled "Cease") had fun with this aspect of the musical too. | |
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In the 1931 movie The Smiling Lieutenant, Maurice Chevalier's old girlfriend teaches his new, prim wife, whom he was more-or-less forced to marry, how to vamp it up, and Chevalier falls in love with her. | |
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In the second Blue Collar Comedy movie, Jeff Foxworthy refers to this after explaining Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, noting that the premise could not be flipped so that men could send their girlfriend to five hookers and tell them to "slut her up, just a little bit." | |
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In Legally Blonde: The Musical, the song Positive, as sung by Elle's imaginary Greek chorus of sorority sisters, encourages her to do this to win her ex-boyfriend back from his new uptight girlfriend. However, it's Subverted by the end of the song: |
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All You Need Is Love: After Misa enters the picture, Naomi attempts to regain Light's attention by dressing up in Elegant Gothic Lolita attire... much to Light's horror. | |
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Degrassi: Manny did this in order to stop being seen as cute and win over a random one-shot character, but it's most remembered for helping her win over Craig. | |
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Earth Girls Are Easy has a production number based on this trope, triggered when Julie Brown's character Candy suggests that heroine Geena Davis needs a makeover to recapture her distant (and cheating, not that they know it) boyfriend's eye: | |
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New Tamaran: Selina Kyle finally gets a chance to start a relationship with Bruce Wayne after becoming a High-Class Call Girl. | |
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In Juliet of the Spirits, Juliet, a middle-aged wife, has discovered her husband is cheating on her. Distraught, she goes to Bhisma the medium for advice. Bhisma urges Juliet to do just this, saying "Learn to please your husband" and telling her to wear sexy stockings. Juliet is indignant, saying "Whoring—some advice!" | |
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Caddyshack: Lacey Underall, Judge Smails' sexually liberated niece put this into practice before she meets and picks up Danny Noonan. At the Fourth of July banquet, Danny becomes sexually attracted to Lacey and Maggie informs him of her reputation. That only makes Danny grow even more attracted to Lacey. Later, when he's in bed with Lacey, Danny tells her that she's still free to have sex with other people.NSFW | |
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In PK Comic, Kate and Bo both advise Jess to act slutty to attract men's attention, Kate goes so far as to demonstrate by pulling a complete stranger with a cheesy chat up line and leaving with him. | |
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Siesta from The Familiar of Zero. She is originally a kind, gentle, and modest maid, but falling in love with Saito makes her push herself so much that she begins to use various costumes that enforce her sex appeal to try to seduce him. It fails. | |
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In Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill, Freida sleeps with Darwin thinking it will make him fall in love with her and choose her as his "companion". This leads to disaster for all involved. In Almost Love by the same author, Sarah does her best to be always sexually accommodating of Matthew (even when this means doing stuff she's uncomfortable with, or skipping out on her personal responsibilities) in the belief he'll stick around if she does. It doesn't work. |
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A number of people advise for or against it in The Wheel of Time. The most notable proponent is Berelain, who used seduction as a means to keep her tiny kingdom of Mayenne free from powerful neighbors. She tried to turn up the charm on Rand, who was mostly oblivious, and on Perrin, who was happily married. In general, genuine affection and respect win out over this trope for the good guys, and if it does work then it's a sign that the characters in question aren't protagonist material. Even the moderately-lecherous Mat is turned off by this trope. | |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Bad Tina", Tina Belcher's new friend Tammy encourages Tina to change her style (complete with the typical middle school/junior high too-much-make up look) to attract Jimmy Pesto Jr. Tina eventually realizes the makeup (and getting "drunk" on her mom's non-alcoholic margarita mix) isn't really her and decides to go back to her old style. | |
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In Summer of Sam, Mira Sorvino can't please her husband, so she is forced to beg for sex tips from his ex-girlfriend to keep him from cheating. | |
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In Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, Odagiri wants to steal Yamada from Shiraishi, and she knows that they are too emotionally linked for her to have a chance. However, at one point, she figures out that they don't have much of a sex life yet, so when Tamaki confirms that All Men Are Perverts, Odagiri tries to divert Yamada by appealing to his... physical needs. This involves dressing up in skimpy clothes (despite that it's winter) with a painful corset that emphasizes her curves — and sticking her ass right into his face. It's mostly a one-chapter gag, though, and she soon drops it in favor of other methods. | |
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In the Sword of Truth, growing up, one of the young women in Richard's town tried this. By screwing his brother in front of him. It didn't work. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick did an episode on Grease, discussing (and, in the Nella subplot, invoking) this trope. | |
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In the Heavy Rain level "Sexy Girl", Madison sluts herself up in order to get the attention of the man she's trying to get information from. She mentions that he likes his girls "cute, in a dumb sort of way." | |
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In Questionable Content, after the Faye-Dora-Marten Love Triangle finally collapsed, with Dora and Marten winding up together, Faye heads home to visit her mother and unwind for a bit. After telling her mother the entire story, the old lady tells her that, back in the day, she'd been stuck in a similar love triangle with Faye's late father - and, obviously, won, resulting in the following conversation: | |
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In He's Just Not That into You, Jennifer Connelly, in an effort to win back her cheating husband, shows up at his office in the middle of the day to seduce him. We have been given the impression that this is completely out of character for her and that their sex life is virtually non-existent—in fact, she blames herself for his cheating because of this. | |
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Splendor in the Grass. Deanie won't let Bud have sex with her because good girls don't have sex in 1928 Kansas. This leads to Bud breaking up with Deanie. In an effort to win Bud back, Deanie tarts herself up and tries to seduce him, but fails. Apparently, Bud is just not able to see her in that way, or maybe she just came on too strong. In any event, her effort to seduce Bud at the dance fails. | |
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Scandal in Sorrento: Violante is in love with Antonio, but he has eyes only for Agnese—mainly because Agnese is played by Sophia Loren wearing a series of tight dresses, while Violante dresses as the prim, reserved widow that she is. Caramella the Old Retainer then gives Violante some advice. She pulls off Violante's dress so that Violante is wearing only a slip, says Violante has a great figure with nice breasts, and says that if Antonio sees her like that he'll go for her. It works: after Violante lets her hair down and puts on lacy, sexy nightclothes, the two of them are on the floor together as the movie ends. | |
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The game Chulip is a weird Gender Flip example. The main character wants to win the literal girl of his dreams over, and to do so, he has to kiss as many townspeople as possible (age, gender, and species indiscriminate) to prove that he's a popular and experienced guy. | |
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A season three episode of One Tree Hill has Haley, under the guise of Brooke, who meant well but didn't have the same approach to relationships as her friend did, trying this at a costume party to win back her husband, Nathan, who has left her because she abandoned him and became a rock star a year earlier. To drive the point home further, she even dresses up as post-makeover Sandy. To say the effort fell flat would be a huge understatement. Haley even discusses how much of a flop it was: | |
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In South Park, when Stan falls in love with a substitute teacher, Wendy does this to try to win him back. She fails because the teacher does something similar herself. Wendy does it again in the episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society", getting a set of massive breast implants. However the guys have just gotten over their infatuation with boobs, so they just laugh at her. Interestingly subverted in "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset", in which the girls dress and act like, well, stupid spoiled whores, but as part of a fad that is an end in and of itself and NOT to attract male attention. In fact, the boys seem to be put off by the girls' new personae, and unlike the episodes where Wendy sluts herself up to attract Stan's attention, in this one she rails against the fad. Subverted yet again in "The Hobbit" when Wendy resists the sudden trend she inadvertently started of young girls Photoshopping themselves to attract boys. In the end, she reluctantly Photoshops herself and distributes it then begins to cry. |
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Thank Your Lucky Stars: Ann Sheridan's song in this musical revue movie, "Love Isn't Born, It's Made" is all about how women can't play coy but have to put out if they expect men to fall in love with them. | |
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Downplayed and discussed in Once Upon a Time. When Mary Margaret begins her secret relationship with David, Emma says it's quite obvious based on the changes in her behavior, such as the "plunging neckline" in her wardrobe. When Mary is taken aback by this, Emma smirks and says, "When I first met you, you were a top-button girl." Cue Mary awkwardly looking down at her blouse. For what it's worth, the blouse wasn't overly revealing, but it didn't go up to her neck like previous outfits. | |
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Dangerous Beauty: Marco Venier refuses to marry Veronica Franco because her family has no money for a dowry. Unable to marry well without a dowry, Veronica has no way to support herself except by becoming a courtesan, a whore. Marco eventually persuades her to become his mistress, and they live happily ever after (his wife is less happy about that). | |
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In Sticky Dilly Buns, this is the sort of tactic that works pretty well for most characters such as ex-porn star Amber (and for that matter for her friend Dillon), but it ends up being averted in the case of Amber's sister Ruby. When she decides that she'd like to go to bed with her boyfriend Andy, Ruby attempts a series of increasingly blatant hints and offers (including borrowing Amber's quite respectable but pretty darned brazen Little Black Dress), but everything bounces off Andy. When she finally insists on discussing the matter, it turns out that Andy is nervous and slightly unsure of his sexuality, but prepared to be talked rationally into going ahead. | |
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A Chorus Line has "get implants to get your career" in the song "Dance Ten, Looks Three". The good dancer who wasn't getting roles until she had plastic surgery is perfectly fine with the results and encourages other women to do the same. | |
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Family Guy: Lois took Meg out shopping and pushed shirts that had "Porn Star" and "Sperm Dumpster" written on them. This is a comment on several things, one is the characters of Lois and Meg, but the other is the fact that such shirts really are sold to girls. In the same episode, Meg got one of these makeovers. Everybody was nicer to her and she lost her virginity to Jimmy Fallon. |
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At the beginning of Love Finds Andy Hardy, Polly is hesitant to let Andy kiss her, saying "Really, l think we're getting much too old for that sort of thing, hugging and kissing." In the end, having been made jealous by Betsy, and with Andy having gone through a serious flirtation with sexy Cynthia, Polly lays a long kiss on Andy. | |
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Suguri from Inu Baka is a naive Country Mouse who moves to Tokyo to find work and falls in love with the manager of the pet store branch she works at. After working for more than a year and still failing to draw any kind of romantic interest from him, she tries to seduce him with her hostess costumes (which she also works part-time as). Unfortunately, Teppei is a Workaholic and Oblivious to Love and thinks her "sexy" antics are more annoying than her usual attitude. | |
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I Love Lucy features several episodes where Lucy tries to sexy herself up either because she thinks Ricky is not paying enough attention to her or because she's jealous of the young women he works with. One of the "country" episodes features the husbands lusting after a sexy young girl in a tight dress (played by a pre-I Dream of Jeannie Barbara Eden) so Lucy, Ethel, and Grace (aka "Country Ethel") glamorize themselves to compete for their husbands' attention. | |
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Katawa Shoujo's case is... unusual. Hanako doesn't change her appearance, but she does allow Hisao to have sex with her in order to change his perception of her as someone that needs to be protected. It works, but only after she has to explain it. Furthermore, the sex is obviously very awkward and uncomfortable for Hanako and Hisao feels horrible when he finds out the truth. | |
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The Women: This is the lesson good wife Mary learns when slutty Crystal seduces Mary's husband and steals him away. | |
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Subverted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4 episode "Devil's Due", when Picard finds himself dealing with a very seductive and sensual female claiming to be Ardra, the devil incarnate (and therefore the legal owner to a planet that supposedly sold their souls to her in exchange for a thousand years of peace). When Picard wakes up one night to find her in his cabin, stating that she knows he desires her, he brusquely replies, "On the contrary. I find you obvious and vulgar." To her credit, the woman immediately offers to dress in more demure clothing, before shifting to the form of Deanna Troi to offer him "forbidden fruit". Neither offer succeeds. | |
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