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Sex for Product
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Simple enough message: If you buy our product, women will have sex with you. The set-up is more or less always the same: Man enters room. Man displays product. Attractive woman (or women) are drawn to him as if by magic. The longer form will depict the man as a loser who is unable to attract a mate until he uses the product. Such commercials are often for health and beauty products, sometimes even products aimed at women — the idea seems to be, men will buy the product because they want to pick up sexy women, and women will buy the product because they want to be sexy. Curiously, this trope does not usually hold for products whose main function is birth control (possibly because you have no reason to buy the product if you don't already expect sex.) Though it does apply for non-contraceptive parasexual products like Viagra or sexual lubricant. Ads for female oral contraceptives (the Pill) promote their secondary functions, such as regulating one's period or preventing acne. A Sub-Trope of Sex Sells and Men Act, Women Are. Not related to Sex for Services. |
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Parodied in Forum Warz, where the screen asking you to start Episode Two shows a picture of an attractive nearly-nude woman with the words 'Episode 2' and a downward arrow written on her stomach. Underneath there's a link saying 'Don't swing that way?' Click it, and the woman's replaced with an attractive nearly-nude man with the same thing written on him. | |
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The Simpsons parody this trope repeatedly, especially with the Duff Beer commercials. The best, however, involves a nerdy young man driving a convertible through the desert. He stops at a deserted gas station and three scantily-clad women run out and start washing it. The camera zooms in on one of the girl's cleavage...to show a crucifix. "The Catholic Church. We've made a few changes." Another episode has Homer contemplating infidelity. Like most of us, he turns to the TV for advice. Cue a commercial full of beautiful women working out, panting heavily, and showing off their assets before breathlessly saying "Just do it!" Homer screams and runs out of the room, while the commercial finishes with the woman sexily delivering the line "Have yourself examined for ringworm." |
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Grand Theft Auto 2: Oragasmo chocolate bars. I'll have what she's having, indeed. Lampshaded in a radio ad disclaimer: "A Lad Rover purchase does not guarantee a satisfied sex life." |
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Mad Men: Don Draper explains this trope (and Sex Sells more generally) to Peggy Olson thus while explaining the reason for running an ad for Patio (a diet soda aimed at women knocking off Ann Margaret's opening appearance in Bye Bye Birdie): | |
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Scott Adams, in The Dilbert Principle claimed there are three basic advertising methods, two aimed at men and one aimed at women. The male-oriented methods are "This product will get you dates with bikini models" and "This product will save you time and money, which you'll need if you want to date bikini models". The female-oriented method is "If you buy this product you'll become a bikini model". | |
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In an episode of DuckTales (1987), Fenton tries to get a promotion from Scrooge by making some sample television commercials... using his hot girlfriend in a bathing suit and fetish-y cosplay such as Little Red Riding Hood. | |
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Melody: One of the prerequisites to get on Amy’s romantic path right after her birthday dinner is to buy her an expensive perfume as a present. Justified, because it is in Amy’s favorite line of perfumes. Also implied at the beginning of the story, when the protagonist gets an email ad for penis enlargement pills. |
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Parodied in Pea Tea 64's "Wiitarded: The Beginning", in which Meta Knight says that his "sexy beer" will attract women, and if you are a woman, it will attract MORE WOMEN. | |
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One of the terrifying PMC commercials in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a disturbing exaggeration of this kind of advertising, showing sexy naked women with guns writhing around amongst sticky pink tentacles, to sell you a job killing people. | |
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In the first episode that 30 Rock started doing Product Placement, they decided to go all-out and make it as blatant as possible for the sake of humor. So the first Snapple plug features Liz Lemon interrupting herself telling Jack that their show is not meant to be a corporate product plug machine by turning to her writers and starting a minor riot about how amazing the Snapple they're drinking, ending with a closeup of Cerie (the resident hot girl) saying "I only date guys who drink Snapple." Later in the same episode, a man dressed as a Snapple bottle exits an elevator past two of the confused main characters. | |
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Parodied in CollegeHumor's "Powerthirst" ads. "BABIES! You'll have so many babies! Four hundred babies! | |
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Pick up any magazine about car subculture (Lowrider, Hot Rod, Import Tuner, etc.) and count the number of ads that feature a girl straddling a car or the product. You'll probably run out of extremities before you finish a quarter of the book. | |
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Sunset Overdrive: The Pole Swing points that display Gilt Trip jewellery ads, are for men who are in trouble with their significant others, helping them turn trouble into loving: Sexburger ads directly say that their products will give sex appeal. One billboard saying: |
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It's a reference to Risky Business. They later advertised Guitar Hero: Metallica the same way, using four NCAA basketball coaches (the game released during March Madness) who are interrupted by Metallica burning the house down. | |
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A Saturday Night Live beer commercial parody (for the fictional "Schimit's Gay Beer") puts a grateful Chris Farley and Adam Sandler into a fantasy poolside scene full of buff, scantily clad men in a reversal of the usual heterosexual oriented trope, which shows off how ridiculous the real ads look to everyone who doesn't buy into them. | |
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Any advert you see online for Evony is this. It is, apparently, a fairly standard 4X (i.e. Civilization-type, not "one more X than XXX!") game... but you would never guess that from the ads. They go from using hot girls in period dress advertising the game, to random underwear models advertising the game, to underwear models saying something sexual with an Evony logo in the background, and finally to ads that most people would assume take you to a porn site. See here. | |
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Family Guy: One episode has a skit set in the Stone Age. When Caveman-Peter builds the first wheel, he is unable to sell the idea to his fellow cavemen. So, he tears off most of his wife's clothes to make a Fur Bikini and has her stand next to the wheel. The other cavemen immediately want to buy Cave-Peter's wheel, saying that they believe it will get them hot women too, reasoning this must be how Peter got his wife. Another episode shows a commercial for Pawtucket Patriot beer with the tagline "Pawtucket Patriot, If you buy it hot women will have sex in your backyard." Lois scoffs at the crass display of the typical male fantasy — of women drinking beer. |
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Parodied in the Strong Bad Email "extra plug", where Strong Bad imagines a conversation between the guy and girl dancing together on the box of "Old Fatty's 'Lectric Boots". | |
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In the webcomic Planet Earth (and Other Tourist Traps), Moriarty (not that one) sees a promo for a contest to make a commercial for Brazen Hussy Beer, the prize being that they make your commercial, and you get free beer for a year. The first idea he has is for the barmaids to rip off their tops and wrestle in creamed corn. The idea he actually puts out there is for the guy to order a beer, and for two women to come up to him and say "I want to have sex with you." Then they get into a catfight. It gets poor reviews from the other contestants, but it passes anyway because the president of the company likes it. His commercial has his friend Dex as the guy, and his sister and an actress as the girls. One take made him uncomfortable because his sister's delivery was a little too realistic... | |
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