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{{quote|''"Even her voice is pure audio sex!"''|'''Julia Evans''' on her [[Really Gets Around]] friend. "Mindstar Rising" by [[Peter F. Hamilton]].}}▼
▲{{quote|''"Even her voice is pure audio sex!"''|'''Julia Evans''' on her [[Really Gets Around]] friend. "Mindstar Rising" by [[Peter F Hamilton]].}}
Sexy voices, basically. Husky ones are popular; breathy, low [[Marilyn Monroe]]-esque voices are iconic. For men, deep baritones with sonorous intonations often are used. Bassos are rarer but can also fit the bill. A popular variation is the "Siren Switch," where the speaker isn't ''nearly'' as sexy as their voice.
Since what voices are considered erotic can be a bit subjective, this trope limits itself to instances where there are indications the voice is intended, by the author(s), to come across as erotic
Not to be confused with the similarly named, but very different, [[Auto Erotica]] (which simply means having sex in a car).
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Quizno commercials featuring a man named Scott and the infamous Quizno toaster oven, who speaks in a rather husky voice, and once asked Scott to sound "sexier".
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* Marks and Spencer adverts in the UK feature a deliberately low and erotic voice describing almost comically lavish foodstuffs, followed by the tagline "This is not just food... this is M&S food".
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'''[[Charlie Brooker]]''': ''(frantically undoing belt)'' Damn right it's not, it's food that's about to be '''fucked silly'''... }}
* Isaiah Mustafa, known to the world as [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[
* The main character of the H-manga ''[[Boy Soprano]]''. All of the girls get seriously wet from hearing Akira's moans. [[Uke|And he moans a lot.]]
* ''[[Koe
* This is pretty much the ''entire point'' of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' -- [[Takehito Koyasu]] realized he could sell a show based entirely on the sexiness of his ([[Tomokazu Seki|and]] [[Hiro Yuki|three]] [[Shinichiro Miki|other]]) voice(s), so that's precisely what he did.
** Koyasu has also teased his friend and frequent co-star [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] by [[Ho Yay|saying that he has a sexy voice]].
* [[Fan Service|The point of the existence]] of the [[Boys Love Genre]] ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Gotham Central]]'', [[Dirty Cop|Officer Tim Munroe]] describes Posion Ivy's voice as being like honey, and when he tries to imagine what she looks like based on her voice his narration trails off.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]''. Dr. Hall comments that the voice of the woman making PA announcements is sexy, but the doctor is told that she's 63 years old.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|And records announcements like that for a living,]] or at least in the book.
* In ''[[Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas]]'', naturally [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTf0bekwmjo the Sirens] are an example of this.
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
* ''[[Die Hard
* Brie Larson as Envy Adams in ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' puts on a constantly-aroused voice which she drops after Scott defeats Todd. Other cast members even comment on it in the DVD.
* ''[[
** [[Memetic Mutation|Schwing!]]
* Korean film ''200 Pounds Beauty'' has the main character Hanna who is obese but has an amazing voice. She provides vocals for the [[Alpha Bitch|pretty but mean]] Ammy and as another job, she is a phone sex employee. Then again, she was played by the gorgeous Kim Ah Joong, who did all of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJMkP69ua0c&feature=related#t=2m01s her singing] in the movie.
* In ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'', [[John Cleese
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''Beaufort'' by Ron Leshem. The [[Israelis With Infrared Missiles|IDF soldiers]] complain that the female radio operatives with the sexiest voices inevitably turn out to be not-so-good looking.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
*
** In ''[[
* When [[John Le Carre|George Smiley]] asks unhappily retired Connie Sachs for information about a Russian agent, one of the things she recalls is his wonderful voice, which she heard on surveillance tapes of phone calls.
* Louis Wu meets Nessus for the first time in ''[[
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* The aged, smallpox scarred former courtesan in [[Judge Dee|The Red Pavilion]] has an unbelievable beautiful and sexy voice that the Judge finds extremely disturbing.
* ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood|Lover Eternal]]'' has Mary the suicide hotline operator whose voice is so appealing that John calls every night just to hear her talk (even though ''he'' is mute) and it literally bespells Rhage, her love interest.
* ''Herman Wouk's'' ''The Hope'', Zev Barak takes a phone call from Emily Cunningham. Barak notes a Talmud saying, "A woman's voice is naked sex," and then says this was especially true with Emily.
* [[Dragonriders of Pern|Jaxom]] first falls in love with Sharra's voice, described as being low and sexy, when she was [[Florence Nightingale Effect|treating him for Firehead fever]]. She turns out to be fairly pretty, not particularly beautiful, although she certainly thinks she doesn't live up to the image he had built in his head. He likes her anyway.
* ''[[
** Which also comes into play if you listen to the audio books read aloud by James Marsters. If that's what Harry sounds like I can see why he tends to have so many woman interested in him all the time.
* There's a subversion in the [[
* In ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'', the voice that awakens the main character up after his first night of sleep at the subterranean compound is very sensual. The main character becomes a bit embarrassed when he learns the voice belongs to a seventy-two year old woman.
* Ambrosio's first sermon in ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* One episode of ''[[Taxi]]'' had Alex dating a woman from an answering service. She was overweight and had a history of men dating her because of her sexy voice and then dumping her as soon as they found what she looked like.
* In ''[[
** Played with by one of the co-workers definitely, and knowingly being separate from her voice. She even grins at Abby after a questioning look.
* [[
* In ''[[
* The ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Tape" revolves around this. Elaine leaves a provocative message on Jerry's answering machine as a joke. Only George knows it's actually Elaine. Awkwardness ensues, along with [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]].
* [[Peter Sellers]] in ''[[The Goon Show]]'' occasionally voiced a character called "breathy Kensington thing". It's a spookily realistic sexy female impersonation, often accompanied by gags about censorship.
* In the first episode of ''The New [[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' the new head of programming listens to some audition tapes; one is a very sexy woman. He is advised by several people that "the sexier the voice the uglier the person" (or words to that effect). He hires the woman sight unseen anyway, and it turns out she's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714164829/http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/CZ_TAWNY_KITAEN.HTM Tawny Kitaen].
* In one episode of the ''[[Bionic Woman]]'' remake, advantage was taken of Michelle Ryan's [[British Accents|real-life accent]] for an undercover mission her character was sent out on... the techie talking to her via an electronic earpiece commented on how hot she sounded.
* On ''[[Friends]]'', Phoebe got a cold and was excited about her "new sexy voice".
* The siren switch takes place in ''[[Married...
* In an episode of ''[[Black Books]]'', Fran once dated a man (Peter Serafinowicz) whom she hates simply because his voice turns her on. When she finds out that he is now doing the nightly shipping forecasts on the radio, she listens to it as a form of porn, then phones him after its over.
* In one episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', Laura has a quite sexual reaction to the voice of an R & B Singer.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Lucille [[One Steve Limit|Two]] is aroused by Gob (Will Arnett) reading a menu in a restaurant in a deep voice.
* An episode of ''[[Night Court]]'' had a group of old ladies as defendants in one case. They turned out to be very talented operators at a phone sex line, whom [[The Pornomancer|Dan]] tries (unsuccessfully) to deny recognizing when they turn on their work voices.
* [[Misha Collins]] has said that he slightly regrets creating the sexy, gravelly voice for ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'s'' Castiel, as he's now had to do it for several years, and also confirmed that he and [[Jensen Ackles]] 'compete' when they are in scenes together to see who can sound gruffer. ("It's like 'oh yeah, [[Precision F-Strike|fucker]]?'")
* On ''[[Frasier]]'', a caller admitted that she listened to Frasier's radio show because she got off to the sound of his voice.
* In ''[[Boston Legal]], Shirley Schmidt is able to give Denny Crane a boner (and possibly more) just by whispering his name.
* In the ''[[Modern Family]]'' episode "Truth Be Told", Claire discovers that Phil has been corresponding with his ex-girlfriend Denise on [[
* Jade of ''[[Victorious]]'' has a really lovely singing voice. So much that one of her classmates Andre ends up developing a crush on her because of it.
* ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[Adam-12]]'', the B-plot was that a new dispatcher with a very attractive voice had been assigned to the precinct. The protagonists wondered what she was like in person throughout the episode.
== Mythology ==
* The [[Trope Maker]] and Ur-Example - the Sirens from "The Odyssey" were said to lead men to their deaths, and has been referenced (and parodied) in countless other works of fiction.
** Odysseus himself was described by Helen to have this, during ''[[
* In [[Hindu Mythology]], Hanuman's voice is said to be so potent that he could ''impregnate'' women just by singing.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Lana Del Rey]]
* A "siren switch" shows up in the music video for the re-release of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion", in which a young man calls a sex hotline and is drawn in by the sultry female voice on the other line. At the end of the video, we finally see the conversation from her end: she's a chunky middle-aged woman in a drab housedress holding a baby in one hand, ironing with the other, and gripping the phone with her shoulder.
* The [[Pleaserock|Y-O-U]] song "Radio" is about all about a girl getting uncontrollably turned on by rock music.
* On their fifth album, ''Cardiology'', [[Good Charlotte]] has a song called "Sex on the Radio" whose narrator is in a relationship with a radio personality. So titled because the girl's voice sounds like, well, sex on the radio.
* [[
* Papa Roach's The Addict features a woman moaning rather suggestively after the [[Buffy-Speak|bridge-y bit.]]
* The late Seventies cover of "Wild Thing" by one-hit-wonder Fancy is characterized by the group's [[Playboy]] Playmate lead singer gasping and moaning her way through the lyrics.
* "Oooooooh.... love to love you, baby. OOOOOOOH.... love to love you, baby." Repeat ad nauseam for seventeen minutes. This song not only launched Donna Summer to stardom, but led the Catholic Church to declare the song as the work of Satan. A popular rumor is that Donna induced her own orgasms while recording the song, but she says it was all an act.
* Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg with ''Je t'aime... moi non plus''. Husky voices from both singers, heavy breathing, banned in several countries for sexual content!
** The [[
* ''[[
* There's a mainstream example in Pitbull and T-Pain's song Hey Baby. (You may better know the song as [[Title Confusion|"Ooh, baby, baby...lalalalalalala..."]])
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726192136/http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/315325 Ignorance Is Bliss]
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* [[Selena Gomez]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1-JiS2zl9Y cover of "Trust in Me" from The Jungle Book] sounds ''much'' more seductive than the original.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Made fun of in ''[[
* Once [[
* An unknown character in an optional scene in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' keeps [[Chivalrous Pervert|Zidane]] interested from the other side of a stone gate with her voice. The speaker is never revealed, but, given that it was a gate to the Burmecian territories, the odds are that she was a [[Petting Zoo People|Petting Zoo Person]].
* In ''[[
* The first ''[[Battlefield
* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines]]'', Velvet Velour's voice is just as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWBTeoB1Xs smooth and husky] as her name implies. As a Toreador, it's one of the... assets she uses to get the player on her side.
* In ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', if you skip class to visit the infirmary, Dr. Iwamine scolds the heroine and asks why she's there. One of the answer options (which gets you points with him!) is, "I just wanted to hear your voice."
* In [[Mass Effect 3]], both Shepard and Samantha comment on EDI (the computer) having a sexy voice.
== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[Persona 3 FTW]]'', [[Dark Messiah|Takaya's]] voice (AKA [[Derek Stephen Prince]]) has a seductive nature all to itself. Even the guys (and Aigis) can't resist it. Otherwise he's perhaps a lamer villain than he was in the game.
* ''[[Word of God]]'' says {...} of ''[[Hanna Is Not a
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In [[
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'''Girl:''' ''Ahh! I just orgasmed at the sound of your voice.''
'''Brad:''' It's to be expected. }}
** The Critic himself got fangirled over by [[The Nostalgia Chick
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* A rich widow in the ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' cartoon, "A Fine Feathered Frenzy" pulls the siren switch. Woody reads her ad in the personals where it says that she's a 'Gorgeous Gal' who is wealthy, has lots of food and is looking to marry a young man. So he calls her on the phone. With her sexy voice Gorgeous calls him sweetie and dream boy, says she loves Woodpeckers and he's the only thing on her mind. She invites him to come over to her mansion and says she'll be waiting for him. When Woody meets her it turns out she is an overweight and elderly crow. Gorgeous Gal chases after him, lavishes him with kisses and continues flirting with him with her lovely voice. Woody is no longer interested but Gorgeous Gal's love for woodpeckers wins out in the end. She drags him into a submarine and gets a priest to marry them.
* Medusa performs the siren switch in ''[[Captain N:
* In ''To Live and Die in Dixie'', [[Family Guy|Stewie]] joins a bluegrass band and sings this little ditty:
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Sounded like an angel come to Earth (''Come to Earth'')
But when I went to meet her, man you should have seen her.
Twice as tall as me, three times the girth (''Giiiiirth'') }}
* One episode of ''[[Duckman]]'' has Our Intrepid Hero fall in love with a female 911 operator because of how her voice sounded. Then he finally meets her in person and discovers that she's [[Lena Hyena|a bit lacking in the looks department.]] So much so, that [[Take Our Word for It|her face isn't even shown onscreen]] until she has drastic cosmetic surgery to make herself look pretty.
** And she's literally ''perfect'' after this. She ''had'' the voice and the personality, but after the surgery, she had the [[Ms. Fanservice|total package.]] At this point, Duckman realizes that she's too good for him and, in what simultaneously a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and a massive [[Tear Jerker]] [[Downer Ending]], he dumps her so she can find someone better.
* In the episode of ''[[
* The ''[[
* The 13th ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', in the mini-episode called "House of Wacks" had this when Lisa and Marge picked the new house's voice to be [[Pierce Brosnan]]'s. Lisa claimed it would bring sophistication to the home, but we all know why it was picked...
** The other options included [[Dennis Miller]].
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"''Murder''-suicides." }}
* ''[[South Park]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktytnQHvlww Casey Miller]:
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* Evil Barry from ''[[
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