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• Just look at the list of examples on the Intercourse With You page.
• So how did they overlook the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde?
• Is it just me or does the second verse of the Kool & The Gang song "Jungle Boogie" sound suspiciously like the bass singer is masturbating? (Note all the grunting and the sudden wail at the end.)
• The video for the No Doubt song "Spiderwebs" features a phone on a long cord menacingly flying towards Gwen Stefani at about 2 minutes and 25 seconds.
• In Pink Floyd's The Wall, most of the female symbols are depicted as twisted, horrific, carnivorous or a combination of all three. This is due to the main character Pink having a warped view of women and sexuality in general.
  • Also, he has a scary possessive mom, a father complex due to his father's death, he's turning schizo and THE DEAD RAT REPRESENTS HIM!
• The lyrics to the theme tune of Denver The Last Dinosaur:

He's my friend and a whole lot more Showed me a world I never saw before Everywhere we go, We don't really care If people stop and stare ...

• Similarly, the kids' show Big Wolf on Campus theme tune included the following:

Do you think It's just a phase I'm going through?

• Christine's increasingly high cadenza at the end of The Phantom of the Opera's title song sounds suspiciously... orgasmic.
  • As does the Phantom's high note during "The Music of the Night" ("Let your soul take you/Where you long to BEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!").
• Listen to "A Whole New World" and tell me it isn't about losing one's virginity.

I'll take you wonder by wonder, Over, sideways, and under On a magic carpet ride... A dazzling place I never knew... Indescribable feeling; Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling... Don't you dare close your eyes... Hold your breath, it gets better... I can't go back to where I used to be... A thrilling chase, a wondrous place, For you and me.

• • Yep, it's about a magic carpet ride.
  • It's not. Think about anal sex, and then read it again.
• Adam Duritz of Counting Crows recounted in a VH1 interview how a fan came up to him after a performance to proudly announce that he'd figured out the meaning of "Mr. Jones", their first single. "Mr. Jones is your penis!" That wasn't it, but Freud Was Right about the fan, at least.
  • This idea actually constitutes Mind Rape, not least of which is the implication that the singer character is competing with his own penis. (Then there's the I Call Him "Mister Happy" angle, which also hurts).
• The video for Shakira's "She Wolf" features her going into her closet, to enter some sort of... pink, slightly-fleshy looking tunnel-like room, which she then dances around in. Subtle.
• There's also the banana from The Velvet Underground's first album. Designed by Andy Warhol no less.
• The classic gospel-infused choir song "Elijah Rock" by Moses Hogan. Sure, it's a spiritual, but if you ignore the lyrics and just listen to the melody, it sounds like a couple having sex. Even with some of the lyrics (the multiple "Hallelujah!"s, "I'm comin' up Lord", etc.), and especially the ultra-high soprano note at the very end of the song.
  • To be fair, this is the same religion who wants to please and serve their god. So yeah...
• The cover of Say Anything's album ...Is A Real Boy, full stop.
• Katy Perry: Let's just mention the title of "Peacock". And "so hot, it'll melt your Popsicle" from "California Gurls".
• Lady Gaga: 'Want you in my Rear Window', anyone?
  • "I want to take a ride on your disco stick."
  • The video for "Bad Romance". As far as I can tell, it looks like she sold to a man, who intends to...well, use your imagination.
• George Carlin had a bit on sex in commercials and how subliminal some are:

Carlin: Should gentleman offer a lady a Tiparillo? Now the big scene in the Tiparillo commercial is a train going into a tunnel, man. (makes train bell sound fading into tunnel) You don't have to be Fellini to figure that one out.

• Ego by Beyoncé. It's too big, it's too wide, It's too strong, it won't fit, It's too much, it's too tough, He talk like this 'cause he can back it up, He got a big ego, such a huge ego, I love his big ego.... Double points for Ego being a Freudian concept.
• The electric guitar, especially the way Prince played it at the 2007 Superbowl.
• Lovesick, by Emily Osment. For a song that appeared on Disney channel by a Disney Star, it was...suggestive. You're so mono/together we could be stereo, getting high, gambling with that delicious thing, it takes two to dance, four on the floor, and so on...wow, how did that get past the radar?!
• Tom Lehrer's song Smut provides what might be this trope's motto:

When correctly viewed EVERYTHING is lewd!

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