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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The most famous stereotypical form of this is likely the beer commercials with girls in bikinis.
** Parodied beautifully by SNL with "Schmitt's Gay Beer."
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** The Civony/Evony ads are [[Take That|cheaply parodied]] (how else could you parody it?) by an Alteil ad where the skinsuit elf girl has a caption that says "She is actually in our game, my lord".
** ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' isn't exactly innocent of this tactic, although their ads look perfectly tasteful compared to the competition, but they have also parodied ''Evony'''s "play discreetly" campaign. "Pants, m'lord?"
* A number of YouTube ads for the smartphone game ''[[Mobile Legends: Bang Bang]]'' utilise [http://web.archive.org/web/20200903210418/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHKlzrNBRNI&feature=youtu.be cringe-worthy] footage of a model wearing a suggestive outfit all while doing hammy gun poses in front of the camera.
** An Aika Online advertisement had a woman with a very [[Stripperiffic]] [[Chainmail Bikini|set of armor]], where the breast cups were upside down, a ring at the bottom of the cups ([[You Fail Biology Forever|blank skin only showed]] preventing any [[Nippled and Dimed|naughty bits]]), and straps going downwards. The images were quickly altered by moving the guy next to her so his sword and shield now hides the Fail.
** The [[Evony]] ads are parodied in [http://images.lazygamer.co.za/2009/08/popcapEvony1.jpg this] ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' ad.
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* Ads where ladies wear [[Pretty in Mink|fur coats]] [[Going Fur a Swim|and swimsuits]], although they are not as popular now [[Fur and Loathing|for obvious reasons]].
* A few years back there was a commercial where they had a couple making out while going down in an elevator while a security guard watches giving them looks when they get out of the elevator. In the end, what's the ad for? Dasani Bottled Water
* The exploitative undertones of PETA's anti-fur campaigns. Yes, [http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/109/75/10_15_08_dk_peta_1.0.0.0x0.400x334.jpeg naked models]{{Dead link}} are ''so'' beneficial to animal liberation.
** They've managed to attract people with cannibalism fetish. Yeah...
* Every [[Grand Theft Auto]] game (since the third) features a beautiful woman on the cover of the box art, despite the fact that they [[Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Game|don't actually appear in the game]]. The one exception is the hooker in [[Grand Theft Auto III|III]] (Misty), whose role is extremely minor. Considering that each game always has a few significant female characters, you'd think they'd use one of them.
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** Although the bit of American teen girl folklore that "eating green M&Ms makes you horny" precedes the commercials by at least five years, so once the company started producing commercials with anthropomorphized M&Ms this became a sort of [[Ascended Fanon]].
* Reebok sells sneakers, right? Right. Then they created the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDVB4881c2I EasyTone] and decided to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZffAJE1ZD3A&feature=related sell sex instead].
* ''[[British Newspapers|The Sun]]'' is quite (in)famous for its use of its topless [[Page Three Stunna]] to [https://web.archive.org/web/20100724143826/http://www.bloggerheads.com/page_3.asp sell propaganda].
* Aksys' marketing of ''[[Record of Agarest War]]'' played up the [[Fan Service]] to absurd levels, including a fake "censored" ad, and a pillowcase and "boob" ergonomic mousepad packaged with the special edition. It's actually a [[Dating Sim]]/Strategy RPG with levels of Fanservice reaching the high end of normal for a Dating Sim—it can get pretty thick at times, but you're not going to be tripping over suggestive scenes every five seconds like they make it seem.
* Go Daddy.com ads are this, with a level of unapologetic blatancy that is hard to describe.
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* A recent UK advertisement used models seductively posing in their underwear to sell sofas. That's right, ''sofas''.
* Political rather than product sale, but [[Ukraine|Yuliya Tymoshenko]] intentionally and openly flaunts her sex appeal to bank more voters. She's one of the country's most powerful politicians, so it works.
* An internet game called ''Soccer Star
* [[The Man Your Man Could Smell Like]] is ''technically'' [[Sex for Product]], since the message of the ad is that if your man uses Old Spice, he'll be like the Old Spice Man. Then again, it's the [[Mr. Fanservice|Old]] [[Memetic Sex God|Spice]] [[Even the Guys Want Him|Man.]]
* Lampshaded in an old joke about an Eskimo who wrote to Sears and Roebuck to complain that the product he ordered hadn't come with the beautiful model that was sitting on it. Variations of that joke are probably in diverse places.
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* Many gaming/comic/other conventions and expos are heavily populated with "booth babes"—young women hired entirely for their ability to stand around and ''almost'' violate the dress code, theoretically attracting lustful customers.
* A commercial for a dry skin lotion shows a woman making flirtatious expressions and dancing [[Male Gaze|in her underwear while the camera zooms in on her stomach, back, bare shoulders, legs, and feet]] to a jaunty rendition of "Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes". It's been described as the most upbeat striptease on television.
* Wendy's for decades was all about the wholesome ads featuring the founder, Dave Thomas, occasionally
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzgNblh0rPM This advertisement] for Pioneer Elastoseal, a roof sealant brand in the Philippines, where a man attempting to repair one's roof in the middle of a storm chances upon a model soaking wet in rain and doing the obligatory sexy poses. It very clearly banks on the product's intended demographic of middle-age, blue-collar construction workers finding pleasure with attractive women.
== Comedy ==▼
* Comedian [[Bill Hicks]] believed the eventual evolution of this trope would be this:▼
{{quote|"Here's the woman's body. Beautiful. Camera pulls back. Naked Breasts. Camera pulls back. She's totally naked, legs apart, two fingers right here...and it just says, 'Drink ''Coke''.' Now I don't know the connection here, but Coke is on my shopping list this week."}}▼
* In ''[[Big Trouble]]'', Eliot Arnold (Tim Allen) has a small advertising firm and the [[Client From Hell]] who wants to advertise his beer. The client insists that the beer display be "You have a guy in a boat with a girl, she's in a bikini, she has big tits, they're on a boat, and they're getting hammered! With Hammerhead! The feeling of this ad is, somebody's gonna get laid! In the background swimming around is a shark! The girl has REALLY big tits!".▼
* In ''[[Big Trouble]]'', Eliot Arnold ([[Tim Allen]]) has a small advertising firm and a [[Client From Hell]] who wants to advertise his beer, insisting on the display as follows:
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* Many viewers criticized ''[[Jumanji|Jumanji: the Next Level]]'' for Ruby's [[Stripperific]] outfit, claiming it was sexist [[Fanservice]] included for the sake of it. They didn't realize that was the entire point - the producers and director were using this plot element [[Take That, Audience!|to lampoon the trend of scantily clad video game heroines]] (which Ruby ''is'' as far as the [[Fictional Video Game]] setting is concerned), and if anything may have succeeded too well.
== [[Live
* In an episode of ''[[Friends]]'', where Chandler is interviewing for a job with an advertising agency, one of the interviewees has an idea for a shoe commercial that ends with: "...and then the girls get out of the hot tub, and start making out!" The interviewer replies, "Very interesting, except for one problem. You forgot to mention the ''shoes''."
* In ''[[Mad Men]]'', Don Draper describes this expression as over-simplifying things. Basically, he argues, people want to ''be'' the product. So, people buying perfume want to be Gwyneth Paltrow.
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* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Shawn gets a job as the assistant to an advertising executive and is asked to come up with ideas from a toothpaste campaign. Shawn think of a "sexy fresh breath" campaign but Cory recommends he choose a bacteria-based campaign because "sex does not sell". Shawn of course chooses the sexy breath one which the boss ends up liking.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* Comedian [[Bill Hicks]] believed the eventual evolution of this trope would be this:
▲{{quote|"Here's the woman's body. Beautiful. Camera pulls back. Naked Breasts. Camera pulls back. She's totally naked, legs apart, two fingers right here...and it just says, 'Drink ''Coke''.' Now I don't know the connection here, but Coke is on my shopping list this week."}}
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* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] by ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'' to cover up the fact that he can't actually [http://angryflower.com/attemp.gif reconcile quantum physics with general relativity.]
** [[Word of God]] is that this is a self-referencing strip, since how many of you noticed that the remaining frames are mostly just outline drawings?
* ''[[Head Trip]]'' asks: [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20070319.html Are they selling clothes or...?]
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122185129/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20171026 illustrates] the effect.
** Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122185139/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20170806 guessing] what "downsizing" for the expo means.
* ''[[Devil Bear]]'' has Raine's [http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=828 Coffee Shop Girls], adult ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' style.
{{quote|'''Bearlial''': Are you sure that your "coworkers" are baristas? These sound like stripper names to me.}}
* ''[[Nerf NOW!!]]'' pokes fun at fanservice a few times, including a [https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/2718 page] plainly named "Sex Sells".
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Skippy's
{{quote|42. Not allowed to attempt to appeal to mankind's baser instincts in recruitment posters.}}
* Psychologist-slash-YouTuber Zulie Rane wrote [https://onezero.medium.com/youtubes-spammy-sex-bots-make-a-ton-of-money-2743bf6e8c19 an article] highlighting the ulterior motive behind the rash of pornographic spambots flooding the comments sections of otherwise-innocent videos. Despite YouTube stating in their terms of service that pornographic content is, at least for the most part, forbidden, apparently they seem to turn a blind eye to the waves and waves of horny spambots either using sex to drive views on otherwise unrelated videos, or stealthily linking to similarly adult-oriented sites, e.g. accounts with a profile picture of some porn model's bare butt and a banner on their profile that shows a half-naked woman with half of her breasts exposed and the call to action "WANT TO F*CK WIT' ME? CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW", who would then leave cryptic comments blindly praising the video regardless of its content, in hopes that an [[Schmuck Bait|unwitting porn addict]] would be enticed to click it and visit the site in question (spoiler alert: the sites such accounts link to are either romance scams or contain malware).
*''[[OnlyFans]]'' is the current epitome of this trope. Originally created as a "pay for a service" site (and "service" doesn't just mean [[Fanservice]]), during 2018 the site ''exploded'', with Instagram models, pornstars and even actual celebrities posting anything ranging from nudes and erotica to outright porn, with some offering the option of having sex with fans who were willing to pay huge amounts of money. The site became controversial for these "pay for the sex" services tiptoeing around prostitution laws and, given that OnlyFans does take a cut out of the profit the e-celeb makes, many consider it to be an e-pimp. In 2021, after three full years of porn and pay-for-the-sex services dominating the site, OnlyFans announced they were planning to re-rail themselves back into a general service website, with porn being banned. Unfortunately, it turned out that 99% of their users are in fact sex consumers, and, fearing a [[tumblr]]-style collapse of both viewership and profit the site did a U-turn two weeks later, and as of early 2024 the site's reputation will forever be etched into human history as "that one site where you pay women to be sexy".
* Vivamax, an online film streaming service by Filipino media conglomerate Viva Communications (through its subsidiary Viva Films) also quickly gained a reputation for being a purveyor of softcore pornography, especially considering the shaky legality of adult film production in the Philippines where hardcore porn sites are occasionally blocked by ISPs on the grounds of (allegedly) hosting child porn. While Viva chief operating officer Vincent del Rosario dismissed such allegations and claimed that their adult content makes up only ten percent of their streaming library, they couldn't shake off the fact that posters for their juicier softcore offerings show up on Vivamax's [https://www.vivamax.net/ landing page] (warning: somewhat NSFW) front and centre.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* Mocked on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': An ad shows a nerdy guy driving a convertible through the desert when he comes to a deserted gas station. Suddenly three busty women come out and start washing the car (and each other), the camera zooms in on one's cleavage...to focus on her crucifix.▼
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* Mocked on ''[[The Simpsons]]'': An ad shows a nerdy guy driving a convertible through the desert when he comes to a deserted gas station. Suddenly three busty women come out and start washing the car (and each other), the camera zooms in on one's cleavage...to focus on her crucifix.
{{quote|-'''Voiceover''': "Catholicism! We've made a few...changes."}}
* Also mocked in the ''[[Dilbert (animation)|Dilbert]]'' episode ''The Infomercial'', where the titular infomercial for the Gruntmaster 6000 features a beautiful blond model in a pink bathing suit, and the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] trying to talk about the actual product, but he kept fainting and conking his head against the ground due to the sight of her.
{{quote|'''[[No Indoor Voice|Loud Howard]]''': (about the commercial) I'VE ONLY SEEN IT ONE TIME, AND ALREADY I WANT TO DATE THAT MODEL AND SUFFER HEAD TRAMUA!}}
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