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Curiously, this trope does not usually hold for products whose main function is birth control, 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]].

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Sex Sells]].

Compare [[Sex Sells]].

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* There can be no other explanation for [http://kotaku.com/5076482/heidi-klum-strips-down-to-shill-guitar-hero-world-tour?autoplay=true this].

** 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.

* Any advert you see online for Evony [[Lady Not Appearing in This Game|is this]]. It is, apparently, a fairly standard [[Four X|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 [http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/07/14/evolution-of-evony-video-game-ads/ here].

* Any advert you see online for Evony [[Lady Not-Appearing-In-This-Game|is this]]. It is, apparently, a fairly standard [[Four X|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 [http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/07/14/evolution-of-evony-video-game-ads/ here].

== Fitness ==

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* Name a perfume advert. Buy Estee Lauder and you will apparently turn into Gwyneth Paltrow, [[Vapor Wear|without a bra]]. Buy Coco Mademoiselle and you will turn into [[Keira Knightley]], without anything on. This cologne comes with a naked woman in a top hat!

* Commercials for Axe body spray (Lynx in the UK) propose that the sensual aroma of the cologne [[Black Comedy Rape|renders women physically incapable of resisting the urge to mount the wearer]]. Their later commercials exaggerate this to a comic extent, showing an Axe spokeswoman compelled to wrap herself around a mannequin onto which she has sprayed the magic formula. Still later, they went even further, showing scantily clad women writhing sensually against inanimate objects which, it is suggested, were made from metal recycled from an old Axe spray can.

** An ad from the 1990s shows how Pretty Female A uses her boyfriend's Axe deodorant after a morning shower because her own can is empty. In the next scene, she is traveling in an elevator at her office and gets ogled by Pretty Woman B. "[[Fan Service|If you use this product, women will]] ''[[Girl On Girl Is Hot|have sex with each other]]''!"

** An ad from the 1990s shows how Pretty Female A uses her boyfriend's Axe deodorant after a morning shower because her own can is empty. In the next scene, she is traveling in an elevator at her office and gets ogled by Pretty Woman B. "[[Fan Service|If you use this product, women will]] ''[[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|have sex with each other]]''!"

** A recent series of ads for Axe shampoo features an odd inversion- according to the add, if you use their competitor's product, random gangs of hot women will grab you and [[Fetish Fuel|give you a bath]] with Axe Hair-Care Product Like Product (TM).

** Of course, there are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x89xAXHd2l8 parodies].

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== Comedy ==

* Bill Hicks joked that the ad they'd ''like'' to do is a slow zoom out from a beautiful woman's face to show she's naked and masturbating, which then fades out to "Drink Coke". "I don't know the connection, but I suddenly want to drink a lot of fucking Coke!" He then makes similar poses with a suggestive tone of voice himself, saying things like "Snickers!", and eventually finishes the routine off by imagining himself completely toothless and sitting in front of a TV masturbating shouting "Muh Snickuz! Muh Coke!" However, his prediction has been somewhat off, as [[Nipple and Dimed|certain cultural mores about sex]] have prevented such from being created within ten years, as he thought they would.

* Bill Hicks joked that the ad they'd ''like'' to do is a slow zoom out from a beautiful woman's face to show she's naked and masturbating, which then fades out to "Drink Coke". "I don't know the connection, but I suddenly want to drink a lot of fucking Coke!" He then makes similar poses with a suggestive tone of voice himself, saying things like "Snickers!", and eventually finishes the routine off by imagining himself completely toothless and sitting in front of a TV masturbating shouting "Muh Snickuz! Muh Coke!" However, his prediction has been somewhat off, as [[Nipple-and-Dimed|certain cultural mores about sex]] have prevented such from being created within ten years, as he thought they would.

* Rodney Carrington did a similar bit, where he claimed that all you need to sell a product is a beautiful woman. He says that a commercial for wheelbarrels could feature a beautiful, naked woman in a lawn chair, no word being said aside from "mmmm" and the flash an ad for wheelbarrels on the screen. "You couldn't sell enough fuckin' wheelbarrels." Which explains why most print ads for Newport brand cigarettes have the titular product completely absent and all the implications of a Viagra commercial.

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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In the webcomic ''Planet Earth (and Other Tourist Traps), Moriarty (not [[Sherlock Holmes|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 [[My Sister Is Off Limits|his sister's delivery was a little too realistic...]]

* In the webcomic ''Planet Earth (and Other Tourist Traps), Moriarty (not [[Sherlock Holmes|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 [[My Sister Is Off-Limits|his sister's delivery was a little too realistic...]]

== [[Web Original]] ==

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