This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
From YKTTW:
Interested Bystander: Should there be a page for this, a trope that's similar to Schmuck Bait but more specific; you could call it "Forbidden Fruit" or "Pandora's Box-" the appeal of some object or action simply *because* it is forbidden. The urge to open a door just because there's a KEEP OUT sign on it; the urge to kill just because you know it's wrong and to confess just because you know it's stupid (Edgar Allan Poe favorite); the urge to open the box just because you were told, whatever you do, not to open it (Pandora's Box); the oldest example, the urge to eat the one and only fruit you were told not to eat *because* you were told not to eat it (Adam and Eve). I think "Forbidden Fruit" differs from Schmuck Bait, which takes advantage of the appeal of "Forbidden Fruit" to work.
Morgan Wick: Anonymous user at 146.145.196.234, a quick and dirty lesson in Wiki markup. The preferred way to link to items of two or more words is to ram them together into a Wiki Word. Thus, GenreBlindness becomes Genre Blindness.
Also, on this wiki, we put the titles of shows in italics, which you get with two ''single quotes'' on either side of a word or phrase.
Krid: There were no real-life examples for this, which I find strange for something marked as Truth in Television. This has now been corrected.
Burai: And now uncorrected, I guess. Removed:
- * Real Life example: Prohibition made alcohol desirable enough to cause the formation of organized crime rings based entirely on bootlegging.
Lale: Real life examples are too numerous and redundant to list. Also pulled the DARE examples because:
- of the reason cited above
- the allure of drugs is also due, IMO even moreso, to the Bandwagon Technique
- I remember how by the time I finished elementary school, thanks to DARE, the idea of using drugs was so appalling to me, I couldn't fathom why anyone would entertain the thought of using them.
NOT!: Moved the Bluebeard summary to its own page and condensed the example here.
