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6	[[quoteright:325:[[Webcomic/MenageA3 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MenageA3.jpg]]]]
7	[[caption-width-right:325:[[InnocentFanserviceGirl And she isn't even doing it on purpose.]]]]
8
9	->''"Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence."''
10	-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles: Literature/GhostStory''
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12	For some men, it's very easy to forget what they are doing [[HeadTurningBeauty when a sexy body]] strolls past and lose control, doing things like walking into walls, tripping over themselves, [[DramaticDrop dropping fragile objects]], causing a HumanTrafficJam, etc. Mostly a comedy trope.
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14	If this is induced intentionally by the seducer in question when WeNeedADistraction, it falls instead into ShowSomeLeg.
15
16	Compare ChicAndAwe, SexSells, SexyCoatFlashing, and ShowSomeLeg. Contrast, naturally, NotDistractedByTheSexy, IgnoreTheFanservice, and ThePowerOfLust (which is when the sexy inspires rather than distracts). This may occur after a [[CrashingThroughTheHarem Crash Through the Harem]].
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18	If the viewers are the ones Distracted By The Sexy, that's BestKnownForTheFanservice. If the distracted party finds himself lost in thought over the distraction, it becomes EatingTheEyeCandy. If distracted by someone that their orientation wouldn't generally be attracted to, that's StupidSexyFlanders. If communication is attempted, it can cause GibberishOfLove. Expect FavorsForTheSexy by the distracted. If a character distracts themselves by noticing their reflection in a mirror, that's DistractedByMyOwnSexy. See CutenessProximity for the non-sexy, non-human variant. Compare also with ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful and IHaveBoobsYouMustObey.
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20	The Seducer or Seductress are (usually) young, attractive characters that employ this trope.
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22	!!Example Subpages:
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24	[[index]]
25	* DistractedByTheSexy/AnimeAndManga
26	* DistractedByTheSexy/ComicBooks
27	* DistractedByTheSexy/FanWorks
28	* [[DistractedByTheSexy/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
29	* [[DistractedByTheSexy/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
30	* DistractedByTheSexy/{{Literature}}
31	* DistractedByTheSexy/LiveActionTV
32	** ''DistractedByTheSexy/OneThousandWaysToDie''
33	* DistractedByTheSexy/VideoGames
34	* DistractedByTheSexy/{{Webcomics}}
35	* DistractedByTheSexy/WesternAnimation
36	[[/index]]
37
38	!!Other Examples:
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40	[[foldercontrol]]
41
42	[[folder:Advertising]]
43	* A Dutch insurance company, known for their slogan "Even Apeldoorn bellen" ("Time to call Apeldoorn", the name of the city where they have their main office) has a number of rather clever TV ads. In one, two roadworkers are digging a rather large hole (the road is at chest level); one of them is wielding a pickaxe. Then a stunning pair of legs walks by (that's roughly what you see, due to the camera crop), the guys look at them approvingly, the pickaxe swings down once more, a metallic "clunk" is heard and a jet of water spouts up. Slogan text blends in.
44	%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2VLmCPTbQ 2010 Super Bowl ad]] with Creator/MeganFox.
45	* A 1984 ad for Maaco (auto painting and repair chain) has a TooDumbToLive guy staring at several women walking by and ends up driving his car right inside a moving van. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW7kSX03GGA Uh, oh. Better get Maaco, indeed.]]
46	* Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_jwqIafeS4 a 2000 ad for Kronenbourg 1664 beer.]] It starts out with one awe-struck construction worker obliviously swinging a pickaxe while gazing at a woman, while another equally oblivious worker climbs out of a manhole in front of him. Cue a quick camera change and a sickening squish noise. It goes on like this for forty seconds, with butchers slicing off fingers, men getting hit by busses, and utility workers getting electrocuted. They're not into the woman herself, but her beer.
47	* ''Advertising/AirNewZealandSafetyVideos'': The guys demonstrating the brace positions in a canoe in "Safety in Paradise" keep sneaking glances at the model in the bikini on the beach.
48	* The first commercial for the Platform/SegaDreamcast in America ended with Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog losing his balance from the on-light of the Dreamcast and falling, ready to be caught by a football player, only for [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Sarah]] to walk by, distracting the player and causing Sonic to faceplant on the ground, losing rings in the process.
49	* Ads for the Australian pantyhose makers RazzaMatazz had a gorgeous woman (wearing the brand being advertised) going about her business when her skirt blows up in the wind - and total chaos and hilarity ensues among the innocent men going about their business around her.
50	* A cellphone commercial from TheNineties featured a rollerblader navigating a city. (We see this from his perspective.) About halfway through, he spots a sexy lady and keeps looking at her as he passes. He looks back at his path and sees the truck he's about to crash into. He then uses his cellphone to call his doctor and say "I did it again."
51	* An car insurance ad for Allstate has a young man driving a car see a "hot babe out jogging" and run his car into a light pole. The big joke being that as with all the ads in this particular campaign, the "hot babe out jogging" is Creator/DeanWinters, this time adding a pink headband and barbells to his rumpled suit as the character "Mayhem".
52	** Similarly, a radio ad for the UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} market has a motorist on Lake Shore Drive paying too much attention to a beach volleyball player and rear-ending another car.
53	* In a [=DKNY=] commercial where Emily Ratajakowski goes out walking a dog only dressed in her underwear this is the result. Especially when a driver loses control as there's a closeup on her dog... and the car hits another car. EverybodyLives. (Including the dog.)
54	* A ''very'' [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] version of this (both played straight and with a gender inversion) occurs in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPghhokaZdA German ad]] for the fashion store [=NewYorker=]. The ad shows an attractive young woman in a minidress strolling in the city, passing several people: a skateboarder, a tattooist making tattoos for some gang members, and some firemen helping someone escape a burning building. All of them are distracted by her looks, which ends up spelling disaster (which she ignores every time): the skateboarder rolls out onto the street and is hit by a car, the tattooist accidentally tattoos a heart on a gang member's back and is shot by the other gang members, and the firemen misplace their safety net, causing the guy in the burning building to fall on the ground. She then passes by another man, whom she flirts with, but then [[KarmicDeath she accidentally walks backwards]] right into a pit in the sidewalk, which is then [[BuriedAlive filled in by rocks immediately afterwards]]. The ad ends on a shot of a small piece of her dress partially buried in the sidewalk while someone uses a jackhammer nearby.
55	[[/folder]]
56
57	[[folder:Animation]]
58	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In episode 2 of Season 2, Careful S. distracts a couple of guards by throwing magazines their way. The magazines' covers depict beautiful women which distract the guards.
59	* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': In "Angry Clouds", several townspeople notice and get distracted by Motu while he is DisguisedInDrag.
60	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 5, the goats have Jollie dress up like a female bee in order to distract the bee guards at the palace and get into the building. The intended reaction is given by the bees... until Jollie turns around, revealing he looks rather ugly as a girl and causing the bees to faint in disgust.
61	[[/folder]]
62
63	[[folder:Comedy]]
64	* Creator/BillEngvall discusses looking at colleges with his daughter:
65	-->'''Bill Engvall:''' I'll tell you, it's a real slap in the face when you walk onto a college campus with your daughter and you catch some guy checking her out. ''(murmurs of agreement)'' Yeah. Then I realized it ''was'' a slap in the face; my wife caught me checking out college chicks. ''(laughter)'' "Sorry, [[ImAManICantHelpIt I'm a guy]]."
66	[[/folder]]
67
68	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
69	* In ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'', "Stupefyin' Jones" stunned any male who gazed upon her, except if they were wearing special glasses. In the [[Theatre/LilAbner stage and movie adaptation]], she was played by Julie Newmar in a skimpy skintight body suit.
70	%%* Once happened to German detective ''ComicStrip/NickKnatterton'' (it was a movie poster).
71	* In [[http://www.ghira.mistral.co.uk/football.gif this strip]] by {{Creator/Quino}}, a man is watching a [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football match]], when he's distracted by the fact that his neighbor forgot to close her window when she went to take a bath. Just then, one of the teams scores a very dramatic goal. He's [[SeriousBusiness so enraged]] at missing it that he throws his drink through the window and hits the neighbor in the head.
72	* This is the primary function of the heroine in Wally Wood's ''[[ComicBook/SallyForthWood Sally Forth]];'' the first time she saw action was when she lured a troop of Commies to their death by bathing in a river.
73	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
74	** Happens to Jon in [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1981/06/20 this comic.]] It causes him to crash his bike.
75	** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2010/07/26 another comic]] on a trip to the beach, Jon's mind seems to break at the sight of Liz in a bikini.
76	[[/folder]]
77
78	[[folder:Jokes]]
79	* A man is walking with his wife when he sees a young woman in a short skirt getting into a bus and keeps looking. His wife tells him acidly "I suppose you think I didn't catch you staring at the girl getting in the bus?" "What bus?"
80	[[/folder]]
81
82	[[folder:Magazines]]
83	* Taken to SelfDemonstratingArticle levels by the cover of the June 2007 issue of ''Latina Magazine'' (covergirl: Creator/EvaLongoria) in re an article about Music/EnriqueIglesias:
84	-->'''ENRIQUE:''' TallDarkAndHandsome. Oh, and he sings too!
85	* A MAD Magazine cover parodying Literature/SherlockHolmes, named inside as Shermlock Shomes, shows the famous detective and Dr. Whatsit starting after a hairy gentleman with a knife in his back, a bone, and a guy in his pocket, later implied to be "Arty Morty", but seeing an "interesting turn" in the case and instead following a woman with a conspicuous figure who, outlined against the lights, constitutes "a much more suspicious character to follow!"
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Manhua]]
89	* ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' has a strip where an art gallery displays the picture of a nude woman right ''next'' to a pillar. Half of the male patrons in said gallery, including the titular character, ends up getting distracted by the picture and running into the pillar, and the clinic next to said gallery [[https://www.oldmasterq.com/comics/972/ had a field day]].
90	[[/folder]]
91
92	[[folder:Music]]
93	* "What Was I Thinkin'" by Music/DierksBentley:
94	--> I was thinkin 'bout a little white tank top\
95	Sittin' right there in the middle by me\
96	I was thinkin' bout a long kiss\
97	Man just gotta get goin'\
98	Where the night might lead\
99	I know what I was feelin'\
100	But what was I thinkin'
101	* "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On" by Mel [=McDaniel=] is a good example of this.
102	-->''She can't help it if she's made that way\
103	She's not to blame if they look her way\
104	She ain't really tryin' to cause a scene\
105	It just comes naturally\
106	Lord, the girl can't help it''
107	* "Bettina, zieh dir bitte etwas an" (Bettina, put some clothes on) by ''[[GermanMedia Fettes Brot]]'' has the chorus "Bettina, wrap up your boobs". The song was inspired by the outfit of the host in a late night, call-in TV game show.
108	* The singer of "Man on a Mission" in ''[[Music/{{Hero}} !HERO: The Rock Opera]]'' ends the song with "Who's that beautiful girl?", segueing into "Secrets of the Heart".
109	* "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)" by Music/TheHollies. An FBI agent is about to signal a raid on a BadGuyBar but the eponymous woman catches his eye:
110	-->''With just one look I was a bad mess\
111	cause that long cool woman had it all''
112	* "Bigger Than the Beatles" by Joe Music/JoeDiffie has a mutual example of this. A waitress in a bar and a musician who performs in the bar are very much in love. Sometimes she forgets an order because she's thinking about how handsome he is, and sometimes he forgets to sing a chorus because he's thinking about how beautiful ''she'' is.
113	* Music/BruceSpringsteen:
114	** "Crush on You": the narrator is ''constantly'' getting distracted by beautiful girls to the point of wanting to drop everything and just run after them.
115	** Also these lines from "Loose Change":
116	--->''Yeah, I knew she was trouble but trouble sure was lookin' fine\
117	When I pulled her close what I knew kinda slipped my mind''
118	* "I Don't Want This Night to End" by Music/LukeBryan:
119	-->You got your hands up\
120	You're rocking in my truck\
121	You got the radio on\
122	You're singing every song\
123	I'm set on cruise control\
124	I'm slowing losing hold of everything I got\
125	You're looking so damn hot\
126	And I don't know what road we're on\
127	Or where we've been from starin' at you\
128	Girl, all I know is I don't want this night to end
129	* "Younger Men" by K.T. Oslin:
130	-->''That's why younger men are starting to catch my eye\
131	I'm strating to stop what I'm doing\
132	Just to turn around and watch them walk by''\
133	[...]\
134	Woah, look over here\
135	We got a cute little ol' runner on the right\
136	Blue shorts, no shirt\
137	Whoo, you're looking good, darling\
138	That's right, stay in shape''
139	* In Del Reeves' "Girl on the Billboard", the singer notes how the titular billboard featuring a girl in just a ModestyTowel has caused crashes on Route 66.
140	* In "Parents Just Don't Understand" by Music/DJJazzyJeffAndTheFreshPrince, Fresh Prince's night is going well until his companion unbuttons her shirt. Due to this, he fails to notice a police car and gets pulled over for speeding. This leads to an arrest and no doubt severe punishment from his parents.
141	** In "Just One Of Those Days", Prince, in a desperate attempt to get to work on time, steals a child's bike and rides away on it, catching the attention of a squad of ''[[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill twelve cop cars]]''. Just as he's about to shake them off, he gets distracted by a pretty girl who walks by and promptly wipes out inside a construction zone.
142	* In the Four Preps' "The Girl Without a Top" a naval captain runs his submarine into a pier when he spots her through his periscope.
143	* Inverted in [[WebVideo/PrincessRapBattles Whitney Avalon's]] song "Let's Not Talk About That", where Whitney is distracted ''from'' the sexy dancing by Jordan Maron's insistence on talking about politics.
144	* "Bobbie Ann Mason" by Rick Trevino mentions the title character as being a sexy distraction in school:
145	-->It wasn't the books that I didn't read\
146	It wasn't the teachers who tried to teach me\
147	It wasn't that varsity baseball coach\
148	Who kept on telling them locker room jokes\
149	It was Bobbie Ann Mason, back in high school\
150	She was way too cute, she was way too cool\
151	How was I gonna get an education\
152	Sittin' right in back of Bobbie Ann Mason
153	[[/folder]]
154
155	[[folder:Music Videos]]
156	* Eric Schwartz's "Kosha Boy", a parody of "Music/SouljaBoy", has the Kosha Boy "try to set an example", but he gets distracted by "the girl [he wants] to [[UnusualEuphemism schtup]] in the third row."
157	* Music/{{Weezer}}'s video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDIzMGh94vo "If You're Wondering If I Want You To"]] has this happen to two people: one standing in the street watching said girl, and the other driving a pickup truck, which hits the one standing in the street.
158	* Music/TraceAdkins' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVguvNE7qc "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"]] is a video about this trope in action - the hottest girl on the dance floor is so hot the guys can't stop staring at her.
159	* Music/MCHammer's "U Can't Touch This" features a scene where Hammer suddenly stops dancing to admire the backside of the girl dancing in front of him.
160	* In Chris Cornell's "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart," set in Western times on the day he and Eric Roberts are among prisoners due to be hanged, an onlooker played by [[Creator/ElenaSatine Elena]] "MsFanservice roles a specialty" [[Creator/ElenaSatine Satine]] uses this tactic as part of a plan to save Chris. At the end it's implied that [[HereWeGoAgain she's going to do it again for Eric]]. [[spoiler:P.S. It does work the first time.]]
161	* Happens to a prison guard dog in Blake Shelton's "Old Red." Old Red has the best nose in the county and never lets a prisoner escape. So the inmate singing the song starts bringing an in-heat female hound past Red's enclosure. Then once he's sure Red's going to remember, he stages his escape. When the prison warden unleashes Red, Red runs after the female instead of the prisoner.
162	* In Cobra Starship's tie-in video for "Film/SnakesOnAPlane (Bring It)", the band members smuggle live snakes through airport security in a suitcase and guitar case, by having Maja Ivarsson distract the guy who's manning the X-ray scanner.
163	[[/folder]]
164
165	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
166	* Avoiding this is apparently the reasons certain sects of certain religions insist on their women dressing in a conservative manner. Even religious sects that don't require modesty for women's day-to-day lives will still ask that they cover their shoulders and legs when attending services.
167	* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
168	** If Actaeon had been thinking with the right head at the time, he probably would have realized it was not a good idea to stand around watching the [[DoesNotLikeMen adamantly virginal Artemis]] [[OutdoorBathPeeping bathe]]. And he [[ForcedTransformation might have]] [[DisproportionateRetribution survived]].
169	** Fittingly enough this happens between goddess of love and fanservice, herself, Aphrodite and [[MrFanservice Adonis.]] [[WifeHusbandry Obsessed with him since he was a baby]] and unintentionally starts a LoveTriangle with [[PerkyGoth Persephone]] as the [[BettyAndVeronica Veronica]] as soon as [[SheIsAllGrownUp he's grown up,]] she's so obsessed with him that [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows she's not doing her job of helping OTHER people fall in love/lust]] to instead (awkwardly) join him on hunts and stick with him 24/7.
170	* UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar:
171	** At one point in ''Literature/TheIliad'', Hera goes to enormous lengths to seduce Zeus long enough for his pro-Trojan battle manipulations to fall apart.
172	** Said to have saved Helen's life. After the Achaeans have breached Troy's walls and are sacking the city, her first husband Menelaus is furious at her as can be expected and is portrayed in various accounts as ordering his troops to execute her or even about to kill her himself before her beauty stays their/his hands (helped by some accounts saying her clothes were getting torn off in all of the drama).
173	* A story in both Jewish folklore and Literature/TheQuran: after the other Egyptian women mock her for making a fool of herself over Joseph, [[Literature/TheBible Potiphar's wife]] invites them over, then calls him in while they're cutting fruit. Multiple injuries ensue.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Podcasts]]
177	* Happens several times in ''Podcast/TheFallenGods’’.
178	** When Tuatha fails several perception and intuition checks when the group is trying to procure a ship, it's chalked up to her being distracted by the hot [[spoiler:fake]] ship's captain. She's also willing to employ this herself if it means she can avoid an actual fight.
179	** There's also Mistress Mara the merchant, who causes this in everybody. Solvin has to step outside because it's so awkward he's about to crawl out of his skin.
180	[[/folder]]
181
182	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
183	* ''The Great American Bash 2007'' had a backstage skit where Wrestling/MattHardy started lecturing Wrestling/JeffHardy that he had to stay focused to win his upcoming match. Wrestling/CandiceMichelle, who just had a match, started pouring water all over herself to cool off, leaving Matt, Jeff, and then Wrestling/RonSimmons gawking. Jeff later lost his match.
184	* During a Full Impact Pro [[GimmickMatches Falls Count Anywhere]] match Wrestling/CMPunk tossed [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]] onto a table where a strip show was happening and, without missing a beat, Homicide rolled onto his elbows to enjoy it. Punk stomped onto the table, stomped on Homicide's head and then noticed the strippers, though his reaction was more so [[SlutShaming appalled by the sexy]].
185	* At the 2015 ''FIP Heatstroke'' Earl Kooter was more interested in making out with Veronica Voxx than watching his Trailer Park Nation partner Zane Riley wrestle. Riley ended up getting pinned by Gary Jay when he ended up paying too much attention to Kooter and Voxx make out.
186	* The whole feud between [[Wrestling/GeorgeSteele George "The Animal" Steele]] and [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]] in 1986-1987 Wrestling/{{WWE}} was centered around Steele's attraction to Wrestling/MissElizabeth, though, unlike the more overtly sexy Characters/WWEDivas who would follow, she didn't actually ''do'' anything to provoke this reaction. She was just ''[[IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn there]]''.
187	* Happened once to Wrestling/VladimirKozlov in a backstage segment on ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown''. But then, it ''[[JustifiedTrope was]]'' Wrestling/BethPhoenix, courtesy of being kissed by her UnderTheMistletoe.
188	* Happens to a photographer in [[https://www.instagram.com/p/8_e4Y1NgPg/ this picture]] from Wrestling/AllysinKay's Instagram. She wasn't above trying if it would help Chest Flexor in Absolute Intense Wrestling either, though the Midwest Militia usually took a more direct and violent approach to Flexor Industries' problems.
189	* [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Mr. America]] lost an arm-wrestling match to Wrestling/VinceMcMahon after Wrestling/{{Sable}} flashed him.
190	* This was Wrestling/{{Debra\|Marshall}}'s schtick during her WWF run as a valet for Wrestling/JeffJarrett and Wrestling/OwenHart. She accompanied them to the ring wore business suits. At a critical point in the match, she would get up on the apron and unleash the "puppies", as Wrestling/JerryLawler called it - that is, unbutton her blazer to reveal the skimpy bra underneath. Usually she used it to distract the opponent, but if that didn't work she could almost always find some way to use the puppies to cause a distraction.
191	[[/folder]]
192
193	[[folder:Roleplay]]
194	* The "Hallucination" psi-power from ''Roleplay/{{A Shock to the System\|Roleplay}}'' involves "Cramming an image of a pretty fem performing an act of depravity up [an enemy's] temporal lobe".
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
198	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'':
199	** The 3.0 non-official book ''Nymphology'' introduces new rules for lewd situations. For example, a Concentration check can be required for a spellcaster facing a naked and attractive opponent, in order to not flub a spell. Although modified by the foe's Charisma, the check is rather easy (since most spellcasters max out their Concentration skill), so only a complete novice is really at risk of being distracted.
200	** In the 3.5 supplement ''Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss'', one of the Abyssal Heritor feats is "Otherworldly Countenance", which allows to choose between wretchedly hideous or stunningly beautiful. If beautiful, the character can cause a fascination effect a set number of times per day by focusing attention on a subject. Note that no mention is made of the subject needing to be of the opposite sex (or even the same species, in fact).
201	* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' supplement about Japanese media ''Mecha & Manga'', there's a feat called "Distracting Looks" that allows your character to provoke this reaction to reduce targets' effectiveness with social skills.
202	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the emypreal lord Arshea uses their Charisma modifier as their armor. They offer this to their followers who perform obedience. The ability requires the user to wear revealing clothing and no armor.
203	* ''TabletopGame/{{Reign}}'' has the "Beauty" advantage, which is prime for this use. At lower ranks you merely turn heads, while at the highest rank comparisons are made to Helen of Troy. And that's before you ''intentionally'' use it to jack your Fascinate skill through the roof.
204	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': the 4th Edition supplement ''Attitude'' notes that female [[BloodSport Urban Brawl]] champion Svetlana Jurjewa is known for her tactic of opening her top and flashing her breasts at members of the other team in order to distract them while one of her teammates makes a play. It's technically against the rules but so popular with viewers that she (and other female players who started copying her) are allowed to do it anyway.
205	* ''TabletopGame/ATouchOfEvil'': The Succubus minion gets an extra Fight Die against male Heroes.
206	* The "Sexualized" merit in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' lets characters use this to their advantage, at the cost of dealing with the fallout from the occasional StupidSexyFlanders moments they inflict on people around them.
207	* The Dark Elf Sorceress Morathi in ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' is so beautiful and seductive that entire units must make a morale check to avoid distracted by her mere presence in combats she is involved in.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Theatre]]
211	* As the Man in Chair tells us, the actress in the 1920s musical ''Theatre/TheDrowsyChaperone'' was famous for playing "The Oops Girl", who had this as her entire shtick.
212	* In ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'', Chip Tolentino washes out of the eponymous bee when he notices Leaf Coneybear's buxom older sister Marigold in the audience just as he is given the word "tittup." Predictably, he spells it with only one "t" and is disqualified.
213	[[/folder]]
214
215	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
216	* ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'':
217	** Downplayed on Becca’s romantic path when the protagonist is fixing her sink and gets a view of her panties. He gets distracted from what he’s doing, but there are no bad consequences. Becca isn’t even that upset if he looks long enough that she catches him.
218	** Discussed by Melody. According to her, when she and Steve were together, Steve would check out other girls while on dates with her.
219	[[/folder]]
220
221	[[folder:Web Animation]]
222	* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon\|Machinima}}'': Sam and Roxy are so distracted by Tucker and Kyle during their kidnapping attempt that they leave their gun unattended, leaving Chelsea and Hunter to figure out exactly what to do next.
223	* ''WebAnimation/GwainSaga'': During a [[BarBrawl bar fight with a bunch of thugs]], Luna uses a holographic projection of [[TheHighQueen Gwain]] in a [[PlayboyBunny Bunny]][[AuthorAppeal suit]] to distract them before she promptly [[FemmeFatale punishes them for letting their guards down]].
224	* Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wc_fMuq3mc "A Walk in the Park,"]] an Amiga-made animation by Eric Schwartz. His [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal half dressed]] squirrel girl, Amy (of ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'' fame), walks to work through the local park, causing numerous examples. Amy is revealed to be a nurse and the short ends with her looking out over the waiting room filled with her unintended victims and asking why her shift is always the busiest.
225	* In the first episode of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfwXi5LgNms Tobuscus Animated Adventures,]]'' Toby is so busy ogling a chick that he fails to notice (or care) that she's a zombie. HilarityEnsues.
226	[[/folder]]
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228	[[folder:Web Original]]
229	* [[http://ca.jalopnik.com/5788058/we-must-fight-distracted-driving-by-ending-road-head This April Fools article]] from Jalopnik calls for the banning of "[[AutoErotica road head]]" while driving since it supposedly distracts other people on the road from driving and is thus a road safety hazard.
230	* The photo for the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/distracted-boyfriend Distracted Boyfriend Meme]] features a guy who is distracted by a woman in the foreground. His girlfriend notices and is not very happy.
231	* The Iced Latte with Breast Milk meme involves someone ordering a drink from a buxom, often underclad barista, only to make numerous abortive attempts to say something other than "breast milk."
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235	* Men make more short-term-oriented decisions after exposure to sexual stimuli, as explained in #3 of ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20332_5-unrealistic-movie-cliches-that-are-scientifically-accurate.html 5 Unrealistic Movie Cliches That Are Scientifically Accurate.]]
236	* At one point, the female biz-bot of the Website/JollyRogerTelephoneCompany, designed to distract cold-callers, will claim to have been distracted and missed what the caller said because a really hot co-worker just walked by. "Oooh, baby!"
237	* On Tumblr, Radioactivesupersonic posted [[http://radioactivesupersonic.tumblr.com/post/179371777565/my-beef-regarding-female-characters-in-an-action an essay]] deconstructing the use of this trope to justify showing ActionGirl characters in skimpy outfits. Their main point is that seduction is not a valid strategy in a combat situation, and is based on the assumption that the people she is fighting will be attracted to her and not be too savvy/sensible to fall for the trick -- and if it ''were'', why wouldn't male characters do it more often?
238	* There are a lot of things that {{Website/Wikipedia}} considers to be un-noteworthy. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saugeen-Maitland_Hall#The_Saugeen_stripper The Saugeen stripper]] is not one of those things.
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242	* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' accuses the developers of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderAngelOfDarkness'' of this, arguing that while the game is glitchy and unfinished it has refined JigglePhysics:
243	--> '''Nerd:''' The creators spent so much time figuring out how to make Lara's boobs jiggle, they forgot to make her fun to play!
244	* During WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Bebe's Kids'', he rants about a useless music video included, until camera focuses on the main female's butt which results in a quick "Dayum" before he returns to ranting on how useless the music video is.
245	* '' WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'':
246	** When it comes to Music/DavidBowie's [[{{Film/Labyrinth}} PACKAGE]], The Chick just can't help going off-track.
247	** In the middle of her ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' review, while Nella tries to convince The Nostalgia Chick and [[spoiler:Mara Wilson]] to join forces instead of fighting each other, she gets distracted by [[spoiler:Mara's]] breasts and tries to touch them.
248	* {{Creator/Tobuscus}} has a catchphrase devoted to this phenomenon, "Hothothothothothot," which also falls under the category of GibberishOfLove, and appears to be endearing to many of the women he meets.
249	* In the 50th Anniversary ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/exclusive-video-four-doctors-discuss-50-years-of-doctor-who/ panel video,]] Creator/PeterDavison begins talking about the legendarily {{Narm}}-inducing decision for Peri to be leaning over his Doctor's face in a super-low-cut top during his regeneration scene, itself an example of this trope. Only as he carries on talking about it, the other old Doctors become noticeably distracted by the large-breasted sign-language interpreter on stage right as she mimes the sign for "cleavage", dropping their sentences and losing focus. Except for Creator/TomBaker, who acts completely oblivious, and doesn't turn around to look even after Peter Davison points her out to him and starts miming the sign himself to indicate what he's missing. And then [[DoubleSubversion double subverts]] it by suddenly turning around and delivering a very flirty "''hello''".
250	* In Episode 5 of WebVideo/KorraBridged, upon discovering that Hiroshi Sato is working with [[BigBad Amon]], Korra quickly tries to warn her friends... only to go completely brain-dead the moment she sees Asami in her swimsuit.
251	--> '''Korra:''' ''[blushing]'' [[GibberishOfLove You look.. uh... so-uh... h-hot... and uh.. eheh heh... oh g-what was I talking about...?]]
252	* In the WebVideo/{{Wiiviewer}}'s review of ''VideoGame/DragonsLair Trilogy'', he gets so caught up in seeing Princess Daphne on the screen that he forgets what he's talking about.
253	* [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro Matt Santoro]] did a Q&A video, and someone asked him who he thought the hottest female was. He said Creator/KateUpton, and to prove it, he played a clip of Kate Upton dancing in lingerie, which he [[MaleGaze stared at]] for a few seconds before regaining focus.
254	* ''WebVideo/YoungJusticeAbridged'':
255	** Let's just say Wally isn't as good at hiding his attraction to Artemis here as he is in the show and just leave it at that.
256	** Apparently, it's a trait shared by the other red-head; Roy gets played hard by Cheshire when she turns on the smoulder, and even funnier, he seems aware of the trope and tries to warn himself about it, but ''still falls for her distraction.''
257	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpUs8oNjuV8 This episode of]] ''WebVideo/GameTheory'' argues the biological advantage in the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' franchise's skimpy costumes, and their capacity to create imbalance in tournament play.
258	* WebVideo/DashieXP's playthrough of ''Bayonetta 2'' is rife with this, even hindering his performance (though, to be fair, it was his first time).
259	-->'''[=DashieXP=]:''' ''[after Glamour emerges from the ground]'' Okay, we fighting some shit! We fighting some shit-(notices Bayonetta's ass) Damn, look at all that CAKE!
260	* ''LetsPlay/{{Mahu}}'': In "Frozen Flame", a group of dryads tries to distract and even stop the forces of prince Arius by using their unnatural beauty... then a volley of rocks from the prince's trebuchets pulverizes half of these creatures, immediately breaking the spell.
261	* ''WebVideo/{{Carmilla}}'': There is a running gag of Laura being very obviously distracted by Carmilla. In Season 1, Carmilla gets changed right in front of Laura and her friends. In Season 2, just after she and Laura break up, Carmilla annoys Laura by not only deliberately gets changed in front of her again, but she also LEANS OVER next to her, giving Laura (and the audience) a very good view of what Laura is missing. However, Laura unknowingly gets her own back in Season 3, as Carmilla accidentally drops and steps on an important pair of glasses while staring at Laura performing yoga.
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