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9	[[quoteright:270:[[http://omakeomatsuri.comicgenesis.com/d/20021223.html https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omake_santa_dress.jpg]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:270:Fanservice demands that these clothes be sexy, not comfortable.]]
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13	->''"[[MaleGaze The history of cinema is boys photographing girls]]."''
14	-->-- '''Creator/JeanLucGodard'''
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16	''The limit of the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for a given element is directly proportional to its sexiness.''
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18	In other words, when things are sufficiently sexy, viewers will accept them, even when they are outright impossible, or just astronomically improbable in reality.
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20	Of course, some of these cases can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] [[InUniverse In-Universe]] if the characters demonstrating this have radically different anatomy than ours or if they have a superpower that would justify this one way or another (such as [[{{Shapeshifting}} shapeshifting]] or [[{{Sizeshifter}} size alteration]], for example).
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22	A SisterTrope to SexSells. Not to be confused with RuleThirtyFour.
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24	Compare RuleOfFunny, RuleOfCool.
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27	!!A SuperTrope to:
28	[floatboxright:
29	Related:
30	+ {{Fanservice}}
31	+ FanserviceCostumes
32	+ ImprobableAppearanceTropes
33	+ NoNudityTaboo
34	+ NudityTropes
35	+ PartialNudityTropes
36	+ RuleOfGlamorous
37	+ RuleOfRomantic
38	+ SexTropes
39	+ {{Unmentionables}}
40	]
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44	[[index]]
45	* BreastExpansion: In reality, breasts can't suddenly expand.
46	* CensorSteam: In reality, steam is sometimes transparent, and can't be trusted in covering body parts when it isn't.
47	* ChainmailBikini: In reality, you should not fight in bikini-shaped armor, because it protects only some vital areas but not others.
48	* ClothingDamage: In reality, clothing does not degrade in a conveniently alluring fashion.
49	* CombatStilettos: In reality, you cannot run and fight in stiletto heels.
50	* ConvenientlyCommonKink: In reality, random happenstance is unreliable as a means for people with compatible obscure fetishes to find each other.
51	* CustomUniformOfSexy: In reality, each uniform is standard. That's what the word ''uniform'' means.
52	* DeusSexMachina: In reality, sex isn't something that you ''need'' to do to make something rather than human reproduction work.
53	* ExposedToTheElements: In reality, clothing inappropriate to the elements can prove harmful or fatal.
54	* FormFittingWardrobe: In reality, a limit exists on how tight clothing can be (even when there is variance in material flexibility).
55	* FurBikini: In reality, you can't keep warm in a bikini made of fur, as it exposes too much of the body.
56	* GenderedOutfit: In reality, uniforms created for both genders consider practicality, rather than just showing as much skin as possible.
57	* GodivaHair: In reality, hair cannot be trusted with covering body parts.
58	* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: In reality, were aliens to exist, we (most likely) could not have sex with them.
59	* HartmanHips: In reality, the human female body only forms a slight pear shape.
60	* HeadAndHipPose
61	* HighHeeledFeet
62	* HighHeelPower
63	* HospitalHottie: In reality, hospital personnel dress for practicality.
64	* HotWind: In reality, wind does not appear just to make someone's hair and clothes move around seductively.
65	* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The character in question may be meant to be an animal InUniverse, but that won't stop the artist from anthropomorphizing them into what is essentially an attractive human woman from the neck down.
66	* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: In reality, the human female figure forms only a slight hourglass, even in the most ideal figures.
67	* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: In reality, any outfit that shows that much neckline would just fall off entirely.
68	* IntimateHealing: In real life, sex or sensual actions do not heal serious injuries.
69	* LatexSpaceSuit: In reality, space suits are bulky to protect the wearer. And the closest experimental suits require the wearer to pack putty or fluid-filled sacs around anything that would otherwise stick out (like breasts and groins).
70	* MostCommonSuperpower: In reality, were superheroines and villainesses to exist, they would not all have large breasts.
71	* NaughtyNuns: In reality, nuns are more chaste than most people.
72	* NaughtyNurseOutfit: In reality, nurses dress for practicality.
73	* NaughtyTentacles: In reality, were tentacles to become sentient, no reason would exist for sex with humans.
74	* NonMammalMammaries: In reality, non-mammals don't have mammaries and even with mammals, they usually don't stick out like human breasts (not even primates).
75	* OrgasmicCombat: In reality, fighting does not sound like sex (and someone would have ''particular issues'' to get turned on by fighting).
76	* PantyFighter: In reality, women using martial arts would likely NOT wear something that would almost always reveal her panties.
77	* PinkIsErotic: The color pink represents eroticism and scenes of a sexual nature.
78	* PsychosexualHorror: A subgenre that explores psychosexual development as a subject matter, including themes of sexual development and sexual activities.
79	* SexMagic: In reality, sex doesn't give you powers.
80	* SexyDimorphism: In reality, a non-human species most likely would not inexplicably have the female sex appear near-identical to attractive human women, despite the other sex being monstrous.
81	* SheFu: In reality, such techniques are highly impractical in combat.
82	* SpyCatsuit: In reality, people cannot wear skintight clothing while remaining mobile and stealthy (barring flexible clothing material).
83	* {{Stripperiffic}}: In reality, people cannot wear revealing clothing unsuitable for the job.
84	* SuggestiveCollision: In reality, when people collide, it's extremely unlikely that one person ends up pinned against the other person's sexy bits.
85	* WaifFu: In reality, women who are that[[note]]fashion model[[/note]] thin do not hit that hard. There are ways for small women to do damage in a fight, but it doesn’t look anything like it does on TV.
86	* WorldOfBuxom: In reality, breasts come in various sizes, even small.
87	[[/index]]
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89	...but in fiction, we accept the alternative, because it's sexy.

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