History Quotes / SexSells

->''Speaking of video games, [[UsefulNotes/XBoxOne that one]] will probably work better if you turn the controller on.''

-->-- '''Creator/ScottAdams''', ''TheDilbertPrinciple''

->''Covering a {{fighting game}} for a media outlet can be a complicated affair, especially when attempting to go beyond face value, exploring issues of balance and timing and the competitive scene. The ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' franchise makes it easy. ''"What are ''[=DOA's=]'' [[{{Gainaxing}} boobs]] doing this time around?"'' I mean hell, even I'm doing it. Hi there.''

->''Speaking of video games, [[UsefulNotes/XBoxOne that one]] will probably work better if [[CriticalResearchFailure you turn the controller on]].''

->''Didn't we already go through this with {{Music/Madonna}}, and Music/JanetJackson, and {{Music/Britney|Spears}}, and [[Music/ChristinaAguilera Xtina]], and that one video in which {{Music/Alanis|Morissette}} was naked on a subway with her hair in front of her boobs and it was really awkward for everyone? {{Music/Miley|Cyrus}} spent the entire year foam-finger-blasting herself, licking sledgehammers, and basically trying every inane strategy she could think of to rile up America's few remaining pearl clutchers. What's sad is that it totally worked.''

->'''Peggy Olson:''' Sex sells.\\
'''Don Draper:''' [[DiscussedTrope Says who?]] Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that ''monkeys'' can do this.
-->-- ''Series/MadMen''

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'''Mara''': ... You still not getting any help on the business front?\\
'''Marcia''': ...Actually, I hired Lust the other day.\\
'''Mara''': Gonna go with the sexy mascot idea then? Good call.\\
'''Marcia''': Yep. She's also my assistant.
-->--''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars''

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->Pharmaceutical sales reps are famously young, attractive people. In fact, this is so well-known, it's become a sitcom punchline for years. If something's a joke on ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', you ''know'' it's common knowledge.

->Know why we don't hang out? You may dominate at every {{FPS}}, but you know what really levels ''me'' up? Creating your own video game. And when you do, ''I'll be waiting.''

->In a mere 15 seconds, the school makes it clear that they know nothing about gaming and less about women... Speaking of video games, [[UsefulNotes/XBoxOne that one]] will probably work better if [[CriticalResearchFailure you turn the controller on]].

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->I'm a beautiful, scantily-clad model standing in Times Square posing for this ad. Typical of Madison Avenue, they'll use sex to try and sell ''anything''! Even something as wholesome as milk. Only one problem. Most readers are so busy checking out my fabulous body that [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain they never really pay attention to the product being advertised.]]

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->''"I'll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless\\
'Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous"''

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->Oh, look at that! ''Those'' two people like it! And they're shagging!

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'''Miss L'Arriere''' ''(One of those awful voices)'': "I had my swimming pool dug by a General Products steam shovel."\\

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->(Mara's been lounging around, half-asleep in the lobby. She comes to with a yawn.)\\

->There’s no reason to listen to the words coming out of an unattractive woman’s mouth. There’s no reason to be interested in the adventures of a woman unless the word ‘erotic’ is slipped in there, however subtly. There’s no reason to draw a regular woman if you can draw a sexy one.

->Two thoughts on that cover: 1) {{Creator/Kim|Kardashian}} looks like an honorary Kaptain of a rubber dinghy called the ''[[HelloSailor S. S. Seamen]]'' (the first mate of which would be chum bucket Terry Richardson, who shot Kim’s kover).\\\
2) A round of applause goes to the editors who showed an enormous level of restraint by not reversing the order of the words so that it read ''“Inside Kim“''. Or maybe they did, but the second the first copy came out of the printer, [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians Kris Jenner]] appeared through a fiery hole in the floor and [[StageMom demanded a cut of the profits]] from people who bought the magazine expecting to find porn.

->Carl’s Jr. wants you to think of big ole titty sex when you think of their restaurants. It produces a desire to consume their burgers greater than the previous association with arteriosclerosis and irradiated giant sized ants.

->Covering a fighting game for a media outlet can be a complicated affair, especially when attempting to go beyond face value, exploring issues of balance and timing and the competitive scene. The ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' franchise makes it easy. ''"What are ''[=DOA's=]'' boobs doing this time around?"'' I mean hell, even I'm doing it. Hi there.

->'''Jeff:''' There’s such a long history, in this country certainly, but I imagine all over the world of just like: Here’s a girl next to a thing we’re trying to sell you! ''Dumbass!'' You’re an idiot. You’ll be fooled by this. You fuckin’ ''rube''. Look at this car! These ladies are laying on this car! You should buy this car! Maybe ladies will lay on ''your'' car.\\
'''Dan:''' I need to get to work, these ladies gotta get off my car!\\
'''Jeff:''' Yeah, like I’m late here, this is not safe. Tawny Kitaen, please get off my car.
-->-- ''[[Podcast/GiantBomb GiantBombcast]]''

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'''Peter:''' Wait a minute.... ''(deadpan)'' That's the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say about anything.

->'''''SEX!!!'''''\\\
Now that I've got your attention VOTE FOR BART!!!

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->In the United States, the advertising and public relations industry is huge. Back in the more honest days, they called it propaganda. Now [[{{Newspeak}} the term doesn’t sound nice]], so it’s not used anymore, but it’s basically a huge propaganda system...His first great success was to induce women to smoke. In the 1920s, women didn’t smoke. So here’s this big population which was not buying cigarettes, so he paid young models to march down New York City’s Fifth Avenue holding cigarettes. His message to women was, 'You want to be cool like a model? You should smoke a cigarette.' How many millions of corpses did that create? I’d hate to calculate it. But it was considered an enormous success.

->We always incorporated sex into everything because sex sells.

->I've been ordering to Yoji to make the character more erotic, and he did it well. Recently I've been making characters this way. The initial target is to make u want to do cosplay or its figurine to sell well.

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->Males are predictable creatures. All successful advertising campaigns that target men include one of these two messages:\\\

1. If you use this product you'll [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs be a bikini model.]]

->''"Dear reader, this is the story of how I met the woman of my life, the one that compli... '''Wait, don't leave yet! This book has lots of [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Hot Lesbian Bondage Sex]]!!!!''' Good... That got your attention..."

->Covering a fighting game for a media outlet can be a complicated affair, especially when attempting to go beyond face value, exploring issues of balance and timing and the competitive scene. The ''Franchise/DeadOrAlive'' franchise makes it easy. ''"What are ''[=DOA's=]'' boobs doing this time around?"'' I mean hell, even I'm doing it. Hi there.