Sex Sells

I'm not a big fan of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies (also known as the Kelvin timeline).  The first one was okay. Then came Star Trek into Darkness and it was downright bad. There was one scene I thought was completely gratuitous when actress Alice Eve (playing Carol Marcus) stood around in her underwear.

Alice Eve is a lovely woman and as a testosterone-poisoned male, I enjoyed the scene, but even then, I thought it was completely unneeded. 

But, sex sells. 

Some women were upset at the Alice Eve scene. But have you looked at romance books lately? Here's an example:

It seems on a lot of romance books there are shirtless men. But sex sells.

In my novel Rock Killer, I had a character named Charlie Jones. After writing less than a paragraph, I changed Charlie from a man to a woman with the same name. And I made her an attractive woman because... sex sells. (I decided her name was Charlene but everyone called her "Charlie.") And, at the beginning of the book, Charlie is in a bathtub. Because... sex sells. In that scene I say:

"She soaped up a washcloth and rubbed it over her dark skin; Frank called it chocolate-cheesecake colored."

Have you noticed other examples of using sex to sell entertainment? Let me know in the comments below.

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