History Main / DistractedByTheSexy

* 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.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Happens to Jon in [[https://garfield.com/comic/1981/06/20 this comic]]. It causes him to crash his bike.

* 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.)]]

** 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* 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]].

* 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''".

* DistractedByTheSexy/RealLife

* Avoiding this is apparently the reasons certain sects of certain religions insist on their women dressing in a conservative manner.

* 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.

** 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 (and most spellcasters max out their Concentration skill), so only a complete novice is really at risk of being sufficiently distracted.
** 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 time 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).
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the emypreal lord Arshea uses zir charisma modifier as zir armor. Ze offers this to zir followers who preform obediences. The ability requires the user to wear revealing clothing and no armor.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 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 time 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).

* This was Debra'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 Jerry Lawler 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.

%%* Music/TraceAdkins' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVguvNE7qc "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"]] is a video about this trope in action.

%%* Happens to a prison guard dog in Blake Shelton's "Old Red."

* [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro Matt Santoro]] did a Q&A video, and someone asked him who he thought the hottest female was. He said Kate Upton, 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.

* ''Machinima/{{Anon}}'': 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.

* There are a lot of things that {{Wiki/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.

** 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 [[BalefulPolymorph might have]] [[DisproportionateRetribution survived]].

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* In ''VideoGame/Runaway2TheDreamOfTheTurtle'', the main character Brian can't help being distracted by the sexy bar girl Lokelani's looks when she converses with him. When he later has to pose as a French Professor, he asks Lokelani to distract the real Professor, [[HoneyTrap and she does it in the most effective way she could cook off]].
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* Subverted and taken UpToEleven 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.

* A man is walking with his wife when he sees a young woman in a DangerouslyShortSkirt 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?"

->''"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."''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2VLmCPTbQ 2010 Super Bowl ad]] with Creator/MeganFox.

* Music/TraceAdkins' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNVguvNE7qc "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"]] is a video about this trope in action.

* Happens to a prison guard dog in Blake Shelton's "Old Red."

** Fittingly enough 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.

For some men, it's very easy to forget what they are doing when [[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.

* 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]].

* ''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 a classic case of Topless From The Back. In Season 2, just after she and Laura break up, Carmilla not only deliberately gets changed in front of her again, 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, as Carmilla accidentally drops and steps on an important pair of glasses while staring at Laura performing yoga in Season 3.

->''"Boobs or Pecks 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."''

The Suductor or Seductress are (usually) young, attractive characters that employ this trope.

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