Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A celebrity sex tape is a home video of human sexual behavior, as performed by a celebrity and his or her partner(s), which finds internet and/or bootleg and occasionally legitimate commercial distribution and made available to an audience for which it was supposedly not intended. Such tapes were often released without consent of their subjects and could damage celebrities' careers. In 1988 a sex tape caused significant damage to Rob Lowe's career. However, in recent years many celebrities have benefited from the publicity of the release of a sex tape. The release of Paris Hilton's sex tape in 2003 as well as Kim Kardashian and Ray J in 2007 brought them to a new level of fame, leading to magazine covers, book deals, and reality TV series. The surfacing of sex tapes has become so common that some are leaked as a marketing tool to advance or establish a media career.
