With the recent sex-tape scandal of Kristin Davis (Sex and the City,) it’s obvious that these celebrities are smarter than we think.
The whole point in being a celebrity is that you’re famous. And when that fame starts to dwindle and slip away, you gotta do something fast or your next paycheck just may be from your old shows still in syndication somewhere in Jamaica. While this might be an easy way of living, it’s not fabulous, and to live a rich and famous lifestyle, you gotta rake in the dough somehow–even if it means stripping your clothes, taking a camera, making sweet love, and getting HIV in the morning.

So when Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Pam Anderson, Kid Rock, Ray J’s sex tapes came out, it wasn’t some dumb mistake, it was very business savvy.

Take for instance, Paris Hilton. When her sex tape came out with her screwing around with Shannon Doherty’s ex, Rick Soloman, she was just another socialite on her way to the B-list. After it came out, she became this huge phenomenon and received not only modeling and acting gigs, but publishing, fragrances, reality television, and oversea deals sealing her fame and bumping her to permanent A-list status.

Kim Kardashian was solely known as being the daughter of OJ Simpson’s lawyer. After going to a few events, she became known just as one of Paris Hilton’s friend. After her sex tape with Ray J, bam! she got a cover on Playboy, received her own reality TV series, and even got a new, more famous boyfriend, Reggie Bush.

So since Kristin Davis, known only as the role of Charlotte York on SATC, released her own sex tape, we know she’ll become an A-lister as quickly as LiLo getting gonorrhea–of the eye. She’ll no longer just be known as that one girl from that one HBO show, but that one girl who had a sex tape that allowed her to become a star.

If this works for celebrities, I’m thinking it might just work for me. So should I stalk some A-lister, make a sex tape, release it to the world, and become famous? Wait, guys don’t get famous from sex tapes, you say? Let’s see…Ray J, Rick, Tommy Lee. You’re right, BUNK THAT SHIZZ!

On second thoughts, how about I get famous the traditional way–sleeping with a famous much older woman, cougar style? Liza Minnelli here I come!