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The Power of Sex

album by E-Rotic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1128780 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Power of Sex is the second album by German Eurodance group E-Rotic. It was released in Europe in June 1996.

Track listings

Standard edition

"Willy Use a Billy... Boy" – 3:41

"Why" – 4:13

"Help Me Dr. Dick" – 3:42

"Ecstasy" – 3:59

"The Power of Sex" – 3:35

"Love And Sex Are Free" – 3:21

"Talk to Your Girl" – 4:47

"Fritz Love My Tits" – 4:08

"Erotic Dreams" – 4:49

"Tears in Your Blue Eyes" – 3:57

"Gimme Good Sex" – 3:50

"Angel's Night" – 3:54

"Freedom" – 4:07

"Willy Use a Billy ... Boy" (the house remix) – 6:02

"Help Me Dr. Dick" (the first aid remix) – 5:54

Special edition

"Help Me Dr. Dick" – 3:43

"Willy Use a Billy... Boy" – 3:41

"Why" – 4:13

"Ecstasy" – 3:58

"The Power of Sex" – 3:35

"Love and Sex Are Free" – 3:21

"Talk to Your Girl" – 4:47

"Fritz Love My Tits" – 4:07

"Erotic Dreams" – 4:48

"Tears in Your Blue Eyes" – 3:57

"Gimme Good Sex" – 3:50

"Angel's Night" – 3:54

"Freedom" – 4:06

"Willy Use a Billy... Boy" (The House Remix) – 6:02

"Help Me Dr.

Editorial summary

“The Power of Sex” enters the record as album by E-Rotic. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Power, album and E-Rotic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1996, 2003—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Power, album and E-Rotic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Power of Sex” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Power, album and E-Rotic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1128780. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “The Power of Sex” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.