provocative vs sexy

provocative

adj
  • Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest; sexy. 

  • Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating. 

sexy

adj
  • Having sex appeal; attractive. 

  • Used to describe prime numbers that differ from each other by six. 

  • Sexual; relating to or involving sex. 

  • Intriguing, appealing, likely to excite interest. 

How often have the words provocative and sexy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )