Editing Slippery When Wet (section)

==Title and artwork==
The album's name was changed during its inception, including ''Wanted Dead or Alive''. A proposed cover with the band dressed as cowboys<ref>{{cite news |date=August 18, 2016 |title=How Bon Jovi Changed the World With 'Slippery When Wet' |work=Observer |url=https://observer.com/2016/08/how-bon-jovi-changed-the-world-with-slippery-when-wet/ |access-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref> was later used for the [[Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi song)|single release of the track of the same name]].

According to Bon Jovi, the band named the album ''Slippery When Wet'' after visiting The No.5 Orange [[strip club]] in Vancouver, British Columbia. According to Sambora, "This woman descended from the ceiling on a pole and proceeded to take all her clothes off. When she got in a shower and soaped herself up, we just about lost our tongues. We just sat there and said, 'We will be here every day.' That energized us through the whole project. Our testosterone was at a very high level back then."<ref>{{cite web |last=Giles |first=Jeff |date=August 18, 2016 |title=30 Years Ago: Bon Jovi Release 'Slippery When Wet' |url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-slippery-when-wet/ |access-date=December 8, 2016}}</ref>

The cover consists of a wet black [[Bin bag|garbage bag]] with the words "Slippery When Wet" traced in the water. "So simple, and not very impressive", said Sambora.<ref name="auto">{{Cite magazine |last=Dome |first=Malcolm |author-link=Malcolm Dome |date=July 2006 |title=We'll make it, I swear... |magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] #94 |page=45}}</ref> The album originally was to feature a busty woman in a wet yellow T-shirt with the album name on the front of the shirt. This was swapped for the plastic bag cover just prior to release. The reasons given for the switch were record executives' fears that dominant record store chains at the time would have refused to carry the album with a sexist cover, and Jon Bon Jovi's dislike of the bright pink border around the photograph the band submitted.<ref>{{cite web|last=jason|date=May 29, 2008|title=Top 10 Banned Metal Album Covers|url=http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/1225/12753/top-10-banned-metal-album-covers.html|access-date=July 16, 2014|website=The Gauntlet}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Wilkening|first=Matthew|date=July 7, 2011|title=Bon Jovi – Most Shocking Album Covers|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-most-shocking-album-covers/|access-date=July 16, 2014|website=Ultimate Classic Rock}}</ref> Sambora said, "Our label freaked out a bit when they saw what we'd done. They thought it would be banned by American stores, so we had to come up with something else – fast."<ref name="auto" /> In Japan, most releases of the album included the original cover art.