Sex symbol
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A sex symbol is a famous person, male or female, who is found sexually attractive by the general audience. The term was first used circa 1911.
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The movie industry played an important part in the rise of sex symbols. It disseminated images of beautiful people around the world, especially in the time of silent film, when there were no language barriers. One of the first sex symbols was the Danish actress Asta Nielsen in the 1910s and 1920s.
Although movies are still important, sex symbols nowadays are often created by television in general and soap operas and music videos in particular. Many "supermodels" of the fashion industry are also regarded as sex symbols.
Sometimes sex symbols, mostly male, can even be people who are not portrayed as beautiful or handsome, but possess other qualities that make them sexually attractive. Adolf Hitler was regarded as a sex symbol in Nazi Germany.
Many teen idols are also sex symbols. In particular, boy bands are frequently regarded as sex symbols by adoring fans. Fans frequently focus their attention on a single member of the group, but the entire group is seen as a sex symbol by association.
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Fictitious, animated, or virtual sex symbols also sometimes achieved popularity. Especially among fans of anime and manga, referred to as otaku, fictitious characters frequently featured in fan-authored dōjinshi, some of which are erotic (ecchi) or pornographic (hentai) in nature. See also: bishōjo and bishōnen. Besides anime and manga, non-Japanese animation and video games are the source for a number of fictitious sex symbols.
Alternate meaning
Alternately, sex symbol can refer to the two symbols used to represent the biological sex of an organism: ♀ for females, and ♂ for males.
See also
- List of sex symbols
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1995
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1996
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1997
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1998
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 1999
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2000
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2001
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2002
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2003
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2004
- FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005
- FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women 2000
- FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women 2001
- FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women 2002
- FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women 2003
- FHM-US's 100 Sexiest Women 2004
External links
- Entertainment Men pip for the Posh type (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/482293.stm)
- Google zeitgeist (http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html), has a list of the most searched for female celebrity on Google.es:Símbolo sexual
