Sex Symbol:
A person widely noted for their sexual attractiveness.
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A sex symbol is a celebrity of either sex, typically an actor or actress, musician, supermodel, teen idol, sports star, or politician, noted for being widely regarded as sexually attractive. The term was first used in the mid-1950s in relation to the popularity of certain film stars.
According to the BBC, "Marilyn Monroe is perhaps Hollywood's most enduring sex symbol
In the 20th century, sex symbols could be male as well as female: actors such as the romantic Sessue Hayakawa and the athletic Douglas Fairbanks were popular in the 1910s and 1920s. By the 1930s, many film stars were seen as sex symbols, such as Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and Clark Gable. In the 1940s Cary Grant was seen as still masculine but more refined. The "bad boy" image of the 1950s was epitomised by James Dean and Marlon Brando
Fictional Sex Symbols: With regard to fiction, Rotten Tomatoes states that the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop is "the first and most famous sex symbol on animated screen.Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner) from the 1988 live-action/animation crossover film Who Framed Roger Rabbit has been described as a sex symbol as well. Video games have had a few characters that are considered sex symbols; one example would be Lara Croft,who has had several appearances in mainstream media. Other notable sex symbols include Rayne, the first video game character that appeared in Playboy, in its October 2004 US issue's article, "Gaming Grows Up and Nina Williams, voted "Hottest" Female Fighting Character in Guinness World Records, Gamers Edition 2008
Nudity in Films: is any presentation in films that includes at least one person who is nude or wearing less clothing than contemporary norms in some societies consider "modest". The presentation of nudity in films or otherwise has been controversial since the development of the medium, and most nude scenes in films have had to be justified as being part of the story, in the concept of "artistically justifiable nudity". In some cases nudity is itself the object of a film or is used in the development of the character of the subject. In some cases, nudity has been criticized as "superfluous" or "gratuitous" to the plot, and some film producers have been accused of including nudity in a film to appeal to certain audiences. Many actors and actresses have appeared nude, or exposing parts of their bodies or dressed in ways considered provocative by contemporary standards at some point in their careers.
Nudity in film should be distinguished from sex in film. Erotic films are suggestive of sexuality, and usually contain nudity, though that is not a prerequisite. Nudity in a sexual context is common in pornographic films, but softcore pornographic films generally avoid depiction of a penis or a vulva. A film on naturism or about people for whom nudity is common may contain non-sexual nudity, and some other non-pornographic films may contain very brief nude scenes. The vast majority of nudity in film is found in pornographic films.
Nude scenes can be controversial in some cultures because they may challenge some of the community's standards of modesty. These standards vary by culture, and depend on the type of nudity, who is exposed, which parts of the body are exposed, the duration of the exposure, the pose, the context, and other aspects. Regardless, in many cultures nudity in film is subject to censorship or rating regimes which control the content of films, with the intention of limiting content that is deemed by the classification authorities or the movie industry, or both, to be harmful or undesirable, morally or otherwise.
Many directors and producers apply self-censorship, limiting nudity (and other content) in their films, to avoid external censorship or a strict rating, in countries that have a rating system. Directors and producers may choose to limit nudity because of objections from actors involved, or for a wide variety of other personal, artistic, genre-bound or narrative-oriented reasons.
Over the years, nudity in film was a source of scandal and provocation; but its presence today is treated largely naturally, frequently with nudity being shown in scenes that naturally require it, such as those that take place in nature or in the bathroom or in love scenes. For example, The Blue Lagoon (1980) shows the awakening of the sexual instinct in two shipwrecked young people on a tropical island where nudity is a natural part of the environment in which they find themselves. The relationship between a painter and his model, who traditionally poses in the nude, is the context of a number of films. In La Belle Noiseuse ("The Beautiful Liar", 1991) the painter's model motivates him again after a period of lack of inspiration of the artist. Similarly, in Titanic (1997) Kate Winslet poses nude for Leonardo DiCaprio. These films show the close relationship between film and the traditional art nude in art in films such as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), where Uma Thurman poses as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, and Goya in Bordeaux (1999), where Maribel Verdú poses as Goya's The Naked Maja. Another scenario for nudity in film involves scenes with a nude swim, also called skinny dipping. Toplessness in film is regarded by some as partial nudity.
List of TOP 50 Sex Symbols in 1970s:
1-Ursula Andress
2-Anita Ekberg
3-Julie Newmar
4-June Wilkinson
5-Tina Louise
6-Claudia Cardinale
7-Natalie Wood
8-Stella Stevens
9-Elke Sommer
10-Sophia Loren
11-Brigitte Bardot
12-Barbara Eden
13-Virna Lisi
14-Ann-Margret
15-Eartha Kitt
16-Elizabeth Montgomery
17-Catherine Deneuve
18-Diana Rigg
19-Jane Fonda
20-Shirley Eaton
21-Honor Blackman
22-Raquel Welch
23-Yvonne Craig
24-Nancy Kovack
25-Jane Birkin
26-Susan Strasberg
27-Anna Karina
28-Monica Vitti
29-Julie Christie
30-Senta Berger
31-Linda Harrison
32-Faye Dunaway
33-Britt Ekland
34-Barbara Windsor
35-Jacqueline Bisset
36-Jane Seymour
37-Isabelle Adjani
38-Cheryl Ladd
39-Farrah Fawcett
40-Maria Schneider
41-Catherine Bach
42-Ingrid Pitt
43-Cybill Shepherd
44-Lynda Carter
45-Olivia Newton-John
46-Loni Anderson
47-Suzanne Somers
48-Lauren Hutton
49-Barbara Bach
50-Ewa Aulin
