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Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
1 B.C. Ovid publishes Ars Amatoria, books on sexual attraction. They are denounced as subversive, and the poet is exiled from Rome.
1330 The Spanish poem "Libro de buen amor" lists the physical attributes of a desirable woman: blonde hair, small head, long neck, hairless face, arched feet, and moist armpits.
1769 Restif de la Bretonne writes, "Women should only wear clothes that give pleasure and ravish, however unfortable they may be. High heels and high hairstyle - that is the charm of a woman."
1867 The New Orleans Medical Society advises women to take a sedative such as bromide when using sewing machines to avoid becoming arouse by the machine's rhythms.
1895 The first striptease show in Paris, "La coucher d'Yvette," involves a young woman removing her everyday clothes in search of an imaginary flea.
1933 The first pinups appear in Esquire magazine. Artist George Petty depicts his subjects with longer legs and smaller heads than those of the actual models.
1937 Acknowledging that the British Navy and Air Force get more recruits because "they have more appeal for the girls," the British army atones for its lack of sexiness with better pensions.
1953 Playboy magazine hits newsstands with a nude Marilyn Monroe posing as the first ever Playmate (originally called the Sweetheart of the Month).
1980 A 15 year old Brooke Shields appears in a television commerical for Calvin Klein Jeans, cooing, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." CBS refuses to air the suggestive ad.
1992 Madonna's book of erotic photographs by Steven Meisel, Sex sells out within three hours of hitting store shelves in the U.K.
2006 Justin Timberlake brings sexy back with "SexyBack," the longest running number one song on Billboard's Hot 100 list for 2006.
2007 At 61, actress Helen Mirren proves that sexiness defies age by wearing a Christian Lacroix gown with a plunging neckline to the Academy Awards, prompting the abcnews.com headline "Senior Sex Symbols Steal the Screen."