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A sex symbol is a famous person of either gender, typically an actor, musician, model, teen idol, or sports star who is in the “Playboy” or “Playgirl” Magazines. The celebrity “star system”, the tabloid papers, paparazzi, and gossip talk shows, play an important role in creating and sustaining the public perception of which stars are viewed as attractive.
These media industries are in turn sustained by a strong public demand for sexually alluring photographs or footage of celebrities, including both posed, scantily-clad publicity shots for magazines like Maxim and unauthorized beach or nightclub photos taken by paparazzi with telephoto lenses.
Blues musicians were some of the first artists to become sex symbols. Rock n’ roll and pop would follow later on. Past and older music sex symbols such as the late Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Andy Gibb, Marvin Gaye, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Mick Jagger, Grace Slick, Jim Morrison, Bob Marley, Gene Simmons, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Nicks, Roger Daltrey, Debbie Harry,Koda Kumi,
Uhm Jung-Hwa, Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Steven Tyler, Sting, Janet Jackson, Tom Jones, Bruce Springsteen, and Rod Stewart set the stage for contemporary examples, such as Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Jessica Simpson, Beyonce, Tarkan,Eminem, Nick Carter, late rapper Tupac Shakur, Nicole Scherzinger, Mariah Carey, Fergie, Thalia, Jennifer Lopez, Ronnie Radke, Craig Mabbitt, Gerard Way, Mikey Way, Bill Kaulitz, Tom Kaulitz, Shakira, Katy Perry, Usher.