If something can be considered sexy, some magazine or entertainment channel has invented a sexiest list for it: sexiest body, sexiest sports star, sexiest pop star, sexiest musician... But, before today I had never seen a Sexiest Elderly list. I have to applaud Nerve.com for even proposing the idea, and why not. Sex writers constantly discuss how more and more people are having sex well into their golden years. It only makes sense that these sexually active elderly people need older celebrities to fantasize about while having sex.
Nerve's list suggests that candidates were selected more for their personalities, charisma, fame, or who they used to be, than their looks. Maybe what older people find sexy actually does have less to do with physical appearance.
Most of those who made it onto the list are actors and actresses (people paid to maintain their appearances). It helps imagining these stars as sexy when you can easily recall younger, tighter, forms of these celebrities on the silver screen. How else can you justify Jack Nicholson's appearance on the list?
For the most part Nerve's list does a good job, including some of my choices: Raquel Welch, Sophia Loren, Sean Connery, Tina Turner, and Robert Redford.
However, the list did snub a few notable older hotties:
Mick Jagger: Jagger could have sex with your girlfriend and you wouldn't even care. He looks 80 but he can still rock make-up, tight pants, and a guitar with more swagger than all three of the Jonas Brothers combined. I know more than a few young women, including my wife, with him still at the top of their to-do list.
Meryl Streep: Streep is such a good actress that she can convince you she's hot just by acting the part. Or maybe she really is hot. I'm not sure. All I know is that given the choice between Anne Hathaway's character in The Devil Wears Prada, and the power bitch Streep played, I'd go home with Streep's character. She probably would just step on me with her stilettos and tell me how useless I was, but I'd still enjoy it.
Cindy McCain: It's alright to admit it now that McCain lost, but you know the first time you watched one of John's speeches you were wondering if that was his hot daughter standing slightly out of focus at the edge of the stage. Cindy was responsible for converting thousands of men and women across the country to the Republican party in the 2009 presidential race. You couldn't help but see this attractive older billionaire and think that John must have his shit together to end up with a woman like her.
Suzanne Somers: Even breast cancer was no match for Somers's hotness, or her energetic personality.
Ed Harris. Any older man who is always cast to play a character tough enough to beat up men half his age and smooth enough to sweat talk women his daughter's age makes my list.
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