Sexiness is seen through the eyes of the world as that compact picture garnished with those physical attributes that attract people to a particular personality for the purpose of anticipated sexual gratification. In other realms, others have placed certain appendages to that characteristic personality portrait, and those include smartness, flexibility and humility. From time to time, yearbooks and magazines bill topics to single out the theme, The Sexiest Man Alive or The Sexiest Woman Alive, soliciting the public for choices. However, using today’s standards of sex and its success subtitle telling everyone that it sells, it’s really not alarming to see the types of selections that are made at the end of the show. Just because someone unexpectedly bares all or some on a TV show, does that make that individual the sexiest person alive? Is it because that person is a crowd pleaser, a crowd’s favorite that he or she is adjudged to wear the crown?

     The motto for the accomplished Miss World competition is Beauty with a Purpose, which adds a bit of credit to the captivation, although a competition of the sort will always be riddled with subjectivity. For, people can look physically attractive, but by the time they conduct a fifteen-minute interview, they can easily be identified in the Top Ten Most Unwanted list. In the past, they labeled Anna Nicole Smith as the bombshell queen, but by the time her posthumous saga came to an end, who would want to line her up in the Top Ten Thousand Sexiest Women on Earth? Similarly, as a pro footballer, OJ Simpson had the stadium women whistling at his physique, on and off the field, as girls simply fell at his feet. However, after his exoneration from charges of being the cold-hearted killer of his wife in the 1990s, who cared about his looks when searching to find a classy, sexy human being? Wasn’t he recovered from the dumpster and given a knockout punch in that memorabilia misdemeanor to sober him up for good? Scott Peterson would have perhaps been the choice of the millions, had he been exposed to People Magazine before he became a dead man walking. However, with all his good looks and charms, could any female picture him as her pinup boy on her kitchen wall? Similarly, some women would have said back in those days that Mike Tyson was their man, if they had a say in the world’s sexiest Mr. Boxer. However, after that showdown with Evander Holyfield, couldn’t he be easily spotted in the human waste basket heading for the dump?

     A sexy person loses that appeal when, despite physical enhancers, he or she is shown to be a shell rather than the bombshell. The person needs to use ‘classy’ as a keyword to identify one’s sexy nature. A classy woman easily falls for a guy who displays humility in abundance. Being humble means that he’s far from being cocky, and he’s smart to understand that his physique is something temporal and diminishes with age. He is flexible to the point where he knows that with every step of his life, he might need to adjust his composure to match his circumstances, without flaunting what he has, from feeling the heat of the moment. Sometimes a woman sees what looks like a sexy man and jumps into bed with him. Then after the intimacy, there is nothing else she wants to do with him, on finding out that he’s empty. That was her animal instinct that instigated her action, but now her human side is saying something different, and she wishes she could take back what she gave in that sexual encounter.

     Hence, here are the adjectives that describe a sexy person: attractive, humble, classy, knowledgeable, smart, intelligent, comely, understanding, forgiving, human, humane, non-judgmental, helpful, insightful, and many others befitting this classification. These words are suggestive of getting to know an individual thoroughly before applying certain superfluous monikers. According to Kate Beckinsale, who was once named The Sexiest Woman Alive, when she was questioned if she was the person to fit the title, the answer slipped out of her mouth in the affirmative. However, it suddenly dawned on her that she lacked the authority to make that claim, and she wished she could have reclaimed the spoken word. Now, that’s humility.