My Fantasy Girlfriend - Debbie Harry

I know, hardly a unique choice, this. As I have commented before (over on the Barstool, here), just about every hetero male in the Western world who was sexually aware in the late 1970s - and certainly any who were entering upon adolescence at that time - has an enduring weakness for the irresistibly cool and sassy Blondie frontwoman. Rarely, I should think, has there been an example of such a universal pop culture phenomenon: everyone I grew up with was in love/in lust with Debbie Harry in 1979 - she was quite simply The Sexiest Woman In The World. And her band was pretty good, too.

She's still looking pretty good now:But, at 63, these days she is just a little bit too old for me. Back then, though, she seemed an ideal age. I found it a little hard to believe that she was already in her mid-30s when she and the band broke big; but it didn't put me off one jot. I had assumed she was in her late 20s, which was still way too old for me - but hope springs eternal in teenage fantasies.

Curiously enough, the late-20s to mid-30s has always been the age range I've found most attractive (and still do to this day... even though it's becoming a tad indecent as I progress into my 40s!). I wonder if this preference was somehow hardwired into me from birth, or if it was conditioned by my huge, indecent crush on the compellingly 'mature' Debbie Harry at this pivotal moment of my development. Probably we shall never know.....

Sexiest Woman In The World (30 years ago).....