The Sexiest Decade

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I had an idea for a story yesterday.

I was zoning out last night watching random videos on the Internet night and 'Walk Like an Egyptian' by the Bangles came up as a recommendation. While I was familiar with the song, I had never seen the official music video, at least not since my childhood, and about halfway through I was struck with a singular thought - namely that I would quite like to have sex with this group of young performers. Now, this was something of a surprise to me as it is a universal rule that any random trawl through Youtube music videos must inevitably end with Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights at which point both myself and the chilling algorithm that has molded itself into the exact shape of my psyche agree that both pop music and femininity were perfected in January 1978 (alas several months before I was born) and that it is time to go to bed.

Nevertheless, shocking as this revelation was, it made a kind of sense. After all, there were four Bangles and only one Babooshka, and their forth-right attitudes and enormous volume of hair awoke something inside of me that had laid dormant for many decades. Still, a moment's reflection suggested it was unlikely I would be able to invent a working time machine and even less likely that Misses Hoff, Zilinskas and Peterson (x2) would accept what I had in mind. In any case, terrified that the algorithm would tell Kate of my betrayal, I decided to try to redirect my sinful thoughts into plotting a Literotica story - thus guaranteeing no-one could ever admit to having read them.

I came up with idea of a reality-based TV program involving five sorority houses that pick a random decade (50s-90s) out of a hat and then have to dress, party and most importantly fuck in the style of the decade. Obviously the sorority sisters will fortuitously look like whichever of the celebrities I decide best embody the sex appeal of their chosen decades. The boys of the story then attend a different party each night and are responsible for scoring how well they channel the spirit and lust of that decade. My basic plot outline goes:

The Sixties: The girls take obvious inspiration from the free love movement and psychedelia. Unfortunately their chances of winning the competition are scuppered when the boys come to score them the next morning and realize they can't actually remember anything happened the previous night.
The Eighties: Another good night of big shoulder-pads, bigger hair and yuppie excess. But scores get dramatically lowered when the boys check their wallets and realize what the 'material' girls have cost them.
The Nineties: The Baywatch themed beach-party goes wrong when it turns out none of the girls can actually swim. (Boring decade, help me out here...)
The Seventies: The girls disagree about how to organize the party and split. Chaos ensues when the sweet and innocent Abba themed disco party is crashed by the disgruntled girls who have punked up (and the Olivia Newton John-alike changes sides).
The Fifties: Initially the girls think they've gotten the short straw. While Marilyn has the looks, pre-sexual revolution, they feel they have no chance of winning. Their fortunes are revived when they stumble onto Bettie Page's wikipedia page and realize exactly what went on in that decade (and probably every decade in human history).

At this point, I did some calculations and realized that my silly idea would involve 5 girls x 5 sororities = at least 25 different sex scenes, five parts and probably a mininum of 75k words and thus is probably unlikely to ever get written. This is a pity because I was looking forward to writing a scene when a girl dressed as Princess Diana looks up with doe-like eyes from her bed, and, as she pulls away the covers, says "There were always three people in our marriage..and the third one was always Belinda Carlisle."

This has all been a roundabout way of asking:

1) Which decade do you think was the sexiest?
2) Which celebrities would you model the stars of your stories on?
3) Is there a particular decade that you feature in your stories as being particulary sexy or interesting?

Sorry.

Look, it's Sunday. I'm bored...
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The video for "Cold-Hearted" by Paula Abdul was the sexiest thing ever put on MTV. Followed closely by "Cradle of Love" by Billy Idol, when she's writhe-dancing on the bed.

That's all I have to contribute here, except that the 40s were sexy too. Carry on.
 
Both videos, incidentally, were directed by David Fincher. I didn't know that.
 
The video for "Cold-Hearted" by Paula Abdul was the sexiest thing ever put on MTV. Followed closely by "Cradle of Love" by Billy Idol, when she's writhe-dancing on the bed.
I have a sneaking suspicion that those videos may never have been shown on Top of the Pops - hence why I'm unfamiliar with them.
 
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The women in the 70's/80's were both sexy and talented

Today they look and act like trashy porn stars, can't sing without auto tune and lip sync their concerts

So although opinions here will vary and I think there's arguments for most decades, all I know is it isn't 2010 to now

Course, that's talking mainstream and names most would know

If you listen to a lot of metal like Blind Justice and myself do, there are some seriously gorgeous women singers and these woman can sing.

There's a great video somewhere on you tube where they play clips of studio versions of women seeing pop and metal, then live versions and in every live version the metal singer sounded even better, the pop star like crap.
 
In my view, in the UK at least, the 1890s were the sexiest decade - The Naughty Nineties.

Victorian prudery was ending. Music Halls were presenting acts that would not be acceptable in the 20th or 21st century. Sexual experimentation was prolific, but Paris was the place to go to see nude shows, buy filthy postcards and books, and see the Grande Horizonatales in the theatres and at the opera.
 
The fake chick band in Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible. They're obviously not playing, but with legs like their's, who's listening? Therefore, to answer your question: the eighties.

Other reasons: Kate Bush (already mentioned), Blondie, Chrissie Hynde, Kim Wilde, Chrissy Amphlett, and so on.

Musically, a bit of a mixed lot, but again, there were compensations.
 
In my view, in the UK at least, the 1890s were the sexiest decade - The Naughty Nineties.

Victorian prudery was ending. Music Halls were presenting acts that would not be acceptable in the 20th or 21st century. Sexual experimentation was prolific, but Paris was the place to go to see nude shows, buy filthy postcards and books, and see the Grande Horizonatales in the theatres and at the opera.
I initially assumed you were being facetious, but as I read more I realized you knew enough about it that you might actually be serious...


So have you written about this decade?
 
I think for better or worse people have really romanticized and sexed up the 1960's.

I suspect the 1990's will also start to get romanticized attention as we gen X folk start finishing the back half.
 
I think for better or worse people have really romanticized and sexed up the 1960's.
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Oh, Rachel Walsh, not Raquel...

I suspect the 1990's will also start to get romanticized attention as we gen X folk start finishing the back half.
So your suggesting the sexiest decade is whenever you hit puberty. Kinda raises questions about exactly how old Ogg is. He's already rumored to be immortal...
 
I have a sneaking suspicion that those videos may never have been shown on Top of the Pops - hence why I'm unfamiliar with them.

LOL! And @oggbashan claimed Victorian prudery was ending a hundred years prior...

Those both came out when I was the perfect age to appreciate them, right in the middle of adolescence.

Great times. I miss the '80s.
 
I initially assumed you were being facetious, but as I read more I realized you knew enough about it that you might actually be serious...


So have you written about this decade?
Not yet. My great-aunts were rumoured to have been considered very 'fast' in that decade, living the life in London among the theatres and bars (which women weren't supposed to enter - but they did). My eldest aunt was born in that decade and heard about her aunts' behaviour from a disapproving vicar relation. They left her their collection of Parisian erotic postcards which couldn't be sent through the post even now.
 
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Oh, Rachel Walsh, not Raquel...


So your suggesting the sexiest decade is whenever you hit puberty. Kinda raises questions about exactly how old Ogg is. He's already rumored to be immortal...
I mean I think we all had a golden age so to speak. If any of you are in yours-- enjoy. Lol
 
The 1890s.

A contemporary estimate suggested that in London during that decade there was one prostitute for every seven adult men. So much for Victorian rectitude.

I don't think that figure has been equalled in any decade anywhere in the world.
 
The video for "Cold-Hearted" by Paula Abdul was the sexiest thing ever put on MTV. Followed closely by "Cradle of Love" by Billy Idol, when she's writhe-dancing on the bed.

That's all I have to contribute here, except that the 40s were sexy too. Carry on.
You have clearly never seen the PMJ version of B. Spears', 'Whoops, I Did it Again' sung by Haley Reinhart. 30m views, 5m are mine.

She's channeling Marylyn singing 'Happy Birthday, Mr. President.'
 
Ogg's historical perspective regarding a golden age in England is one thing, but it didn't translate to this side of The Pond. Rabid religious conservatives such as Carrie Nation still dominated the conversation here. The US had its sexual awakening in the 1920s when Prohibition became the law. Everyday people came to question authority and especially the self-appointed "morality police". Speakeasies and other clandestine social venues were dens of iniquity where body freedoms - consumption of alcohol, smoking, sex outside of marriage - could be expressed openly. Black Tuesday shut all that down.

I nominate the 1970s as the sexiest modern decade in the US. The "summer of love" in 1969 somewhat set the tone in mentions of sex in the general press, but that came on the heels of the final erosion of oppressive creative media restrictions such as the "Hayes Code", when the MPAA created the G/M/R/X movie rating system. They didn't necessarily "create" 'X' ratings, but it was adopted to more or less cordon-off sex films from the mainstream studios, and "adult theaters" suddenly proliferated in dog-eared movie houses abandoned by the studios.

Porn in print media started to flourish at the same time. I recall our neighborhood drug store - a regional chain - having porn mags openly displayed on the magazine racks. Not nudie nonsense like in the late-'50s/early-'60 with airbrushed crotches, but real penis-in-vagina porn. "Adult bookstores" popped up about the same time, purveying fetish material, some extreme and illegal now such as snuff and bestiality.

"The Pill" debuted to US women ~1968, and quickly caught on as the key to sexual freedom. And there, of course, was Roe v. Wade in 1973.

In roughly the same time, references to "swinging" in mainstream men's magazines such as Playboy and the infamous (and fake) letters column in Hustler exposed - pun intended - the reality of 1950s-style suburbia. Partner-swapping didn't necessarily become popular, but it was acknowledged as something that actually happened among real people. Pre-marital sex became openly assumed in the '70s.

This all started to shut down in the early '80s as herpes and then AIDS cast their palls over free-wheeling sex. Local municipalities - "I know obscenity when I see it" - were already pushing back against porn. "We need to protect our children" became the mantra for, again, vociferous religious conservatives who learned to manipulate the media, pushing their overwrought agenda on everybody else. Which is where we are today, and it's getting worse.

There has also been a lot of press about declining interest in sex especially from Millennials. I could go on about the ills of corporate America sucking the lifeblood out of the younger folk (you remain loyal and beholden to us, we owe you nothing, not even your job), but that's a whole 'nuther discussion. Sex? Don't have the time or energy for it. Too much work.
 
The 1920s in England were nearly as sexy as the 1890s. Dr Marie Stopes's 1918 book Married Love showed women how to prevent pregnancies. (it was banned in the US until 1931!) and women became sexual predators.
 
One of the authenticity challenges, of course, will be the volume (and overall appearance) of pubic hair. I sense business opportunities for merkin sales.
 
One of the authenticity challenges, of course, will be the volume (and overall appearance) of pubic hair. I sense business opportunities for merkin sales.
You learn something new every day.

Sometimes you wish you hadn't learned that thing, but nevertheless, you did.
 
One of the authenticity challenges, of course, will be the volume (and overall appearance) of pubic hair. I sense business opportunities for merkin sales.
Almost all dirty 1890s postcards sold in Paris showed abundant pubic hair (male and female). My eldest aunt passed her collection of 1890s Parisian erotica to her niece on the niece's wedding day. That niece's daughter now has them.

Pubic hair was abundant in 1950s naturist and mild porno magazines sold under the counter in newsagents. Shaved pubes became more common in the 1960s with miniskirts.
 
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I initially assumed you were being facetious, but as I read more I realized you knew enough about it that you might actually be serious...


So have you written about this decade?
Remarkably, some 400 stories here possess the 'victorian' tag. Interesting reads, some of them.
 
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