All I can say is it's about freakin time, People.

But seriously, putting aside for the moment the absurdity of a "sexiest man alive" category, given that there's no accounting for taste, if there were a "sexiest man alive" I can tell you this much: it's statistically unlikely he would be white, unlike all of the so-called "sexiest men alive" of the past 22 years, save one (in 1996 Denzel Washington made the cover).

All of People's "sexiest" are good-looking guys, no question, some of them are gorgeous, but sexy is something else.  Jude Law is cute as a button, but he's just not sexy.  Not by any stretch of the imagination.  Sorry.  Matthew McConaughey?  Gorgeous.  But not sexy.  Even all inked-up and butched-out, and getting sweaty with Christian Bale, another studly dud, in that big gay apocalyptic dragon movie, Reign of Fire...


Even our own Ben Affleck—you really wish he was sexy—you want him to be, for him, because someone that good-looking should be—it's such a waste not to be—but something's missing.  There's that je ne sais quoi factor you've got to take into account. 

I'll betcha Barack Obama made People's top 100 this year, too, but he is so not sexy, either. 

No, I can say with confidence that the "sexiest man alive" is not in America.  He's not in Hollywood.  He's sure as hell not in Washington.  I'm telling you, if you're looking for the "sexiest man alive" go to Brazil.  I'm pretty sure that's where he is. 


(And there's lots and lots more where that came from.)