# Sexiest Literary Character (Male/Female)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 10, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910 "2001-07-10T03:41:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bashere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bashere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bashere)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910/41 "2001-07-17T22:00:26Z")

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> _Originally bosted by KKBattousai_  
> … Death, from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman and limited edition Death comics.

Damn, beat me to it. I’ll take **delirium** , instead then. Much more like the women I dated IRL anyway.

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**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910/42 "2001-07-17T22:14:33Z")

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Captain Nemo - my first tormented genius

Jeeves - the perfect man to come home to

Rupert of Hentzau - amoral, swashbuckling, what’s not to love?

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**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910/43 "2001-07-18T02:05:09Z")

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Dame Honor Harrington.

You had _better_ respect _her_ in the morning, or your ass _will_ get tossed out of an airlock.

Either that or Nimitz would claw your nibblets off.

Okay, it’s not “literature” (please forgive my pedestrian public education) but it’s some of the best military fiction/space opera on the shelves in a _long_ time.

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**Author:** ![ARose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@ARose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ARose)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910/44 "2001-07-18T04:57:22Z")

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Um, not to be weird here but Akasha (the Vampire queen) from the third in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. Holy balogna, immortal Egyptians with lots of _power_. Grr baby. Um, is that considered necrophilia, per chance? 😛

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910/45 "2001-07-18T12:29:06Z")

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Not at all. I myself have had a longstanding crush on **all three of Dracula’s wives.** And they don’t come any more normal than me.

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**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexiest-literary-character-male-female/71910/46 "2001-07-18T13:47:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \*  
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> James Fraser from the series of books\* written by Diana Gabaldon.
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> - Outlander [Cross Stitch in the UK], Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn & the soon to be released Fiery Cross \*\*

Drooooooooool. You ain’t kidding, baby. He’s the sexiest character I’ve read about in _years._

I just got “The Outlandish Companion” because I’ve forgotten so many details and will never get through the new one without help.

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