Every year, pop culture fiends dissect (or dissent) People magazine’s selection of the “Sexiest Man Alive”.

Many popular celebrities have donned the crown, including Harry Hamlin (1987), Brad Pitt (1995 and 2000), Jude Law (2004), Idris Elba (2018), Michael B. Jordan (2020) and Chris Evans (2022).

This year, the magazine tapped actor Jonathan Bailey for the honour.

Jonathan Bailey has been named this year's Sexiest Man Alive by People.

In a 2012 interview about the selection process, editor Julie Jordan told USA Today magazine staff take note of how the general public feels about potential options throughout the year while also asking celebrities for their opinions on the matter.

So what makes up this “feeling” that someone is sexy? According to experts, there are several factors – and they aren’t just physical attributes.In fact, it’s based on an interplay of elements that relate to both nature and nurture, making “sexy” a highly variable adjective.

“Sexiness is in the eye of the beholder,” Blanca Cobb, a trained body language expert, told HuffPost.

“Some people are drawn to physical attributes of the face, voice can be seen as sexy depending on pitch, tone, and intonation. Someone might find the way another person smells or their aroma as sexy. Additionally, warm, open, confident body language can be a turn-on.”

Here’s what else makes a person attractive, according to science:

Our biology plays a big role – perhaps even the most influential one.

“There are many theories in terms of factors that can enhance level of attractiveness that are surrounded by cultural aspects, such as generational trends and ethnic differences of preferences, evolutionary factors such as ‘curviness’ in women noting fertility, and proximity factors indicting........

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