Lust in the 80's

Oh the 80's. My formative years. The years where I discovered that girls were what made the world go round. And Music Videos played a large part in that, as I am sure they still do today. The sales of a new female music artist on her looks and sex appeal got its start in the 80's on MTV. But I'm not going to go on a discourse about the gender politics of that, though it would be interesting. Nope, I'm just gonna talk about the gal that got my loins engorged and put steam in my stride.

There was a small war in the 80's between Debbie Gibson and Tiffany for the role of teen queen. Gibson was pretty much the winner of that from the get go, but there was often some back and forth about it. I thought they were both cute enough and all but I was one for something a bit more wild. Kim Wilde to be precise. She was spunky and unusual looking and had great lips. I loved the song "Kids in America". There was another video she had where she was in a skimpy striped dress that really turned my wheels.


But it all went to hell when a strident 19 year old sexual animal from Britain hit the scene in 1986. A former page three girl in the U.K at the age of 16 she had been showing her amazingly huge bosoms in a nude modeling career for several years and knew how to work her sexuality to get attention. Her name was Samantha Fox (no relation to the New York based porn star, though that confusion would be part of her career often) and she was sex personified. Her fist song "Touch Me" was basically just pop trash, but when crooned by a woman with a body like that it took on a whole new resonance for a teenage boy who was just discovering his sexual urges. Later songs like "I Wanna Have Some Fun" and "Naughty Girls Need Love Too" also fed the urge of teenage boy self abuse. These were basically songs empowering being a slut, but hey, who could argue they point? I can't say I was paying too much attention to the music. She finally had a SONG that I liked called "I Surrender (To The Spirits of the Night)". The video played down her DD sexual charms (a sad thing in my opinion) and is kind a cheesy, but the song hits on the sort of creature of the night theatrics that my horror movie obsessed mind really could grab hold of. That whole "night holds mysteries we can't fully fathom" was something I really locked to as a teen. Same with her boobs.

I found a couple of places in Dayton that sold posters of my beloved Sam and over the years bought several of them. I was in that teenage phase of buying girly posters to adorn my bedroom (jarring heavily with my horror movie posters and artwork) so the Sam Fox posters were right at home. I must say that to this day when I think back they the sexiest and best of those posters. I remember one night after I had bought one that was an actual topless shot of her that showed her boobs (she was also wearing arm length white gloves, very sexy!) and I was driving home with my friends. We stopped at a stop light next to a old man who was giving us one of those grumpy "you young whippersnappers" looks. So I unrolled the poster in the window so he could see it. When the light changed he just kinda sat there in awe.

My obsession with Sam Fox wained to a degree after I found real women with big boobs. Life in the 90's was pretty good. Sam Fox had laid low as well then showed back up in a Playboy layout at 32 years old. And you know what? She looked BETTER than she ever did. Some women don't age gracefully, she just got better with age. She then shocked her fan base in 2003 when she disclosed that she was in love with a woman. She never came out and completely said she was a lesbian. Instead saying "I am what I am, but I am in love with this woman and want to spend the rest of my life with her". I gotta say I didn't see that one coming.

So here's to Sam. I liked her better than the other 80's girly queens. She got down and dirty and helped me discover my own sexual needs as a teenage boy. I still dig her.

Andy C