FHM Top 10 Sexiest Women 2006

FHM, an abbreviation for For Him Magazine, is a monthly men's magazine. The magazine was first published as FHM in 1994 in the United Kingdom, but was originally published in 1985 under the name For Him. Founded by Chris Astridge, For Him was originally distributed through high street men's fashion outlets, expanding to newsagents as a quarterly by the spring of 1987. It was a predominantly fashion-based publication.

After the emergence of James Brown's Loaded magazine (regarded as the blueprint for the lad mags genre) and later competing titles such as GQ and Esquire, For Him hardened up its editorial approach to compete with the expanding market and introduced a sports supplement. It then went monthly and changed its name to FHM. It subsequently expanded internationally.

Like Loaded, FHM arguably relies heavily on the appeal of photographs of scantily-clad women. Unlike many magazines, FHM prints photographs of women already famous for reasons other than their beauty - such as actresses and pop singers. Also, unlike pornographic magazines, genitals and nipples are hidden by underwear or props. Thus, FHM is typically stocked in the lifestyle rather than adult section on newsstands, although Wal-Mart banned lad mags in 2003. Lately, the showing of nipples has been put into FHM photoshoots - though many celebrities refuse to show them.

FHM became the best-selling magazine in Britain during the mid to late 1990s, selling 700,000 copies per month. Towards the end of the decade the lads' culture in which the magazine thrived began to die off and publishers turned to celebrity-oriented titles to boost overall sales.

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FHM recently launched the results of it's annual poll about the Top 10 Sexiest Women Of 2006...And here they are :

1. Keira Knightley

2. Keeley Hazell

3. Scarlett Johansson

4. Angelina Jolie

5. Kelly Brook

6. Cheryl Tweedy

7. Beyonce Knowles

8. Evangeline Lilly

9. Jessica Alba

10. Jessica Simpson