A different standard apparently applies to Republican Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown, who, as an "adorably sexy" Boston College student and amateur model in 1982, stripped naked for Cosmopolitan and let the flash bulbs pop. The winner of the magazine's America's Sexiest Man contest didn't say if he expected the nude pictures to some day impact his aspirations, but the "dreamboat" did tell editors the $1000 he earned for the shoot would go toward law school, adding, with prescient political instincts, "I'm a bit of a patriot."

Today Brown is hoping to fill the US senate seat left empty when Ted Kennedy died last month. Brown's campaign told Newsweek, he does not regret taking his cloths off for Cosmo. Who knows? It could even help his career.