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The Creative Loafing Lust List affects winners in numerous ways. Office legend tells of finalists going on and pursuing acting careers, meeting future husbands and wives, etc. Marquis de Sade was CL’s first Lust List winner back when the paper was known as Le Livre de Décadence and distributed solely in prisons. He went on to become an acclaimed author and hedonist!

Here’s what Jonathan Owens, one of this year’s selections, said in an e-mail about how his life has changed since being praised in print for his looks.

Everything was pretty positive; a few co-workers have the page posted on their wall. I have noticed the gears cranking in a few people’s heads as they try to figure out why I look familiar…but then again, according to too many people, I look like Charlie from lost and some guy on the Young and the Restless…so it may be unrelated.

Go forth, young man! Daytime television awaits you!

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Several readers nominated this mysterious kickboxer. I got my Google on and hoped I could track down a photo, since personal trainers can be tough to contact. The first I saw of him was this snapshot. I immediately considered him a winner.

First off, buddy’s cool. He’s a great graphic-design artist, funny as hell and is well-rounded in the truest sense. When we talked politics, he didn’t spout canned lines he memorized from a protest pamphlet. Our server was one of his students and was sidelined from capoeira because of a broken toe. Camron told her to practice moves in her mind and stay focused, maybe even just sit in on a class while she was healing to keep the routine going. The interview didn’t feel so much like an interview, but a conversation, albeit with me mixing in prewritten questions.

CL’s staff photographer, Joeff Davis, did a bunch of great shots of Camron practicing kicks and stretches — even some with his shirt off — but he asked we not print any of those. If you ever wanna see such a sight, you’ll have to bribe Joeff. Or kidnap Camron. Your pick.

Click here to view Camron and the rest of the 2008 Lust List.

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It’s not every day an editor tells you you’ve been assigned a project that entails looking at beautiful people, contacting and interviewing them, and then praising them in a widely distributed paper. For a young, single male, it’s one of those “Oh, hell yes I wanna do that, boss” assignments. It’d be easy, I thought. Scope out the girls, bat my eyes at the males, enlighten the public, I said.

I was wrong. Very wrong. I’ve camped out with bikers in the Smoky Mountains and sat in hot tubs with nudists in North Georgia — all in the name of journalism. But I don’t think I’ve ever conducted as much legwork for a story as I did for the 2008 Lust List. And the pressure! You folks are a wanton bunch; how could I ever let you down?

This week, I’ll give you a behind-the-scenes look at what went into tracking down and meeting some of this year’s finalists. A little more flavor than the boundaries of the paper allowed, perhaps. More profanity, too! #@$!

In the meantime, view Creative Loafing’s 2008 Lust List right here.

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