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One staple of men's websites similar to Asylum are tedious lists of the hottest popular female celebs, 'high street hotties' or 'Page 3' models. Fortunately for you, Asylum has higher standards. Or, if you prefer, weirder depths of depravity.
You see, for us, just because a woman is dead doesn't mean she can't take her place in our fantasy hall of fame. (In fact, she doesn't even have to be a real-life woman -- see our galleries on the hottest women in art and the hottest cartoon characters.)
That's why we've scoured the history books for the hottest women ever to have graced the Earth.
Our selections epitomise everything that is great about the human gene pool. They have seduced and corrupted, as well as loved and honoured, some of history's great leaders. They have libraries and galleries devoted to their beauty. And, above all, they are all seriously fit. Even if they are almost-all seriously dead.
15. Eve – The original – depending on which account you adhere to – and the best. God created woman in her form, so she has justifiable bragging rights as the template for all that followed her. There is also the point that, before the Fall, she was considered 'perfect.' A bit big-headed, but we'll let it go. (Photo: Getty Images)
14. Anne Boleyn – During the 16th Century, to request a divorce was, well, a bit dodgy. To provoke the wrath of God, the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire was a great risk to take for the right to (legally) score with another woman. Therefore, despite her subsequent execution, Anne Boleyn makes this list because Henry VIII found her so irresistible he went against 1500 years of indoctrination to marry her. (Photo: Getty Images)
13. Helen of Troy – "The face that launched a thousand ships"; not only did Helen attract a list of suitors that stretched the breadth of the Greek Empire, she triggered the Trojan War. She also inspired a number of hot film actresses to play her in a number of terrible films. Diane Kruger springs to mind. (Photo: Getty Images)
12. Scarlett Johansson – Kind of a recent one, we know, but this actress is so attractive that her on-screen presence even made The Island bearable. She is consistently touted as the sexiest woman alive, although she loses a little of her aura for being married to 'Van Wilder: Party Liaison Officer.' (Photo: Getty Images)
11. Marie Antoinette – The lavish and extravagant queen of France was said to have indulged in all manner of deviancies, with all manner of people. The wife of Louis XVI, she had the ability to bewitch both men and women, (according to contemporary propaganda) and prompted tales of sexual liberation far beyond her times. Sadly her taste for experimental fashion ended in disaster in 1793, after she tried to wear a guillotine blade as a necklace (ho ho). (Photo: Getty Images)
10. Cleopatra – Cleopatra's looks were said to be matched only by her charm and deviousness, two traits that men might suggest are all too prevalent amongst attractive women of any time period. She used her 'assets' to entrance both Julius Caesar, and then his betrayer, Mark Antony. And, by the looks of this painting, a snake. Groovy. (Photo: Getty Images)
9. Martha Washington - Popular opinion has always suggested that Mrs Washington was not much of a looker, but according to recent findings by forensic anthropologists, and a sexy dream we had last night about the American revolution, the first first lady was actually hotness incarnate. (Photo: Getty Images)
8. Lady Godiva – Anyone with voyeuristic tendencies can thank Lady G for the term 'Peeping Tom', after a man named Tom was supposedly blinded after watching her ride through the streets of Coventry naked. It's a shame her novel approach to transport has not been more commonly adopted. (Photo: Getty Images)
