I just read this thread, and in what planet are Katy and Rihanna sexier than Britney ever was? Maybe you guys are too young, but Britney at her peak was a phenomenon as a sex symbol between 1999 - 2004. Especially during the Britney era. Not Rihanna, not Katy, not Beyoncé, no one aside from Janet was a bigger sex symbol in music than Britney in her prime.