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His sporadic personal beauty (alternating between plumpness and emaciation), his flamboyant lifestyle, and his real and imagined affairs with women all fed the image. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) was the reigning male sex symbol of the early 19th century.