NEW DELHI: Teenage sensation John Abraham has been voted as the “sexiest actor in India” while beauty queen Aishwarya Rai given the most desired dream date crown by participants of the Durex Global Sex Survey.

Abraham zoomed past all the Bollywood heavyweights to become the sexiest actor in India with one in five of the 1,300 respondents preferring him ahead of Shah Rukh Khan, Vivek Oberoi and Hrithik Roshan.

While 20.6 per cent of the respondents voted for Abraham, Khan bagged 16.3 per cent votes, closely followed by Vivek and Hrithik, Durex said in a statement in New Delhi. But, Khan was still the hot favourite among women as 23.3 per cent of the female respondents chose him as India’s ‘sexiest actor’ for the second year running. He seems to be equally popular among teens as well with almost one in five of the respondents in the age-group 16-20 selecting him as their favourite.

Asked about their most desired dream date, men chose Aishwarya Rai ahead of Bengali beauty Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta. Twenty per cent would like to go on a date with Rai, while 12.8 per cent chose Rani as their most preferred date. Zinta and Mallika Sherawat followed closely.

Living upto its ‘happening place’ reputation, Goa emerged as India’s sexiest holiday destination with Ooty and Darjeeling bagging second and third place respectively. Women preferred hill stations Ooty, Kodaikanal and Darjeeling as their favourite holday destinations, it said.