Seven Days to Sex Appeal: How to Be Sexier Without Surgery, Weight Loss, or Cleavage

by Eva Margolies, Stan Jones

Sex appeal is something that anyone can learn with coaching and practice . . . [It] has more to do with how men and women sit, stand, walk, and dress and the way they use their hands, voice, and facial expressions than it does with physical beauty." --Eva Margolies

Learn how to be more attractive and self-confident without relying on rhinoplasty, the latest diet du jour, or a different cup size with this seven-day guide on how to attract the best that life has to offer.

Relationship and communication experts Eva Margolies and Stan Jones offer an authoritative primer to help women discover their inner sex appeal by mastering effective gender signals-like the proper way to sit, gaze, and vocally communicate through body language that communicates femininity instead of blatant physicality.

This accessible and easy-to-follow guide features four-color illustrations that perfectly demonstrate key gender signals and instructs readers on how to manipulate the level of sex appeal they wish to convey by turning it off or on, up or down, depending on the image they wish to project.

240 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a different read after No Country for Old Men. I received this book from the Early Reviewers group at LibraryThing. Even though I won't read Cosmo or Glamour or any of those magazines, I thought it would be fun to give this a shot. Just to see if the advice given to women was ... better.

First, the pages alternate different graphic and/or animals prints and makes it very difficult to read. Second, while I do know some women who would love this book and take it to heart, it just isn't me. The book says that men like women who take up little space, are delicate and appear vulnerable. It goes on to describe different techniques to achieve all of those things, including how to sit, how to "self-caress", how to appear to need the man's help. Let's not forget pursing your lips, batting your eyelashes, how to stand with your pelvis out and how to do the runway and parade walks.

As I was reading this, I quizzed a few guy friends on these techniques and their responses. It ranged from "Oh yeah, that would be hot" to "I think that would scare me away" to "I just want a woman who isn't crazy, ok?"

Interesting results.

The only part of the book that I found helpful is the end, about sex appeal at work. It did give some good advice on how to "act" at work to get the attention you want. Which, honestly, as a woman in a male-dominated career, I can use.

Feminism will be fully embraced when all women can dress, act, talk, and just be how they want without ridicule or criticism from anyone, especially from other women. We really are our own worst judges. I know women who love the hunt for men, they love the chase, they love dating. This book would be great for them. For me, however, it's just not right. I don't hunt, chase or love the thrill of dating 10 guys at once.

So kudos to those gals, go get this book (you can take my copy). I'll be the chick in the corner reading Bukowski and probably sending all the wrong kinds of signals.

[Intplibrarian · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Game for women.[return][return]This is the book I've been looking for ever since I read The Game by Neil Strauss. Does it come across as somewhat sexist? Sure, just like The Game does... however, it WORKS.[return][return]Yes, we ARE mammals. Yes, this *could* be an episode on the Discovery Channel. Sorry -- that's just the truth. It doesn't even mean that the guy who reacts to these signals isn't himself a feminist. [return][return]The only reason, btw, that I don't give this book 5 stars is because the copy I received, a preview copy, doesn't have enough pictures. The descriptions of body language are are very detailed and easy to understand, but I really think the book could have used photographs instead of illustrations and a lot more of them at that.[return][return]Otherwise, it's brilliant, and I thank the authors for sharing their expertise!

[Kelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not a book that I would ever have purchased. I m the girl that s 50 lbs. overweight that STILL gets hit on at the gym after a sweaty session on the elliptical trainer, OK? I order two slices of the cheesiest, most blissful pizza on earth to eat alone in my car and I get hit on by the cashier. I don t really need help in the sex appeal department (as shocking as that is to admit to myself hey, I must be doing something right.) But when I learned I was going to be getting an advanced copy of the book, I thought humbly enough in the face of all evidence to the contrary, Maybe my kung fu could use a tune-up. THIS BOOK IS NOT THAT TUNE-UP. [return][return]To be fair, maybe this would be helpful to people who walk through the mall without getting verbally assailed. Maybe their derri

[Asma_hehe · Rating 3 out of 5]

had a lot of fun with it.