Article: Damn, I'm hot! She's no giggling, high-heel-teetering femme fatale. Yet Martha Beck has done well (ahem, very well) in the romance department. If you turn into a wallflower every time an attractive person appears in your vicinity, Martha has strategies to help you strut your stuff.(advice, etc.)

WE'D BEEN WAITING 30 MINUTES for someone to take our order in a busy Mexican restaurant when my friend Cathy decided to take extreme measures. "Watch this," she whispered. Then she tugged the clip from her hair, opened a collar button, and tossed her head like a frolicking foal. Almost magically, she went from being simply beautiful to what is referred to in the vernacular as "like, totally hot." Three waiters rushed our table like linebackers. Cathy fluttered her lashes at one, cooing, "Hon, could we order now?" It was a virtuoso performance of attraction in action.

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