Superflirt [Paperback]

Tracey Cox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 20, 2003

Fresh, chatty, and filled with Tracey Cox's personal tips and hilarious anecdotes, Superflirt takes the reader through the fundamentals of body language, then shows you how to express the messages you want to send and how to read what other bodies are saying to you. Packed with intimate photographs of real-life scenarios, this is the most stylish, elegantly designed, and up-to-date guide to body language available.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Elle Magazine "sassy, sexy and sorted, Superflirt has got us making all the right moves." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Tracey Cox is an internationally acclaimed sex expert and author of DK's best selling Supersex.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; 1st edition (October 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789496518
• ISBN-13: 978-0789496515
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #544,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tracey Cox is an international sex, body language and relationships expert as well as a TV presenter.

She is well-known for her TV shows on sex and relationships as well as her range of best-selling books which have sold millions world-wide.

Tracey has been an agony aunt for ivillage, News of the World, Cosmopolitan and numerous magazines world-wide, has two weekly columns in UK's Closer magazine and her own range of products, developed in the UK with Love Honey.

She has appeared on Oprah, CNN and The Today Show in the US, as well as numerous prime-time chat shows in the UK and world-wide. She was a regular guest on Jo Whiley's show (Radio 1) and continues to contribute to most of the major women's magazines world-wide.

Her TV credits include Hot Love, a 40-part series for Sky One (UK), Hotter Sex (also Sky One, UK), The Sex Inspectors (Ch4 in the UK and HBO in the US), Would Like to Meet (BBC2, UK), Under One Roof (ITV) and Date Patrol (Discovery in the US). The Sex Inspectors was bought and run in many other countries world-wide.

She lives in Notting Hill, London.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent primer on reading the opposite sex May 5, 2004

By Jason Cox

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

One of the things that both men and women know is that we communicate very differently verbally. Body language is a LOT harder to fake, and this book is a great starting point on how to read those signals. This covers a lot of material, from how to tell if she is interested in you (or that other guy), deciphering mixed signals, and tips to tell if they're lying to you. All very useful material.

As a man, I've found this informative and the way it is presented it is easy to put this knowledge into practical usage. I suspect it would be equally useful to women. And both men and women who may be sending negative body language unintentionally may have seriously life-improving revelations from this book.

Good Reading!

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome! November 28, 2003

By sarah murrerhave

Format:Paperback

I've seen Tracey on Date Patrol and it started me thinking about my body language. I bought superflirt on a whim because it looked like a fun read but it's actually changed my life! I'm now incredibly good at reading other people's body language which helps enormously in all areas of my life, not just romantically. Everyone should have a copy of superflirt and it should be recommended reading in high schools!

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Body Language 101 July 20, 2005

By Robert I. Hedges HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback

"Superflirt" is a good book for anyone (single or married) to learn about body language, and was recommended to me for that reason specifically. I now recommend it to others for that reason, as well. Certainly the focus is on attracting the opposite sex romantically, but it is just as useful to people already involved in a steady relationship to maintain the romance in their lives. While I certainly found the observations Tracey Cox makes to be interesting, I found her underlying premises related to body language utterly fascinating.

People who are naturally shy in potential dating situations certainly stand to benefit most from this book, but there is ample material for everyone to chew on. Most of her assertions seem to make complete sense, but a couple came across as a tad farfetched to me. Little matter: if any of her tips are true (and I believe the majority are) the book is completely worthwhile.

The book is nicely illustrated, and generally well designed. I have to admit to being a bit put off by some of the multi-colored pages and unusual graphic design in several places which I think make it a bit more difficult to read than was really necessary. I also found it to occasionally be a trifle unorganized, sometimes to the point of needing to flip back and re-read sections. That leads me to my prevailing comment on the book: there is so much technique and information discussed here that I definitely do not feel that I have learned what I needed to from it the first time through. The book requires at least two readings to grasp the essential elements of what the author is trying to get across. I am not implying that it is a boring read (far from it), rather, that there is just a lot of information presented here....

This book does truly help make sense of the actions of others. Whether in a steady relationship or not, this book is an excellent introduction to body language, and I recommend it. Read more ›

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars For those interested in the art, this book delivers. February 11, 2005

By Sincere Steve

Format:Paperback

The subject of this book is "flirting", not the "ethics of courtship." How it is, that some reviewer read the book expecting otherwise is beyond me, however those reading the book solely due to an interest in the art of flirting...this book works. It's not formulaic. It avoids step-by-step methodology but instead covers all the elements of flirting and creates awareness. Even with all its gloss, you will get citations to various studies, but this is an art and Cox clearly understands it well. If you're expecting procedure to follow, there is some; however the strength of this book lies in creating better flirting IQ. The overall organization of this book is a bit awkward but I have found my self, as a result of this book, more highly tuned in to cues. For example, I was at the video store the other day and noticed someone noticing me. My normal modus would have been to later consider if she was interested in me, but this time I did the analysis in a couple of seconds and launched in where the opportunity appeared. She was interested.

Before this book, my dating history was rich but totally dependant on perfect situations such as college or target rich side jobs during college (try working in concert halls...you can't believe) but I was never any good at cold stranger scenarios. If that's you as well, then read this a couple of times and you we see what I am talking about.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The reader from Mill Valley complained May 25, 2004

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

that this book is about manipulation. S(he) is absolutely right about that. What this reader doesn't understand, however, is that any kind of social interaction is manipulation. If you are nice to people, if you show them "serious" feelings, you do that, because you believe that the others will respond to this in a corresponding way, too. But being "nice" in the face of adverse reactions is not moral, it's just plain stupid: if people liked your behaviour, they would be nice to you. If they aren't, i.e. if you don't get what you want, then you are doing the wrong things.

And that's where the trouble starts with love (especially for "nice guys" as I had been for far too long a time): being overtly "nice", accommodating, friendly, serious and unintrusive is equivalent to one thing that will hamper all your efforts of ever attracting a romantic partner: it is plain boring! Not to mention that it's a huge lie: nobody is always nice.

I do love confident, attractive, intelligent, reliable and successful women. But I love them even more if they haven't lost this wonderful and delighting art of playfulness that can turn every man's knees into jelly. The choice between a "giggling girl", and an uptight adult is very easy to take.

Same for men: a relaxed, confident man with a great sense of humor who is still in touch with the "naughty little boy" within himself will always be chosen by the ladies. And they are right about that.

One thing this book can teach you is to rediscover this playful child within yourself, which will flirt with and tease everything in sight - until stupid, uptight adults punish it for its love of life and "teach" it to be "serious"....

The last thing you want to hear is people at your grave saying: "Astounding, s(he) has never been so attractively playful!". This book will help you to prevent this. Read more ›