Sexy Girls: How Hot Is Too Hot?

"Sexy Girls: How How Is Too Hot?" was just what my husband and I needed to break through to my 17 year old daughter. Her dressing habits had been inching away from the modest choices she had been making the last few years. We think it was her getting ready to go to college and feeling some independence coming, and Hayley's book gave her a much-needed course correction when our exhortations fell on deaf ears (and midriffs.) The book is written in an engaging style and beautifully designed, showing photos of women over history trying to look sexy (there is nothing new under the sun.) Her message, "how are you marketing yourself?" is one that struck home for my daughter and she now says that out loud when looking in the mirror every morning before leaving for her summer job. In doing research on Hayley DiMarco before buying this book for my daughter, I was pleased to find she knows teens inside and out from working with shoe giant Nike to running the teen book division at the largest christian publisher around. Her insights and instincts are right on. While the packaging might not connect with some adults (read: hyper-legalistic or tragically un-hip), the book squarely hit my daughter right between the eyes and she actually loves Hayley for it. Talk about a win-win! I heartily recommend this book to any parent needing a tool to teach a stubborn teenage girl the difference between modesty and immodesty and why modest dress is beneficial for the girl and the guys around her. Five stars.

"Sexy Girls" by Hayley DiMarco is one of those books that you wish you had back when you were a teen. Instead of fuddy-duddy puritanical "tho shalt not be sexy" preaching, Ms. DiMarco uses common sense, culture savvy advice as her first line argument then backs it up with scripture. The book was just the entry into my daughter's closet she (and I) needed. Being a single mom, it's hard to pick your battles, especially when it comes to clothes. But after just getting back from a trip to the mall with my daughter, she's already on a first name basis with the author telling me, "Hayley would ask me 'how am I marketing myself with this swimsuit?'" I about cried. An excellent message in a hip package. And to those that have a problem with the cover, I doubt you're spending equal time crusading against porn than against a mild cover on a treasure of a book. I'm heartily recommend this book to any mother (or father) that needs help reaching their teen with an honest lesson regarding immodesty.

Hi my name is Steph and if you scroll down you'll find my friend Margret's review. I'm one of the girls that works with her at Parable Christian Store (she's old :-) jk Margret!) She told me about her posting a reivew of "Sexy Girls" and some of the negative reviews on here so I had to check it out. Wow. I can't believe some of the posts in the past 24 hours from people that haven't even read the book. The last commenter said she was a mother of two young boys and wouldn't want the book lying around the house. Neither would I since my brothers don't have a problem with dressing sexy! And for her theory that these five star ratings are the work of a publisher, guess what, me and margret are real AND WE'VE READ THE BOOK. As for why all the positive comments, maybe it's because the book is on the youth BESTSELLER LIST AND PEOPLE WANT TO SUPPORT IT FOR HELPING THEM!! Also, we just got our issue of Plugged In magazine from FOCUS ON THE FAMILY and Hayley's Sexy Girls article is in there too!! You negative people's arguments are just ignorant and nonsensical. "Doesn't practice what she preaches!" Gimme a break. You think that's Hayley on the cover? The title is "how hot is too hot?" Why would you put a picture of a girl that isn't hot on the cover? My friends would instantly say to some modest girl on the cover "well, she's not hot at all" and write off that the author didn't know what she was talking about. One other thing, does anyone else notice that the negative reviewers are all saying the same thing (sinful cover) but not ansewring any of the points raised by the positive ones? THAT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO THINK! To the woman that doesn't have any girls at home that hates this book (and didn't read it), save it. And to the other so called reviewers that are posting negative reviews based on a jpeg emailed to them, don't think you're slowing sales of the book, you're just encouraging me and my store mates to push it more. As my store manager said to a customer that complained about the cover yesterday, "do you agree that modesty is no where in today's society?" (her answer was yes) "well, this is a book that will change the way girls think about modesty, that's why I have it in the FRONT of the store to do MY part. Because, frankly, there are no other books that girls will read on the subject." And besides, if controversy does anything, it raises awareness. All you non-reading negative reviewers are going to do is make more people hear about the book and more people like me rise to defend it. As GW says, "BRING IT ON!"

I don't write reviews or whatever, but my mom drags me into the Christian bookstore and wants to buy me books to fix me (youknowwhatimean) Anyways, she always forces these books on me and I just leave em on my nightstand because theyre just what she wants me to do. When I saw Sexy Girls I told my mom I'd read that one. It didn't look like it was written by some shriveled up old lady. Anyways, my mom can tell you I never read and I read this book in three hours. I seriously didn't get how guys looked at me until reading it. Or how other girls looked at me to. So whatever, ill let you ladies fight out whether to give a good book that girls will actually read and convince them to change the way they dress on their own just because a girl thats not showing anything with that black bar across her belly is on the cover. Grown ups are stupid some times. Wheres the love?! PEace be with yous. Oh and I'm so getting her next book Technical Virgin.

Hayley! (if you read these...) This is Brianna you probably don't remember me but you prayed with me at the Women of Faith conference in Hartford. You spoke about Mean Girls and you gave me a copy when I told you I didn't have the money. Even if you don't remember, I want you to know that I remember you listening to my mean girl stories and the help you gave me. I also remember you were very kind to me when everyone around wanted your autograph but you ignored them to listen to me. I want you to know that I also remember you suggesting the girls might be being mean to me for how I dressed. And you were righting a book on that to. Well, I got that book last week and even though I never really took your suggestion seriously before I know now what I've been doing is wrong. I loved the book even tho it was hard to face the truth. I looked in the mirror and saw "how I was marketing myself" and I didn't like it one bit. So I broke up with my boyfriend and told my mom I wanted to burn my clothes. Drastic I know!! I just didn't like the memories they had and didn't want some one else to repeat what I did. So anyways, even if you don't remember me, ill always remember you. Bri from Hartford