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Are you wondering what the "it factor" is that makes you attractive as a woman? Want to know how to be the kind of woman men find irresistible? If so, help is on the way.

In this video, author and YourTango Expert Patty Contenta explains what makes you attractive as a woman and how to emulate those characteristics when dating guys. "During my research, I found that there were three common traits that men always bring up when it comes to what they find attractive in a woman," she says. "And really, it's important that there's a combination of all those three things that are really the good recipe for getting this 'it factor'."

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