Dr. Ruth & Romance Book Theme Parks

 

One of my highest-profiled authors passed away this past weekend at age 96. Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a wonderful TV talk-show host and best-selling author who helped make talking about sex publicly a normal and essential thing. She was as entertaining as she was informative. The Holocaust survivor immigrant seemed like the least likely to dole out sex advice. She was a little old Jewish grandma type well into middle-age before her TV show came out. She will be missed and to her, I dedicate this blog post on romance books.

I promoted one of her books around 1990 and enjoyed collaborating with someone who already was a star. She was also a very nice person who helped millions of people usher in a sexual revolution of intimacy and fun.

Perhaps it is not a coincidence that romance books are the most popular genre in America. Have been for a long time.

Americans want love, romance, and sex but seem to be having less and less of it. Some blame certain prescription drug or immunization shot side effects for the fall off. Others blame the proliferation of household porn. Whatever it is, Americans are screwing less, delaying marriage, divorcing more frequently, and complaining about their love lives — even though there are many apps dedicated to meeting people, plenty of couples in therapy, readily available online escorts, and plenty of public acceptance to every kind of kink or sexual mating preference.

The number of bookstores dedicated to selling just romance books has expanded to over 20 since the first one opened in 2016, according to The New York Times. On the one hand, genre-specialty stores mean there is a segregation of books that limits one’s overall choices; on the other hand, it unites people with a common desire and we should expand on this concept.

Let’s turn these romance book stores into a mini-campus dedicated to all things sex. Let’s turn them into romance theme parks.

In one-stop-shopping, you can have:

* A hotel by the hour on the grounds
* Matchmakers, marriage counselors, and relationship sexperts coming in to speak
* Sex toys could be sold and demonstrated like Tupperware
* Romance games could be played or sold
* Plays could act out famous sex scenes
* A theatre could show only romance movies or erotic films
* Singles events could be held there
* Throuples night
* Have a kink night safe space
* Lingerie and fashion shows could be held
* Public orgies
* Nude beaches
* LGBTQ book clubs

The possibilities are endless.

Thank you, Dr. Ruth, for making everyone feel normal and healthy about their sex lives. Now go read a romance novel and enjoy lots of great sex.

 

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Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 4,900+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.