S03.33: Age Gap Romance

Fated Mates - Romance Books for Novel People

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Silver foxes, May/December, older heroines/younger heroes, look, Sarah’s buttons were installed young, ok? We’re talking age gap romances, how they played out in the early days of the genre, how they remain popular today, and what has happen (or not!) in the books to make them viable romance in 2021. We try to keep this one taboo but not dark, sexy but not erotic…but by the end, we’re not making any real promises.

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0:00.0	So we're just getting right to all the buttons that were installed when I was 11 or 12 years old this week.
0:06.0	Oh shit, you too.
0:10.0	Did I tell you it was okay, Aaron from, Aaron, our friend from Heaving Busoms.
0:15.1	Aaron a reader? Yes so was was like I want to read more books about like ice skating
0:22.3	heroes and I was like well I have one for you but it is from
0:26.7	1986 and it is problematic as fuck and if she was like sign me up and I was like, yeah,
0:33.0	Aaron doesn't care.
0:34.0	Aaron's like, yes, I'm in.
0:35.4	Sure.
0:36.4	So at some point I'm going to be a special guest on Heaving Busom's talking about
0:41.3	white satin, I think, by Iris Johanson.
0:44.5	Who, Iris Johanson?
0:47.2	Iris Johanson, who has like the most expensive house
0:51.2	in the state of Tennessee or something. It might not be Tennessee, it might be Kentucky,
0:56.1	I can't remember, but we'll put links in show notes because Iris Johanson sold her house last year and went up on the market and it was like a
1:04.7	ten million dollar house in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky or Tennessee or somewhere.
1:10.0	Georgia, I don't know. Maybe Georgia. Possibly Georgia. I remember she, but she did have a movie theater in that house.
1:17.9	And an ice skating rink apparently. I know. Thanks to White Satin and Jen at the age of 12.
1:23.2	Yeah, like I'm a feeling we're going to just be ridiculous this week.
1:28.0	So welcome to Fated Mace everyone.
1:29.8	I'm Jennifer Procop.
1:31.0	I am a romance critic and reader and I read some real questionable shit when I was 12 and
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