741. RT Rewind: June 2007 Ads & Features

It’s time machine time! We’re going back to June 2007 to look at the Ads & Features in Romantic Times magazine. This one’s got some gawdawful letters to the editor and some equally heinous responses, and we are prepped for battle.

First, we talk about cereal. As you do.

And I have a Content Warning! At about 20 minutes into our conversation, we start talking about this awful letter to the editor. Please be advised there is some rank homophobia on display here.

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

Visual Aids? But of course!

There are three versions of this cover and each one is more surprising than the last.

Ok, definitely naked.

 

Still naked.

Wait, this is a historical?? Would you have guessed that from the prior covers, without reading the cover copy?

 

First, that tattoo had to hurt like hell.

Second, it looks like Trogdor.

Third, we think he looks like a dad who is up at 3 am questioning all his life choices in allowing a sleepover at their house.

 

It took me more than a few seconds to figure out what I was looking at.

 

So that’s a title. And a disturbing collage.

This is another before and after. QUITE DIFFERENT, huh? We were fascinated by how impossibly thin her neck is.