Pepper Schwartz & Janet Lever 
Frommer’s/AARP Places for Passion 
The 75 Most Romantic Destinations in the World – and Why Every Couple Needs to Get Away

Today Show contributor, AARP Sex and Relationship Ambassador, and best-selling author Pepper Schwartz has teamed up with Janet Lever (former coauthor of
Glamour’s Sex and Health column) to create a guidebook to the world’s sexiest destinations. Along with the detail-rich text on their top 75 picks, the authors make a solid case for why traveling together is an important factor in improving — and sustaining — the romance in our lives. This witty, helpful book also dishes the dirt on how to pick the right destinations, why travel can rekindle sparks, tricks and tips for passion, and ways to constructively negotiate with your significant other about vacation plans.

About the author

The coauthors of the Sex and Health column for
Glamour magazine for a decade,
Pepper Schwartz and
Janet Lever appear frequently in national media as experts on intimate relationships and sexuality. Both earned their doctorates at Yale University. Dr. Schwartz has authored or coauthored 19 books, including, most recently,
Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years, The Normal Bar: the Surprising Secrets of Extremely Happy Couples, and
Dating for Dummies over 50. A professor of sociology at the University of Washington. she lives in Seattle. Dr. Lever, after leading teams of researchers that designed the three largest magazine sex surveys ever tabulated, came to Elle in 2002 to lead a series of annual surveys hosted on both the health and the business sections of NBCNews.com. Her Office Sex and Romance Survey; Work, Sex, and Power Survey; “Good Sex” Survey; and Sex and Money Survey are among the largest surveys on these understudied topics. A sociology professor California State University, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles.