Romance Facts

A passionate kiss can burn 2-3 calories per minute and engages up to 34 facial muscles.

When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.

Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don't.

In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress covered in 9,999 red roses made for his girlfriend and then proposed to her - the number 9 in Chinese sounds like 'forever,' making it highly symbolic for marriage proposals.

A couple had their wedding rings engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying "I do."