If you can peruse someone’s refrigerator for compatible snack tastes, can you measure sex appeal using Amazon purchase history? Is your love object buying a Blu-ray copy of Transformers and a manual about the Paleo diet or some D. H. Lawrence and a CD by the xx? Does it matter, if sexiness is in the eyes of the beholder?
Well, regardless, that’s not the goal of city-ranking listicles. And so, with their wealth of knowledge, the powerful people of Amazon have decided to calculate which city in America is the most romantic. And what city have we at the top of the ranking? Please give a warm, sly smile to San Antonio, Texas — which edges out two-time winner Knoxville, Tennessee. New York City and San Buenaventura, California, were named the least romantic cities across this loving land.
How did Amazon reach these conclusions? They taking the cheese-town approach to romantic times: Amazon tallied romance novels, “relationship books,” romantic comedies, sexual-wellness products (what a euphemism, congratulations), as well as romantic music (of the kind made by Dean Martin, Barry White, and Luther Vandross). One could argue that by these criteria, these are the cities aren’t the most romantic; they’re just the most desperate.
Here’s the full ranking:
1. San Antonio, Texas
2. Seattle
3. Knoxville, Tennessee
4. Miami
5. Alexandria, Virginia
6. Orlando, Florida
7. Vancouver, Washington
8. Cincinnati
9. Spokane, Washington
10. Dayton, Ohio
11. Columbia, South Carolina
12. San Jose, California
13. Murfreesboro, Tennessee
14. Round Rock, Texas
15. Sioux Falls, South Dakota
16. Las Vegas
17. Pittsburgh
18. Everett, Washington
19. Erie, Pennsylvania
20. Clearwater, Florida