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Lisa Taddeo: ...you don't know when a story is over

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Joining us on this episode is Lisa Taddeo, the New York Times best-selling author of the book, Three Women, which is a nearly decade-long investigation into the sex lives and desires of three American women.  Three Women is one of the most talked-about books this year and we were thrilled to talk about it with Lisa.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. And joining us on this episode is Lisa Todayo, the New York Times bestselling author of the book, Three Women, which is a nearly decade-long investigation into the sex lives and desires of three American women.

0:28.8

Three Women is one of the most talked about books this year, and we can't wait to talk about it with Lisa.

0:34.4

So, Lisa, thank you so much for joining us.

0:36.9

Thanks for having me. Tell us how this book came about because it's a fascinating story.

0:42.9

So I was reading Gay Talisa's By Neighbor's Wife, which was written in 19, what published in

0:49.7

1980, and Mr. Talies, who is right now about an 80, I think 85-year-old man, a journalist, and he has a long-celebrated

0:59.5

journalist.

1:00.0

He had spent about a decade researching his book about desire in America.

1:04.6

And it was incredibly immersive in the sense that he was at a swinger's colony in California and he participated in

1:14.5

the swinging to be able to report about it more, more in death. So to speak. And so to speak, exactly.

1:22.7

And I read the book. I admired the immersive aspect of it. I admired the amount of time spent and so much of the detail and the reporting.

1:32.9

But ultimately, I felt like it was told from an incredibly male perspective.

1:38.2

And I was wondering what the same subject of desire would look like told from a female perspective.

1:44.1

And so that was kind of the genesis of desire would look like pulled from a female perspective. And so that was kind of

1:45.0

the genesis of the idea. And you went on a big journey to find the three women that you focused on

1:52.5

in the book. And how did that all come about? So I was living in New York. I didn't really know

1:59.6

what to do, where to begin.

2:02.0

I had this, I had an editor who believed in me, but no real guidance.

2:06.1

It was just kind of like, do whatever you think is best, which was kind, but also I didn't know what I thought was best.

2:13.5

So I began, the first thing I did for the book was to fly to San Francisco to do this, this, profile these women at this place called the Porn Castle, which is now defunct.

2:29.5

But it was in the Mission District of San Francisco.

2:31.4

And it was basically a warrant of rooms where they were taping,

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