When Lisa Taddeo began researching her first book, Three Women, which she conceived as an exploration of human desire, she expected to be drawn to the stories of men. But, as she travelled the country, talking to men about their sexual dilemmas and yearnings, she found herself unmoved. The mens stories began to bleed together, she writes in the books prologue:
In some cases, there was prolonged courting; sometimes the courting was closer to grooming; but mostly, the stories ended