First and foremost, I would like to clear a point that has been misinterpreted in the reading community about this book is that 'Lisa has focused only on 3 straight white women neglecting women from other backgrounds and men'. She indeed wanted to write a book on 'human desire' on the whole but after talking with three men it felt flat or you could say they were all in this together and there are already n-number of books out there for them. so it only makes sense to write about female desire. So again she went hunting for women to help her with it by spreading flyers with no particular background or whatsoever. And again it failed that only 'three women' came forward to talk open about this. So what it would have been about human desires turned to be the story of 'three women'and their desires.

The three women are Maggie, Lina and Sloane.
Maggie is a sixteen year old with alcoholic parents and a dysfunctional family. Somehow she falls victim for a 30 year old Hawaiian man and have sex with him and later has an affair with her married school teacher Aaron Knodel (he covers the most of her story).
Next Lina, married to a postal worker who refuses to kiss her. Meaning he doesn't even touch her with intimacy at all.
And the last, Sloane who gets married to a chef and owns a restaurant with him. He likes to see her in bed with other men. but she is not sure if she likes it or not. but she never refuses to do so.

Now if you can see, of all women, only these three came forward to share their stories. It wasn't predetermined or a plan of Taddeo to write only about white women because even the stories of these three women is totally different from each other and you get to see their life as it is. Also, there is a lot of sex in it not in the way it's described from women's part in any of the book ever. It was more about the thought process before, after and during the sex and how desires always end up digging guilt in women. It was so detailed with description that it made me ask myself if Taddeo was present in those events. I am telling you, it was so vivid. but so does the whole book. Her writing just made me crave for more from her. I would be the first in queue to get her book if she is writing another one. I couldn't believe it is a nonfiction because the prose was so beautiful not that it didn't have authenticity. It was authentic with different voice for each of the three characters but you know what it was also so beautiful. I was just sucked into it. I was constantly thinking about these women even when I was not reading. I wanted to go back to them every time I put it down to do other chores. Most of all it was so heart breaking to read their stories. They have narrated their vulnerable parts to us. they have let us see through their world and I don't know how people could just criticize them or the book on the whole so easily. It's an eight years of hardwork on Taddeo's part and lifetime pain and regrets on those three women's part. It's not fair judging them. Not at all fair.

I would defend this way at any time because it has so much to it. but I guess it's not easy for some people to accept certain truths like sexual abuse, pedophilia, alcohol abuse, rape, and other unimaginable things that is happening around us. they don't want to read about it because they find it hard to accept it. but accept it or not, it is there and your ignorance is not going to change it. Also, she never once made any judgements on these three women no matter what they have done in the past. She has just put it there and we can't say anything about it too. At the end of the day, it's their lives and choices. But she did make me realise what one must be going through inside their lives even though it looks all pinks and roses outside. And she disapproves 'women judging other women' and I think that's the message we all should take home.