Single for years but ready for a relationship, journalist Dawn Porter travels the world experiencing some of the extreme ways women find love and live with men.
Not quite ready to settle down with one man, Dawn Porter explores the world of polyamory, or free love, and lives with people who share their partners. Her journey begins in San Diego, California where a husband and wife run a kind of free love school and try to teach Dawn to open up to free love. Dawn experiments with role playing, some more physical group exercise, and finally a quick session in the school hot tub. Next, travelling to the former Soviet Union, Dawn exposes a Mail Order Bride industry that profits off men hoping to find love in a week.
Having dabbled a bit, Dawn travels to Zegg, a 1960’s style commune isolated in former East Germany, where members live a polyamorous utopian lifestyle. Before she leaves, Dawn witnesses the downside of free love and meets some of its victims. In the end, Dawn herself has the chance to experience one of the most extreme and controversial practices of this strange community.
Then, with international headlines blaring about abuse in the Mormon community, Dawn goes inside a Mormon town and lives with polygamous husbands and wives. Finally, Dawn travels to the heart of Geishadom, Kyoto Japan, where she trains as a geisha and learns the fine art of pleasing men.
Will these experiences teach her more about what she wants to do? What are the costs of living these extreme ways? And does it really make these people happy?
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