Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is a book that not only fights the norm of women and pleasure but sheds a light on how it could and does look in the lives of three very different, yet mundane females. The key, and perhaps one of the reasons behind the success of the book, might be that these females are a bit recognizable and have a familiar setting and lives to us as readers, yet have an alluring sexual aspect that some people might only fantasize about.
Looking at the book from another point of view, questions might be peeked, as the women in the book follow very stereotypical lives, lives that many people have read about in book, and movies are made with. They are somehow cliché, though Taddeo insists that they are three very real American women. The first woman has an affair, rekindling her relationship with another man she knows. The other girl is in a teacher-student relationship, which happens to be a forbidden romance classic. The last woman is pushing her sexual boundaries with her husband, somewhat similarly to the famous Fifty Shades of Grey.
Even though these women have problems in their lives, Taddeo tries making them less foreign and normalize these women. She clearly stands up against women having to hide their sexuality and is for them being able to love themselves and others, while still being proud and keeping her dignity. However, both adultery - especially when there are kids involved - and sex with a minor is morally wrong, and one is even illegal, which can therefore be expected to raise questions. How Taddeo believed the book would help and strengthen females today is thus unclear.
