Dawn Porter’s journey around the world looking at the most extreme ways that women find love, and live, with men, finishes with a trip to the USA to enter the controversial and secretive world of polygamy. From a whole town of polygamists to a family hiding in the wilderness while the husband searches for a third wife, Dawn meets the women who share their men and asks: “Does sharing your life and husband with multiple wives really work and make everyone happy?”

Tuesday 21 October 2008
10:00pm, Channel 4

Dawn Porter is 29, gorgeous and single. She’s had plenty of boyfriends but no one she can imagine settling down with. Now ready for a relationship, Dawn is keen to look at the different ways it can be done. From polygamy and free love to mail order brides and geisha, Dawn travels the world to look at the most extreme ways women find love, and live, with men. What are the costs of living these extreme ways? Does it really make people happy? And can it teach Dawn anything about the way she’d like to live her life?

In the third of four programmes, Dawn travels to Japan to immerse herself in the ancient and painstaking rituals of Japan’s ultimate party girls: geisha. From the raunchy hot springs of Arima Onsen to the sophisticated geisha houses of historic Kyoto, Dawn takes a crash course in how to gratify Japanese businessmen. “Can dedicating your life to pleasing men make you happy?” she asks.

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In episode two, Dawn ponders the lengths to which people will go to find a mate as she heads off to Ukraine to investigate the booming mail order bride industry. It’s estimated that around 4,000 men find brides in this way each year but, asks Dawn, what are the costs to the women, and men, of trying to find love like this? “I’ll be immersing myself in the world of mail order brides,” explains Dawn. “Women who so badly want to get out of Russia and Ukraine, they’ll try to find love in a week and marry a western man they hardly know.”

Tuesday 7 October 2008, Channel 4

Dawn Porter is 29, gorgeous and single. She’s had plenty of boyfriends, but no one she can imagine settling down with. Dawn is keen to look at the different ways it can be done. From polygamy and polyamory to mail order brides and geisha, in this new four-part series Dawn travels the world to look at the most extreme ways women find love, and live, with men. In this first episode, Dawn immerses herself in the world of polyamory, or free love. Her investigation takes in a free love school in California, and a polyamorous utopian commune in Germany. Read more & comment »