The Daily Show: Ears Edition - ICYMI - Christiane Amanpour Tackles a Passion Project with "Sex & Love Around the World"

Episode Date: July 7, 2019

Journalist Christiane Amanpour talks about her globe-spanning examination of how women are expressing their sexuality in her CNN series "Sex & Love Around the World." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, this is, oh, we can, you can do whatever. You always look stylish. Uh, popping in from the UK, here for a little bit. This is interesting because every time I see you, we talk about the news you always look stylish. Popping in from the UK here for a little bit. This is interesting because every time I see you, we talk about the news. Yes. You're deeply entrenched in the news, but this is a different series. Can I still talk to you about the news? You can? Yeah.

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I feel like that's what I'm trouble. Let's tell you. Let's talk about the series, because this is different and this is interesting. Oh, let's hope he's not the new North Korea negotiator. Oh man, there's no nukes, there's nothing. Let's talk about the series, because this is different and this is interesting. I feel like this is you doing a passion project, it is. Stepping out of the news and going,

I want to focus on sex and love. What is the series about? You first thought, I had to try to focus on something on something some some some some. So, you can understand that. And I just was really fortunate to have come up with this idea to have basically persuaded and had this wonderful conversation with Anthony Bordain of parts unknown. Right. You know him very well, he's on CNN. And we decided that this was a great conversation to have. And you can see I'm a little bit awkward as it starts. there I am at a table saying, so, how sex? You know, I mean, it's not the most profound question. However, it's very much fun. This

whole series in all the different cities around the world is a lot of fun. And importantly, again, relative to one of your previous segments just now, these women are not shafted, so to speak. These women are not victims. These are the women who I found around the world in all these cities, even with restrictive norms around women, their lives, their sexuality, who are actually trying to change the dynamic and want to take their own happiness into their hands and don't want to live their mother's lives where everything was arranged, you know, they had to do everything according to the family or according to the man. And that is something that makes the series different, is that it really is a celebration of women controlling their sexuality within their different parameters around the world.

And it's interesting to see the dynamic, because you go to different cities, you speak to different women. One thing that really fascinated me was when you spoke about going to a war zone, going to a war zone and speaking to wives and lovers and saying how do you maintain your love and your sex in the midst of a war? Because you don't think of that. I know. We see something happening in Syria, we forget that somebody's smashing. Exactly. That is what actually inspired me to do the series. That very question about those very people. Because all my career I have done extreme reporting in extreme conditions. So I watched the human condition in the most extreme circumstances. And they're worried about survival, worried about feeding their children, worried about staying

alive, this and that. And I thought, but you know what, there is another side to the coin of the human condition. And that side is happiness, it's love love love, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, love, love, love, love, th, love, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their their thi thi, thi, their their their their their their, their, their, their, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi.eeei.ei.ei.ei.ei.ei.ei.ei. I thi.ei. I thi. I thi, th what, there is another side to the coin of the human condition. And that side is happiness, it's love, it's intimacy, it's sex, it's how do women, especially in these parts of the world, actually express their most basic needs? How do they ask for what is their right? Why do we all have the right to pursuit of happiness and fulfillment and all the rest of it? And they don't. In Japan it's interesting because you don't just talk about the women who are unfulfilled, but you talk about a culture where they're struggling right now because, you know what you talk about in the series, I think it's 40% of Japanese men are virgins. Yes. It's extraordinary. Right, and many many thiiiiiii men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men men thiiiiiii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, tho thi. thi thi thi thi thi thi thus thus thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. th. th. th. th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. to to to to thi. to to to to thi. to thi. to thi. thi. thi. thi. th many men and women have never touched, they don't touch in public, they don't know how to communicate, and so

sex is on the decline. It's so on the decline and it's a very taboo subject and they don't have words for I Love You or they don't use those words. And there's a lot of really poignant interviews in the Tokyo episode which you just saw a clip. thapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapapap. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thoic. tho-a' thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. the their their their their their their their their, their, their, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thee. thee. the. the. thei. the. the. the. the. the. thi. thi. thi. the end of this program, this episode, we have this fabulous couple who want to buck this system and buck this trend. And they've created this thing called the Adoring Husband Society, where regularly the husband has to go and stand and shout and bellow, I love you to their wives. And do you know what it works? That's what they have to do? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.s. Wait, so you start by doing now. So they just, you just, you walk out and then you're like, I love you! I love you! Yes, I love you! Watch the show. It's amazing. Yeah, what is this smash?

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