hotel lobby, sometimes even in the hot tub.t i talk ab an investor who has hot tub parties at his hoanethese sex parties that you mentioned, the bay area has long had a tradition of sexual liberatio so there is a wide spectrum of social behavior that you see.nd in many ways these parties are a lot more about power than they are about sex. it is a power dynamic that is completely lopsided. >> i guess some peoe may argue the women are coming to t h parties e a good time and what is wrong with that? >> i spoke to over three dozen people, and several who have come forward since i wrote the book, men and women. u know, the men describe a situation where they're challenging social mores and traditional morality, where the women feel like this is wherep erful people are but they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. if they attend the parties, they're disrespected or discredited. but if they don't attend, they're shut out of th important social gatherings. and, you know, some of the women i spoke to actually had -- felt they had to leave silicon valley in order to, you know, just do b