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Shere Hite (/ ʃ ɛər h aɪ t /; November 2, 1942 – September 9, 2020) was an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality.
Sep 11, 2020 · Shere Hite, who startled the world in the 1970s with her groundbreaking reports on female sexuality and her conclusion that women did not need conventional sexual intercourse — or men, for that...
Sep 12, 2020 · Shere Hite, who died at 77, was a feminist hero who challenged male assumptions about women's sexuality in her 1976 bestseller The Hite Report. She faced intense criticism and threats for her work, and renounced her US citizenship in 1995.
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Dec 23, 2020 · The book’s bombshell was that women couldn’t reliably orgasm from penetrative sex, contradicting the wildly accepted, Freudian theory that women who didn’t were broken; according...
- Jazmine Hughes
Nov 22, 2023 · The new doc 'The Disappearance of Shere Hite' tells the story of the feminist researcher who published a bestselling, groundbreaking work, then largely retreated from the public eye.
- Cady Lang
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Nov 21, 2023 · In 1976, Hite, an independent researcher of qualitative experience, sparked a “revolution in the bedroom”, as Ms Magazine put it, with her anonymous surveys on female sexuality. Namely, as she...
Shere Hite, whose taboo-busting “Hite Reports” on human sexuality sold millions of copies after their debut in 1976, energizing feminists with their frank discussion of how women achieve sexual...
