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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...
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...
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.
The Hite Report, publication by feminist Shere Hite in 1976 that, while flawed in its handling of statistics, challenged numerous accepted notions about female sexuality. A companion report on male sexuality appeared in 1981. Learn more about both works.
Sep 12, 2020 · Such terse pronouncements made Shere Hite - a sex researcher who died this week at the age of 77 - both a feminist hero and a controversial figure in 1970s America. Her pioneering work The Hite...
Nov 17, 2023 · The documentary shows how much she sacrificed and believed in her work. “The Disappearance of Shere Hite” acknowledges the struggles, hostile questions, and misogynist abuse she endured. But it also finds space for the community she found, her cultural impact, and the effect she had on people.
Sep 13, 2020 · First is Shere Hite. In 1976, she rocked the world with a survey of over three thousand women in which she found that most weren’t having orgasms during intercourse.
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...
Dec 3, 2023 · Sex researcher Shere Hite, subject of the documentary 'The Disappearance of Shere Hite,' is returning to cultural prominence, and the Oscar race.
