Word: hite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month ago, Shere Hite, 33, was a former fashion model all but unknown outside a few feminist circles in Manhattan. Today she is a sex guru. Harper's Bazaar and Playboy are planning interviews, and she seems sure to be the subject of magazine covers in the months ahead. She is appearing on TV talk shows, New York University has invited her to lecture on female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down...
...reason for this passionate pursuit is The Hite Report (Macmillan; $12.50), a book based on the 3,019 replies to 100,000 explicit sex questionnaires that Hite has distributed to Ameican women since 1972. Released Sept.20, the book is already in its third printing (total copies to date: 60,000); its prospects have Macmillan aglow. Report's stimulation and legitimacy come not from its statistics - there are surprisingly few - but from the confessional accounts by women of their own sex lives. Many female readers can closely identify with these intimate revelations, which have a frankness and directness not usually...
...Hite presents a picture of vast dissatisfaction and sexual misfirings. What is more, she thinks she knows the reason. "It is very clear by now," she says, "that the pattern of sexual relations predominant in our culture exploits and oppresses women ... [It] has institutionalized out any expression of women's sexual feelings except for those that support male sexual needs...
Clitoral stimulation is central to women's sexuality, says Hite. So she framed one question for her survey that most professional sex researchers have not asked: Do you regularly achieve orgasm during intercourse without separate massaging of the clitoris? Only 26% said...
...Hite conclusion: it is biologically normal for women not to reach orgasm through intercourse alone, and only pressure by a male-dominated society keeps women from seeing this fact. "Intercourse," she writes, "was never meant to stimulate women to orgasm." She advises women to masturbate and to find a sexual partner who will give clitoral stimulation. "There is no great mystery about why a woman has an orgasm," says Hite. "It happens with the right stimulation, quickly, pleasurably and reliably...