Word: hite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE trying to figure out the Hite Report the other day, I ran smack into an old friend of mine from high school. Cheryl Stern seemed to my bulged eyes a new woman When last I had admired her comely self she had been a sweet kid in puffy sleeves with pastel flannel figures of Babar the Elephant and his wife Celeste sewn on as a running motif across the apron of her party dress. Now, svelte and shiny in her silk fishnet dress with a fishnet choker and fishnet stockings, she was quite a different item. She looked like...
...culmination of Hite's thesis is that a woman should not have to rely on a man to "give" her orgasms. Rather, she should be able to "take charge" of getting them for herself during sex just as men do--either by asking for the type of stimulation she prefers or by masturbating. Orgasm becomes a verb, something that one does rather than something given or had. This concluding recommendation is, however, problematic. If the women originally felt embarrassed or ill at ease expressing their wants, it seems somehow unrealistic for Hite simply to counsel "taking charge" when precisely that...
...Hite Report stands as a polemic and a pep talk. See, she's telling all her readers, most women are absolutely normal when they fall short of the avidity that Playboy and Penthouse magazines try to fob off on them. Women can overcome their sexual dependencies--the last stronghold of a male-dominated society--only if they make demands, and both men and women will be better off when that happens...
...Hite's counsel stands to reason. Women have been socialized into grids of passivity, and they will not act as whole, autonomous individuals until they have shed those patterns. But the means of translating this awareness into effective action remains unresolved. Hite would have us believe that sheer insight will stimulate women to effect a complete change, to revitalize all their relationships and become more assertive. She tends to limit her commentary to recapitulations of the sufficiently eloquent statements her respondents offer, where she could use their explication of pervasive sexual problems as a springboard to solutions. Such annoying pretension...
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