Word: hite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Society still considers men "promiscuous by nature" and expects them "to flit from blossom to blossom, spreading their pollen," Shere Hite, author of the controversial Hite Report on Male Sexuality, told a capacity Kennedy School Forum crowd last night...
...Hite, whose first book, a report on female sexuality, attracted widespread attention by concluding that only 30 per cent of women have orgasm during intercourse, argued against the notion that male and female roles are biologically determined and therefore unchangeable. She noted that mostly male reviewers have attacked her current book, and speculated that her conclusions may be upsetting because "we like to build our lives around a biological base...
Speaking softly to a crowd which alternately broke into laughter, appluase and scattered hissing, Hite described her conclusions on male sexuality, culled from 7329 questionnaires, as "somewhat bleak at first sight...
Society's definition of sex "has always been very sexist," focused on the vagina, penis and orgasm rather than the clitoris, Hite said, adding that most men see women as"traps and burdens, but the best that can be expected for overcoming loneliness...
Quoting men aged 13 to 97, Hite drew a picture of males under "incredible pressure of comparison" with other men, but unable to communicate with them, having been conditioned from childhood not to share emotions. Many men, she said, grow up "thinking there can't be any give and take--give two inches to a woman, and she'll dominate...