Word: hite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earth below. This week's report on the possible damage that civilization is inflicting on the global weather system is the third cover story he has edited in three weeks. The others were on the Soviet space effort and the hotly debated new report by Researcher Shere Hite that indicates women are deeply dissatisfied with...
...Hite moved to New York City in 1968 to pursue a doctoral degree in history at Columbia University. Dissatisfied with the program (she says a professor falsely accused her of plagiarism) and hard pressed for money, she turned to a modeling career with the Wilhelmina agency. Life on the modeling circuit was fast and daring ("It was a time when women believed they should have sex freely like men did"). She accepted offers to pose nude for Oui and Playboy magazines because the money was good. Hite blames "society" and skin magazines for exploiting women. She says now that...
...transformation into a feminist came after she posed as a secretary for a typewriter ad with the tag line, as Hite recalls, "The typewriter is so smart she doesn't have to be." On impulse, Hite joined ranks with members of the National Organization for Women who were protesting the ad. In 1971 Hite read a pamphlet in the NOW office, The Myth of Female Orgasm, and decided to create a questionnaire on the issue for a NOW-sponsored "speak-up." As she read the women's responses about their sexuality, "a whole picture of the universe began to fall...
COVER: Women are angry with men and frustrated with love, says a new Hite report...
...decades after the first stirrings of the sexual revolution and women' s lib, the battle of the sexes rages on. In the latest of her provocative surveys on sex and love, Shere Hite depicts a new revolution at hand as women vent their frustration with modern relationships. Are women fed up? Or are things actually improving for both sexes, as Hite' s many critics attest? See SEXES...