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...front page of your November 5th issue you showed a picture of and quoted Sharon Hite under the title: "Hite Study Finds Intercourse Inadequate For Female Orgasm...
...about time a young, intelligent person published some tangible data about sex to counter misconceptions people hold. Congratulations to Ms. Hite. I hope she continues her enlightening work, in the same nonradical manner...
Political Sex. Hite joined the feminist movement, and in 1972 she won permission from the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women to use the NOW letterhead for her freelance sex study. Many of her questions reflected an embattled view of sex arising out of the feminist movement. (Sample: "Do you feel that having sex is in any way political?"). Others proved so opaque ("Is having an orgasm somewhat of a concentrated effort?" "If you have ever experienced something you called 'love,' which emotions were involved?") that Hite revised the questionnaire three times and then...
...find candidates for her survey, Hite advertised the availability of the questionnaire in feminist circles, church newsletters, the Village Voice and several magazines, including Oui, Brides and Mademoiselle. Though the respon dents are from 49 states, they tend to be liberal and Eastern...
However shaky her methodology, Hite is not about to abandon her sex research. She is once again circulating questionnaires, this time for a report on male sexuality. A possible hint of things to come: one portion of the current book is entitled "Do Men Need Intercourse?"Though Hite never answers her own question, she refers admiringly to the 19th century sexual practices of the famous Oneida Community in New York. The Oneida men usually indulged in intercourse but not orgasm...