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...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...
...basis of her findings, Hite criticizes Sex Researchers Masters and Johnson for insisting that intercourse is the normal way for women to reach orgasm. The famous team argues that the thrust of the penis pulls the labia against the clitoris and produces female orgasm. To Hite this is "a Rube Goldberg scheme" that works for very few women...
...Hite also concludes that orgasms produced by clitoral massage are stronger and more ecstatic than those produced by intercourse-a finding that other sex researchers, including Masters and Johnson, support. But Hite goes still further, arguing that many female orgasms during intercourse are "emotional orgasms"-diffuse physical sensations produced mainly from feelings of love and intimacy. Hite considers it a desirable form of release "as long as women are not pressured into using emotional orgasm as a substitute for real orgasms." She also suggests that the presence of the penis in the vagina may reduce a woman's chances...
Eighty-seven percent of Hite's women said they enjoy "vaginal penetration/intercourse" mostly because of the feelings of closeness and security they as sociate with the act. "Clearly," says Hite, "there was no automatic connection between not having orgasms during intercourse and not liking it. " Four-fifths of the women reported that they masturbated, and of these, 95% reached orgasm easily and regularly. Most admitted they liked cunnilingus, though Hite reports that they described it in "spare, tight, unenthusiastic and secretive" language. Says Hite: "Women do not feel proud about clitoral stimulation in any form...
...Hite, who has never been married, is reluctant to talk about her own back ground. "People assume that when you do something like this, there's something wrong with you," she says. A native of St. Joseph, Mo., she worked her way through the University of Florida, earning a B.A. and an M.A. in the history of ideas. In the mid-'60s she moved to New York, enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Columbia University, then dropped out and worked as a model in New York, Paris and Milan. She does not care to dwell on her modeling...