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...month ago, Shere Hite, 33, was a former fashion model all but unknown outside a few feminist circles in Manhattan. Today she is a sex guru. Harper's Bazaar and Playboy are planning interviews, and she seems sure to be the subject of magazine covers in the months ahead. She is appearing on TV talk shows, New York University has invited her to lecture on female psychology, and the New York Times Magazine has asked her to write an article on female sexuality. So many want to plumb Hite, in fact, that she has decided to turn down...
...reason for this passionate pursuit is The Hite Report (Macmillan; $12.50), a book based on the 3,019 replies to 100,000 explicit sex questionnaires that Hite has distributed to Ameican women since 1972. Released Sept.20, the book is already in its third printing (total copies to date: 60,000); its prospects have Macmillan aglow. Report's stimulation and legitimacy come not from its statistics - there are surprisingly few - but from the confessional accounts by women of their own sex lives. Many female readers can closely identify with these intimate revelations, which have a frankness and directness not usually...
...Hite presents a picture of vast dissatisfaction and sexual misfirings. What is more, she thinks she knows the reason. "It is very clear by now," she says, "that the pattern of sexual relations predominant in our culture exploits and oppresses women ... [It] has institutionalized out any expression of women's sexual feelings except for those that support male sexual needs...
Clitoral stimulation is central to women's sexuality, says Hite. So she framed one question for her survey that most professional sex researchers have not asked: Do you regularly achieve orgasm during intercourse without separate massaging of the clitoris? Only 26% said...
Bartlett supplies a stirring commentary on his 72-hole stint with Hite in the pro tour limelight. "The first day she started great guns. I remember she eagled the ninth for a 36. On the tenth she just crushed her drive." Hite hove her second shot on the par five dogleg out of bounds and ballooned to a 45 on the back nine. "She finished 25th or 30th," Bartlett adds by way of a post mortem...