Word: shere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many men. New York Psychiatrist Anthony Pietropinto, 39, was appalled by last year's bestselling sex survey of women. The Hite Report. Says he: "1 thought it was anti-male and pro-homosexual." Author Shere Hite is indeed open to that charge. Her book depicts men as selfishly concerned with their own sexual pleasure, attacks sexual intercourse for "institutionalizing out" women's needs, urges men to give up orgasms altogether, and suggests that women who reject lesbian love are selling out to the male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both...
Readers of the bestselling The Hite Report (TIME, Oct. 25) will have little trouble recognizing the muzzy style of those unfocused queries. Author Shere Hite, buoyed by a more than $300,000 advance from her publishers, is following up her study of female sexuality with a survey of male attitudes toward sex. She has sent out 45,000 questionnaires, most of them through men's university and liberation groups, churches and pop-psychology centers, and plans to send out 100,000 more copies...
...party offered much champagne, delectable finger food and an East Side address (rented for the occasion). A 3-ft-high hazelnut cake with pink icing had tilted to starboard in its box during shipping, but Hostess Shere Hite, author of the bestselling study of female sexuality, The Hite Report, propped it up with her 438-page tome. Hite threw the bash for friends who had helped her through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans...
...arrange a date with beautiful Shere Hite...
...Shere Hite is more vulnerable to attack for the dearth of information she presents about her own biases. She never specifies what motivated her to initiate the study. The theories and quotations Hite presents fit together so smoothly, one cannot avoid suspecting her of manipulating information. I suppose I would have felt this less if some distinctly anti-male sentiments didn't frequently creep into the book, affording an almost universally negative impression of men. In many ways, Hite seems overly anxious for the reader to accept that men are continually boorish, selfish, uninspired and non-emotional...