Half a century since the ‘Hite Report’, the bestseller that revealed the truth about the female orgasm and ended with its author in exile
In 1976, American Shere Hite rose to fame with the publication of a book that revealed how women experienced their sexuality and that an immense majority did not reach orgasm during intercourse. Despite its great impact, it is still difficult to get hold of a copy today.
Among the books that have reached us from the feminist wave of the 1970s, The Hite Report (1976) is one of the lesser-known. Few people know the name of its author, Shere Hite, born in Missouri in 1942, and the milestone she represented 50 years ago by opening up the topic that most women do not experience orgasms during penetration.
She did this in this work in which she compiled the responses of 3,000 women between the ages of 14 and 78 who, in some cases for the first time, expressed themselves freely about their sexuality. She worked for five years compiling and synthesizing a titanic volume of data that focused on what women really felt, denouncing a sexology made by and for men, centered on male pleasure and the idea of vaginal penetration.
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