Remember Shere Hite? A new documentary jogs our cultural memory of the pioneering sex researcher
by Lindsey Bahr
Jan 08, 2024
2 minutes
The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex, orgasms and masturbation, drawn from anonymous survey responses from about 3,000 women across the U.S., challenged male assumptions about heterosexual intercourse. And it made its author, Shere Hite, a deeply polarizing public figure.
A glamorous figure who had once paid the bills by modeling, Hite quickly became a fixture on talk
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