OLGA KUZMINA - ANDREA MESTRE - MARTINA MONTERO - 2019

Shere Hite explaining the female orgasm

The Hite Report, A Sexual Survey. 1977

Shere Hite discusses her book about the high level of dissatisfaction among women. 1985

Shere Hite talking on a panel about sexuality. 1986

From the time of Freud, it was widely accepted that women could only climax through penetrative sex –“the great male thrust”– and if they couldn’t, there must be something wrong with them. For frustrated women faking orgasm, the report was a godsend, alerting women to their own sexual power, and informing men of the existence of the clitoris.

IN 1976, A YOUNG grad student from Missouri dropped a bombshell into the bedrooms of the world, and blew apart our preconceptions about women’s sexuality. The Hite Report on Female Sexuality challenged the sexual status quo and defied male dominance. It became a worldwide publishing sensation, and turned its author into a hate figure among some men.

Shere Hite being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. 1987