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199th out of 383 books
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262 voters
The Hite Report
by
Shere Hite
Ten years after the Hite Report exploded the myths surrounding women's physical sexuality, Women and Love offers a massive and moving documentation of women's profound questioning of their emotional relationships with men.
Paperback, 638 pages
Published
August 1st 1987
by Dell
(first published 1976)
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Rejecting the very idea of penetration as the sole definition of “real sex,” Shere Hite’s The Hite Report on Female Sexuality (1976) sought to understand how individuals regard sexual experience and the meaning it holds for them, using the clitoris as her critical lens. “Its not specifically just orgasms we are talking about here,” she wrote, “we are talking about a complete redefinition, or un-definition, of what sex is.”
What I love most about Hite's work: she uses the personal accounts of wome...more
What I love most about Hite's work: she uses the personal accounts of wome...more
This one was added to my collection while I was majoring in psychology at the University of Washington, and on the recommendation of my only girlfriend ever, Patty. Read the first time in 1976, while I was making a last gasp effort to convince myself that I was straight, the overall impression I got then from this book was that sex with women might be very complicated. Reading it now, after nearly 30 years of water under the bridge, the main message of the book seems to center around the individ...more
I have read this from cover to cover, in my search for understanding women human sexuality as a young person who really didn't have a clue.
It was great. I remembered quoting part of this and became the "expert" among my young friends who don't really have a clue about women, or sex.
There should be an update version of it. As women did changed in the last 20 years or so. This is the age before Google. Imagine that.
The size of it should have already given this book the "academic" edge, so that i...more
It was great. I remembered quoting part of this and became the "expert" among my young friends who don't really have a clue about women, or sex.
There should be an update version of it. As women did changed in the last 20 years or so. This is the age before Google. Imagine that.
The size of it should have already given this book the "academic" edge, so that i...more
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More than 35 million copies sold worldwide
Selected in 1998 as one of the one hundred key books of the twentieth century by the London Times and the World Expo.
"A frankness and directness not usually seen in print . . . Many female readers can closely identify with these intimate revelations." --Time
"The first major literary breakthrough in this field since the work of Masters and Johnson." --The Literary Guild
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Selected in 1998 as one of the one hundred key books of the twentieth century by the London Times and the World Expo.
"A frankness and directness not usually seen in print . . . Many female readers can closely identify with these intimate revelations." --Time
"The first major literary breakthrough in this field since the work of Masters and Johnson." --The Literary Guild
http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCO...
Thirty years ago a book by an unknown American...more
Jan 31, 2007
Carlie
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Married Couples, Sex Researchers, Counselers, Pastors
My husband and I have been reading this book aloud together for the past month or so, the survey format makes it kind of a slow read. I think this book is generally very insightful. The idea was, a woman put together a comprehensive sexual survey and then had thousands of American women fill it out and mail in the responses anonymously. Great plan. The flaw was in the execution. When the author gathered all the results and put them into book form in order to share her findings with the public sh...more
After Kinsey (which I later read) Hite was touted as the leading author... indeed she is. It's all here in real detail. Makes you actually think about 'what women want' before you go barging in with your assumptions.
Curious, Disturbing (in places) and erotic (passages are written in the tellers own hand)
A good one for young men of all calibres.
Curious, Disturbing (in places) and erotic (passages are written in the tellers own hand)
A good one for young men of all calibres.
About the sexuality of women. Could easily be condensed but it is definitely a landmark book --- very important in what it says. It explores women's attitudes to sex, what they do, and how they do it. Largely by getting hundreds of women to answer intimate questions about their sex life.
Absolutely fucking moronic. I'm not sure if Sherry (s)Hite knows how to corrolate data or just wanted to validate her own sexuality.
3.5 for this report on female sexuality in the U.S.
Reference,Sexuality
I never got "the speech" from my parents. Instead my mom gave me this book when I was about 14 or so and said "read it in the dark". It was all downhill from there. :)
Did anyone actually read this for statistics, in an objective, academic way? Or was it not just a very legitimate purchase of a really dirty book? (It was for me!)
Wow, I learned a lot by reading this book. A worthwhile read into the elusive world of sex from the female perspective.
Groundbreaking (back then, anyhow) in that women enjoy and need sex as much as the next guy. Oh, and we fantasize about it too!
This is still a great resource on female sexuality, largely in the words of hundreds of individual women.
Really interesting, even though it's getting old!
Eye-opening, to say the least.
This lady covers all bases.
Jun 01, 2007
Shanamadele
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
women, anyone who wants to have sex with women
Shelves:
feminismwomensstudies
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Shere Hite (born November 2, 1942, Saint Joseph, Missouri) is an American-born German[1] sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work has focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite builds upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She also references theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne...more
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