The Hite Report Quotes

“Women know very well how to orgasm during masturbation, whenever they want. If they know how to have orgasms whenever they want, why don't they feel free to use this knowledge during sex with men? Why do women so habitually satisfy men's needs during sex and ignore their own?

The fact is that the role of women in sex, as in every other aspect of life, has been to serve the needs of others - men and children. And just as women did not recognize their oppression in a general sense until recently, just so sexual slavery has been an almost unconscious way of life for most women - based on what was said to be an eternally unchanging biological impulse. We have seen, however (in the intercourse chapter), that our model of sex and physical relations is culturally (not biologically) defined, and can be redefined - or undefined. We need not continue to have only one model of physical relations - foreplay, penetration, intercourse, and ejaculation.

Women are sexual slaves in so far as they are (justifiably) afraid to "come out" with their own sexuality, and forced to satisfy others' needs and ignore their own.”
― Shere Hite, The Hite Report : A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

“landmark victories such as the 1995 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Women, signed by 140 countries, which proclaims a woman’s autonomy over her own body.”
― Shere Hite, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

“Although this change has been labeled "sexual freedom," in fact it has not so far allowed much real freedom for women (or men) to explore their own sexuality; it has merely put pressure on them to have more of the same kind of sex.”
― Shere Hite, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

“If the Sexual Revolution implies the attitude that now women are "free" too, and they can fuck strangers and fuck over the opposite sex, just the way men can, I think it's revolting. Women don't want to be "free" to adopt the male model of sexuality; they want to be free to find their own.”
― Shere Hite, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality

“psychological factors”
― Shere Hite, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality