A few months ago, when I was looking for statistics on female orgasms, I came across The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, a book reporting the findings of sex researcher Shere Hite ...

In these settings, thousands of lay experts on women’s sexuality debunked long-held definitions of “good” or “mature” sex ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shere Hite inspired women to share their views on everything from cunnilingus to vibrators (Iris Brosch) Fired up by debates ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hite, born in 1942 to an unmarried teenage mother, was largely raised by her grandparents: devout, working-class Christians who ...

Nicole Newnham’s documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite (now streaming on Hulu) aims to introduce an almost-forgotten figure of the women’s movement to a new generation. In 1976, Shere ...

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 ...

Sundance: Dakota Johnson narrates this peppy documentary about the misunderstood author of the 1976 bestseller "The Hite Report." The biopic documentary is well-worn territory at this point, it’s the ...

A scene from 'The Disappearance of Shere Hite' courtesy of Hot Docs ‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ looks at the feminist sex researcher’s ground-breaking work, challenging conservative ideologies ...

Exclusive: Nicole Newnham's nonfiction film explores the feminist legend's mysterious retreat from the public eye and was just nominated for three Critics Choice Documentary Awards. After publishing ...

It shouldn’t be surprising by now that history is full of groundbreaking women whose accomplishments are overlooked and whose names get buried. Sex researcher Shere Hite’s near-Stalinist erasure from ...

The groundwork was laid for Nicole Newnham’s Oscar-contending documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite back when the director was just a girl. “I was 12 years old when I discovered The Hite Report ...