 |  | | | Shere Hite on female sexuality | 02 May 2006 | | |
Dr Shere Hite is the revolutionary writer and theorist, whose reports on female sexuality, based on interviews with thousands of men and women and first published 30 years ago, have changed the collective consciousness.
Her seminal work, "The Hite Report on Female Sexuality", asserted that most women can easily reach orgasm through clitoral stimulation, but only 30% achieve it during intercourse. In it she encouraged women to masturbate, and proposed a new definition of sex that would see men and women’s orgasms valued equally.
In her first report on male sexuality, published in 1981, she found that most men don’t marry the woman they most passionately love, but instead look for a spouse who will not leave them feeling emotionally “out of control.”
Jenni talks to Shere on the eve of publication of “The Shere Hite Reader”, which includes new essays about globalisation and link a more positive approach to sex with world peace. She also discusses her new and contentious book on masculinity “Oedipus Revisited” which explores the pressures on men to reach erection and orgasm, and calls for a rethinking of men’s sexuality.
The Shere Hite Reader, ISBN:1583225684
Oedipus Revisited: Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male Today, ISBN 190514704X
The Hite Report, ISBN 1583225692BBC NEWS: UK women 'most sexually confident'Disclaimer
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