The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female SexualityA reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was simple: she asked women, a lot of them, everything--and published the results. One hundred thousand women, ages fourteen to seventy-eight, were asked what they do and don't like about sex; how orgasm really feels, with and without intercourse; how it feels not to have an orgasm during sex; the importance of clitoral stimulation and masturbation; and to name the greatest pleasures and frustrations of their sexual lives, among many other questions. The Hite Report declares that orgasm is easy and strong for women, given the right stimulation; that most women have orgasm most easily during masturbation or clitoral stimulation by hand; that sex as we define it is a cultural institution, not a biological one; and that attitudes must change to include the stimulation women desire. |
Contents
Introduction | 51 |
Feelings about masturbation | 53 |
What is the importance of masturbation? | 61 |
Types of masturbation | 67 |
Type IVI | 68 |
Leg position | 100 |
Is orgasm important? | 105 |
What do the stages of orgasm feel like? | 113 |
Introduction | 311 |
Survey responses | 316 |
How do women relate physically? | 320 |
Reasons women prefer to relate sexually to women | 324 |
Lesbianism can be political | 330 |
What is sexual slavery? | 335 |
Feelings about sex and intercourse | 337 |
Do you like vaginal penetration intercourse? | 338 |
Orgasm | 122 |
Contractions | 129 |
After orgasm | 134 |
Multiple orgasms | 138 |
Does orgasm feel different with or without intercourse? | 145 |
The clitoralvaginal controversy | 149 |
Vaginal ache | 158 |
Conclusion | 160 |
Emotional orgasm | 162 |
Women who never orgasm | 165 |
Do most women orgasm from intercourse? | 181 |
Findings of this study | 184 |
The glorification of intercourse | 189 |
If you dont have orgasms during intercourse youre hung up | 198 |
Do you ever fake orgasms? | 205 |
Conclusion | 213 |
How do women orgasm during intercourse? | 216 |
How they do it | 219 |
Clitoral stimulation by hand during intercourse | 231 |
Do it yourself | 238 |
The connection between orgasm during intercourse and masturbation | 239 |
How have most men had sex with you? | 251 |
Orgasm from clitoral stimulation by hand | 261 |
Feelings about clitoral stimulation | 264 |
What kind of clitoral stimulation do women like? | 276 |
Orgasm from cunnilingus | 285 |
Feelings about cunnilingus | 287 |
What kind of cunnilingus do women like? | 298 |
Do you ever find it necessary to masturbate achieve orgasm after making love? | 301 |
Conclusion | 306 |
Why dont women create their own orgasms? | 344 |
Love | 346 |
Economics | 348 |
Introduction | 357 |
The ambiguity of the sexual revolution | 359 |
There was no real revolution | 362 |
Women lost their right to say no | 364 |
How strong is the male sex drive? | 369 |
The double standard | 372 |
Be a good girl | 375 |
Sex and emotions | 380 |
Birth control | 385 |
How important is sex? | 388 |
Conclusion | 397 |
How does age affect female sexuality? | 401 |
Redefining sex | 417 |
The future of intercourse | 418 |
Do women always want intercourse? | 423 |
Toward a new kind of intercourse | 430 |
Do men need intercourse? | 433 |
Touching is sex too | 435 |
What kinds of touching do women like? | 446 |
Questionnaires | 451 |
Statistical Breakdown of Findings by chapter | 463 |
Questionnaire for Women Readers | 496 |
Notes | 508 |
Acknowledgments | |
About the Author | |
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Page 17 - Researchers, looking for statistical 'norms,' have ... all too often wound up telling women how they should feel rather than asking them how they do feel" (p. 1 1). [Male] researchers have thrust language upon passive women, whereas Hite's questioning would attentively stimulate women to respond. The model for good sexual research is structurally analogous to the pattern for good sex. Hite asks; women respond. / But then Hite tells them what their responses...