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New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalism, and Private Life

By: Shere Hite

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“In this fascinating exploration, [The Shere Hite Reader] moves beyond the clichés of what pleases men and women and explores how attitudes on sex and pleasure have evolved and continue to evolve.”—Booklist

“Hite’s work has left an indelible mark on Western civilization.”—Reuters

“Western society owes a debt to Shere Hite it can well nigh never repay.”—London Telegraph

“Her famous Hite Reports have transformed the way we look at sex and sexuality.”—Marie Claire

The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis of the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite’s three decades of work probing the roots of human identity.

Hite discusses new research on female adolescence, challenging the “virgin” hymen concept and documenting the fact that sexual awakening often precedes puberty. For the first time, Hite formalizes her thinking on male adolescence—that boys feel tortured by the new social role they are forced to assume at puberty, which requires a show of superiority toward females. In new detail, Hite advances her understanding that sex is political, linking the expectation that women achieve orgasm through coitus with broader patterns of oppression. Hite also argues that pornography misrepresents male (not to mention female) sexuality, depicting it as singular and silly instead of “full of intriguing, nuanced behavior involving the entire body, not just the penis.”

While Hite has published several books in Europe over the past decade, The Shere Hite Reader represents her return to print in the United States. The authoritative collection of her work, The Shere Hite Reader challenges the reader to embrace a new way of seeing.

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Acknowledgments	p. 15
Preface	p. 19
A New Sexual Culture	p. 21
Sex and Human Rights	p. 21
Female Sexuality	p. 21
The "New Woman" or "Women on Top" Cliche of Equality	p. 22
Orgasm Pressures on Women	p. 23
Sexual Equality-What Does It Mean?	p. 25
Feeling Dishonest	p. 26
Male Sexuality: Oedipus Revisited	p. 27
"Bad Girls" and "Traditional Values"	p. 29
Sex and Politics, Peace, and Love	p. 30
Doubts about the Sexual Revolution	p. 32
Cupid and Psyche	p. 33
Female Sexuality Defined By Women (1976)	p. 37
The Female Orgasm as Metaphor	p. 39
G-Spot or C-Spot? (Toward a New Conception of Sex)	p. 41
If Sleeping Beauty Begins to Awaken on Her Own	p. 43
Sexuality As a Social Construction	p. 44
Do Most Women Orgasm from Intercourse?	p. 44
The Glorification of Intercourse: A Reproductive Model of Sexuality	p. 46
The Sexual-Pleasure Model of Reproduction	p. 46
Patriarchy and Monogamous Intercourse	p. 48
The Freudian Model of Female Sexuality	p. 50
Redefining Sexuality (Can We Redefine Sex?)	p. 52
"If You Don't Have Orgasms During Intercourse, You're Hung Up"	p. 52
Rethinking Female Sexuality	p. 53
The Myth of Women's "Abnormal Genitals"	p. 54
Masters and Johnson on Coitus	p. 55
A New Theory of How Women Orgasm During Intercourse	p. 57
Do It Yourself	p. 58
Why "Orgasm" Should Be a Verb	p. 59
Masturbation	p. 60
Leg Position for Orgasm	p. 62
The Meaning of Clitoral Stimulation	p. 63
Orgasm From Clitoral Stimulation by Hand	p. 64
Do Most Women Orgasm Regularly from Clitoral Stimulation by Hand?	p. 64
Women's Feelings About Clitoral Stimulation to Orgasm	p. 64
Clitoral Anatomy	p. 67
The Pleasures of Intercourse	p. 70
Conclusion	p. 72
Emotional Orgasm	p. 72
The Suppression of Female Sexuality and Orgasm	p. 74
Habit	p. 75
Love and Sexual Slavery	p. 76
Economics	p. 77
Women Rebel against the Sexual Revolution	p. 80
Pressure on Women to Have Sex	p. 81
The Double Standard	p. 84
Be a "Good Girl"!	p. 85
The Right Not to Have Sex	p. 86
Women, Power, and the Sexual Revolution	p. 88
The Future of Intercourse	p. 88
Do Women Always Want Intercourse?	p. 89
"Foreplay" and Other Pleasures	p. 90
Do Men Need Intercourse?	p. 92
Resisting the Myth of Male "Need"	p. 93
Touching Is Sex Too	p. 94
Stepping Outside Patriarchal Culture to See How Sexuality Could Be Different	p. 94
What Kinds of Touching Do Women Like?	p. 97
Sleeping Together	p. 97
Pressing Together	p. 97
Toward a New Theory of Female Sexuality	p. 98
Female Eroticism	p. 99
Undefining Sex	p. 100
Do Men Really Enjoy Their Definition of Sexuality So Fully?	p. 100
Continuing Controversies Over the Nature of Female Orgasm	p. 101
Reintegrating Sexuality and Spirituality	p. 102
Requiem for the G-Spot, Hello to the C-Spot! (Are We Really Modern?)	p. 104
A Missing Name	p. 106
The Female Orgasm	p. 106
Female Sexual Identity	p. 106
Male Sexuality and Love Described By Men (1981)	p. 111
Origins of Male Psychosexual Identity	p. 113
Sexual Violence and Betrayal of the Mother	p. 113
Breaking Up with the Mother	p. 114
Father, Behold Thy Son	p. 116
Boys and Their Fathers	p. 118
How Boys Learn to "Be Like the Other Guys"	p. 120
Two Men Speak about Their Private Lives	p. 122
The Varied Sexual Pleasures of Being Male	p. 134
What Is a Man's "Sexual Nature?"	p. 134
The Image of Men in Pornography	p. 136
Pornography	p. 141
Probably Men Like Pornography?	p. 142
Do Men Believe in Love?	p. 144
Most Men Don't Marry the Woman They Most Passionately Love	p. 145
Men's Great Sensuality-As Yet Untapped?	p. 147
Origins of the Definition of Sex As Intercourse for Men	p. 148
Deconstructing Intercourse	p. 151
Is "Male Sexuality" a Simple Hormonal Drive, a "Biological Fact of Life," or Is It Socially Constructed?	p. 154
Is Men's Focus on Coitus "Natural"?	p. 154
Male "Sex Drive"	p. 157
Built-in "Inadequacy" for Men in the Current Definition of "Sex"	p. 157
Penis Size	p. 158
Pressure to "Make Her Come"	p. 159
Doubts and Lack of Information about Women's Orgasms	p. 160
Bottom Line	p. 168
Is the Solution That "Women Should Speak Up"?	p. 172
Men's Feelings of Alienation, Blame, Guilt, and Anger	p. 172
Men and the Clitoris	p. 174
Men's Feelings about Giving a Woman Clitoral Stimulation to Orgasm	p. 174
Similarities between Clitoral and Penile Anatomy	p. 179
How Do Men Feel about Stimulating a Woman to Orgasm Clitorally by Hand?	p. 182
Vibrators and Men, Vibrators and Women (What's the Problem?)	p. 187
Men's Feelings about Cunnilingus	p. 188
How Does Clitoral Stimulation to Orgasm Affect Men's Sexuality?	p. 195
Women's Resistance to Traditional Sex and Intercourse	p. 196
Rape and Sexual Violence	p. 200
Pornography's Definition of "Male Sexuality"	p. 203
Men, Marriage, and Monogamy	p. 204
Are Men Angry at Women?	p. 207
Men's Perception of Women As Weak	p. 208
Do Men Now Want to Redefine Their Relationships with Women?	p. 210
What Do Men Think of Women's Liberation?	p. 211
A Time of Change?	p. 214
Who Are Men Today? Who Is the Modern Man?	p. 215
Do Men Like Marriage?	p. 217
Are Men Monogamous?	p. 219
Combat between Fathers and Sons for Power/Turmoil in the Kingdom of Fathers and Sons	p. 220
Will the "New Man" Change Corporate Culture?	p. 223
Are Men Questioning the Cliches? Changing the System and Themselves?	p. 223
The Janus-Heads of Male Psychology	p. 224
Women's View of Love (1987)	p. 227
Redesigning and Renaming Female Psychology	p. 229
What Is Love?	p. 229
"The Emotional Contract"	p. 231
Naming the Problem	p. 232
"Real Love"	p. 233
The Covert Emotional Contract	p. 233
How Do Women Feel about Their Love Relationships?	p. 234
What Is "Emotional Equality"?	p. 234
Do Women "Love Too Much"?	p. 235
Identifying Gender Discrimination in Love	p. 236
Women's Rebellion against Potential Slurs on Female Identity	p. 237
"Women Lack Self-Esteem"-Or Do They?	p. 239
Everyday Language As Ideology	p. 239
Cliches about Women	p. 240
Teasing and Other Put-downs	p. 241
Sexist Vocabulary	p. 242
"Emotional Harassment"	p. 243
Emotional Violence	p. 243
Anger and Alienation-Inevitable Reactions?	p. 245
Does Fighting, "Bringing Up the Issues," Work?	p. 245
How Does Change Come About?	p. 246
Men Should Welcome Women's Anger, Not Fear It	p. 247
Does Therapy Help-or Is It Harmful to Women?	p. 247
Cliches about Private Life That Need to Change	p. 249
Being Single	p. 249
How the Emotional Contract Applies to the Dating Scenario	p. 249
Patterns in Single Relationships	p. 251
The Seduction Scenario	p. 252
Trashy Behavior and Bad Manners	p. 253
Are Men to Blame? How Do Men Feel?	p. 254
Sexual Miscommunication	p. 255
Reappraising the Sexual Revolution	p. 255
The Right to Be Single	p. 256
What Is Love?	p. 257
How Women Feel about Painful Love Affairs	p. 257
Practicality Versus the Soul	p. 260
Why Is "Real Love" So Important to Women?	p. 261
If Women Change Their View of Love	p. 262
Women's Dissatisfaction	p. 262
The "Other" Transformed/Conclusion	p. 263
A Cultural Divide	p. 264
Challenging the "Biological Difference" Belief	p. 265
Men's View of Love	p. 266
The Sexualization of Boys and Male Alienation	p. 266
Adam and Eve as Early Gender-Role Propaganda	p. 266
Fundamentalist Religious Views	p. 267
Men and Love	p. 268
How Is It Learned?	p. 269
Men Are Blackmailed into Obedience to the System	p. 269
Two Cultures	p. 271
Does This Mean That Women Are "Better"?	p. 272
Women's Deeper Questions	p. 273
"Family Values"	p. 274
Seeing the World through New Eyes	p. 274
Friendships between Women	p. 274
Why Are Women Happy with Their Women Friends?	p. 276
The State of Marriage Today	p. 279
What Kinds of Love Do Women Feel in Marriage? Which Kind of Love Works Best in Marriage?	p. 279
Democratizing the Family	p. 281
Home	p. 281
A Cultural Revolution in Progress	p. 282
Family Values and Love	p. 283
Men's Fear of Being "in Love"	p. 285
How the Socialization of Men and Boys Affects World Affairs	p. 286
Where Does Our Men-on-Top Society Come From?	p. 286
Men and Women	p. 288
"To Make a World in Which More Love Can Flourish"-How?	p. 290
Women's Code of Honor	p. 292
A Nonviolent Philosophical Framework: Paradigm Change	p. 292
A New Landscape	p. 293
Not "the Human Condition"-Not Forever	p. 294
Icons of the Heart: Love, Power, and Sex in the Traditional Family (1994)	p. 297
Democracy of the Heart	p. 299
Moving toward the Future of Family and Society with a More Mature View	p. 299
Psychosexual Development in Children	p. 301
Origins of Girls' and Boys' Sexual Identity	p. 303
Puberty in Boys	p. 303
Girls at Puberty	p. 305
Psychosexual Identity As Developed by Daughters with Their Mothers	p. 306
Why Do Girls Have Orgasms before They Can Reproduce?	p. 308
Beauty and Fights between Mothers and Daughters	p. 308
Girls' and Boys' Psychosexual Development is Different	p. 311
The Redefinition of Puberty in Girls	p. 313
The New Alice	p. 315
What is "the Hymen" and Female Virginity?	p. 316
When Do Girls Become Sexual?	p. 318
Spanking	p. 319
Girls and Their Mothers	p. 322
Teenage Girls with Their Best Friends	p. 323
Is Sex by Definition "Impure"? Are Girls "Impure" After Puberty?	p. 325
Sex, Purity, and the Family	p. 326
Icons of the Heart	p. 327
What Does the Phrase "Traditional Family" Mean?	p. 328
What Is Democratization of the Family?	p. 330
Exploding the Nuclear Myth	p. 331
Bullying of Boys, Sex, and Society	p. 334
Bullying	p. 334
"Isn't It Strange to Think of Your Parents Having Sex?"	p. 335
A New Framework for Growing Up/Bringing "Family Values" Up to Date	p. 337
Lesbianism, Homosexuality, and Gay Rights: To See the World Differently (1976, 1981, 1987, and Beyond)	p. 341
Are Homosexuality and Lesbianism Natural?	p. 343
Lesbianism	p. 344
What Percentage of Women Are Lesbian?	p. 344
What Is Sex between Women Like?	p. 345
What Do Women Do Together Sexually?	p. 345
Listening on Another Frequency	p. 351
Origin of the Taboo	p. 351
Is Love between Women Another Way of Life?	p. 354
1987 Statistics	p. 354
How Do Lesbian Women Speak of Love?	p. 355
Are Women in Gay Relationships Monogamous?	p. 356
Coming Out Is Hard to Do-But Most Women Sound Very Happy about It	p. 362
Women Over Forty	p. 365
Where Is the Dividing Line between Gay and Straight Affection for a Friend?	p. 368
Lesbianism Can Be Political	p. 368
Being Woman-Identified	p. 370
Another World, Another Culture	p. 370
Sex and Love between Men	p. 371
Sexual Games between Teenage Boys	p. 374
What Is Sex between Men Like?	p. 375
Performance Pressures in Sex between Men	p. 381
Love Stories between Men	p. 382
Do Gay Men Prefer "Promiscuity" or Long-term Relationships?	p. 384
The Politics of Being Gay	p. 388
Are Women Still Marginalized in the Gay World?	p. 389
The Future of Women	p. 390
Will More Women Choose Lesbianism?	p. 390
Gay Marriage and "Family Values"	p. 393
Sex, Human Rights, and Globalization (1996-2005)	p. 397
Reevaluating Family Values and the Sexual Revolution	p. 399
Where Are We in the "Morals Revolution"? Transition or Collapse?	p. 399
Female Sexuality	p. 401
Are We Groping Toward New Global Values about Women?	p. 402
Women's Rights in Iraq	p. 404
A New Sexual Culture to Go with a New International Politics	p. 406
"Make Love Not War": Is This What Our Politics Means?	p. 406
Human Rights, Equality, and Sex	p. 407
Undefining "Sex"	p. 409
Women Redefining Sex	p. 410
Family Values	p. 411
A Deep Feeling of Unease	p. 413
Where Are We Going from Here?	p. 414
In Praise of Secularism	p. 414
Has Women's Liberation Been Derailed/Hijacked by the Sexual Freedom Movement?	p. 415
The Sexual Revolution and the Double Standard	p. 416
Should Sex Be Connected to Emotions? Where Does Love Come into It?	p. 417
The Right Not to Have "Sex": Is Sex Necessary for Health?	p. 418
What Was the Ultimate Significance of the "Sexual Revolution" of the 1960s?	p. 421
Beauty and Women	p. 421
Toward a New Sexual Culture	p. 423
No More "Battle of the Sexes"	p. 424
Purity and Impurity East and West	p. 426
Are Western Sexual Standards "Decadent"?	p. 428
Is the Western "Sexual Revolution" an Advance or a Decline?	p. 428
Are "Sexually Liberated Women" in the West Causing "the Decline of Morals"?	p. 431
Love and Family Values Past and Future	p. 435
Society Before the Greeks	p. 435
Personal Politics	p. 438
Sex and World Peace	p. 439
Feminism, Female Sexuality, and World Terrorism	p. 440
Church, Women, and Family	p. 442
Responding to the Vatican Letter to Bishops on Women and Feminism, August, 2004	p. 442
Increasing Domestic Violence against Women-Why Now?	p. 444
A New Sexual Culture to Go with a New Sexual Politics	p. 449
Sex, Globalization, and Peace	p. 449
Afterword: Landscapes of the Mind	p. 451
A New Emotional Landscape	p. 451
Underwater Frescoes of the Mind	p. 451
Myth Psychology (Basic Brain Software)	p. 452
Appendix	p. 455
An Introduction to The Hite Reports: Theory and Importance by Naomi Weinstein	p. 457
The Hite Report on Female Sexuality	p. 457
The Hite Report on Men and Male Sexuality	p. 460
Women and Love	p. 462
Observations on The Hite Reports, Wardell Pomeroy, Co-author with Alfred Kinsey, "The Kinsey Report"	p. 466
Write What You Want As Long As It's about Sex (Modern Mechanics of Censorship)	p. 468
Censorship Feels Confusing to the Individual	p. 469
Censoring Women's Thought	p. 469
Modern Mechanics of Censorship	p. 470
Dangers I Have Faced to Produce This Work	p. 473
1987 Statement by Committee	p. 474
1994 Statement by Committee	p. 475
Methodological Essays	p. 476
Controversies Over the Nature of Love by Dr. Linda Singer	p. 477
Methodological Observations on The Hite Report Trilogy	p. 485
Quantifying the Emotions by Gladys Engel Lang	p. 485
Explication of Scientific Method as Used in Research for The Hite Report Trilogy	p. 487
The Four Stages of Research	p. 488
Questionnaire Design	p. 488
The Difficulty of Studying Sex and the Emotions	p. 490
Distribution of Questionnaires and Composition of Sample	p. 490
Could the Study Have Been Done Using Random Sampling Methods?	p. 491
Analysis of Replies	p. 491
Presentation of Findings	p. 493
Dialogue between Participant and Researcher	p. 493
The Issue of Class as Related to Presentation of Data	p. 493
Note on the Use of Terms "Most" and "Many" in the Text	p. 494
Reactions by the Media and Scholars in the Field	p. 495
Additional Scholarly Papers	p. 499
Scientific Method As Used in Hite Report Research	p. 500
Research Questionnaires on Female Sexuality, Male Sexuality, Love as Women Describe It, and Growing Up in the Family	p. 501
Research Questionnaire on Female Sexuality, 1970-1977	p. 501
Research Questionnaire on Men and Male Sexuality, 1974-1982	p. 506
Research Questionnaire on Love, 1975-1988	p. 518
Research Questionnaire on Growing Up in the Family, 1975-1995	p. 526
Index	p. 533
About the Author	p. 559
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