- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Pandora; (Reissue) edition (11 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0044404557
- ISBN-13: 978-0044404552
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 578,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is certain to be another controversial bestseller from the infamous author of previous sex surveys. Her methodology has been criticized and her inferences are sometimes stretched, yet her subjects reveal more about 'Western' family life than cold statistics could ever match. Her findings are often shocking and challenging to traditional assumptions - for example, boys emerge as psychologically and emotionally better off growing up without fathers. The brutality and the distance which some parents contrive to put between themselves and their children is chillingly portrayed, while the characteristics of good parent-child relationships, with intimacy, genuine respect and friendship, though rarer, emerge with clarity. Hite offers some provocative suggestions for improving the lot of boys and girls of the future which parents would do well to contemplate. (Kirkus UK)
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This book represents the answers to a questionnaire by 3,500 women between the ages of 14 and 78, in which they describe in detail their most intimate feelings about sex. The author has also written "The Hite Report on Male Sexuality" and "Women in Love - A Cultural Revolution in Progress".
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World Media Opinion
1 Sep 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book has received praise from media and institutions all over the world. For example, Reuters has remarked that it 'has left an indelible mark on Western civilization.' Others, including the prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine, have called it 'legendary'. The London Times has listed it as one of the top one hundred key books of the twentieth century. It received the distinguished service award from America's largest organization of sex researchers and counselors, AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists).
Why? Because it was the first and still in many ways is the only book to 'make the case' for the beauty and pleasure of clitoral stimulation for female orgasm. It galvanized and helped create a cultural revolution, documenting in women's own voices and with statistics (based on its own independent sample of over 3,000 women of all ages and walks of life) that almost all women can orgasm easily and efficiently with clitoral or exterior stimulation of the vulva -- and going on to question why this is not considered a 'normal part of sex'? Why is there no word for this, i.e., why is this 'act' never shown in films or pornography (where the focus is almost always on coitus, bondage or fellatio)? Yes, this is a feminist analysis of 'sex', stating (it was the first to do so) that our definition of sex is a cultural and historical phenomenon, not simply a 'biological inevitability.'
Read this book if you want to understand anything about female sexuality.
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Interesting and Revealing
8 May 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I read this book in the early 1980's and found it quite interesting and revealing. The thousands of women that responded to Hite's anonymous questionnaires seemed willing to open up, and both men and women can learn from what they had to say. Hite's finding that only 30 percent of women climax during intercourse should encourage couples to communicate. She also mixes long responses with one-phrase answers, and the result is often revealing and occasionally tiltillating. Critics say that Hite lacked a perfect scientific sample, but one suspects her respondents were more honest than those who participate in face-to-face interviews (Kinsey, etc.). Perhaps most of all this book seems to confirm the emotional and physical appeal of the subject.
This book was based on questionnaires answered in the pre-safe sex, pre-cyber porn 1970's, but seem quite relevant today. Ms. Hite left the USA for Germany in the 1990's, apparently due to attacks on her and her work. This is an imperfect book, but worth a look.
This book was based on questionnaires answered in the pre-safe sex, pre-cyber porn 1970's, but seem quite relevant today. Ms. Hite left the USA for Germany in the 1990's, apparently due to attacks on her and her work. This is an imperfect book, but worth a look.
Absolutely absorbing insight
3 Jan 2012
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This is the Rosetta Stone to any man's attempt at deciphering female sexuality. A true eye opener to the limits that males have confined themselves within. In terms not only of sexuality, but individuality, and empathy.
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