Shere Hite était une éducatrice sexuelle féministe pionnière dont le travail s'est principalement concentré sur la sexualité féminine. Au-delà des études biologiques, Hite a mis l'accent sur la signification personnelle et l'expérience subjective du sexe. Ses recherches ont révélé que de nombreuses femmes n'atteignent pas l'orgasme par la seule relation sexuelle, soulignant l'importance de la stimulation clitoridienne directe. Hite a critiqué les recherches sexuelles antérieures pour avoir intégré de manière acritique les normes culturelles, plaidant pour une compréhension de la nature culturellement et personnellement construite de l'expérience sexuelle afin de rendre la recherche pertinente pour le comportement réel.
Résultat d'une enquête, commencée en 1974, sur la sexualité des hommes aux Etats-Unis. L'auteur analyse les réponses, en cite des extraits et les compare à des idées émises par des spécialistes de la sexologie. Des aspects variés sont abordés: être un homme, relations avec les femmes, le coït, autres aspects de la sexualité masculine, les hommes et l'orgasme féminin, le viol et la pornographie, homosexualité, la sexualité des hommes âgés. Cette enquête est du même genre que celle menée auprès des femmes américaines, publiée sous le titre: ##Le rapport Hite##.
This new report includes previously unpublished data and personal accounts from women in the UK and Commonwealth. The original "Hite Report on Female Sexuality" was based on samples of women exclusively in the USA. First published in 1976, it explored women's feelings about sex and has had a profound influence on generations of readers. In it, women between the ages of 14 and 78 described their most intimate feelings and answered questions about orgasm, masturbation and their sexual desires. This book brings Shere Hite's thinking to a new generation of women and draws conclusions based on up-to-date and relevant worldwide findings to one of the most probing surveys ever undertaken.
The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on 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 through questionnaires and theory.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 requiring a show of superiority toward females. In new detail Hite advances her understanding that sex is political, linking the expectation on women to achieve orgasm through coitus with broader patterns of oppression. Hite discusses new research on female adolescence, challenging the "virgin" hymen concept, and documenting that sexual awakening often precedes puberty. Hite also argues that pornography misrepresents male sexuality (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."The authoritative collection of her work, The Shere Hite Reader challenges the reader to a new way of seeing.
A 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 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.
"A riveting document!" NEWSWEEK Over 7,000 men, ages thirteen to ninety-seven, speak out about: What they think of women--as wives, lovers, and friends; why a majority of men like marriage but are not faithful; what they think about love--and why they often distrust it; how they feel about giving women clitoral stimulation; why they often masturbate even with a regular sex life...and more.
Der Titel verspricht zwar nicht mehr, als er hält, seine Kernthesen gehen jedoch fast verloren im vielen Deskriptiven, im oftmals redundanten Kommentieren. In vorhergehenden Hite-Reports ging es um Liebe, Sex, Familiengeheimnisse. Vielleicht bietet das neue, weniger brisante Thema inhaltlich zuwenig Kompensation für Hites akribische, langatmige Ausarbeitung? Kein Zweifel, daß weibliche Selbstwertprobleme, die geringere gesellschaftliche Wertschätzung von Frauen und ihre vorrangige Loyalität gegenüber Männern oder das Tabu (nichtsexueller) körperlicher Intimität Frauenfreundschaften blockieren. Wahrscheinlich stimmt auch, daß die Zukunft sehr weiblich wird, "die Frauen im 21. Jahrhundert Spektakuläres leisten werden" ... Hite bemüht sich um animierende Projektionen zukünftiger Freuden, Macht und Stärke von Frauen, die doch eigentümlich steril bleiben
