The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Sex educator Shere Hite gained infamy stateside in 1976 when she published The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, a survey of women’s proclivities and desires, only to receive such a backlash from an increasingly conservative America and its media that she renounced her U.S. citizenship. —M.G.

From the co-director of the Oscar®-nominated “Crip Camp” comes this look back at one of the key feminist figures of the 20th century. In the mid-1970s, Shere Hite drew from anonymous surveys from women to deliver The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, dispelling several myths and unscientific beliefs about the sex lives of women. Its unprecedented success served as a controversial cultural flash point, with Hite becoming an inarguably influential figure with regard to gender and sex. After the publication of Hite’s study on male sexuality, hostility towards her intensified in the media, leading her to retreat from American society. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE discovers the woman behind her culture-shifting research and ponders the reasons she is under-discussed today. —C.F.

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