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Hite Research includes research, business consulting and in-depth investigation of personal, sexual and family issues, the results frequently published as books and articles or presented as lectures. 

Many of Hite's books have achieved international acclaim and been translated into various languages. The most recent, Sex & Business (Financial Times - Pearson, 2000) describes possibilities for changes in gender patterns inside corporations: now that more women are working (or beginning to) at top levels, an opportunity exists that did not before:  'The office is like a blank page where we could write a new social order.' (See 'books page'.)

Earlier, Hite was best known for several books in a series known as 'The Hite Reports', including the Hite Report on Female Sexuality, The Hite Report on Male Sexuality, Women and Love, The Hite Report on the Family and Women with Women (The Loyalty Taboo between Women). The Hite Research Foundation includes programmes and scholarships designed to enable women around the globe to advance. 

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Shere Hite, cultural historian, is internationally recognized for her work on psycho-sexual behaviour and gender relations. 

Dr. Hite, visiting professor of gender and culture at Nihon University in Japan and previously instructor of female sexuality at New York University, is a frequent lecturer at universities around the world including the Sorbonne, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics and others. Director of the National Organization for Women's feminist sexuality project from 1972 to 1978, since that time she has directed Hite Research International. Hite also writes regular political and cultural columns for international newspapers and journals, as well as continuing to direct the expanding activities of Hite Research.

Telegraph
'Western society owes a debt to Shere Hite that it can well nigh never repay.'

Reuters
'Hite's work has left an indelible mark on Western civilization.'

Frankfurter Allgemeine
'..a legendary series of reports with remarkable gravitas.'

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Shere Hite and The Hite Reports

Shere Hite is famous as the researcher and writer of a 'legendary series of reports' known as 'The Hite Reports'. They include The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, The Hite Report on Male Sexuality, [The Hite Report on] Women and Love, The Hite Report on the Family, [The Hite Report] on Women + Women, and The Hite Report on Hite. [A complete list can be found on the Books Page.]

These unique works are based on extensive in-depth research with thousands of men and women, research which is independent of any financing from pharmaceutical or other sources; the women and men participating were anonymous, due to the intricate way in which the research was conducted (often misrepresented in media simplifications; a complete explanation exists in the appendix to the third Hite Report). The earliest form of this research was connected with a division of NOW, The National Organization for Women.

The first Hite Report ('A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality') became a focus of world attention, because it was the first research by women for women, and because of its groundbreaking conclusion that women can orgasm easily (during self-stimulation), that it is is not women but society that has a problem and needs to change.

Unlike other works, The Hite Report concludes that there is nothing wrong with women (i.e., the frequently stated idea that 'women have a problem having orgasm during intercourse, it's harder for them than for men, they should liberate themselves from old ideas'), further concluding that it is society's definition of 'sex' that should change, not the female body. Most women are able to have orgasm with ease, it is the society that has a problem accepting the way in which women reach orgasm. This is a human rights issue that has not as yet been recognized as such (i.e., the view presented in pornography remains that it is 'normal' for a woman to reach orgasm during coitus, especially with a 'large enough penis'); this needs to change. The Hite Report, now published in 19 languages, remains on the cutting edge of debate; like The Kinsey Report (but quite different), The Hite Report offers a solid body of data on which to base many ideas and to be used as a reference source.

The further Hite Reports -- on men, women & love, and the family -- are also published in many languages around the world, and continue to be the focus of debate, especially in this time of 'family values' with its international political focus on 'the traditional family' (Irak, Afghanistan, Iran, etc.) -- seen in opposition to the 'liberal sexual revolution' ('Western ideas' of women's rights, gay rights, children's rights, etc.). The Hite Report on Male Sexuality presents extensive research with over 7,000 men, investigating Hite's innovative questions about male psycho-sexual identity; her recent writings have presented many new theories about the nature of male sexuality and the development of boys' sexual nature, 'Oedipus Revisited'. Compilations of all of her works can be found in Hite's recent books, such as 'L'Orgueil d'Etre Une Femme' (interviews by a Swiss journalist in 2002); 'El Orgasmo Femenino: Una Teoria de la Sexualidad Humana' (all new essays by Dr. Hite 2000-2003); and the forthcoming 'Shere Hite Reader' (2004, U.S.)

Hite left the U.S. in 1989 as the partial result of a hostile and distorting media climate including threats to her life (Kinsey too had found that he was under great pressure from media, especially regarding his report on female sexuality, although his conclusions were moderate; he suffered a heart attack and died during the U.S. media frenzy that surrounded his work), thus some of Hite's most recent material has to date been published in other languages but not in English.

In spring 2004 'The Shere Hite Reader' (published by Seven Stories Press, New York) will encapsulate many of the ideas and basic findings of Hite's series of reports, as well as present new material. One-third of the book consists of new material, while two-thirds summarizes the findings and conclusions of her previous research reports.

Dr. Prof. Shere Hite
'The Hite Reports'
www.hiteresearchfoundation.org