‘Orgasms are a marvellous happiness’. Shere Hite gave voice to female sexuality in a landmark book – but the backlash was fierce
- Written by Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
Owen Franken/Corbis via Getty ImagesIn our feminist classics series we revisit influential works.
Shere Hite’s The Hite Report was quickly dubbed a “sexual revolution in 600 pages”. It did something nobody had considered worth doing: investigating women’s sexuality by asking them to share their thoughts and feelings, then...





