Article on Shere Hite and the media

[mirafrida]

Hi all, sorry if this is a bit of out of place, but I found it interesting and perhaps not totally irrelevant.

It's an article on a recent documentary on Shere Hite (of Hite Report fame), in connection with larger questions of feminism and the media.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture...appearance-of-shere-hite-womens-media/676213/

I guess my vague impression had been that Hite was well-known and generally positively regarded. I'm embarrassed to say, I had no idea she'd been hounded so badly, for so many decades, that she ended up preferring exile in Europe (https://web.archive.org/web/20131016062838/http:/www.newstatesman.com/node/146720).

 

[StillStunned]

I guess my vague impression had been that Hite was well-known and generally positively regarded. I'm embarrassed to say, I had no idea she'd been hounded so badly, for so many decades, that she ended up preferring exile in Europe

All I know about Shere Hite is from Jilly Cooper's essay on her, from... uhm... ages ago. I remember a few things from it.

"She sent out 100,000 questionnaires and got 8,000 back, which makes me think that only those women with a lousy sex life and a stamp bothered."

"One of the respondents described her sex life as "they just got on and rode", which sounds like a précis of "How They Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent."

That said, if Hite's intention was to shed light on women's sex lives, and perhaps even improve them, in an age when that was still quite a taboo subject, more power to her, I say.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I guess my vague impression had been that Hite was well-known and generally positively regarded. I'm embarrassed to say, I had no idea she'd been hounded so badly, for so many decades, that she ended up preferring exile in Europe (https://web.archive.org/web/20131016062838/http:/www.newstatesman.com/node/146720).

And thirty years on, would she receive better treatment? Probably not.

 

[Trionyx]

And thirty years on, would she receive better treatment? Probably not.

Probably worse, at least in Florida.