Shere Hite: the woman who changed the narrative on the female orgasm in the 1970s

By Rosa Campbell, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, King's College London

In 1976, a Playboy model turned feminist sex-researcher called Shere Hite did hundreds of television and radio appearances promoting her book, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality. She went on Good Night America dressed in a high-necked Victorian white silk blouse, huge faux-pearl earrings and matching necklace, her face framed by a cloud of apricot curls.

The host, Geraldo Rivera, grinning under his 1970s handlebar moustache, asked her to summarise her…

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