Several years after the phenomenal success of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, Shere Hite took on this major work on male sexuality.
Seven thousand men, ages thirteen to ninety-seven, speak openly and with feeling about their fears and secrets, their sexual preferences and practices, their profoundest joys and disappointments. This representation of male sexuality delves into how men feel about their relationships to women and to each other; about love, monogamy, marriage; about affairs and sex outside of marriage; about growing older; about violence and pornography; and about the great variety of sexual practices they have (or have not) experienced.
Hite’s brilliant compilation of quotations from detailed questionnaires is accompanied by her own commmentary and proposal of what sex has been in our patriarchial society—and what it might yet become. This seven-year study is a striking portrait of the male psyche and the enormous variety of sexual possibilites in this world. In today’s regressive political and cultural climate, Shere Hite’s daring message recenters the raw, emotional truth behind the cisgender male experience.
SHERE HITE, PhD, is recognized throughout the world for her work on psychosexual behavior and gender relations. Hite has taught at Nihon University in Japan, Chongqing University in China, and Maimonides University in North Miami Beach, Florida. She was director of the National Organization for the Women’s Feminist Sexuality Project from 1972 to 1978 and since that time she has acted as director of Hite Research International. Dr. Hite is the author of The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, The Hite Report on Men and Male Sexuality, and Sex and Business, among many others. Hite renounced her American citizenship in 1995 and resides in Germany.
