Directed by Nicole Newnham
Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?
Mythos weibliche Lust: Shere Hite und ihr Sex-Report, Изчезването на Шеър Хайт, 雪儿·海特的消失, La sexualité dévoilée, le rapport Hite, Shere Hite y el orgasmo femenino, לאן נעלמה שר הייט?, 雪兒·海特的消失
USA Sundance Film Festival 
Canada USA Austin Film Festival USA 
UK15 USA UK15 
Israel Canada Israel UK USA 
"Plan for not being a stereotyped creation of your society:
1. Spend 3 days alone.
2. Take yourself seriously.
3. Whenever caught in a situation when you are made to feel girlish and helpless, bitchy and aggressive, or any other stereotype - leave immediately and do any action which you enjoy and is yours.
4. Rely on your own financial resources at all times.
5. Enjoy yourself. A lot."
invigorating and hopeless. Shere Hite unlocked the secrets of orgasmic pleasure and was swiftly celebrated then just as swiftly punished for it. how did i get through all those women's history classes without hearing her name alongside Betty Friedan or Simone de Beauvoir? once a woman stands up for herself, allows herself to be publicly and righteously angry, she disappears. an act that should make one burn brighter is instead the catalyst for fading away.
Nicole Newnham's documentary entwines gorgeously grainy archival footage with commentary from those in Shere's inner circle, providing intimate insight into a woman misunderstood and maligned. her inability to take criticism was said to be her "Achilles' heel", but the invective being aimed at her came…
the scene where david hasselhoff is struggling to say the word "orgasm" while shere cooly blows smoke from her cigarette in his face is the most incredible thing i have ever seen
"I find it troublesome that younger women will have to fight the same battles all over again."
I love how towards the end of this doc it discusses the loss of feminist knowledge, which is something I think about a lot and makes me deeply sad
thank you for your important work Shere! i will think of you when i masturbate
As recently as 2006 when Shere Hite made one of her last media appearances on The Colbert Report, the then-Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert wondered aloud if she invented the female orgasm. Of course, he was joking, but he was far from the only one to ask her the same question with a straight face when Hite had been one of the few to seriously speak about female sexuality openly in public, finding enormous success three decades earlier when she first published The Hite Report, a survey of women who could speak candidly about their sexual experiences under the cloak of anonymity that Hite would take any blowback for when facing conservative critics on her book tour. The rarely shared…
A testament to the importance of fighting battles even if it's impossible to win the war.
When Dakota Johnson said “clitoral stimulation”, the heavens opened.
“I just find it troublesome that perhaps younger women coming along will have to fight the same battles all over again.”
shere hite publishes a book full of testimonials from women saying the men in their lives don’t listen to them. shere hite is forced to go on a press tour in which she is ridiculed by rooms full of men who refuse to listen to anything she has to say.
sometimes you have to pick up a smoking habit mid-interview just so you can blow smoke directly into the interviewer’s face.
i loveddddd this. beautiful archival footage and a dreamy poetic quality that i just fell into. dakota johnson narration cherry on top. i love women!!!
gorgeous gorgeous girls have always been obsessed with talking about sex… and America hates them for it.
If Dakota Johnson is involved, I’m watching it. Shere Hite is an interesting person and her life is captivating, choosing Dakota to narrate is perfection, and there’s rumblings that she will be in the biopic too. The documentary is fascination, Shere Hite wow what a woman!!
