In the 1970s and 80s, Shere Hite believed that understanding sexuality meant listening—really listening—to people’s experiences. Her anonymous surveys offered women a rare space for honesty and transformed the conversations around sex at the time. In this episode, we explore Shere’s quiet revolution, the controversy it sparked, and her lasting impact on how we think about intimacy and identity today. Follow us on Instagram @watchhercookpodcast Sources: Hite, S. (1976). The Hite report: A nationwide study on female sexuality. Macmillan. The Disappearance of Shere Hite. [San Francisco, California, USA]:IFC Films, 2023., Kanopy Streaming, 2024. In ‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite,’ a canceled sex researcher is reclaimed The Hite Report: Summary She Changed the Way Women Thought About Their Sexuality. Now She’s Finally Getting Her Due My Life With Shere Hite: the forgotten feminist who changed sex forever Hite, Shere 1942– New York Times- The Hite Report Shere Hite revolutionalised female pleasure – so why did the world forget about her? Orgasms Are Marvellous Happiness Ecofemonism Women’s History- Betty Friedan AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Sex. It's on our screens, in our ads, in the music we hear and the movies we watch. It's on the billboards we pass when we drive through the city, in the memes that go viral, in the small talk during happy hour, and in the deep conversations after midnight. It's everywhere. Yet for women, it can feel like our biggest secret.
For centuries, conversations about women's sexuality have been filtered through what society has deemed as acceptable. We've been told to be desirable, but not too desiring. To please, but not to ask for pleasure. And to fit into expectations, but never to expect. But what happens when we rewrite the narrative, start owning our desires, our bodies, and our stories?
It's time to get out of our comfort zones. This is Watcher Cook. I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle. Welcome back to Watcher Cook, a podcast dedicated to sharing the incredible lives of women who have taken their power back throughout history. I will just say this.
It's bold. But this is definitely my favorite episode of the show that we have done so far. and likely will do for quite a while and i say that's a bold statement because every single woman that we include in our show is for a reason because they're incredible but i love this woman
You're just drawn to her story. I mean, episode four, starting off strong to say this is your favorite. But I agree. I really love her. And I'm really excited to talk about her because I just feel like, one, before this research, I didn't know about her. And two, I just think that this is a relevant conversation for today and in the past and for all women who are listening.
And it's a really empowering, insightful episode.
Yeah, so we'll get into it. Let's introduce her because as you alluded to in the introduction, it is all about sex. Well, not all about sex, but mostly about sex. And what I love about, one of the things I love about Watcher Cook is the opportunity to have different discussions that We aren't able to have on National Park After Dark our other podcast.
And it's crazy because, you know, we've been podcasting for over four years and there's going to be a lot of subjects that we're going to have conversations about that we've never...
had on in this way you know on a show and they're so worthy of having and people are going to get to know us in a different way and we haven't talked about sex like this before but i don't know if we've talked about sex really ever well get ready but we are not shying away today because today is all about women embracing their sexuality and being able to talk about sex openly without embarrassment or shame so we're here to talk about it all
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