Jane

(Shere Hite) I would like to know more about sex, but most of the&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Men certainly have control of their own stimulation to orgasm: during intercourse&#8230;

(Shere Hite) The fact that I cannot come during intercourse must mean that I&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I’ve tried everything, but I’ve never had one.

(Shere Hite) More than anything else, I associate sex with anxiety, fear of failure,&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I think I have sex almost always to consummate a bond, to&#8230;

(Shere Hite) We have arrived at a point in our thinking as a society&#8230;

(Shere Hite) As the feminist group the Redstockings put it, for many women marriage&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Whichever you prefer is a personal decision and a matter of temperament&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I don’t enjoy masturbating and have never reached orgasm when doing it&#8230;.

(Shere Hite) Physically it (intercourse) is slightly pleasant, but boring, because it lasts too&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Eleven point six percent of the women in this study never orgasmed,&#8230;

(Shere Hite) To assume that intercourse is the basic expression of female sexuality, during&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Waiting for the Right Man to make us orgasm is like waiting&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Most men have fucked me with a minimum of foreplay, have been&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Often I resent the fact that my husband limits most of his&#8230;

(Shere Hite) There are many myths about what men and women want and enjoy&#8230;.

(Shere Hite) I like intercourse because it is a time when I get his&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Indeed most men had experienced difficulty having an erection at some time&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Female sexuality has been seen essentially as a response to male sexuality&#8230;

(Shere Hite) In summary, since intercourse has been defined as the basic form of&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; the different position and the closeness of the partner prevent a&#8230;

(Shere Hite) The truth is that ‘sex’ is bigger than orgasm, and involves any&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I would like to have orgasms during intercourse without having to play&#8230;

(Shere Hite) To masturbate, fantasizing, or getting into an aroused state mentally is important&#8230;.

(Shere Hite) Men were mostly concerned with their own pleasure rather than mine. I&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; the emphasis on the mechanical and technical aspects of intercourse &#8230;&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Has orgasm regularly from intercourse 30%; Has orgasm rarely from intercourse 22%;&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I would not have answered honestly without anonymity &#8230;

(Shere Hite) I faked orgasms continuously through my marriage, but I didn’t do that&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Of all the women who described how they masturbated, only 1.5 percent&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Masturbation by men is usually to check if I’m wet.

(Shere Hite) It’s an unspoken code of behavior among men not to show that&#8230;

(Shere Hite) My husband doesn’t seem to enjoy anything besides intercourse, and that very&#8230;

(Shere Hite) How would a man feel if he made love and never achieved&#8230;

(Shere Hite) There is a great deal of confusion here on the part of&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Oral stimulation is best, mainly because most men do not have a&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Probably millions of women could agree with one woman who wrote, “It&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I fake orgasm to save his pride and prevent arguments.

(Shere Hite) With my husband, physical touching always leads to sex, which inhibits me&#8230;

(Shere Hite) In a very real sense, relationships between men are “what matters” to&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Sometimes emotional orgasm was felt as the desire to conceive, to be&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; intercourse is the ultimate experience. It doesn’t feel that good for&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; orgasm is most likely to come when the woman takes over&#8230;

(Shere Hite) The overwhelming majority of women answered that sex meant a great deal&#8230;

(Shere Hite) The reproductive model of sex has traditionally included just enough clitoral stimulation&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Most women do not orgasm as a result of intercourse per se&#8230;.

(Shere Hite) The most obvious form of economic intimidation occurs when a woman is&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Many women indicated that they could not even suggest that their male&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I am tired of having some man tell me what I should&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Sex in the best of all possible worlds? My clitoris would be&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Masturbation is another form of sex and should be seen as such.

(Shere Hite) Biologists and psychologists who have accepted the doctrine that the only natural&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I love anything a woman does that takes her off her back.

(Shere Hite) I like it when he comes in my mouth. I like the&#8230;

(Shere Hite) The fact is that the role of women in sex, as in&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; physical intensity of orgasm per se is greater for most women&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Once again, the problem &#8230; was, as with clitoral stimulation by hand,&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I think real information on women’s sexuality should be made available to&#8230;

(Shere Hite) My husband has on occasion threatened to withhold money or favor &#8230;&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Women are more willing to be dependent, or part of another person,&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Women don’t seem to look at men as people, women look at&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I for one am heartily sick of reading what men have to&#8230;

(Shere Hite) In other words, women really loved the feelings of arousal and being&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I never needed to fake &#8211; no man noticed I didn’t come.

(Shere Hite) The next time you are aroused, notice how swollen your vulva and&#8230;

(Shere Hite) In some cases, it was not even clear to the woman herself&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; even if a man has a strong physical desire for orgasm&#8230;

(Shere Hite) If my body wanted me to have orgasms, I’m sure it would&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Psychologically I like being in control and having power, feeling close to&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I used to (fake orgasm), because men would enjoy watching me pant.

(Shere Hite) At the same time, many men jealously guard their prerogative of being&#8230;

(Shere Hite) In fact, women don’t take longer to orgasm than men. The majority&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Closeness with another person is more important to me than orgasm (which&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Masters and Johnson &#8230; The crucial finding of their work, with regard&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Of the 82 percent of women who said they masturbated, 95 percent&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Having a man love me and want to have sex with me&#8230;

(Shere Hite) There is no greater feeling in the world than my penis inside&#8230;

(Shere Hite) No (I don’t fake orgasm), but I fake pleasure.

(Shere Hite) I’ve had a few orgasms &#8211; (um) I can count only one&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Since I don’t have orgasm during intercourse, therefore I enjoy it without.

(Shere Hite) I (male) don’t care for a lot of relationships at the same&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Penetration is one of the nicest feelings I (female) know, mentally and&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Small amount of foreplay, then intercourse till he comes, The End.

(Shere Hite) Masters and Johnson observe that the clitoris is automatically ‘stimulated’ in intercourse&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Yes, with vaginal penetration, there is a lesser sense of your own&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Perhaps if you masturbate, you can get a fixation on your clitoris&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; it is wonderful to hear what other women are thinking and&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; with my present female lover &#8230; she and I spend anywhere&#8230;

(Shere Hite) &#8230; Kinsey did not say that (female) masturbation is more enjoyable than&#8230;

(Shere Hite) I always fake them because I never have them.

(Shere Hite) Maybe I fantasize that she forces me to have sex with her&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Technically, women together do what male and female together do &#8211; touch&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Of course once he (Freud) had laid down this definition of our&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Sex is to please him. What I like is the feeling of&#8230;

(Shere Hite) At first I felt somewhat guilty about extramarital sex, just justified it&#8230;

(Shere Hite) Outside of sex we get along great. We cooperate and are compatible&#8230;.

(Shere Hite) One girl never orgasmed. I tried every trick in the book &#8230;&#8230;

(Shere Hite) My greatest displeasure is feeling myself to be simply a substitute for&#8230;

(Shere Hite) During intercourse I (female) feel very close and somehow entangled and united&#8230;