Hite Report on Male Sexuality
Shere Hite's follow-up to her landmark report on female sexuality compiles anonymous questionnaire responses from thousands of American men about sex, intimacy, relationships, and masculinity. Rather than a clinical survey, it lets men speak in their own words at length, and Hite groups and interprets the answers around themes like emotional closeness, monogamy, and the pressure to perform. Reading it feels like eavesdropping on candid confessions from an earlier generation. First published in 1981, it remains a document of how ordinary men described their inner lives, useful now as much for its era as for its findings.