WRITER

Shere Hite

1942 - 2020

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Shere Hite ( shair HYTE; November 2, 1942 – September 9, 2020) was an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite built upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey and was the author of The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shere Hite has received more than 651,487 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Shere Hite is the 5,296th most popular writer (down from 2,534th in 2019), the 7,686th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,289th in 2019) and the 602nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Hite report
Female orgasm, Interpersonal relations, Love
The Hite report on the family
Children and sex, Family, Family life surveys
The Hite report on male sexuality
Male orgasm, Men, Orgasm
THE HITE REPORT
Good guys, bad guys, and other lovers
Amor, Elección de pareja, Interpersonal relations
Sex and Business
Employment, Women, Sex discrimination in employment

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shere Hite ranks 5,296 out of 7,302Before her are Sergey Gorodetsky, Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani, Duygu Asena, Halina Poświatowska, Joanne Harris, and Giorgi Leonidze. After her are Ben Bova, Majit Gafuri, Vikenty Veresaev, Gilles Perrault, Jan de Hartog, and Justine Musk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Shere Hite ranks 516Before her are Néstor Togneri, Michael Giles, Klaus Beer, Meave Leakey, Christine Darden, and Bernard Darniche. After her are Gennady Logofet, Arrigo Miglio, Salim Ahmed Salim, Johny Schleck, Paulos Faraj Rahho, and Jörg Lucke. Among people deceased in 2020, Shere Hite ranks 473Before her are István Kausz, Ahmed Radhi, Julio Anguita, Ron Tauranac, Ivan Král, and Diane di Prima. After her are Ben Bova, Tomisaku Kawasaki, Nelly Kaplan, Mohammad Mirmohammadi, Sam Lloyd, and Benny Chan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shere Hite ranks 7,686 out of 20,380Before her are Mark Damon (1933), Harry Spanjer (1873), John Bell Hood (1831), Vivica A. Fox (1964), Vince Carter (1977), and Russell Simpson (1880). After her are Jon Avnet (1949), Angus Scrimm (1926), Alex Rodriguez (1975), Ben Bova (1932), Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), and Howard Valentine (1881).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Shere Hite ranks 602Before her are Julia Ward Howe (1819), Chester Himes (1909), Holly Black (1971), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950), James Dashner (1972), and Diane di Prima (1934). After her are Ben Bova (1932), Elizabeth Gilbert (1969), David Peoples (1940), Peter Gould (1950), David Brown (1916), and Julie Garwood (1946).