fromThe New Yorker
6 hours agoThe Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm
In 1976, her book "The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality" had become a huge best-seller. Its main takeaway was the then startling revelation that most women achieved orgasm not by means of vaginal intercourse alone-or what Hite, to the sniggering discomfiture of many audiences, often referred to as penile "thrusting"-but through manual or oral stimulation of the clitoris.
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