The Hite Report on Male Sexuality

How Men Feel About Love, Sex, and Relationships

Author Shere Hite
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$34.95 US
On sale Feb 17, 2026 | 1128 Pages | 9781644215326

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Several years after the phenomenal success of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, Shere Hite took on this major work on male sexuality.

Seven thousand men, ages thirteen to ninety-seven, speak openly and with feeling about their fears and secrets, their sexual preferences and practices, their profoundest joys and disappointments. This representation of male sexuality delves into how men feel about their relationships to women and to each other; about love, monogamy, marriage; about affairs and sex outside of marriage; about growing older; about violence and pornography; and about the great variety of sexual practices they have (or have not) experienced.

Hite’s brilliant compilation of quotations from detailed questionnaires is accompanied by her own commmentary and proposal of what sex has been in our patriarchial society—and what it might yet become. This seven-year study is a striking portrait of the male psyche and the enormous variety of sexual possibilites in this world. In today’s regressive political and cultural climate, Shere Hite’s daring message recenters the raw, emotional truth behind the cisgender male experience.
SHERE HITE (1942-2020) was an American-born German sex educator, writer, model, and feminist who authored such works as The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality. She was director of the National Organization for Women’s Feminist Sexuality Project, vice president of the International Women Writers Association, and lecturer at New York University, Harvard University, McGill University, Columbia University, and Cambridge University.

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Several years after the phenomenal success of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, Shere Hite took on this major work on male sexuality.

Seven thousand men, ages thirteen to ninety-seven, speak openly and with feeling about their fears and secrets, their sexual preferences and practices, their profoundest joys and disappointments. This representation of male sexuality delves into how men feel about their relationships to women and to each other; about love, monogamy, marriage; about affairs and sex outside of marriage; about growing older; about violence and pornography; and about the great variety of sexual practices they have (or have not) experienced.

Hite’s brilliant compilation of quotations from detailed questionnaires is accompanied by her own commmentary and proposal of what sex has been in our patriarchial society—and what it might yet become. This seven-year study is a striking portrait of the male psyche and the enormous variety of sexual possibilites in this world. In today’s regressive political and cultural climate, Shere Hite’s daring message recenters the raw, emotional truth behind the cisgender male experience.

Author

SHERE HITE (1942-2020) was an American-born German sex educator, writer, model, and feminist who authored such works as The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality. She was director of the National Organization for Women’s Feminist Sexuality Project, vice president of the International Women Writers Association, and lecturer at New York University, Harvard University, McGill University, Columbia University, and Cambridge University.

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