From Hite’s work demystifying the female orgasm to her penchant for a luxe wardrobe and interiors, director Nicole Newnham’s film captures the many hidden lives of a feminist icon.
In 1976, the former Columbia graduate school student published The Hite Report, a qualitative survey of more than 3,000 American women with questions such as “Do you think that sex is in any way political?” and “Do you ever fake orgasms?” In The New York Times, Erica Jong wrote that Hite laid out “how sex really is right now.” Her work, which promoted more fluid conceptions of gender, vaulted Hite into the public eye—Oprah, Maury Povich, the nightly news—often opposite famous men.
I said, “Hmm, I wonder if this film was about a man who had been a great sex researcher, if people would be asking why we didn’t focus on his wife and how she helped him with the work and influenced him?” We were very intentional about not wanting to start the film with a psychoanalysis of her childhood as a reason for why she did the work that she did.
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