EP493 - The Forgotten Sex Study That Changed Women’s Pleasure Forever

EP493 - The Forgotten Sex Study That Changed Women’s Pleasure Forever

Author: Dr. Nazanin Moali, Ph.D, Psychology of Sex | Couple Therapy | Sex Education June 2, 2026 Duration: 34:46

Welcome to episode 493 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am excited to be joined by Rosa Campbell, who speaks to me about Shere Hite, The Hite Report, and the ongoing struggle to centre women’s sexual pleasure.

In this episode, Rosa introduces us to Shere Hite’s groundbreaking 1976 book, The Hite Report, which gathered women’s honest experiences of sex, orgasm, desire, and dissatisfaction at a time when their voices were rarely included in sexology research. We discuss how Hite challenged the assumption that penetration should define sex, revealing how many women felt trapped inside sexual scripts that prioritised male pleasure over their own.

Rosa Campbell is a writer and historian based in London. She works on the global history of feminism and is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Beyond academia, she writes often for a public audience. She is the author of the The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and The Hite Report out now with Melville House in the US/UK and New South in Australia/NZ.


In this episode, you will hear:


  • Understanding The Hite Report
  • Shere Hite’s Groundbreaking Research
  • Listening To Women’s Sexual Experiences
  • Challenging Penetration-Centred Sex
  • The Politics Behind Sexual Pleasure
  • How Feminist Work Was Silenced
  • Why The Orgasm Gap Persists
  • Faking Orgasm And Emotional Safety
  • Learning Beyond Sexual Scripts
  • Creating More Fulfilling Sex Lives


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