Hite graduated from Seabreeze High School in Daytona Beach, Florida. According to her friend Joanna Briscoe, Hite had never known her father, and had been abandoned twice by her mother her grandparents raised her until they divorced, and she was sent to be raised by an aunt. When her mother remarried, she took the surname of her stepfather Raymond Hite. Shortly after the end of World War II, her parents divorced. Joseph, Missouri to Paul and Shirley Hurt Gregory. Seelye, Hite was born Shirley Diana Gregory in St.
Early life, education, and career Īccording to Katharine Q. She renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German. She also referenced theoretical, political and psychological works associated with the feminist movement of the 1970s, such as Anne Koedt's essay ' The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm'. Hite built upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey and was the author of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality. Shere Hite ( / ʃ ɛər h aɪ t/ Novem – September 9, 2020) was an American-born German sex educator and feminist.
