# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shere-hite
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:57:04.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shere-hite"
name: "Shere Hite"
slug: "shere-hite"
description: "Shere Hite was an American-born German sex educator and feminist. Her sexological work focused primarily on female sexuality. Hite built upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey. She was the author of 'the groundbreaking The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study on Female Sexuality (1976), which became a bestseller. 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\". She renounced her United States citizenship in 1995 to become German."
tagline: "German-American sexologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shere_Hite.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1942-11-02"
deathDate: "2020-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           23.20662266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.hiteresearchfoundation.org"
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    title: "Shere Hite"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump