EXCLUSIVE: NBC News Studios has enlisted Nicole Newnham, co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, to helm a feature non-fiction project about the life and work of Shere Hite, whose research on female sexuality drew widespread attention, and controversy, in the 1970s and 80s, ultimately leading to her self-exile to Europe.Hite’s first book, The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, published in 1976, sold tens of millions of copies, and was regarded as groundbreaking in its research findings.
Perhaps the most quoted was her finding that 70 percent of women surveyed didn’t orgasm from sex, but most were able to do it easily on their own.
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