The Sexes: Hite-ing Back

Men indeed have more than one thing in mind

Like many men. New York Psychiatrist Anthony Pietropinto, 39, was appalled by last year's bestselling sex survey of women. The Hite Report. Says he: "1 thought it was anti-male and pro-homosexual." Author Shere Hite is indeed open to that charge. Her book depicts men as selfishly concerned with their own sexual pleasure, attacks sexual intercourse for "institutionalizing out" women's needs, urges men to give up orgasms altogether, and suggests that women who reject lesbian love are selling out to the male oppressors. Pietropinto's response: a quickie sex survey on men, intended both to...

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