How do you study sex? Stick electrodes on penises and vulvas? Place hidden cameras in people’s bedrooms? Do face-to-face interviews with embarrassed subjects? Shere Hite should know. After all, she showed in her famous Hite reports that the clitoris is more than button-sized. For her, there’s much more to sex than measuring electrical stimuli or chemical secretions. But if sex research isn’t about crude calibration or producing a better Viagra, then what is it? Liz Else was curious.
Weren’t you the first to try to prove that the clitoris is two to three times larger than the textbooks said?
Probably.…
