yes, you are right about Hite - why did she fall into such disfavor/irrelevance?

Hite was absolutely savaged for her research methodology. I've read a lot about it; in no way do I think even the valid criticisms negate her contribution. In fact, they illumine it.

Angry and even frightened, she gave up her American citizenship.

See:

http://www.newstatesman.com/200311170015

So vicious were the attacks on the feminist Shere Hite that she decided to give up her American citizenship

"I renounced my US citizenship in 1995. After a decade of sustained attacks on myself and my work, particularly my "reports" into female sexuality, I no longer felt free to carry out my research to the best of my ability in the country of my birth. The attacks included death threats delivered in my mail and left on my telephone answering machine ..."

I rated this, and read the New Stateman article. It is just mind-blowing that she would have received death threats, and for what? For doing research into female sexuality.

I encourage people to follow the link provided by Jeff. Shere Hite explains why she renounced her US citizenship very well there.

Cynarra: As I recall, when the Hite Report came out, Shere Hite was villified for the suggestion that so-called "normal" intercourse was insufficient for women's pleasure ... which was taken in some quarters as an attack on The Penis. After all, Masters and Johnson had said, then, that thrusting during intercourse ought to provide enough clitoral stimulation for any woman.

So Hite became a target, a very visible symbol of feminism. She was, after all, the woman who dared suggest that the penis wasn't enough ... and was not even, strictly speaking, necessary for a woman to enjoy sex.

Paris: My suggestions on my intotemptation.net blog -- of blacks they might have included were Barry White, Dr. Joycelyn Elders and perhaps Wilt Chamberlain ... my S.O. says Marvin Gay. I don't know which is worse -- that they didn't include even one, or that if they did, it would have been tokenism.

There are no Asians, either ... and I suggested Deng Xiaoping, who formulated China's "One Child" policy ... important for population control, obviously, but with enormous consequences and implications for sex in the world's most populous country.

Funny, I remember Sammy Davis Jr. more for kissing Carrol O'Connor on "All in the Family" than for anything else he ever did. ;-)

The more I think about it, the more I think Larry Flynt belongs on the list, too ... for The People vs. Larry Flynt, not for the quality of his publications.

A Daily Beast writer interviewd the Playboy editor most responsible for the list:

“There are only a few suggestions people have made that I knocked myself in the side of the head for totally missing,” says Rowe. These include Evelyn Hooker, the psychologist whose work is largely responsible for the fact that homosexuality is no longer classified as a mental disorder, and, perhaps somewhat less crucially, my own proposal of Bob Clark, the writer and director of Porky’s. Rowe will cop to only one person would have ranked very high on the list if he’d thought of him: Patient Zero. Instead, the AIDS crisis is represented by Rock Hudson, who put a face on it for most Americans—a choice Rowe acknowledges as inadequate.

P.S. Weirdly, I don't think white America felt threatened by Sammy Davis Jr., maybe because he hung with Sinatra, Dean Martin, etc.

He was "acceptable" in a way that, say, Jim Brown was not.