Shere Hite: "I was making the point that clitoral stimulation wasn't happening during coitus. That's why women 'have difficulty having orgasms' – they don't have difficulty when they stimulate themselves. Tracey Cox: "It's disappointing that one of Hite's main messages – that 70 per cent of women don't have orgasms through penetration – is not completely accepted today. Plenty of women don't feel comfortable admitting it, even to themselves, for fear their partners will love them less. But women are far more experimental now." "Shere Hite: On female sexuality in the 21st century". The Independent. 30 April 2006. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
