“‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Actually Tracks the Sex Educator’s Emergence”

“In a world of digital footprints, it’s amusing to think that anyone with a voice and a strong platform can simply “disappear.” Even those who make the radical decision to vacate their online spaces can never fully do so; once on the internet, always on the internet. So The Disappearance of Shere Hite, the latest film from Nicole Newnham, strikes a discordant tone by the title alone, though its metaphorical substance shouldn’t be discounted. The author and sex educator Shere Hite has, after all, fallen out of cultural consciousness, and for all intents and purposes, she did take a powder from public life in the 1980s.” (Full review at Paste Magazine.)

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