The American born sex educator gained fame with her book, The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, published in 1976. She moved to Germany in 1987 to protest against “the growing clamping down on independent thought in the U.S.” In 1995 she renounced her citizenship and became a citizen of Germany. She wrote an article entitled, Why I became a German, and explained that “after sustained attacks on myself and my work … I no longer felt free to carry out my research to the best of my ability in the country of my birth.”