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DAKOTA JOHNSON WANTS TO TALK ABOUT SEX. WITH ALL OF US.


THE NARRATOR AND PRODUCER OF THE DOCUMENTARY “THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE”
IS MAKING IT PART OF HER LIFE’S WORK TO PROMOTE SEXUAL WELLNESS

By Ann Hornaday
Updated December 18, 2023 at 3:59 p.m. EST|Published December 16, 2023 at 6:00
a.m. EST

Dakota Johnson at the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festival in Austin. (Rich
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“Hi. How are you guys?”

Dakota Johnson has just Zoomed in, joining director Nicole Newnham for a
conversation about their recent collaboration, “The Disappearance of Shere
Hite,” a revelatory documentary about the sex researcher whose journey from
independent researcher to media sensation to cultural pariah followed a dismally
familiar American arc of titillation, celebrity, misogyny and weaponized
forgetting.


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