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Feb 19, 2001 · Dr. William H. Masters, half the Masters and Johnson sex research team who startled but also informed the world with their controversial studies and books over four decades, has died. He...
William H. Masters (born December 27, 1915, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died February 16, 2001, Tucson, Arizona) was an American gynecologist who was a pioneer in the field of human sexuality research and sex therapy.
- William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. Kolodny
- 1988
May 25, 1970 · There they met Dr. William Howell Masters, the director, an owlish, stern-looking man of 54, and Mrs. Virginia Johnson, 45, his research associate, whose manner is as outgoing as Masters’...
Feb 19, 2001 · Dr. William H. Masters, who with his co-researcher, Virginia E. Johnson, revolutionized the way sex is studied, taught and enjoyed in America, died Friday at a hospice in Tucson. He was...
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William H. Masters was born on December 27, 1915, in Cleveland, Ohio. His father sent him to boarding school at age 15, and he attended Hamilton College as an undergraduate. In 1943, he graduated with a medical degree from the University of Rochester. In 1947, Masters joined the faculty of Washington University’s School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mi...
Masters & Johnson's years of work led to groundbreaking advances in the field of sexual psychology and the treatment of sexual issues. Alfred Kinseystudied human sexuality a decade earlier, but his research was based on feedback from study participants; Masters and Johnson took sex research to the next level by conducting their research in a labora...
The team's work was not without controversy. Masters briefly attempted to treat homosexuality, and conservative groups faulted Masters and Johnson for ushering in a sexual revolution. Their work, however, was wildly popular. Human Sexual Response, the book compiling their research, was printed in a popular edition for the general public. References...
May 8, 2018 · The scandalous team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson divorced after twenty-one years of marriage in 1992; although Masters remarried, his name would forever be linked with that of his former research partner.
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When TV was black-and-white and attitudes toward sex were, too, Masters and Johnson's book, "Human Sexual Response," helped fuel the sexual revolution. But, as Martha Teichner reports, they have...
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