Masters and Johnson
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Masters and Johnson pioneering research team in the field of human sexuality, consisting of the gynecologist William Howell Masters, 1915-2001, b. Cleveland, and the psychologist Virginia Eshelman Johnson, 1925-, b. Springfield, Mo. Authors of Human Sexual Response (1966), Human Sexual Inadequacy (1970), The Pleasure Bond (1975), Homosexuality in Perspective (1979), and (with Dr. Robert Kolodny) Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (1988), they established (1970) a sex-therapy program in St. Louis that became a model for clinics elsewhere, and trained other therapists in clinical counseling. Masters and Johnson were married from 1971 to 1993. Johnson left the clinic before their divorce; Masters retired in 1994.
Bibliography: See V. Bullough, Science in the Bedroom (1994).
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