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Virginia Johnson, Widely Published Collaborator in Sex Research, Dies at 88
NYT ^ | 7/25/13 | MARGALIT FOX

Posted on 07/26/2013 7:12:41 AM PDT by Borges

Virginia E. Johnson, a writer, researcher and sex therapist who with her longtime collaborator, William H. Masters, helped make the frank discussion of sex in postwar America possible if not downright acceptable, died on Wednesday in St. Louis. She was 88. Her son, Scott Johnson, confirmed the death, The Associated Press reported.

Dr. Masters was a gynecologist on the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis when he began his research into human sexuality in the mid-1950s. Ms. Johnson, who joined him in 1957 after answering an advertisement for an assistant, worked alongside him for more than three decades. She was variously his research associate, wife and former wife.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: humansexuality; mastersandjohnson; obituary; research; sexresearch; virginiajohnson
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1 posted on 07/26/2013 7:12:41 AM PDT by Borges
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2 posted on 07/26/2013 7:13:42 AM PDT by Borges
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She was a glorified slut and adulteress.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 7:20:19 AM PDT by allendale
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So, just what did they do for humanity?


4 posted on 07/26/2013 7:36:53 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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More than any investigator before them, Masters and Johnson moved sex out of the bedroom and into the laboratory, where it could be observed, measured, recorded, quantified and compared.

And yet, with all their "knowledge" they were never able to measure the sacredness of the sexual expression between a married man and woman and how God plays His part in their marriage.

5 posted on 07/26/2013 7:38:44 AM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: Army Air Corps

They permanently killed the myth of the vaginal orgasm.


6 posted on 07/26/2013 7:42:37 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Borges

They may have had doctorates, but they belong in the same social class as Hugh Hefner.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 7:43:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: allendale

One of the Ten Great Deconstructors of Society in the 20th. Century.


8 posted on 07/26/2013 7:50:11 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
They permanently killed the myth of the vaginal orgasm.

Is that better or worse to have in your obituary than "aspiring rapper"?

9 posted on 07/26/2013 7:53:16 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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It probably made more women happy. Freud had a whole thing about the superiority of the vaginal orgasm over the “immature” clitoral orgasm, leading a lot of women to feel inferior or that they were somehow flawed when they couldn’t achieve it. M&J proved there was only one kind.


10 posted on 07/26/2013 8:08:45 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Borges

Did she go out with a bang?


11 posted on 07/26/2013 8:10:18 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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Did she go out with a bang?

Good one!

12 posted on 07/26/2013 8:12:40 AM PDT by ladyjane (For the first time in in a long time I am proud of my country.)
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To: Borges
A special niche is waiting in the Seventh Circle for this woman!


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13 posted on 07/26/2013 8:24:49 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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couple of sick freaks


14 posted on 07/26/2013 8:35:19 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
They permanently killed the myth of the vaginal orgasm.

Probably TMI...but they never spoke to Mrs. Buckeye.


15 posted on 07/26/2013 8:35:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Freud was a sicko himself


16 posted on 07/26/2013 8:36:02 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Does any analytic discussion of sexuality have to be sick?


17 posted on 07/26/2013 8:41:41 AM PDT by Borges
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No, But somehow associating it with liberalism certainly makes it seem so.


18 posted on 07/26/2013 9:24:07 AM PDT by onedoug
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How was Master’s and Johnson liberal? Maybe there’s a part of their research I don’t know about. Or Freud for that matter who was basically a conservative. His view of humanity was not rosy colored by any means.


19 posted on 07/26/2013 9:35:04 AM PDT by Borges
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well I wouldn’t say any but the stuff this goofball talked about and Freud talked about sure was


20 posted on 07/26/2013 9:36:01 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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