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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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To: yldstrk

I don’t know enough about this woman but Freud sure didn’t.


21 posted on 07/26/2013 9:59:56 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Freud was a sicko


22 posted on 07/26/2013 10:00:49 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Personally or in his work? His work is very clear and lucid.


23 posted on 07/26/2013 10:14:00 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

He created a fake and destructive pseudo science in order to label evil as sick.

STAY AWAY FROM PSYCHOLOGISTS, PEOPLE


24 posted on 07/26/2013 10:18:01 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

On dear. Psychoanalysis and therapy has helped many people. It was always around in one form or another...Freud just moved it from the Confessional booth and Pastor’s house to the medical field.


25 posted on 07/26/2013 10:20:35 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

It has destroyed many people with its inherent “self actualization” selfishness. No it has not “helped” many people asking questions like “what’s in it for me?” And breaking up families and justifying cutting people off. It is a sick and wrong field.

See “Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing” by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson


26 posted on 07/26/2013 10:26:22 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Borges
Freud just moved it from the Confessional booth and Pastor’s house to the medical field.

And in the medical field they were then able to start redefining disorders, such as homosexuality, as normal.
27 posted on 07/26/2013 10:26:58 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: yldstrk

If you cut Christ out of the proceedings then true healing is never possible.


28 posted on 07/26/2013 10:27:53 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

yes indeed


29 posted on 07/26/2013 10:32:02 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Borges

she made “fake but relavent” part of science. They lied about their data and observations in order to market junk science.


30 posted on 07/26/2013 10:37:16 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Borges

Freud was a nut. You can tell because he thought we were all nuts, and he considered himself typical (thus why he dismissed all claims to cocaine’s addictiveness, because he didn’t get hooked). So think of every odd trait Freud insisted everyone has (but you probably don’t, and most people clearly don’t) and understand Freud had them all. Still some useful and interesting insights into the human condition, but still a man with serious issues whose primary method of dealing with them was declaring they were normal.


31 posted on 07/26/2013 10:39:35 AM PDT by discostu (Go do the voodoo that you do so well.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’m happy for Mrs. Buckeye, and all women are different, with different sensitivities and sensitiveness, but stimulation all leads, physiologically, to the same nerves and the same chain reaction. The issue was more about the inferiority or superiority of one over the other.


32 posted on 07/26/2013 10:47:09 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: yldstrk
STAY AWAY FROM PSYCHOLOGISTS, PEOPLE

You should check out the Scientologists. You have a lot in common.

33 posted on 07/26/2013 10:49:44 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Borges

Liberals will endorse anything that leads to debauchery. Queen nancy’s fake indignation notwithstanding.


34 posted on 07/26/2013 11:05:55 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

You should check out the Catholic Church, you need it


35 posted on 07/26/2013 11:12:33 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Been there, done that.


36 posted on 07/26/2013 11:14:28 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

you are always welcome back


37 posted on 07/26/2013 11:16:35 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

By the way, you might want to check out the church’s position on psychology.


38 posted on 07/26/2013 11:18:10 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

it is of the other


39 posted on 07/26/2013 11:19:51 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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