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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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posted on
07/26/2013 7:12:41 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:13:42 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
She was a glorified slut and adulteress.
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:20:19 AM PDT
by
allendale
To: Borges
So, just what did they do for humanity?
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:36:53 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Borges
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.
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07/26/2013 7:38:44 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
To: Army Air Corps
They permanently killed the myth of the vaginal orgasm.
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:42:37 AM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Borges
They may have had doctorates, but they belong in the same social class as Hugh Hefner.
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posted on
07/26/2013 7:43:24 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: allendale
One of the Ten Great Deconstructors of Society in the 20th. Century.
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"?
To: Tijeras_Slim
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.
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07/26/2013 8:08:45 AM PDT
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Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: Borges
Did she go out with a bang?
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Did she go out with a bang? Good one!
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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.)
To: Borges
A special niche is waiting in the Seventh Circle for this woman!
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07/26/2013 8:24:49 AM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: Borges
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07/26/2013 8:35:19 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
They permanently killed the myth of the vaginal orgasm.
Probably TMI...but they never spoke to Mrs. Buckeye.
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Freud was a sicko himself
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posted on
07/26/2013 8:36:02 AM PDT
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yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
Does any analytic discussion of sexuality have to be sick?
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posted on
07/26/2013 8:41:41 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
No, But somehow associating it with liberalism certainly makes it seem so.
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posted on
07/26/2013 9:24:07 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: onedoug
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.
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07/26/2013 9:35:04 AM PDT
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Borges
To: Borges
well I wouldn’t say any but the stuff this goofball talked about and Freud talked about sure was
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07/26/2013 9:36:01 AM PDT
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yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
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