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  Masters & Johnson Sex Experts : Sex Therapists : Discovery Health
Masters and Johnson were a pioneering team of sex experts and sex therapists in the field of human sexuality; sex experts Masters and Johnson pioneered both in the domains of research and sex therapy.
William Howell Masters, a gynecologist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1915.
Virginia Eshelman Johnson, a psychologist, was born in Springfield, Montana in 1925.
health.discovery.com /centers/sex/sexpedia/mandj.html   (413 words)

  
 Index to Titles. Bartleby.com
Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, by William Stanley Braithwaite, ed.
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Wind Among the Reeds, by William Butler Yeats.
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 Virginia E. Johnson - Chosen by William Howell Masters as research associate, Develops sex therapy institute
Johnson was born Virginia Eshelman on February 11, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri, to Hershel Eshelman, a farmer, and Edna (Evans) Eshelman.
William Howell Masters, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, had requested an assistant to interview volunteers for a research project.
Johnson, who never received a college degree, was widely recognized along with Masters for her contributions to human sexuality research.
psychology.jrank.org /pages/350/Virginia-E-Johnson.html   (1370 words)

  
 Masters
William Masters was born in Cleveland Ohio in December of 1915.
Masters was appointed to the teaching staff of Washington University Medical School in 1947.
William Masters together with Virginia Johnson began revolutionary studies on the structure, psychology and physiology of sexual behaviors.
www.mcm.edu /~dodd1/TWU/FS5023/Masters.htm   (303 words)

  
  William H. Masters & Virginia E. Johnson: Homosexuality in Perspective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Masters and Johnson chose to summarize their results in terms of failure rates.
Masters and Johnson assumed that only 15% of those "lost to follow-up" would be treatment reversals.
Masters and Johnson used the term orientation in ways which did not correspond to the work they were doing.
www.newdirection.ca /research/masters.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Masters and Johnson
Virginia Eshelman Johnson, a psychologist, was born in Springfield, Montana in 1925.
In the early 1990s, Masters and Johnson were divorced and their over 30-year collaboration in sex research and therapy came to an end.
Masters and Johnson noted that having several experiences of impotence could cause men to withdraw from sexual activity entirely in an attempt to avoid the frustration and embarrassment of being unable to achieve or maintain an erection.
www.minou.com /adultsexuality/masters_and_johnson.htm   (1021 words)

  
 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Dr. William H. Masters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Masters was appointed to the teaching staff of Washington University Medical School in 1947, where his revolutionary work in hormone replacement therapy as a counter agent for various imbalances and effects of aging was conducted.
Masters additionally became a self-appointed watchdog against abuses by therapists of patients, and was among the first to encourage such transgressors be charged with rape as well as medical malpractice.
Masters divorced was divorced from Virginia Johnson in 1993, after her retirement, and in 1994 chose himself to retire, leaving his long time home base in St. Louis to reside in Tucson, Arizona.
obits.com /masterswilliamh.html   (795 words)

  
 Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure your Health - Famous Parkinson Sufferer - William Howell Masters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Masters and Johnson were the first to conduct research on the sexual responsivity of older adults, finding that given a state of reasonably good health and the availability of an interested and interesting partner, there was no absolute age at which sexual abilities disappeared.
Masters and Johnson revolutionized things by devising a form of rapid treatment (2 week) psychotherapy always involving a couple, rather than just an individual, working with a male-female therapist team that resulted in a success rate of more than 80%.
She has criticised Masters and Johnson's argument that enough clitoral stimulation to achieve orgasm should be provided by thrusting during intercourse, and the inference that the failure of this is a sign of female "sexual dysfunction".
www.myfoodcount.com /healthylife/famous/parkinsons/williammasters   (940 words)

  
 The Sex Researchers
Gynecologist William Howell Masters and psychologist Virginia Eshelman Johnson pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s.
Masters and Johnson met in 1957 when William Masters hired Virginia Johnson as a research assistant to undertake a comprehensive study of human sexuality.
Masters divorced his first wife to marry Johnson in 1971 (they divorced three decades later, largely bringing their joint research to an end).
www.sex-project.com /1/index.php/topic,343.0.html   (1917 words)

  
 Johnson&Masters
Basically, what Masters and Johnson did was bring the topic of sexuality out of the gutter and into the mainstream, where people could be better educated (Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny, 1982).
Masters and Johnson were instrumental in helping change people's attitudes about discussing sexuality and in helping people understand what sexuality is really all about, from their perspective.
Masters, W. H., Johnson, V. E., and Kolodny, R. Masters and Johnson on sex and human loving.
www.mcm.edu /~dodd1/TWU/FS5023/Johnson&Masters.htm   (552 words)

  
 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Johnson, Virginia E. (1925- )
Johnson was born Virginia Eshelman on February 11, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri, to Hershel Eshelman, a farmer, and Edna (Evans) Eshelman.
William Howell Masters, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, had requested an assistant to interview volunteers for a research project.
Johnson, who never received a college degree, was widely recognized along with Masters for her contributions to human sexuality research.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0005/ai_2699000517   (1333 words)

  
 Demi, demi-monde
Masters and Johnson's 1966 Human Sexual Response revealed the nature and scope of the sex practices of young Americans.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_revolution [Oct 2004]
She has criticised Masters and Johnson's argument that enough clitoral stimulation to achieve orgasm should be provided by thrusting during intercourse, and the inference that the failure of this is a sign of female "sexual dysfunction".
Whilst not denying that both Kinsey and Masters and Johnson have been a crucial step in sex research, she believes that we must understand the cultural and personal construction of sexual experience to make the research relevant to sexual behaviour outside the laboratory.
www.jahsonic.com /MastersJohnson.html   (540 words)

  
 William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson
These foci are: (1) physiologic (characteristic physical conditions and reactions during the peak of sex tension increment); (2) psychologic (psychosexual orientation and receptivity to orgasmic attainment); and (3) sociologic (cultural, environmental, and social factors influencing orgasmic incidence or ability).
William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, 1966.
William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. Kolodny.
www.macroknow.com /books/quotes/q-masters-johnson.htm   (449 words)

  
 AEGiS-LT: New AIDS Research Under Fire: Masters & Johnson Study: Revealing the Facts . . . or Promoting 'Senseless ...
Joining Krim in her rebuttal to the Masters, Johnson and Kolodny findings, Dr. Michael Grieco, chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center here, said that "glancing through this book, there is not anything new that I could see" in it.
Masters, however, decried the scientific journal route, saying it was too time-consuming, and contending that journal articles did not provide enough space to encompass the three researchers' information.
Johnson, for her part, bristled at the suggestion that the book was written with commercial intent.
www.aegis.com /news/lt/1988/LT880303.html   (1402 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Human Sexuality
The most noted scientific studies of sexuality in the 20th century are those of American biologist Alfred Charles Kinsey and his colleagues and those of William H. Masters and Virginia Johnson.
Kinsey began interviewing people about their sexual histories in 1938, and with his colleagues he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), based mostly on interviews with 5300 white men and 5940 white women.
Masters and Johnson began their clinical studies of the physiology of sexual response and sexual dysfunctions in the 1950s.
encarta.msn.com /text_761580700___19/Human_Sexuality.html   (472 words)

  
 Si-Flex Physique Club Inc. Home of the Natural Physique Association
In the women masters two athletes represented and even though there was quite an age difference, you couldn’t tell it much by looking at them.
In the women open division Toni Johnson was the lone lightweight, Ann Daniel middleweight and Jennifer Dalton represented the heavyweight class.
Virginia looked even better this time around than she looked in the Virginia.
www.siflexphysique.com /1247853.html   (1875 words)

  
 American Experience | Kinsey | People & Events | PBS
Kinsey was devastated, and though he spent the next two and one-half years trying to secure funding from alternate sources, he never succeeded.
Following hot on Kinsey's heels, William Masters and Virginia Johnson began their own epic studies of sexual behavior, using a specially designed polygraph-like device to record the sexual response of more than 700 subjects observed during masturbation and intercourse.
But the three decades since Masters and Johnson and Roe have yielded mixed results for the proponents of sexual liberalism.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/kinsey/peopleevents/e_after.html   (615 words)

  
 Personal Health: Sour Note in the Viagra Symphony
But in the wave of enthusiasm surrounding this drug over the last two months, many physicians and their patients have ignored its limitations and side effects -- those already known and those that may become apparent after millions of men have used it.
Masters and Johnson, authors of the groundbreaking work "Human Sexual Inadequacy,' maintained that in four of five cases, potency problems were psychologically based, caused primarily by anxiety over being able to perform adequately.
Masters and Johnson attributed only 20 percent of impotence cases to physical problems like nerve or blood vessel disease, hormonal deficiencies, the effects of certain drugs or the aftermath of genital surgery.
partners.nytimes.com /library/national/science/051998sci-brody.html   (993 words)

  
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Johnson supports testing of chemicals on human subjects.
www.newsmakingnews.com   (1665 words)

  
 USNews.com: Sex in America
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, when pioneer researcher Alfred Kinsey published his exhaustive--but anecdotally based--research on Americans' sex lives, he was bitterly attacked from all sides.
In 1966, when William Masters and Virginia Johnson described what they saw of the human body's sexual responses in the laboratory, they were inundated with hate mail, the "drop dead" letters surpassing others at a rate of 9 to 1.
Masters and Johnson outlined a simple cycle of genital stimulation leading to arousal and eventual orgasm and described many of the things that happen during orgasm: the fast breathing, the muscular contractions, the dilated pupils, that wacky toe curl.
www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/941017/archive_013541_print.htm   (3290 words)

  
 The Myth Of The Vaginal Orgasm... A Lie From The Feminists
In 1953 Kinsey said "the vagina is relatively devoid of nerve endings" and ridiculed the notion of a "vaginal orgasm".
A decade later, the couple William Masters and Virginia Johnson tried to bury the vagina forever.
Although Kinsey and the duo Masters and Johnson were extremely important to give sexuality its deserved status, their errors about vaginal orgasm are far reaching.
www.penissizedebate.com /page21_vaginal-orgasm.htm   (626 words)

  
 Is There a Sexologist in the House? (washingtonpost.com)
But William Granzig, founder of ABS and dean of health sciences at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach, Fla., disagrees.
He said the model for sex therapy, created more than 30 years ago by William Masters and Virginia Johnson, calls for therapists to refer patients to sex therapists when sexual issues arise.
Granzig said that sexual matters cannot be addressed by just any therapist, so it is beneficial to train people to deal with them specifically.
www.happyscrappy.com /clips/wp/sextherapy-sidebar.html   (483 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Sex After 50 : Main
Lonnie Barbach, William Masters, Virginia Johnson, Helen Singer Kaplan
A group of people 50- to 90-years-old invite you to sit in on an open and honest discussion about Sex After 50.
Lonnie Barbach, Dr. William Masters, and Virginia Johnson moderate the discussion.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/31107/moviemain.jhtml   (119 words)

  
 Masters and Johnson
Masters and Johnson, pioneering research team in the field of human sexuality, consisting of the gynecologist
MASTERS OF CONTROVERSY Martha Burk vs. Hootie Johnson?
Master-slave dialectics in Charles Johnson's "The Education of Mingo".
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0832164.html   (334 words)

  
 Growth Counseling for Mid-Years Couples
It helps create the trust, continuity, and caring that is he best context for the most satisfying sex of which a couple is capable.
In their book, The Pleasure Bond, William Masters and Virginia Johnson declare: "Total commitment, in which all sense of obligation is linked to mutual feelings of loving concern, sustains a couple sexually over the years....
Knowledge of the four stages of lovemaking identified by Masters and Johnson can be used to enhance enjoyment: (1) Excitement stage.
www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=413&C=210   (3129 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Masters and Johnson (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
AllRefer.com - Masters and Johnson (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Masters and Johnson pioneering research team in the field of human sexuality, consisting of the gynecologist William Howell Masters, 1915–2001, b.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Masters and Johnson
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MastersN.html   (175 words)

  
 Johns Hopkins Magazine
"So a couple starts making love, and [the researchers] interrupt the couple every now and then to probe around her vagina and check the pH," Cone explains, noting that the experiment was conducted in 1960 by William Masters and Virginia Johnson, pioneers in studying human sexuality.
Noting that HIV is acid-sensitive (something that had already been reported by other scientists), Masters suggested acidity as a way of preventing both pregnancy and HIV transmission.
But Cone pondered Masters' remarks, and thought back to the classic Masters and Johnson experiment on vaginal acidity-- the one he keeps on his flboard.
www.jhu.edu /~jhumag/0402web/cone.html   (3447 words)

  
 AAAS: Marketing to sell science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A case in point: Human Sexual Response by William Masters and Virginia Johnson.
More influential, but less popular, science books have even shaped the way scientists think about or discuss older disciplines.
William Masters and Virginia Johnson, Human Sexual Response
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicles/2.22.01/AAAS_Lewenstein.html   (720 words)

  
 Joan Atwood: Faculty of the Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Program
Dr. Atwood holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, a Master's Degree in Psychology, a Master's Degree in Sociology and a Doctorate in Social Psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook.
She also studied Sex Therapy and Research with Richard Green (Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Stony Brook), William Masters and Virginia Johnson (NY Advanced Training Workshops) and James Geer and Julia Heiman (Department of Psychology, SUNY Stony Brook).
Her background was influenced by workshops with Peggy Papp, Jay Haley (extended advanced training), Ben Furman, Harry Aponte, Carl Whitaker, The Eriksonians, Michael Durrant, and Ben Furman, Lynn Hoffman, Kenneth Gergen, and Michael White.
www.hofstra.edu /Academics/Graduate/Programs/GP_MFT/GP_MFT_faculty_atwood.cfm   (304 words)

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