Biography of william masters and virginia johnson

The Masters and Johnson research teamcomposed of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnsonpioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from until the s.

Louis and was continued at the independent not-for-profit research institution they founded in St. In the initial phase of Masters and Johnson's studies, from untilthey recorded some of the first laboratory data on the anatomy and physiology of human sexual response based on direct observation of women and men in what they conservatively estimated to be "10, complete cycles of sexual response".

Biography of william masters and virginia johnson

Their findings, particularly on the nature of female sexual arousal for example, describing the mechanisms of vaginal lubrication and debunking the earlier widely held notion that vaginal lubrication originated from the cervix and orgasm showing that the physiology of orgasmic response was identical whether stimulation was clitoral or vaginal, and, separately, proving that some women were capable of being multiorgasmicdispelled many long-standing misconceptions.