The first woman to study sex died

Virginia Johnson, an American psychologist and sex educator, helped the public, especially women, break taboo walls and ignorance when it came to addressing issues surrounding her sexual behavior. people.

Virginia Johnson was born in 1925, and she died on July 24, at the age of 88. Ms. writer, researcher and sexual therapist. Together with her longtime collaborator, William Master, there were frank discussions about sex.

Since the 1950s, William Master, a gynecologist from Washington University School of Medicine, began conducting studies on human sexuality. He observed prostitutes in local brothels - but found it difficult to reach a typical researcher in this class. He decided to recruit a female research partner to be able to reassure the spirit and attract volunteers, serving to study their physical response during sex or masturbation.

For more than a decade, Masters and Johnson studied and investigated 382 women and 312 men between the ages of 18 and 89.

For the first time, the scientific community witnessed research methods by recording physiological data, including the history of sex; Brain activity, heart rate and metabolic measurements from people who are in the process of mating or masturbation.

Virginia Johnson and William Master.(Photo: Ezio Peterson / Bettmann / Corbis)

Master and Johnson also used an artificial penis equipped with a miniature camera to record changes in the vagina while in the stimulation process, and they discovered many shocking problems.

First , in stark contrast to the general perception, the two scientists pointed out that there is no difference between vaginal orgasm (good type, Sigmeund Freud) and clitoral orgasm (bad type).

Secondly , men's penis length is not related to the ability to meet "partners".

Third , there is no sex or age limit in sex. For the elderly, strong sexual activity is normal.

The work of two people has helped many people with problems such as premature ejaculation, impotence and other forms of sexual dysfunction.

Master and Johnson published two best-selling books on sexual behavior entitled 'Human sexual response' in 1966, and 'Unsafe sex' in 1970. Although Masters and Johnson intentionally using dry expressions with many scientific terms to prevent mass incitement, but the sexual sexuality theme of the book was not accepted at the time.

However, the book makes Masters and Johnson reluctant to become the creator of a new popular culture in America. They were interviewed extensively in the media, and they were invited to write articles for famous magazines such as Playboy and Redbook. But the two researchers' press and newspaper responses have repeatedly caused intense public debate.

The topic of their research was immensely discussed passionately at bars or cocktail parties. Words like 'clit', 'orgasm' and 'masturbation' suddenly become popular even in public places. Even the book was the inspiration for a band named Human Sexual Response, a new wave band of Boston in the late 1970s and early 80s.

According to the BBC, industry scientists acknowledge that Virginia Johnson plays an extremely important role in shedding light on sexual issues.'She brought a perspective and respect for women into Master's research work. She helped break the silence and bring about scientific knowledge about sex , 'said psychologist Susie Quilliam. With these contributions, Johnson received many awards, and she was recognized as one of the "most influential women in 20th century science".

Virginia Johnson died at the age of 88. (Photo: indianexpress)

Virginia Johnson is often referred to as a psychologist, even though she never graduated from college. She attended Dury University in Springfield and Kansas City Conservatory of Music, but was later accepted as an assistant to Master. Because of the huge amount of research work, she was entangled and unable to complete her course.

When the Master hired her, she was a divorced mother twice. When interviewing with the press, she confided, she was nurtured in an environment that believes that the goal and fate of a woman's life is marriage. That greatly influenced her perception. When she was in her twenties, she married a Missouri politician, whose marriage lasted for two days. Later, she married a senior lawyer, marriage also ended in divorce. In 1950, she married George Johnson, the head of the band and they had two children. They divorced in 1956.

Born early in the research collaboration, Johnson and Master married in 1971. They founded the Reproductive Biological Research Fund in St Louis in 1964, and Johnson became director until 1978 and renamed it. Masters and Johnson Academy. In 1993, Master and Johnson divorced but they continued to be friends and partners at work. In the following years Master retired and closed the academy. He died in 2001, and Johnson opened a training center called Virginia Johnson Master Learning in Missouri, a place that provides helpful advice to help overcome sexual dysfunction.