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Sexes: Sexology on the Defensive

New questions about the research of the pioneers

It might have been a scene from a TV courtroom drama. At the Sixth World Congress of Sexology in Washington, pioneering Sex Therapists William Masters and Virginia Johnson called a press conference to defend themselves against charges that their sex research is cryptic, slipshod and so vaguely defined that other experts cannot tell how many patients have actually been cured of their sexual woes. Have the two ever revealed their criteria for successful sex therapy? asked a reporter. "Innumerable times," answered an exasperated Masters. Did he...

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