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Biography of Virginia E. Johnson
Name: Virginia E. Johnson
Birth Date: February 11, 1925
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Springfield, Missouri, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: psychologist, sex therapist
Virginia E. Johnson
Virginia E. Johnson (born 1925) is a researcher in human sexuality. With her then-husband, William H. Masters, she cowrote Human Sexual Response in 1966.In collaboration with Dr. William Howell Masters, psychologist and sex therapist Virginia E. Johnson pioneered the study of human sexuality under laboratory conditions. She and Masters published the results of their study as a book entitled Human Sexual Response in 1966, causing an immediate sensation. As part of her work at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis and later at the Masters and Johnson Institute , she counseled many clients and taught sex therapy to many professional practitioners.Johnson was born Virginia Eshelman on February 11, 1925, in Springfield, Missouri, to Hershel Eshelman, a farmer, and Edna (Evans) Eshelman. The elder of two children, she began school in Palo Alto, California, where her family had moved in 1930. When they returned to Missouri three years later, she was ahead of her …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…MinisterChuck Yeager (1923-) American pilot/astronautGeorge Bush (1924--) American presidentMarlon Brando (1924-) American actorMargaret Thatcher (1925-) British Prime MinisterJeane Kirkpatrick (1926--) American women's rights advocateSelected world events:1927: Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic1929: The U.S. Stock Market Crash started the Great Depression1931: New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel opened1933: Congress passed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal1941: Penicillin was purified and proven to fight bacterial infections1954: The U.S. Supreme Court declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional1958: The first United States satellite was launched1961: The Peace Corps was established by John F. Kennedy1981: Attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan failed1989: The Berlin Wall was dismantled Further Reading booksRobinson, Paul, The Modernization of Sex: Havelock Ellis, Albert Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson, Cornell University Press, 1988.periodicalsDuberman, Martin Bauml, review of, Homosexuality in Perspective, New Republic, June 16, 1979, pp. 24-31.Fried, Stephen, "The New Sexperts," in Vanity Fair, December 1992, p. 132."Repairing the Conjugal Bed," in Time, March 25, 1970.
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