Word: functioning
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Masters and Johnson take a modest view of their work. "We do not pretend expertise in anything," says Masters. "Ours is a small, somewhat determined research effort?the first study of the physiology, and to a major degree the psychology, of sexual function. Many people will be in the field in due course and will do a better...
...very idea that sex researchers like Masters and Johnson can professionally guide couples to mutually satisfactory intercourse still produces some outrage. "There are many people who think that sexual function should never be investigated, that it is simply 'sacred ground,' " says Masters. "For those who feel this way, I have no answer except to say that's their opinion and I honor it. I happen to think it is a field in which medicine has a responsibility. It is not a popular opinion...
...Johnson approach has been sharply criticized by some medical authorities. Manhattan Psychiatrist Natalie Shainess contends that the authors' coldly technical attitude toward therapy robs sex of its joy and meaning. Existential Psychoanalyst Rollo May, who was less than enthusiastic about the authors' research into the mechanics of coital function, says that Masters and Johnson are fighting puritanism with "the new technology"?a dangerous weapon because it contributes to the depersonalization of sex by assuming that sex is part of technology...
...surgeon in Kansas City, Kans., Masters also chose to study medicine. During his junior year at the University of Rochester's medical school, he fixed on his lifelong professional goal. An internship in obstetrics and gynecology in St. Louis reinforced his conviction that sex was the last important biological function that was still largely unexplored. "I got no training in sexual functioning," he says. "Neither did any doctor who went to school. When patients came and began to question me as the 'authority,' I had to admit my appalling ignorance. You get awfully tired of saying 'I don't know...
...reflects a matter-of-fact permissiveness about sexuality, and straightforwardly attacks a variety of common myths. But the book has probably infuriated as many readers as it has enlightened. "Human destiny," writes the author at one point, "is constant, relentless copulation"-unintentionally implying that sex is almost a reflex function, like bowel movement. Elsewhere, Reuben suggests that Coke is "the best douche available." REUBEN...