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Virginia Johnson, part of husband-wife team that transformed study of sex, dies at age 88
ST. LOUIS – Virginia Johnson, part of the husband-wife research team that transformed the study of sex in the 1960s, has died.
Her son, Scott Johnson, says his mother died Wednesday at a St. Louis assisted living centre. She was 88.
Johnson was a twice-divorced mother in her 30s when she went job-hunting at Washington University in St. Louis in the late 1950s to support her young family while she pursued a college degree.
She soon became an assistant to obstetrician-gynecologist William Masters, and later his lover and co-collaborator on a large-scale human sexuality experiments.
Their books, 1966’s “Human Sexual Response” and 1970’s “Human Sexual Inadequacy,” were bestsellers.
They married in 1971 but divorced after 20 years. The Masters and Johnson Institute in St. Louis closed in 1994. Masters died in 2001.
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