Masters and Johnson and the Primacy of Intercourse
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“Masters and Johnson and the Primacy of Intercourse” focuses on the therapists most responsible for launching the sex therapy discipline during the 1960s and 1970s. This chapter shows how Masters and Johnson, despite their emphasis on sexual behavior and scientific research, were not very different from their Freudian forebears in their treatment of women. They too neglected to consider that what men want most out of sex—a penis thrusting inside a vagina—is not necessarily what women want. This chapter shows that Masters and Johnson’s goal was not so much to influence women’s sexuality as it was to influence women’s resistance to men’s sexuality.