Human Sexuality

by William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson, Robert C. Kolodny

This fifth edition offers an introduction to human sexuality. The text highlights biological, developmental, psychosocial, health and cultural aspects of human sexuality. This edition has been revised to include a new full-colour format, a new chapter on improving sexual relationships, updated coverage on the latest birth control methods (Norplant, the female condom, and Depo-Provera), recent statistics on the pill, up-to-date research on vascectomies, and the latest developments and discoveries in HIV/AIDS research. In addition many chapters have been reorganized to provide more logical and thorough discussion of topics.

Genres: Psychology, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Science

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

William Masters and research assistant Virginia Johnson pioneered research on human sexuality. They observed participants in various sexual acts and identified four stages of sexual response. In addition, they treated a variety of sexual disfunctions. The two married and stayed together for 22 years before divorcing.

The Showtime program Masters of Sex is based on the research of Masters and Johnson.

Reviews

[Petra X · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very dirty book I could justify as an adolescent enquiring academically into the world of adults she is soon to enter. But I won't, it was just a very dirty book I felt I could buy from W H Smith's without 'looks' from the shop assistant.

[Jerry Travis · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was a waste of time. Though it's widely regarded as a definitive text and still used in college level human sexuality classes, I found it to be full of errors. For instance, it plainly states, based on experimental results in the laboratory, that men always have their orgasm before the woman. It never occurred to them that the artificial environment of a laboratory, or the fact that the men were having sex with the woman for the very first time, might be tainting their results (duh!)

There was another "experiment" that showed there was no limit to the number of orgasms that a woman may experience in a short period of time. They proved this by hooking a woman up the an EEG and having a whole host of guys come in, one at a time, and have sex with her. Again, there was no consideration that their results might be a little skewed and not representative of women as a whole. Indeed, what kind of woman would agree to such an arrangement? Not your average Jane, I would think.