{"id":602,"date":"2019-09-12T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thosecreamypeaches.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2022-02-17T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:47:32","slug":"masters-and-johnson-sexual-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thosecreamypeaches.com\/en\/2019\/09\/12\/masters-in-johnson-spolna-reakcija\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters and Johnson: Sexual Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixty years ago gynecologist and his secretary started investigating sex, sexual arousal, orgasm. With Masters and Johnson as his assistant, he met in the hospital lab at St. Louis, began a sexual revolution in the United States.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I only briefly heard about them in biology classes. It wasn't until I started to take erotic toys more seriously and watch the Masters of Sex<\/em><\/a> series that I became interested in their work. They became famous mainly for their research on the sexual response, which paved the way for many later researchers in this field of human nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginnings of the research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Behind closed doors, they were the first to study the body's response before, during, and after orgasm. Based on thorough questionnaires, they recruited volunteers who were willing to participate as study subjects despite the introverted and conservative society<\/a>. The questionnaire contained the most basic information about the sexual life of the participant, about the orgasms experienced during masturbation and during sexual intercourse. The questions were uncomfortable for many participants, but they gave an essential piece of information to the two researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precisely because of the straightforward questions about sex and close-minded society, the first volunteers were prostitutes. Logical, since they are dealing with sex daily and with different people. However, the group proved useless. They were indeed able to shamelessly present methods of genital irritation, which were later very useful in the research, but there were also a lot of STDs in this group. Also, they tend to fake orgasms rather than actually experience them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masters and Johnson changed their plan a bit and started inviting hospital staff, couples who wanted to get pregnant, and patients they picked up in the hallway to participate. In all subjects who have stepped through the laboratory door, they observed a sexual reaction with manual and mechanical stimulation, sexual intercourse in three positions, and, as they call it, artificial coitus, that is, sexual intercourse with a vibrator. It is one of a few vibrtators<\/a> of that time that was designed only to achieve an orgasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sexual reaction cycle<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

After a few years of research, Masters and Johnson discovered that the sexual cycle in both sexes is the same. There are several stages that our body goes through during sex or masturbation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on their observations of participants bodies, the sexual response was divided into four phases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n