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MastersOfS2016

Page history last edited by jerry 7 years, 5 months ago

MastersOfS2016

 


 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Masters of Something: Sex, Sleaze, Sales, Scents, etc...

 

 

Body

 

SPOILING and Explicit

 

Spoiling, so if you are going to see it, maybe you heard more than you should about it below, and rather explicitly too...

 

 

Masters and Johnson were some white people back in the 1950's onward who wrote the manual about sex...

After the Kinsey report spelled out some things, they continued some stuff, with hubris and other issues, that fallibly human beings have: Pride, Jealousy, Lust, Greed, Covet thy Neighbor's Wife/Husband, etc...

 

 

Dr. Masters, a shorter white man with some lacking social skills, created a study, and with it hired Mrs. Johnson, who became a sex researcher, and they focused on the 'work'...  Which was basically portrayed as adultery, at first, hired as a secretary, really, she did what it took, for her children, and herself, and ended up experimenting on herself in the process...  They plugged heart rate, respiration, temperature, etc monitors (shown to paper tape) onto the patients, and started with solo masturbatory stuff, then went on to pairing some unrelated people, paid to try sex acts, while the Masters and Johnson observed, mostly behind glass, strictly for scientific purposes, of course... 

 

Women used a glass dildo type thing, and eventually fit it with a camera, supposedly the first getting the vaginal muscles contracting during orgasm and showing video of it, to a surprised Washington University mostly medical audience, in a presentation report, and were fired from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, the one with the GateWay to the West Arch...

 

Availability

 

Catching up with cable On Demand  back issues (12x/ year, 4+ years, 1 hour/ episode), of the series, a Showtime original, with one of the Sheen boys as lead (Charlie Sheen went public with his HIV status years into debauchery with adult film stars, substance abuse, court involvement, etc, but the Welsh actor lead is not related to that one, afaict), and one or two other people I might recognize, the chair of the department of OB/GYN, who turns out to be gay, and his wife, also recognized (Janney? sp?), after problems, and volunteering for the study, not having had an orgasm, learning that during the intake interview, he eventually goes thru ECT, supposedly to cure being gay, after Dr. Masters takes the fall, for his friend, and leaves the University, going to a black college in the 1960's, after back and forth, the study going to a brothel, for finding subjects, watching prostitutes, later with their johns, and giving free medical care to what would now be called sex workers, as part of the study, and paying them some too...,

 

Race to the CORE

 

Master's diminutive trophy type blond wife is eventually screwing a big black man with a criminal record while the good doc is doing his study secretary/ coresearcher, Mrs. Johnson... The rather well to do Master's family buy out the musician husband George Johnson, who at that point are shown as having a marriage of convenience, of sorts, she spends most into the late evenings with the 'work' (read work/ lab/ office affair at the lab, her place when kids are away, and/or a hotel), learning about stuff and some science with him, until she is almost calling herself a doc, but not really gotten a college degree yet, practicing mostly in a hotel miles away, and eventually after presenting/ publishing instead of perishing, they become too famous to hide it, but her being a Mrs. gives credibility, so pregnant and showing but divorced with the former husband's baby from a one night stand after she seems to have a crisis about sending her son off to the war in Vietnam, surrounding a Master and Johnson family vacation house at the lake discovers her son was screwing an older lady, with a child, the son hit by a car crossing the street by a park, after one such dumb pseudo liberal mom argument, what it was like having parent(s), so famous for sex, in the prudish 1950's and beyond...

 

CAPPING

 

Kind of like IVF (In Vitro Fertilization), a cervical cap with donated sperm are fitted, placed, and long waiting time for it to happen, all day, on an exam table/ gurney/ etc and hopefully conception occurs... 

 

This contrasts many in current time who might have heard of The Today Sponge, a more temporary birth control device, now off the market, iirc, but science has progressed, as have diseases, from free love, or whatever, but home capping might be one of the options, as are home pregnancy tests, HIV Tests, digital basal temperatures, and other techniques like home video, etc...

 

It is not clear if Masters low sperm count makes it impossible to have children, or just extremely rare, his protege doc providing the sperm and/or process of capping to make it work out, a miracle, or sorts, and almost all ethics aside...  After many arguments, and blaming her for not having children, he treats his own wife, they are going back and forth, she wants the protege instead, and fights ensue...  Much melodrama after the original showing of skin in a soft porn type way...  All very riskay (sp?) for the time...  But getting kind of  boring by today's standards...  Some looking up of stuff at the time, Kaufman, a competitor, and other stuff, might be educational, but must be old enough, and liberal enough, even buying the book they produced, which was not the illustrated Joy of Sex, nor the Kama Sutra...

 

Sales of the Masters & Johnson book Human Sexual Response increased, seemingly by placing it in a brown paper cover, at the local bookstore thus making it seem more illicit seemed to help the allure...

 

The children in the series are said to be fictitious, as the depictions' credits roll...

 

 

Robert, brother? of a baby sitter Mrs. Masters forcibly cleans her head, claiming she has lice, from her, and another encounter some one in a pickup truck dumps another black man likely beaten, and maybe dead, Robert eventually doing CORE, and the Reverend Doctor M.L.K.,   Jr. being arrested, and white lady (Mrs. Masters) becomes an office volunteer for CORE, dismissively/degradingly? ordered to get sandwiches, while the black men talk about what to do, trying to make up for not being a good witness to the beating/ killing/ dumping, similar, of the guy earlier...

 

Gays

 

A chance encounter with a gay, finds that they have really underestimated the gay population besides the infidelity, and sex workers angles...

 

The Doc is educated by the male prostitute and another partner, on how the mechanics / plumbing and culture works, and doesn't...

 

The department chair is outed, used to get the study back into the campus, and other demands...

 

 

Lesbians

 

The brothel Madam, or similar, turns into the off campus institute's secretary, and is really in a real romantic relationship with a woman, as a lesbian, separating her work and personal life, somewhat, except when in the study herself,and/or giving actually knowledgeable advice to the backward type fish out of water type researchy but practicing doc...

 

They want to have a baby, the procedure Dr. Master's does, a tubal ligation reversal/ fixer upper, fails, too much damage, and she can't have kids, though the rich husband wants that more than anything...

 

The females eventually get back together, after she marries for money, it seems, and the thirds wheel looks her up, and gets fixed up with the husband's friend...  Fights on PDA's (Public Displays of Affection), and more melodrama...

 

So how two women back then would have a baby but the side kick philandering orthopod doc, blond, tall, etc pinch hits for them, capping not working, and the intake charade of a marriage for legal purposes fails, miserably too...  Old school methods are used, the chosen mothering of the pair of lesbians has sex with a male while the other lesbian holds hands or similar all in bed together, and other Three's Company plus financial and emotional type arrangements/entanglements/ enmeshments...

 

End of Life Issues

 

Much of this writeup is out of sequence, incidents across the tens of hours of videos, but Dr. Masters interacts with a colleague female doc brought in to replace Mrs. Johnson , iirc, during her pregnancy(?).  Mrs Johnson also quits his lab and goes to work for the female doc, whom it turns out has cancer spread from something a simple PAP smear might have caught years previously, and possibly more treatable then, if PAPs were commonplace.  Mrs. Johnson, despite arguing further, and continually, throughout the series, befriends the also reserved female doc, also outside of work, taking her to chemo, until the doc quits radiation and treatment, and while disclosing interpersonal skills deficits and social problems, of being a female doc, and other limitations, eventually overdoses with pills and EtOH, after Mrs. Johnson kisses her on the lips, leaves for the night and as seems to be her only means of emotional support agrees to personally deliver her last will and testament or similar documents to the doc's relatives, and ends up lying in the death bed with after she overdosed (claimed to never had anyone stay...), upon discovery calling the police, as an emergency, but then hanging up, as nothing much more can be done, being terminal and having seemly decided how she wanted it to end...

 

Legalities of assisted suicide and other issues involved.  Female female relationships, professionalism, Dr. Masters interfering with Mrs. Johnson's course of study (the female doc teaches anatomy with a cadaver, and mostly single young male class, with study group inclusion issues), and promoting at the medical conventions/ conferences with bored doctor's housewives catching a husband doc by working in their offices, mostly used for selling the PAP smear research which she had missed the conference presentation window time, and nervous in public speaking anyway, taking the bus instead of a plane because of biased? funding issues (Dr. Masters brings in lots of  patients on the OB/GYN side, taking a percentage off the top, and paying staff for research 'work' out of that), and other stuff...

 

Science and/or Hollywood?

 

It is not clear from this series how much of the portrayal is Hollywood and how much of it is science...

Certainly Dr. Masters and Mrs. Johnson played a part in history, of the sexual revolution, and some contributions to advancing science...  

 

The ignorance of the patients about basic physiological and practical matters was briefly presented a few in a instances...

 

Religious fanatics were portrayed as well, a bible thumping guy quoting scripture while Dr. Masters tries getting into the institute building where CORE and other stuff like a Diner are downstairs, in a sketchy part of town, in a building dificult to get and keep tenants. which Masters may have bought, as the madam ends up doing finances, and getting a CPA (?), as well...

 

Prominent people are portrayed including movie troubly married to sports stars advancing from  marital bliss/ disharmony/ hate/ dissolution/ divorce, as well as the Royal Family of an Islamic country, who's views on procreation, and the wifely duties of providing the next king, are the main duties of a wife, in a financial type sense too, and if unable to carry on the lineage, essentially her job and therefore life are mainly over... 

 

Multiple wives and a harem type arrangement seem to be explored a little, the role of women in procreation, religion and society, as well as sex are mentioned, but a lot is left to read between the lines...

 

The documentarian has a some naive questions for the King and security onlooking while waiting on capping, iirc..

 

Treating Sexual Dysfunction

 

After ten years or so of observing and experimentally intervening in sexual activity, Dr. Masters and Mrs. Johnson seem to go after the Holy Grail of the whole thing, sexual dysfunction...  Dr. Masters is secondarily? impotent, following some issues, many really unexplored...  

 

Mrs. Johnson seeks to become a surrogate psychotherapy patient for a repressed/abused? female who confides in her, but won't go to seek professional help, in that way...

 

Vaginismus, or similar, explored as the female counter analog of male erectile dysfunction/ impotence, is still a bit of a mystery to be probed gently...

 

The pair developed a method of treating dysfunction, called Sensate Focus sometimes withholding and other techniques, seem to be part of some of the trials...

 

Healing the complex emotional relationships, might be included also, instead of just physical problems...

 

 

Surrogates

 

Treating dysfunctionals with a paid and later. because of ethical and legal issues, unpaid partner for sex, is seen in some instances...

 

To cure someone of their physical problem(s), sometimes seems to include/ imply other partners...

For an early example, the Department Head's ex-wife seems to end up in bed with another woman, and a man of her possibly real interest, while seen as living just in the moment, and trying honesty, goes down a path of many things, some might consider calling, nowadays, as polyamory...

 

Criticism

 

While society is seen as progressing from 1950's prudish, starting out, keep in mind it started out 50-60 years ago, by current time...

 

Also, staying with the troubled partner and how that resolves is sometimes shown...

 

A longitudinal view is taken, as needing at least 100 subjects to create a statistically valid study, the self study and experimentation between Masters and Johnson, taking notes/ writing up their hotel and other couplings as more than 100 instances themselves, and the entanglements, and other issues, besides their namesake four stages of human sexual response...

 

An ape is briefly one of the researcher's subjects, the zoo animal is not copulating, following some environmental changes, and Mrs. Johnson showing her breast to the animal and other stuff, as nonverbal communications, finding the old trainer/ zookeeper and their cross species 'relationship' is explored a bit...

 

A videographer / movie buff guy, Lester, is shown as one of the subjects that joins in on the staff of the study. Originally, he has ideas of how to create the glass dildo camera, but also does recording of the study, as an archivist/ documentarian, or similar...  His issues, and whom he finds in the study and outside, treating his dysfunction, and her's too, dating at movie theatres, and other outings...

 

Marketing diet pills is a derided sideline for Mrs. Johnson during some of the spats with Dr. Masters...

 

A Nuclear Civil Defense exercise is performed at the Wash U. hospital, as is the jealous wife of the philandering orthopod doc grabbing the intercom mic and paging loudspeaker, and he ends up working / owning a strip club, as well as other stuff, like losing his children, the lesbians trying to hire him, like the diet pill lady, as a performer, for their needs, as women, a lesbian couple, and other combinations of male roles as blond, non dominating, and other financial controls, etc...

 

Effects on the researcher's children are mentioned, though the characters are footnoted as fictional, in this depiction according to the credits line, what the doc/ researcher(s), family, football coach, and bullies say about sex, and growing up in the revolution, are explored a little bit...

 

Dr. Masters late alcoholic and abusive father, and brother, and his relationship with the family abuse, plus something like Alcoholics Anonymous as the cure all for the family issues, is shown, in some detail, but also boxing and how the eldest going away to boarding school, abandoning his brother in the process, may have played a part in the emotional and physical development of the boys and young men, and finally repressed wounded doctors/professionals...

 

Many other spinoff ideas are touched upon, and/or read into the depiction, possibly to keep it interesting, the original viewership in the USA seems to be charted, on Wikipedia's list of episodes, but declining over time, kind of like a softening erection...

 

Bondage, submission, domination and masochism are shown a bit, with him requiring her to perform, and during aruging times, he escaping out to paid sex workers in the street for oral sex, but not able to perform, to completion...  The madam provides some techniques used with johns for dealing with non performers, shall we say...

 

The role reversal is also shown, Dr. Masters being required to submit to Mrs. Johnson and other things like an overweight/obese female boss of the diet empire using power and authority to subdue the orthopod doc, hired for his credibility and attractiveness, while also forcing him to do a breaking and entering type rape role play/ fantasy of hers, supposedly fashioned after the 'Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn' type Clarke Gable Gone with the Wind romance films...

 

Book release journalists and a panel is shown.  The author tries to get his book in the medical schools as a textbook, in some ways, as a failed limited run, seemed inevitable...

 

Your personal reaction to the subject matter, book and/or video series, might differ significantly, if even allowed to view the series, likely also on DVD/BlueRay, Pay Per View and maybe other electronic delivery outlets...

 

The greatest thing since sliced bread, and/or just another story, some fact, some fiction...

 

Fidelity to the actual scientific study/ book/ research and events, might not make it any more appealing/ disgusting/ objectionable...

 

 

 

 

Links

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_and_Johnson

 

http://www.sho.com/masters-of-sex

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Sex

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Reports

 

https://books.google.com/books/about/Man_and_Sex.html

 

http://www.worldcat.org/title/human-sexual-response/oclc/191468&referer=brief_results

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conception_device

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today_sponge

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Racial_Equality

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Sheen

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sheen

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginismus

 

http://health.howstuffworks.com/sexual-health/sexuality/masters-and-johnson-dictionary2.htm

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6691475

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pap_test

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Nothing really, but times are a changing, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, and sometimes going in full reverse, too....

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

So what topics are safe for what age ranges?

How are babies made?

The Stork?

 

Why can teenagers get pregnant just by looking at each other, while older people have to do multiple rounds of IVF and end up with somewhere between nothing and quints/octuplets ?

 

Health class equals Sex Ed now?

 

Did The Pill create the sexual revolution, or is it a chicken and the egg problem (which came first?) ?

 

How much of it is need to know?

 

What were the lasting remembrances of the time?

Did the cold war and nuclear threats mean that procreating was the only way out of the problem?

Like baby booms after World War One and Two?

And presumably wars before that, but better records, census, births in hospitals, etc required...

 

Where, if anywhere, does science intersect religion?

 

 

License

 

Creative Commons Share and Share Alike, Non Commercial, Non Derivative, for the whole site's contents unless otherwise explicitly stated

 

Page History

 

20161016 20070510EthicsDignityRiskJerry

  1. Adding some stuff, verbage as reading sentences, paragraphs and sections
  2. some Vaginismus and other links
  3. needs a mother issues section, starting with Master's family, moving back in with the baby, Johnson's family, etc...
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20161015 JerrySpeak

  1. some cleanup
  2. Sheen boys corrected, Martin not Charlie, not Michael....
  3. Adding other sections like End of Life, Surrogates, Criticism Issues sections
  4. other subplots might need to be added, stay tuned?
  5. No good way to really end it...  Write notes on it constantly, and/or just say good enough, got something out, and plow thru the rest of the season 3 and 4 videos, adding here when able, and/or creating another web page entirely, after is settles more... 
  6.  

 

 

20161013 Jerry

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