Virginia Johnson, of Masters and Johnson, Has Died

"Virginia Johnson, one half of the famed Masters and Johnson research team on human sexual behavior, has died at the age of 88, her son, Scott, tells St. Louis Public Radio."

The station adds that "Johnson was a resident of The Altenheim [a retirement home] in St. Louis, and the facility has also confirmed her death."

KMOX-TV in St. Louis, which is also reporting her death, reminds readers that:
"While at Washington University, Johnson met research partner and future husband William Masters. The two developed the first tools for measuring sexual arousal in humans. ... Johnson and Masters identified the four stages of sexual response: the excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasmic phase, and resolution phase. The stages became known as the human sexual response cycle."

Masters and Johnson married in 1971. "She remained his wife and collaborator for 22 years," The New York Times has written, "the union finally ending because, she said, she wanted to spend more time with family and friends and he remained deeply absorbed in his work." Masters died in 2001.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/25/205455277/reports-virginia-johnson-of-masters-johnson-fame-dies

Seems kind of quaint now, their studies, but they really were pioneers...RIP