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Masters of, Y'Know...Sex

19/11/2013

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Have you been watching Masters of Sex? If you haven't, you should. Right now. It's NSFW, though I hear most offices frown on you watching online catch-up TV on the clock, so maybe not right now. But it's worth a (what the Oxford English Dictionary would call) binge watch over the weekend. Even if it is purely to see Janis from Mean Girls doing so well. Masters of Sex tells the story of Masters and Johnson (I know, you couldn't make it up) who, from 1957 to 65 recorded some of the first laboratory based data, using direct observation, on human sexual response. This data allowed them to debunk the previously believed thought that vaginal lubrication originated from the cervix as well as many other misconceptions about sex and orgasms.

Yes! Yes! YES! And from the day the Masters and Johnson books Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy were published in 1966 and 1970 we understood, nay, accepted female sexuality and it was respected and acknowledged. Women who pursued and enjoyed sex were not thought of as odd or 'whoreish' and whether their partners were countless, none or one nobody thought it that important provided she was safe.

HA HA fooled you. Man you were easy to fool. Yeah that's not true. Boo. Masters and Johnson designed a cure for homosexuals (apparently Johnson suspected Masters might have tampered with the data for that one) and we still can't decide if we want women to like sex but not have it or to hate sex but kindly endure it.

Recently the New York Times wrote about Virginia Johnson, who died in July this year at the age of 88 calling herself Mary Masters (oh yeah, spoiler alert, if you are watching Masters of Sex) and her regrets: "another old woman in a nursing home with a story that only a few people listened to. Her tale is laced with regrets. As she'd tell the writer Thomas Maier, whose book "Masters of Sex" the series is based on, "I can remember saying out loud-and I'm appalled as I remember it-being very pleased that I could be anything any man wanted me to be. ... In retrospect, I ask myself, 'Geez, did I lose myself that totally?'"
This woman changed so much for other women by being curious about sex. We watch these retro shows -Masters of Sex is listed as a black comedy - and smirk at how prissy some of the people are. But isn't the joke on us? Are we much less prissy now? Are we much more clued up or do we just live with different expectations. Porn star in the bedroom with no notches on her bed. Oh, OK. Anything any man wants you to be. And men, you can only be one thing and that's sex mad.

Seems none of us can get that ride to Venus when what these surveys and scientific studies prove is that all you have to do is ask.

For some reason we prefer to act surprised at all news related to the bedroom, or sex. Memory foam mattress specialist Ergoflex recently released survey results of people's dislikes when first sharing a bed with a new partner. Turns out dirty sheets, excessive cuddling snoring and cuddly toys are all turn offs. WELL WHO KNEW?! Who knew, or would even suspect such things might be found unpalatable? Thank you memory foan mattress specialist Ergoflex, you my friends, are quite the sexy scientists.

Seems none of us can get that ride to Venus when what these surveys and scientific studies prove is that all you have to do is ask.

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