in the 1960s, almost everyone knew the Masters and Johnson names because of their controversial research of human sexuality. Now they are household names because of the Showtime series, Masters of Sex.
Marriage Facts - Virginia and William
Met: 1957.
Married: January 7, 1971.
Separated: 1992.
Divorced : 1993.
First Marriage: No
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Born:
William Howell Masters: December 27, 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mary Virginia Eshelman Virginia Gibson aka alias Virginia E. Johnson .: February 11, 1925 in Springfield, Missouri
Mort:
William: February 16, 01, in Tucson, Arizona, at the age of 85, Master William died of Parkinson's disease
Virginia :. at the age of 88, July 24, 2013, Virginia Johnson died in St. Louis, Missouri Assisted Living Center Altenheim.
How William and Virginia Met:
Virginia and William met in 1957 when he was hired as a research assistant in the obstetrics and gynecology Deptartment at the University of Washington St.
Louis. It is widely accepted that Virginia was told by William that his job depended on her having sex with him
Wedding Date: ..
January 7, 1971 in Fayetteville, Arkansas
divorce Date:
their separation was announced in February 1992 by their son-in-law, William Young. Young said they were divorcing because they could not agree on work and retirement goals. Virginia William and divorced in 1993.
Bill, when asked when he knew that his marriage Gini would not work ". When I entered the driveway"
Source: Thomas Maier. Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of Masters and Johnson, the couple who taught America how to love . pg. 385. 09.
Occupations
William: Author, sex researcher, gynecologist, author and professional speaker focusing on the nature of the human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunction.
Virginia :. sexologist, sex therapist, psychologist, singer, business writer, author and professional speaker
Together, Virginia and William founded the Masters and Johnson Institute and Reproductive Biology Research Foundation. They wrote the best sellers, Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy . After their divorce, Virginia continued to research itself.
Among other results, their research showed that older people continue to have sex and that women could have multiple orgasms
Other Marriages :.
Both William and Virginia had previous marriages.
William
First Wedding - ?? - 1971 - Elizabeth Ellis
William Elizabeth divorced in 1971 to marry Virginia. They had two children together, Sarah and William Howell Masters Paul Masters III
Third marriage -. 1993-01 - Geraldine Oliver
In 1993, William married his love Geraldine Baker Oliver childhood. They were married until his death in 01.
Virginia
First Marriage - 1944 to 1944 - Missouri politician
In 1973, Virginia told Washington Post the marriage lasted only two days. I can not find the legal documentation of marriage
Second marriage -. 1947-1948 - Ivan Rinehart
Virginia married Ivan L. Rinehart, a 43 year-old lawyer in a May-December relationship in June 1947 in the Central Christian Church in Springfield, Missouri. They divorced after 1 year.
Virginia: "I thought we were married to have a family when I understood that he had no intention of taking this responsibility, I got a divorce ... In retrospect, I have no idea why I married him. ".
Source: Thomas Maier. Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of Masters and Johnson, the couple who taught America how to love . pg. 36. 09.
Third Wedding - 1950 to 1956 - George Johnson
On June 13, 1950 Virginia married George V. Johnson in the garden of a Presbyterian church. George was a leader of a dance group and an engineering student. She sang with the group. They had two children, Scott Forstall and Lisa Evans, before their divorce in 1956.
Virginia: "Until my children were born, it was good, but the musicians are people of the night and children are people a day only .. the two do not mix ... We do not share the same ideas and objectives Our only common point was the music "
Source: Thomas Maier .. Masters. of Sex: the Life and Times of Masters and Johnson, the couple who taught America how to love pg 39. 09.
Quotes Marriage Masters and Johnson..
Thomas Maier: "Hank Walter was his name - coiled having an affair with Virginia Johnson, and finally. Virginia wanted to get married to Walter when Masters found that out, he finally decided that he would end his [first] wedding what was most important to him was not his family, not necessarily even his relationship with Virginia. - It was that the work they were doing, what brand name of Masters and Johnson Masters and thus ended his long marriage, told his children he was divorcing their mother, and married Virginia "
Source: NPR Interview .. "Masters of Sex Brought Pioneering science in the House." 04/10/2013