sex thinking

                                                           What is Masters of Sex?

Michelle Ashford: Masters of Sex is the story of Dr William Masters and Virginia Johnson - pioneers of sexual research in the 1950s and 1960s. How they began the trajectory of their careers and how their personal lives wove in and out of their professional lives.

Sarah Timberman: The work Dr. William Masters and Johnson were doing in the 1950s is completely relevant today. The questions they were asking are questions that people care deeply about today: intimacy, the nature of desire, the nature of love, what attraction and love are and whether they’re the same thing or whether they’re different from each other. These were all touched upon in what was a scientific quest to physiologically map the human response to sex.

Masters of Sex is also a very funny show because sex can be funny. Our ideas about it, our hang-ups and our areas of discomfort in discussing it are all there to sort of make for comedy too.

In looking at the nature of sexuality we've tried to take the opportunity that the show gives us to say what is this thing, this spark. The thing that has inspired virtually every great work of art, of music and of literature. What is love? What is sex? How do they relate? The show deals with all those things.sources