This Week In '66 - Human Sexual Response

 

With Lynn Peril

The big news This Week in '66 was the publication of William Masters and Virginia Johnson's Human Sexual Response, a landmark study in the physiology of sex. Intended as a medical text, the book raced up the bestseller list, surprising its authors and publisher, but probably nobody else. 

SHOW NOTES

Curry, Jerry, “Researchers on Sex Get Mail Flood,” The Gettysburg Times, May 10, 1966, 10. 

Gardella, Kay, “Oscar Glitters on ABC with Lynda Bird & Color,” New York Daily News, April 19, 1966, 22. 

“Homemade Bomb Maims Inventor, 15,” Los Angeles Evening Citizen, April 18, 1966, 2. 

Irvine, Janice, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Sex Researcher,” Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 27, No. 3, May/June 2010, 11. 

Letofsky, Irv, “Scholarly Sex Treatise Popular,” Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December 25, 1966, 43. 

Lyons, Richard, “A Bedroom Built for 694 is Filmed in Loving Color,” New York Daily News, April 18, 1966, 4. 

Nelson, Harry, “Detailed Research into Sex Act Seen as Benefit for Many,” Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1966, 1.