A review of
Critically revisiting aspects of the human sexual response cycle of Masters and Johnson:
Correcting errors and suggesting modifications

Masters and Johnson’s book Human Sexual Response brought a face and a name to a topic that, for their time, was not talked about around town, in the barber shops and diners. Certainly not a conversation to be spoken of in public. And if it was being discussed in the “unmentionable” public, it was obviously being told all wrong! I understand and even appreciate their fascination with such topics. At least someone was trying to get it right!

Method
Participants
The reviewed article, written by Roy Jerome Levin of the Porterbrook Clinic, in Sheffield, United Kingdom, explained his belief that the book Masters and Johnson wrote in 1966, Human Sexual Response was outdated and left incorrect or unexplained aspects of their reports on specific mechanisms involved in the sexual arousal process. His research examined eight facts from Masters and Johnsons book and offered modifications and/ or corrections as support for his findings.
Procedure
The article reviewed looks critically at eight physiological aspects of the sexual arousal process described in the original report that with the increased laboratory studies available now have been shown to need correction or modification or additional explanation. The format used for discussion of the eight aspects is, first, to give the direct quote from the 1966 first edition of Masters and Johnson in book with page numbers and then he commented his findings in the following paragraph.
Analysis
For their time, Masters and Johnson’s descriptions and model became almost iconic as no other laboratory had the ability to repeat and verify them. Many thought back then and some still do today, that both descriptions and model presented were definitive and did not need