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First reading of detailed paper on sexual response
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries a growing number of papers on human
sexuality have been
read at learned conferences. Many of these papers were psychological or statistical in nature
and often suffered
from a severe lack of hard empirical data. Perhaps the first really empirical paper was first read
by Dr William
H. Masters in April 1959 at a two-day "Conference of the Vagina" held in New York under
the auspices of the
New York Academy of Sciences. For several prior years Dr Masters and his colleagues had
been studying how
the human body actually responded to effective sexual stimulation. Earlier work had been
carried out by other
scientists: Dr Masters was not the first, but his work was the most detailed, most broadly
based, and the most
influential in the field of empirical laboratory evaluation of human sexual response.