Article: How unhappy `researchers' changed sex; Masters and Johnson created a culture free of commitment.(NEWS)(Opinion Exchange)

Byline: KATHERINE KERSTEN

A visitor to America in 2009 might conclude that the right to pursue sexual pleasure is carved in our Constitution. From the onset of puberty until our last breath, we are encouraged to seek and claim the sexual mountaintops. The cultural markers of our national preoccupation are everywhere -- from the Internet to the magic sex moves announced by the magazines in our grocery store checkout lines It wasn't this way 50 years ago. Then, sex was generally shielded from view by a veil of privacy and modesty.

This sea change in attitude sprang from many sources. But no two individuals contributed more than William Masters, a doctor ...

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