The Showtime TV series Masters of Sex offers a raunchy, semi-fictionalized account of the lives of Virginia E.
Johnson and Dr.
William Masters, where its four seasons chart both the controversial scientific research and personal affairs of its stars.
Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan take on the show’s leading roles as the Masters and Johnson duo, in a show loosely based on the 2009 Masters of Sex biography by Thomas Maier.
Masters and Johnson were real-life sexologists, and the show offers a loosely accurate account of their infamous research into human sexuality which spanned the 1950s and ’60s.
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