Johnson of Masters & Johnson dies

Virginia Johnson, the pioneering sex researcher who was part of the groundbreaking team Masters and Johnson,

William Masters, Virginia Johnson

died Tuesday in St. Louis at age 88. Masters and Johnson conducted the first modern research on sexuality and the treatment of sexual dysfunction that paved the way for the sexual revolution.

The work of Johnson and William H. Masters, who were married to each other, began in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis and continued at the independent not-for-profit research institution they founded in St. Louis in 1964, originally called the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation and renamed the Masters & Johnson Institute in 1978.

Cleveland native Masters died in 2001.