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Student Forum on Sexuality

Students push honorary degree for sex researcher

Monday, October 05, 2009 || Re-I Chin and Peter Zhu

While many recognize Washington University for its world-class, cutting-edge medical research, few people know that the institution also pioneered sexuality studies in the 1950s. Even fewer know about the pioneer herself, the mother of the scientific study of sex and sex therapy: Virginia Johnson.

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