Masters of Sex is a new show coming to Showtime this fall that focuses on the groundbreaking sex research team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, played by Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, respectively. A little background, per Wikipedia:
The work of Masters and Johnson began in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis and was 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.
In the initial phase of Masters and Johnson’s studies, from 1957 until 1965, they recorded some of the first laboratory data on the anatomy and physiology of human sexual response based on direct observation of 382 women and 312 men in what they conservatively estimated to be “10,000 complete cycles of sexual response.” Their findings, particularly on the nature of female sexual arousal (for example, describing the mechanisms of vaginal lubrication and debunking the earlier widely-held notion that vaginal lubrication originated from the cervix) and orgasm (showing that the physiology of orgasmic response was identical whether stimulation was clitoral or vaginal, and proving that some women were capable of being multiorgasmic), dispelled many long standing misconceptions.
The new, extended trailer is below. I took a screencap of Beau Bridges making a silly face at a giant glowing glass dildo. We all contribute to the world in our own way.
(Via Pop Culture Brain)
