Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

William H. Masters

American Gynecologist, Senior Member of Masters and Johnson Sexuality Research Team

"Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built."

"The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work."

"Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen."

"The Foundation's therapeutic program for relief of sexual dysfunction is fundamentally a process of marital unit education with concomitant dissipation of misconception, misinformation and taboo. The educational program is designed primarily to encourage the sexually dysfunctional individual not to attempt to improve upon, but hopefully to return to, the basic physiological patterns of natural sexual responsivity."

"The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies"

"When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either."