ABSTRACT
This chapter continues to trace the influence of Money’s work, by proceeding with Masters and Johnson’s uptake of his conceptualisation of sexuality as malleable and their therapeutic approach to ‘sexual dysfunction’. I analyse Masters and Johnson’s sex therapy as outlined in their classic text Human Sexual Inadequacy (1970), focusing on constructions of consent and coercion. I examine how this foundational approach to sex therapy shaped broader therapeutic understandings and approaches to sexual difficulties, which created a therapeutic culture where sexual abuse by therapists proliferated.
