Essay 1 Masters and Johnson studied 694 participants of sexual act during the 1960s. This included intercourse and masturbation. This study was to understand what happens to a person before, during, and after these sexual acts. As a result of their study they created the four stages of sexual acts, they are excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. They also studied homosexuality as well as “found a way to cure it”. This study laid the foundations for postmodernism and queer theory. Master