Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born 11 February 1925) is a former American sexologist and psychologist, best known as the junior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team.Craftsmen of Sexuality; William H. Masters Virginia E. Johnson Along with then-husband William Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s.