SUMMARY :
Two dates symbolically illustrate the destiny of W.H.M.: 1966 and 1993. The first date corresponds with the publication of his first book and the beginning of world recognition, emblem of the "American dream" of sexual revolt and utopia. The second date is the sinking of the trademark couple: M. & J. divorce, he is 77 years old. His death eight years later will leave only a small scratch in the memory of those who know him personally; for many others, Masters passing will not be a great loss.
Being forgotten so quickly is unjust and must be analysed not as proof of the ingratitude that students have for their teacher, but to identify the distance separating us from the foundation of contemporary sexology. Masters copied his predecessors in his anatomical research as much as to standardize therapeutic protocols for his "co-therapy" an example being that of premature ejaculation borrowed from James Semans (10) his statistics may be questionable, his recommendations could seem simplistic, but the forgetfulness that we witness looks like the competition wants to get even.
There is no doubt that times have changed, that "Puritanism" has made a comeback, that Anglo-Saxon conservatism has come back to the surface, and in the path of the HIV epidemic the lack of post-mortem consideration must be an alarm to humanistic sexologists. What is at stake in this amnesia is a future world of anonymous technologies and economic gains for pharmaceutical industries. Overmedicalisation in the practise is jeopardizing the foundation of Masters' sexology, such as the importance of erogenous communication in the "healing" of a symptom.
Two viewpoints radically opposite in the same discipline, two enemy sisters, reconcilable, an ideological collision necessary so that Masters' World not be ignored after his death.