Last night, Showtime premiered Masters of Sex, a new hour-long drama set in the fifties about real-life sex researchers Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson. (I wrote the recap, which you can find here.) Their methods were unconventional — they eventually wired themselves up as sexual guinea pigs and participated in their own research — but their lengthy partnership resulted in the debunking of centuries worth of sexual superstitions. We spoke with prop master Jeffrey Johnson, a Hollywood veteran whose twenty years in the industry have spanned projects from Sweet Valley High to Parenthood, about tracking down the vintage machines that fill the show's hospital-room sets, building Ulysses (a transparent dildo with a magnifying glass on the end), and the inevitable comparisons to Mad Men.So about Ulysses, is that something you can just buy online?I was able to buy some vintage vibrators and dildos, but when you consider the time...
- 9/30/2013
- by Molly Langmuir
- Vulture
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