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During the 1950s and 1960s, William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson conducted many important studies within the field of human sexuality. In 1966, in their book Human Sexual Response, they detailed four stages of physiological changes of humans during sexual stimulation. These phases, in order of their occurrence, are the excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasmic phase, and resolution phase. Together, they make up the human sexual response cycle.