The people who introduced the term sensate focusing, labeled the orgasmic platform while researching sexual response.
The orgasmic platform is the tissues of the outer third of the vagina, labeled by Masters and Johnson. 
The Masters and Johnson research team, composed of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. 
 The term was introduced by Masters and Johnson, and was aimed at increasing personal and interpersonal awareness of self and the other's needs. 
