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Dr. Ruth Westheimer dead at 96: Sex therapist who became pop icon, media star and best-selling author passes away at her NYC home
Daily Mail UK ^ | July 13, 2024 | Bethan Sexton

Posted on 07/13/2024 9:15:43 AM PDT by Morgana

Renowned sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has died at the age of 96.

Westheimer died on Friday at her home in New York City, surrounded by her family, according to publicist and friend Pierre Lehu.

The diminutive sex therapist became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics.

Westheimer never advocated risky sexual behavior but encouraged an open dialogue on previously closeted issues that affected her audience of millions.

Her one recurring theme was there was nothing to be ashamed of.

'I still hold old-fashioned values and I'm a bit of a square,' she told students at Michigan City High School in 2002. 'Sex is a private art and a private matter. But still, it is a subject we must talk about.'

Westheimer's giggly, German-accented voice, coupled with her 4-foot-7 frame, made her an unlikely looking — and sounding — outlet for 'sexual literacy.' The contradiction was one of the keys to her success.

But it was her extensive knowledge and training, coupled with her humorous, nonjudgmental manner, that catapulted her local radio program, 'Sexually Speaking,' into the national spotlight in the early 1980s.

She had a nonjudgmental approach to what two consenting adults did in the privacy of their home.

'Tell him you're not going to initiate,' she told a concerned caller in June 1982. 'Tell him that Dr. Westheimer said that you're not going to die if he doesn't have sex for one week.'

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I personally preferred Mother Angelica's advise on sex than Dr. Ruth's

Rip Ruth Westheimer

1 posted on 07/13/2024 9:15:43 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

wonder what she opened her eyes to after she shut them leaving this world?


2 posted on 07/13/2024 9:19:16 AM PDT by b4me
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To: Morgana

“are we lubricating?”


3 posted on 07/13/2024 9:23:10 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Morgana

I still remember one stand up comic saying:”Sex with Dr. Ruth. Sex with Dr. Ruth...I don’t think SO”.


4 posted on 07/13/2024 9:26:00 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Morgana
I personally thought this quack died years ago.

Maybe Dr. Jill Biden can take over her practice after Joe gets dumped by the Democrats.

5 posted on 07/13/2024 9:26:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Ain't it funny how the night moves … when you just don't seem to have as much to lose.”)
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To: Morgana

She coulda lived forever, but took one vax booster too many. Fauci is a murderer. Biden looks hundreds of years old. That’s why I doubt he’s ever had the vax. You don’t get to be that old by injecting poison into your veins.


6 posted on 07/13/2024 9:28:09 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: b4me

Hopefully, that inferno thingy down below.


7 posted on 07/13/2024 9:28:13 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Morgana

I got her confused with Dr. Laura.


8 posted on 07/13/2024 9:30:51 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: b4me

She was part of the problem IMHO. Sex as identity and raison d’etre is a big part of corrosive forces eating the core of Western culture.


9 posted on 07/13/2024 9:30:57 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Morgana

I never really followed Dr. Ruth, but I don’t get the venom directed toward her on this forum. It didn’t seem like she advocated “free love” or infidelity.


10 posted on 07/13/2024 9:31:23 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Morgana

Dr Ruth gave the exact advice to women every time: jerk yourself off and then go get romance. There were lots of women who then replied…it didn’t work.


11 posted on 07/13/2024 9:33:02 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: CatOwner

People here hate for the heck of it.


12 posted on 07/13/2024 9:34:20 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Alberta's Child
It's the mandela effect :D

I had no idea she was still alive either.
13 posted on 07/13/2024 9:36:06 AM PDT by ssfromla
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To: Morgana

Ding ding, the freak is dead.


14 posted on 07/13/2024 9:38:23 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Morgana

I sometimes watched her show when nothing else was on. I remember a call she got from a guy whose girlfriend was pregnant. then, at a party, her mother took him into the bedroom, and she got pregnant. Dr. Ruth had no idea what to tell him

I remember seeing her as a guest on Arsenio Hall. He wanted her to say erect penis. She said she would say it if he said vagina. I don’t remember if either did it.


15 posted on 07/13/2024 9:39:43 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer remembers day the Nazis took her father away
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.5133973


16 posted on 07/13/2024 9:40:53 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: b4me

Why did this woman all the sudden get popular around 1983 or 1984? I remember she was on Saturday night live and all over the place.


17 posted on 07/13/2024 9:41:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I preferred Don Chamberlain. Awww.


18 posted on 07/13/2024 9:43:40 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Daveinyork

“I sometimes watched her show when nothing else was on. I remember a call she got from a guy whose girlfriend was pregnant. then, at a party, her mother took him into the bedroom, and she got pregnant. Dr. Ruth had no idea what to tell him”

Wow that is a tough one.

Let’s assume for the sake of argument they were married.

So the child by his wife is his daughter

The child by his MIL is his daughter in law?


19 posted on 07/13/2024 9:45:04 AM PDT by Morgana ( If Abortion is so good for women why isn't it free? )
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She was so popular even Benny Hill ripped into her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByN4Sl4sGcg


20 posted on 07/13/2024 9:48:30 AM PDT by Morgana ( If Abortion is so good for women why isn't it free? )
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