The late sex therapist has been remembered as a legend.
The late sex therapist has been remembered as a legend Ruth Westheimer, a sex therapist known as Dr Ruth who was renowned for her frankness and fronted her own eponymous TV talk show, has died aged 96. In the 1980s, her TV series The Dr. Ruth Show, was attracting millions of viewers, with hundreds of thousands of people tuning in to watch it at night when it aired. Her radio call-in show Sexually Speaking began in 1980 and lasted for a decade, and she also wrote 45 books on sex and sexuality.
Having trained as a sex therapist, in 1980 – when she was 52 years old – Westheimer launched her radio show Sexually Speaking, which accumulated a quarter of a million listeners in just one year. The successful radio programme continued for a decade. In the mid 1980s, she also began presenting various TV programmes for Lifetime, which resulted in the creation of The Dr. Ruth Show. Westheimer was married three times, including to fellow Holocaust survivor Manfred ‘Fred’ Westheimer.
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