Her frankness on her long-running radio and TV call-in shows made her a go-to guide for tips on lovemaking.
Ruth Westheimer, a child survivor of the Holocaust who became known to millions as Dr. Ruth, the perky sex therapist whose frankness on her long-running radio and television call-in shows made her a go-to guide for tips on the art and science of lovemaking, died July 12 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96.
“I was left with a feeling that because I was not killed by the Nazis — because I survived — I had an obligation to make a dent in the world,” Dr. Westheimer once told an interviewer. What she did not know, she added, was that the dent would entail her “talking about sex from morning to night.”After the war, she went to Israel, where she joined the Haganah paramilitary group fighting for Jewish statehood .
“If I had been a tall blonde in a miniskirt and decollete,” she said to the Sunday Times of London, “if I had been young and pretty, it wouldn’t have worked.”Dr. Westheimer told her listeners that “anything two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom is all right with me.” Masturbation, fantasies, love dolls — they were all fine by her.
Whenever she was ready, Dr. Westheimer cautioned the woman, she should not forget a reliable contraceptive. A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp. “I was looking out of the window,” she, “and I saw my father boarding a covered truck … He forced himself to smile and that was the last time I saw him.”
She married an Israeli soldier, David, and moved with him to France, where she trained in psychology at the Sorbonne before they divorced. In the mid-1950s, she settled in the United States with her French boyfriend, named Dan, whom she married after becoming pregnant. They also were divorced. In 1961, she married Manfred Westheimer, also a refugee from Nazi Germany, who died in 1997.
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