Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s most
famous sex therapist, dead at 96
Posted By: ladydawgfan, 7/13/2024 2:55:26 PM
Ruth Westheimer, the superstar sex therapist known to millions as “Dr. Ruth”, has died aged 96. Westheimer died Friday at her home in Manhattan, her publicist Pierre Lehu confirmed. No cause of death was announced. For more than four decades, the beloved doc dished advice on orgasms, masturbation and fantasies, helping to de-stigmatize sex for generations of Americans. Well into her nineties, the beloved therapist was still touting the benefits of making love. “Understand, this country of ours is more sexually active than before,” she told The Post’s Cindy Adams in 2021. “Sex is no sin.” Just last year, Westheimer was appointed New York state’s honorary ambassador to loneliness by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Ruth Westheimer, the superstar sex therapist known to millions as “Dr. Ruth”, has died aged 96.
Westheimer died Friday at her home in Manhattan, her publicist Pierre Lehu confirmed. No cause of death was announced.
For more than four decades, the beloved doc dished advice on orgasms, masturbation and fantasies, helping to de-stigmatize sex for generations of Americans.
Well into her nineties, the beloved therapist was still touting the benefits of making love.
“Understand, this country of ours is more sexually active than before,” she told The Post’s Cindy Adams in 2021. “Sex is no sin.”
Just last year, Westheimer was appointed New York state’s honorary ambassador to loneliness by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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Flashback: J6 Chairman Bennie Thomspon
Proposed Revoking Donald Trump's Secret
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