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May 3, 2019 · When Dr. Ruth Westheimer first hit the airwaves in in the early 1980s, she was a woman on a mission: America’s favorite sex therapist—psychosexual therapist, she’ll correct you—says she ...
May 4, 2019 · NPR's Scott Simon talks to the esteemed Dr. Ruth Westheimer about the new Hulu documentary, Ask Dr. Ruth, about her early life and rise to fame.
May 5, 2019 · Dr. Ruth Westheimer revolutionized talk around sex in America. At 90, she's letting her own walls come down in a new documentary. As a Holocaust refugee, she says it's her duty to speak up.
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Jul 27, 2024 · Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a German-American sex therapist whose frank, nonjudgmental advice, offered on radio and television programs as well as books, made her pop culture icon of the 1980s.
Who Is Dr. Ruth? How a Jewish grandmother forever changed America's ideas of sexual education and literacy. By Kathleen Thompson
Nov 9, 2023 · Taking the lessons of pandemic isolation — and her adolescent diary — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 95, decided she should be New York’s Loneliness Ambassador. And so she is.
Jun 3, 2018 · After countless radio and television appearances and not one but two autobiographies, the sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who turns 90 on June 4, takes stock of her long career.
