{"id":9476,"date":"2024-07-13T15:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T15:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2024-07-13T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T15:25:16","slug":"ruth-westheimer-the-sex-guru-known-as-dr-ruth-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frank and funny, the taboo-breaking psychologist said things on television and radio that would have been shocking coming from almost anyone else.<\/p>\n

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Ruth Westheimer, the grandmotherly psychologist who as \u201cDr. Ruth\u201d became America\u2019s best-known sex counselor with her frank, funny radio and television programs, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. <\/p>\n

Her death was announced by a spokesman, Pierre Lehu.<\/p>\n

Dr. Westheimer was in her 50s when she first went on the air in 1980, answering listeners\u2019 mailed-in questions about sex and relationships on the radio station WYNY in New York. The show, called \u201cSexually Speaking,\u201d was only a 15-minute segment heard after midnight on Sundays. But it was such a hit that she quickly became a national media celebrity and a one-woman business conglomerate.<\/p>\n

At her most popular, in the 1980s, she had syndicated live call-in shows on radio and television, wrote a column for Playgirl magazine, lent her name to a board game and its computer version, and began rolling out guidebooks on sexuality that covered the field from educating the young to recharging the old. College students loved her; campus speaking appearances alone brought in a substantial income. She appeared in ads for cars, soft drinks, shampoo, typewriters and condoms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She even landed a role in the 1985 French film \u201cOne Woman or Two,\u201d starring G\u00e9rard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver and released in the United States in 1987. (\u201cDr. Ruth will never be mistaken for an actress,\u201d Janet Maslin wrote in her New York Times review, \u201cbut she does have pep.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Westheimer with G\u00e9rard Depardieu, left, and Michel Aumont in the 1985 movie \u201cOne Woman or Two.\u201d \u201cDr. Ruth will never be mistaken for an actress,\u201d one critic wrote of her performance, \u201cbut she does have pep.\u201d<\/span>Moune Jamet\/Orion Pictures Corp., via Everett Collection<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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These days, some effort may be needed to recall that Ruth Westheimer had a radical formula and considerable influence on social mores. Talk shows abounded in the 1980s, but until she came along none had dealt so exclusively and clinically with sex. Nor could anyone have anticipated that the messenger of Eros would be a 4-foot-7 middle-aged teacher with a delivery that The Wall Street Journal described as \u201csomething like a cross between Henry Kissinger and a canary.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Frank and funny, the taboo-breaking psychologist said things on television and radio that would have been shocking coming from almost anyone else.Ruth Westheimer, the grandmotherly psychologist who as \u201cDr. Ruth\u201d became America\u2019s best-known sex counselor with her frank, funny radio and television programs, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Her death was announced by a spokesman, Pierre Lehu.Dr. Westheimer was in her 50s when she first went on the air in 1980, answering listeners\u2019 mailed-in questions about sex and relationships on the radio station WYNY in New York. The show, called \u201cSexually Speaking,\u201d was only a 15-minute segment heard after midnight on Sundays. But it was such a hit that she quickly became a national media celebrity and a one-woman business conglomerate.At her most popular, in the 1980s, she had syndicated live call-in shows on radio and television, wrote a column for Playgirl magazine, lent her name to a board game and its computer version, and began rolling out guidebooks on sexuality that covered the field from educating the young to recharging the old. College students loved her; campus speaking appearances alone brought in a substantial income. She appeared in ads for cars, soft drinks, shampoo, typewriters and condoms.She even landed a role in the 1985 French film \u201cOne Woman or Two,\u201d starring G\u00e9rard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver and released in the United States in 1987. (\u201cDr. Ruth will never be mistaken for an actress,\u201d Janet Maslin wrote in her New York Times review, \u201cbut she does have pep.\u201d)Dr. Westheimer with G\u00e9rard Depardieu, left, and Michel Aumont in the 1985 movie \u201cOne Woman or Two.\u201d \u201cDr. Ruth will never be mistaken for an actress,\u201d one critic wrote of her performance, \u201cbut she does have pep.\u201dMoune Jamet\/Orion Pictures Corp., via Everett CollectionThese days, some effort may be needed to recall that Ruth Westheimer had a radical formula and considerable influence on social mores. Talk shows abounded in the 1980s, but until she came along none had dealt so exclusively and clinically with sex. Nor could anyone have anticipated that the messenger of Eros would be a 4-foot-7 middle-aged teacher with a delivery that The Wall Street Journal described as \u201csomething like a cross between Henry Kissinger and a canary.\u201d We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9478,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9479,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}