NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was 96 ...

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In 1984 Lifetime was only a few months old when it launched “Good Sex! With Dr. Ruth Westheimer.” It was apt programming for a basic cable network that specifically targets women, an audience segment ...

Westheimer's matter-of-fact sex advice, along with her funny lively personality, made her a national media celebrity. She was born in Germany in 1928 and died July 12. Originally broadcast in 1996.

One of Susan Sapiro’s favorite memories of Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a Sukkot dinner in the late 1990s with friends who were in rabbinical school at the Jewish Theological Seminary. “At the meal, we ...

Co-author and friend Allison Gilbert says she and Pierre Lehu are honored to take the late sex therapist's upcoming book "over the finish line" Dia Dipasupil/Getty Dr. Ruth was able to realize one ...

Just before she died in July at the age of 96, the sex therapist finished 'The Joy of Connections,' a book with 100 tips for a less lonely, more meaningful life Then, Westheimer would pull out her big ...

Dame Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey fame once said: “There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.” For Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the therapist with a thick German accent who taught Americans to ...

She died on Friday at her home in New York City, surrounded by her family, according to publicist and friend Pierre Lehu. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media ...

This is FRESH AIR. Now we'd like to remember Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the four-foot-seven, grandmotherly German Jewish psychologist who became an unlikely sex therapist on radio and TV. She died last week ...