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Pioneering, taboo-pushing sex guru died Friday at her home in New York City
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the famed therapist and radio talk show host who became one of America’s most prominent voices on sex, has died at the age of 96.
Westheimer died Friday at her home in New York, the sex guru’s spokesperson confirmed to the New York Times. No cause of death was provided.
Dr. Ruth’s unlikely journey to becoming America’s premier sexpert began in Nazi Germany — where she was born in 1928; both her parents were killed in the Holocaust — to Israel, where she moved following World War II, to France, where she studied psychology, and finally New York City where, then in her 40s, she worked under pioneering sex therapist Helen Singer Kaplan.
In Westheimer’s early 50s, she launched the radio talk show Sexually Speaking on New York’s WYNY, where she tackled a wide range of sexual subjects previously too taboo for airwaves. Though it only aired weekly for 15 minutes on Sunday nights, within a year of its first broadcast, the show was attracting a radio audience of a quarter-million listeners. Syndication to dozens of more radio stations nationwide soon followed, quickly establishing Dr. Ruth as one of the nation’s most popular sex therapist.
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