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by Lina Das

exclaims: ‘Who’s laughing now?’).
In June Dr. Ruth was in England to
take part in an Oxford Union
debate on pornography, ‘and just
last night I was [in a hotel] and

plenty of young people recognised

me. At the age of 91 and a half —

you must say the half — that makes

me very happy.’ There is little that

doesn’t make Dr. Ruth happy —

she is one of the most joyful people

you are ever likely to meet. But it is

a joy which has been extremely

hard won. Born in Germany in

1928, the only child of Orthodox

Jews, she was just ten when she

lost both her parents in the Holo-

caust. She spent the war in an

orphanage in Switzerland then, in

her early 20s, joined Haganah — an

underground militant organisation

A

S THE world’s most

famous sex therapist, Dr.

Ruth Westheimer is the

author of more than 40

books, has fronted TV

advice shows and met everyone

from Princess Diana and Eliza-

beth Taylor to Presidents Obama,

Clinton and Trump.
Yet she remains unequivocal about one
of her proudest achievements: ‘It was
wonderful,’ she says, ‘to teach the British
about orgasms!’
Her TV show, Good Sex!, made for eye-
opening viewing when it aired on C4 in
the Eighties, but viewers couldn’t help
but warm to the diminutive therapist as
she talked about ‘rrrrrelationships’ and
‘errrrroticism’ in her distinctive German
burr, punctuating her advice with that
trademark high-pitched giggle.
She revolutionised the way people —
not least us uptight Brits — talked more
openly about sex, ‘And I loved coming to
England,’ she says. ‘It made me smile to
think of the British with their umbrellas
and top hats being in bed.’
Dr. Ruth is 91 (which explains the top
hat reference), though in matters of sex,
she shows no signs of slowing down.
She has just finished work on a new
edition of her best-selling book, Sex For
Dummies — which even made it into an
episode of Friends (Ross was given the
guide as a joke, but after impressing
Rachel with some new moves, he

She shocked Sixties

America with her VERY

frank advice. Now, aged

91½, Dr Ruth’s story has

been made into a film.

And, finds LINA DAS,

she’s still on a mission

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