Renowned sex therapist and talk show host Dr Ruth Westheimer, who spoke openly about sex and intimate subjects, died on Friday aged 96.
Her death was confirmed to CBS News by her publicist.
The BBC reports that Ruth Westheimer, often referred to as Dr Ruth, became known for talking openly about sex, becoming a pop culture icon as well as a best-selling author with guides like “Sex for Dummies”.
She pushed for having open conversations about sex with a non-judgmental approach.
Born in Frankfurt in 1928, Karola Ruth Siegel was ten when her parents sent her to Switzerland at the time of Kristallnacht, the pogrom against German Jews by the Nazi Party’s Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces along with some members of the Hitler Youth and some German civilians on 9 November 1938.
Dr Ruth never saw her parents again, and believed they were killed at Auschwitz.
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