Dr Ruth Westheimer, the chirpy, diminutive therapist who became a pop culture figure as she encouraged Americans to have sex safely, frequently and creatively, has died at the age of 96.
Dr Westheimer died yesterday at her home in Manhattan, the Washington Post reported citing her publicist.
Known universally as"Dr. Ruth," 1.40m tall lady with a distinctive German accent and perpetual cheerfulness preached the joys of good sex, great sex and, especially, safe sex. At 16 she emigrated to what was then Palestine and joined Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary organisation. After another divorce, she wed Manfred Westheimer, an engineer she met in 1961. That marriage produced a son and lasted until his death in 1997.
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