RIP Dr. Ruth

[MileHigh]

96.

Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96

 

[Liut]

Thought she was already dead.
RIP

 

[User 149557]

People talk about being “ahead of your time.”

She was 75 years ahead of her time.

 

[Webster]

She was a regular at the charity day when I worked on Wall Street and was very funny (and tiny). She came into my office one year when I was working that day and asked why I looked so serious. I said that I was just busy amd stressed. She asked me “well, are you having good sex?” I said, “I’ve got a 4 year old and a 14 month old, so I’m having infrequent sex”. She insisted on trying to call my wife to speak with her. I definitely didn’t give her my home number.

 

[DanOregon]

96 - Holocaust survivor. She actually was pretty influential in the no-sex '80s when everyone suddenly was freaking out about STDs. I still think of this though. This set still delivers. So damn funny.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

I guess God needed to have better sex.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

She was a regular at the charity day when I worked on Wall Street and was very funny (and tiny). She came into my office one year when I was working that day and asked why I looked so serious. I said that I was just busy amd stressed. She asked me “well, are you having good sex?” I said, “I’ve got a 4 year old and a 14 month old, so I’m having infrequent sex”. She insisted on trying to call my wife to speak with her. I definitely didn’t give her my home number.

 

[Spartan Squad]

She was a regular at the charity day when I worked on Wall Street and was very funny (and tiny). She came into my office one year when I was working that day and asked why I looked so serious. I said that I was just busy amd stressed. She asked me “well, are you having good sex?” I said, “I’ve got a 4 year old and a 14 month old, so I’m having infrequent sex”. She insisted on trying to call my wife to speak with her. I definitely didn’t give her my home number.

This either saved you grief or was an epically missed opportunity. The grief might have been worth the story and the risk.

 

[HanSenSE]

96.

Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96

96, not, well, someone needed to point out what we all thought.

 

[X-Hack]

What a remarkable backstory. After being orphaned in the Holocaust (she was sent on a Kindertransport to Switzerland in 1938, never to see her family again, as they were all murdered in Auschwitz), she made it to pre-state Israel as a teenager, trained as a sniper in the Haganah (forerunner of the IDF) and was gravely wounded in the War for Independence.

 

[micropolitan guy]

96.

Ruth Westheimer, the Sex Guru Known as Dr. Ruth, Dies at 96

I never thought she'd make it past 69.

 

[Webster]

This either saved you grief or was an epically missed opportunity. The grief might have been worth the story and the risk.

I told Mrs. W the story much later.

 

[qtlaw]

What I remember is that she simplified sex in the 80’s as something that was simply a part of everyone’s life, not some super secret thing only the people “in the know” got to talk about and have knowledge of.

 

[Songbird]

Dr. Ruth was original Hawk Tuah girl.

 

[DanOregon]

Its sad to see that we've gone from a credentialed sex therapist to an internet meme to get advice on sex.

 

[HanSenSE]

Its sad to see that we've gone from a credentialed sex therapist to an internet meme to get advice on sex.

See also: Dr. Faucci vs. Aaron Rodgers.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I listened to a podcast where George Packer, who writes a lot of foreign affairs articles, was invited to a dinner at the German Embassy hosted by Angela Merkel. Merkel was catching political heat because she had a relatively generous refugee policy. Dr. Ruth was somehow a friend of Merkel and was at the dinner along with Henry Kissinger. Packer said that Kissinger started advising Merkel not to admit to many refugees because adding different kinds of people to the population of a country sows social division. Dr, Ruth, who had been quiet, started in on Kissinger, asking how a fellow refugee from Hitler could say such a thing. Packer thought Merkel had planted Dr. Ruth at the dinner specifically to rebut Kissinger.

I thought that would have to be the highlight of any journalistic career to sit and watch that exchange.

 

[DanOregon]

She had many skills.

Dr. Ruth, Sniper

 

[Baron Scicluna]

One time, I had a couple of hours free to look at her autobiography. I got as far as her being able to go to Israel after WWII. The part of the book that stood out to me was one time, after she had left her family on the kindertransport, she received a letter from her father.

On the letter was a stain. Her father wrote her an apology for that stain, and said that they didn’t have anything like butter that could make the stain, but he couldn’t waste the paper after he had written and write another copy because they had very little paper to spare.

Many years later, Dr. Ruth showed the letter to a friend. The friend wondered if the stain had been a tear from her father crying. Dr. Ruth said that in all of those years, she had never thought of that.

RIP

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

And Castellanos literally just hit a deep drive to center.