The globe has dropped a legend.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the celebrated intercourse therapist who took radio, Tv set and publishing by storm with her frank conversations about really like and sex, has died, her publicist Pierre Lehu verified to NBC Information. She was 96.

“She died peacefully at her home in New York City on July 12th surrounded by her loving relatives,” her household, which incorporates kids Joel and Miriam, shared in a assertion, “just about a thirty day period immediately after celebrating her 96th birthday.”

A childhood survivor of the Holocaust, the German-born Westheimer rose to fame in 1980, when she was in her early 50s, with her late-evening get in touch with-in radio demonstrate on New York’s WYNY, Sexually Speaking. With her modest physique and willingness to speak candidly about taboo subjects like everyday life in the bedroom, she shortly turned a feeling. 

At initial just a 15-moment computer software precisely exactly where she answered issues about intercourse and supplied strategies to callers, the broadcast was in the end expanded into a nationally syndicated show that ran proper up till 1990.