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Awards Chatter

Dr. Ruth Westheimer - 'Ask Dr. Ruth'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The world's most famous sex therapist, who at 91 is the subject of a new Hulu doc, opens up about surviving the Holocaust, pursuing a career in psychosexual and relationship therapy, becoming an international celebrity and today's hot-button sex-related topics. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded by Harley Yanoff and produced by Matthew Whitehurst and Joshua Farnham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Emirates, fly better. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 300 fourth episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood

0:43.1

Reporters Awards podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my

0:46.6

guest today is the world's most famous sex therapist. A German-born

0:51.4

Holocaust survivor who emigrated to America, pursued a career in psychosexual

0:56.1

and relationship therapy, and then in her 50s became a household name, thanks to her candid discussion

1:02.4

of sex on radio and TV, in countless books,

1:05.8

columns, lectures, and university courses, and now, at the age of 91, in a terrific documentary

1:11.8

that debuted at Sundance in January, in theaters, in May, and on

1:15.7

Hulu in June, called Ask Dr. Ruth, the legendary Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

1:22.4

Over the course of our conversation at the Washington Heights apartment in which Dr. Ruth has resided for 54 years,

1:28.0

the 91-year-old and I discussed the devastating impact that the Holocaust had on her and her family. the and ended up starting her own private practice. How in 1980 she wound up with her

1:46.1

own radio show sexually speaking which turned her into a sudden celebrity and

1:50.4

how she handled that. What she makes of the hot button sex-related topics of today, including

1:56.8

dating apps, porn, legalized prostitution, gender pronouns, insells, and the Me Too movement plus much more and so without further ado let's

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go to that conversation.

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