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For decades on American radio and TV, serious discussion of sex was all but unknown.

The person who did most to change that was Dr Ruth Westheimer.

In the early 1980s, in New York, Dr Ruth hosted a new kind of radio program.

Her openness about sex made her famous across America.

Even in New York, disco songs about sex therapists have been a rarity. Hello everybody, this is Dr. Booth speaking of sex.

And speaking of it, let me say that loving it can cause you distress.

Ruth Westheimer, born in Germany, had already turned 50 when almost overnight she became famous as Dr Ruth.

Starting in 1980 she had a weekly sex advice show on radio WYN Y in New York. Hello I'm Dr Ruth Westheimer and I'm going to answer some of your questions.

At first, Dr Ruth was on air for just 15 minutes very late on Sunday nights, but soon she was allowed much longer to talk

about relationships and sex. This is a serious problem. It could very well be that when he did have the sexual episode where he failed,

that he feels really miserable about it,

and that maybe every single time now that he is so worried about failing a gay miserably.

Audience has adored her accent, her sense of humour, and her brisk common sense.

Sexually speaking, you are on the air.

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