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Post by billhammond on Jul 13, 2024 9:59:31 GMT -5
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was 96.
(Cause of death was reportedly self-abuse.)
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Post by John B on Jul 13, 2024 10:21:57 GMT -5
From a New Yorker article: "Dr. Ruth was a trained sniper. “Not an act of heroism,” Westheimer clarified. “In 1947 and ’48, everybody in then-Palestine belonged to some group. I chose the group that was the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. And I did not know that I had good aim. So when they did some selection, whatever, they put me in a group and they taught me how to put the Sten gun together. I shot the sky very nicely with my eyes closed.” Fortunately, she never had to put her skills to use. “I have no idea what the experience would be, if I had to show it. But I was a very good sniper. I could put the five bullets in the red circle. And I know how to throw hand grenades.”"  |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jul 13, 2024 12:47:47 GMT -5
(Cause of death was reportedly self-abuse.)[\quote] Bad dog. Mike |
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