To many, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a woman of the ’80s. That was the decade that her fame peaked with her weekly radio call-in, “Sexually Speaking,” and with TV guest appearances, a sitcom pilot, a board game and all the other trappings of pre-meme fame. Her producers knew she had something when they noticed everyone in the building stopping work to listen in. Americans created many nicknames for the diminutive, four-foot-seven educator. Diane Sawyer called her “Grandma Freud.” Less respectful perhaps: “The Happy Munchkin of Sex.” But in the end, it was Dr. Ruth that stuck.

Source: National Post May 17, 2019 19:15 UTC