Ruth Westheimer (born June 4, 1928), better known as
Dr. Ruth, is an American
sex therapist, media personality, and author.
The New York Times described her as a "
Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of
cultural icon in the 1980s.… She ushered in the new age of freer, franker talk about sex on radio and television—and was endlessly parodied for her limitless enthusiasm and for having an accent only a
psychologist could have."