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Dr. Ruth’s Lifelong, and Sometimes Surprising, Relationship With Music: ‘During Sex? Absolutely No!’
'Dr. Ruth' Westheimer, who died Saturday, had a loving, lifelong and sometimes unexpected relationship with music: 'During sex? Absolutely no!'
Westheimer, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 96, became an international celebrity in the 1980s, breaking societal taboos around sex while building an empire that included syndicated television programs, radio shows, and dozens of books. “I am often asked — indeed, I often wonder myself — why it is that I should always have had such joie de vivre in the face of the losses and dislocations I had to endure,” she wrote in her 2003 book “Musically Speaking: A Life Through Song.” “The answer I always gave was that the warmth and security of my early childhood had a remarkable power and influence. Westheimer moved to Israel just as it was declaring statehood; living on a kibbutz, ancient Horah dance tunes lifted her spirits (they “helped us clean the toilets,” she once told me).
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