Let’s Talk About Retirement: Why Dr. Ruth Was My Role Model

For years, I have said that Dr. Ruth (Ruth Westheimer) is my role model. Dr. Ruth, sex therapist, professor, and author, spent her life educating people about sexual health. I heard Dr. Ruth speak in the early 1980s and again in 2014. In fact, I went to see the documentary, Ask Dr. Ruth twice because of my admiration for her as a person and for her work.

Though sex is a topic that inspires curiosity, questions, and confusion in people of all ages, in the 1980s no one was talking about it. Dr. Ruth sought to change that. She started her career at WYNY, the New York radio station where people would call in with questions about sex and relationships, and she would answer their questions by being honest, frank, and serious, but with a sense of humor that was magnetic.