Dr. Ruth Karola Westheimer (born Karola rith Siegel June 4, 1928), or just Dr. Ruth, is a popular American sex therapist. She was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany.

She has written a number of books on human sexuality, including Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex. She has also worked as a lecturer and a professor at New York University and taught a seminar on sex recently at Yale University. She currently has a nationally-syndicated television show and a nationally-syndicated radio show.

She was a sniper in the Haganah in Jerusalem in 1948 and on her twentieth birthday took a serious shrapnel wound from an Arab shell.

External links

• Dr. Ruth's webpage (http://www.drruth.com)
• Dr. Ruth Westheimer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922756/) at the Internet Movie Database