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'Dr. Ruth' Westheimer dies at age 96 after decades of dispersing frank advice about sex
“Dr. Ruth,” Westheimer, the diminutive sexpert whose heavy German accent and straight talk about sex on radio and TV brought frank discussion about relationships into American pop-culture, has died. She was 96. Known as "Dr. Ruth" for her books …