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Does Viagra work for women? What are the side effects from using Uprema? And what the heck is Zonagen? If you thought sex hasn't changed much over the years you have a lot to learn, and Dr. Ruth is the one to tell you all about it! Dr. Ruth is back with a new edition that tackles the hottest, most current sexual issues. Updated material includes expanded coverage of medical concerns, from prostate cancer and Viagra to birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, expert advice cuts through the medical jargon and presents the latest and most comprehensive information on AIDS – with new statistics and research to current treatments. New and updated illustrations supplement no-nonsense advice on everything from puberty to procreation, and expanded coverage of cybersex resources offers tips for exploring sex on the Internet to enhance understanding and increase enjoyment while protecting kids from inappropriate web sites. Sex For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides you with the information you need to make smart choices about your sexuality.

432 pages, Paperback

First published December 28,2000

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432 pages, Paperback
Published
December 28, 2000 by For Dummies
ISBN
9780764553028
ASIN
076455302X
Language
English

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Karola Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, and Holocaust survivor.
Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the Nazis came to power, her parents sent the ten-year-old girl to a school in Switzerland for safety, remaining behind themselves because of her elderly grandmother. They were both subsequently sent to concentration camps by the Gestapo, where they were killed. After World War II ended, she immigrated to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine. Despite being only 4 feet 7 inches (1.39 m) tall and 17 years of age, she joined the Haganah, and was trained as a sniper, but never saw combat. On her 20th birthday, Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during a mortar fire attack on Jerusalem during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, and almost lost both of her feet. Moving to Paris, France two years later, she studied psychology at the Sorbonne. Immigrating to the United States in 1956, she worked as a maid to put herself through graduate school, earned an M.A. degree in sociology from The New School in 1959, and earned a doctorate at 42 years of age from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1970. Over the next decade, she taught at a number of universities, and had a private sex therapy practice.
Westheimer's media career began in 1980 with the radio call-in show Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. In 1983 it was the top-rated radio show in the area, in the country's largest radio market. She then launched a television show, The Dr. Ruth Show, which by 1985 attracted 2 million viewers a week. She became known for giving serious advice while being candid, but also warm, cheerful, funny, and respectful, and for her tag phrase: "Get some". In 1984 The New York Times noted that she had risen "from obscurity to almost instant stardom." She hosted several series on the Lifetime Channel and other cable television networks from 1984 to 1993. She became a household name and major cultural figure, appeared on several network TV shows, co-starred in a movie with Gérard Depardieu, appeared on the cover of People, sang on a Tom Chapin album, appeared in several commercials, and hosted Playboy videos. She is the author of 45 books on sex and sexuality.
The one-woman 2013 play Becoming Dr. Ruth, written by Mark St. Germain, is about her life, as is the 2019 documentary, Ask Dr. Ruth, directed by Ryan White. Westheimer had been inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Leo Baeck Medal, the Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Novecento
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April 16,2025
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Surprisingly enough this was a great book! Not to read all at once, but to pick at bits and pieces throughout High School. Then once college came along and the parts were relevant - ALL of my friends and their boyfriends, and their boyfriends friends borrowed it.

Yeah its a sad version of my mother's "maturation" book. But hey at least I can't say I wasn't well informed.

PS very clinical. NOT porno style. I'd recommend it to every pre-teen, teen, college student & adult.
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BippyT_T
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April 16,2025
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Got it from a friend just before I got married. Very educational.
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Nobody5464
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April 16,2025
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Sex is not only about positions

Sex also became very wide science with too much varieties for this frustrated civilization


Dating is considered as a part of sex so chapters about it is there


There is alot of things related to safety of sex like talking about contraceptions and sexually transmitted disease which is tremendously important to know about


Foreplay and afterplay and how to make the sex more emotional and less mechanical


Now we admit the homosexuality as  a variation of sex so LGBT culture made the sex thing more complicated


Even From non religious point of view still monogamy is the best for safety although not always the most enjoyable relationships


Myths about maturbation are all demolished here

Thanks god and of course the author

It made me remember my shock at my 4th year in medical school reading a book about behavioral science and read in the definition of masturbation that it is a normal human activity


Also there is a talk about sex for old and sex for disabled people


There is a full chapter which had great details about sexually transmitted infections or diseases it is nearly a medical one like this in my gynacology book but of course more simplified


Another amazing part is the talk about male sexual diseases like erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation and others


Poor performance in my point of view in the part of legal aspects as it explained the laws but with little details about justifications behind every one
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Neimaj
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April 16,2025
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Für erfahrene 20jährige nicht viel neues. Ausserdem scheint mir die Wahl der Autorin, eine eher konservative Jüdin, nicht die beste Wahl dafür zu sein. Für andere Leute gute Allgemeinlektüre.
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69thStreet
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April 16,2025
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GREAT educational book with practical information, humor, and words of wisdom from Dr. Ruth. She tells it like it is!
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Ellekazam
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April 16,2025
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Super generic. Covers everything from birth till death. Waste of time. Avoid it
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SapphicQueenMina
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April 16,2025
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I guess it could be something for teenagers mostly, as a sex education guide but generally, almost everything contained here is pretty basic and I dare say, conservative at times.
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