Dimitri Nosarev (@DimitriNosarev)

Ruth Westheimer, a sex therapist and media personality, died today at age 96. The Germany-born academic, whose death was confirmed to The New York Times by spokesperson Pierre Lehu, reportedly died at her Manhattan home in New York City. Westheimer, better known simply as Dr. Ruth allegedly the Holocaust and trained as a sniper for a Jewish paramilitary group in Palestine. Decades later, she became a household name in the U.S. talking about sex on the radio.