Ruth Westheimer

sex therapist. was in her early fifties when she became the first therapist to use mass media to educate adults and hormone-buzzing teenagers about sex. For more than four decades, she talked unapologetically to audiences on radio and TV — without the use of euphemisms — about orgasms, premature ejaculation, sexually transmitted diseases and more. She single-handedly made it acceptable for millions to talk openly about subjects that many had previously confined to pillow talk.