Ruth Westheimer Quotes

When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

There is no scientific proof that any food increases sexual drive.

For some people, 'ten feet tall' is just a metaphor. For me, it's more than twice my height!

It's up to the man to not be offended when she tells him what she needs. He shouldn't say, "I know that!" And he shouldn't say, "The woman that I had before you had ten orgasms without her telling me anything!"

Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say 'go for help.'

Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.

The time has come when women should pay for a gigolo. Why should only rich men have young, beautiful women? Rich women should have young, beautiful men.

Part of my success is because I'm very old-fashioned.

Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.

In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet.