That’s right folks. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, world renowned sex-expert (who is 76yrs old and teaches some courses at Princeton University) spoke to a group of students at Butler College tonight. I luckily had a connection who was able to get me in, and I got a chance to hear Dr. Ruth speak. She actually had a lot of good things to say – she was primarily talking about the essential need for sexual literacy in our world today. She believes that it is of utmost importance that people become sexually literate about sex, contraception and about the myths that still prevail in our society today (i.e. if you masturbate, hair will grow on your palms). She actually had a lot of really good things to say. And she is incredibly respectful of people’s values and beliefs; for her, sexual literacy and respect are the most important things for this conversation. I think the church probably could learn some from Dr. Ruth, and her desire to just really talk very bluntly and clearly about sex. Sex is not something that we know how to talk about well in the church today. And sexual literacy is something that we need in the church and in youth groups.
Anyway, I also got a chance to grab some video for the night, so if you want to hear and see Dr. Ruth in action, you’ll have to check out these videos:
- Dr. Ruth shares some knowledge about “special women”
- Dr. Ruth gets “biblical” and talks about masturbation and Onan
- Dr. Ruth talks about American myths about masturbation