Dr. Ruth’s Lifelong, and Sometimes Surprising, Relationship With Music: ‘During Sex? Absolutely No!’

Zack O’Malley Greenburg is the author of five books, including “A-List Angels” and the Jay-Z biography “Empire State of Mind,” and a former senior editor for Forbes. He writes a music business newsletter called the Zogblog.

I first got to know legendary sex guru Dr. Ruth Westheimer as an undergrad at Yale, where I took her seminar on “Personal Fulfillment and Intimacy in the American Family” in the spring of 2007. And although I learned a great deal about her primary area of expertise, some of her most memorable comments involved another passion of hers: music.

“Some people get aroused by Bolero,” she explained, rolling each letter “r” as she always

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