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I cannot prove. In the Jewish 
tradition, it says that if a hus-
band brings his wife to sexual 
satisfaction before he ejaculates, 
she will bear a son. I would like 
to see a scientifically validated 
study. It could be that if there 
is more wetness in the vagina, 
maybe the male spermatozoa 
have an easier time to get to the 
ovum. I don’
t have any proof 
of that, but we know that Jews 
wanted to have sons. 

IN OTHER RELIGIONS, 
SEX IS ASSOCIATED WITH 
GUILT, BUT JUDAISM 
EMBRACES IT. IS IT CUL-
TURAL? GENETIC? 
RW: A very important point. 
Never, in the Jewish tradition, is 
there anything prohibiting sex 
in any position. They wanted 
people to have sex. Never is it 
associated with guilt. On the 

contrary, it is an obligation on 
a husband to satisfy his wife, 
which is fascinating if you look 
at other religions that have 
many more problems.

HOW INTERTWINED ARE 
SEX AND SPIRITUALITY? 
SHOULD SEX BE A RELI-
GIOUS OR SPIRITUAL 
EXPERIENCE?
RW: I’
m a sex therapist, and 
I’
m saying sex should be sex. 
Period. If you want to make it 
spiritual, make it spiritual. If 
you want to just make it bodily, 
make it bodily. The important 
thing is to be sexually literate, to 
know when there is a problem 
to go for help and to make sure 
to keep sex alive even in older 
age. Now, I’
m not saying that 
everybody can have a baby, 
like Sarah, at the age of 90. Not 
likely. 

WHO WOULD YOU VOTE 
FOR AS THE SEXIEST MAN 
OR WOMAN IN THE BIBLE? 
RW: I don’
t know. But if you 
ask me if there is a man who 
is not alive anymore, who I 
would have liked to have spent 
more time with when I was in 
Israel, it’
s certainly [David] Ben-
Gurion. I don’
t want to say that 
I would have liked to sleep with 
him. It’
s not appropriate. First of 
all, he was short; second, he had 
that wonderful smile when he 
looked at Golda Meir.
I had never met him, but in 
1948, when Israel was declared 
a state, I was in Jerusalem, 
dancing the whole night. So, if 
you ask me anybody in history 
that I would have liked to know 
better, which is also interesting, 
the verb “
to know” in Hebrew 
is “ladá’at” — “ladá’
at” is “
to 
know.
” Interesting because that’
s 

what I’
m talking about from 
morning to night. It’
s not just a 
sex act. 

WHAT IS THE MOST-
IMPORTANT MESSAGE 
THE BIBLE, OR JUDAISM, 
TEACHES US ABOUT SEX 
AND RELATIONSHIPS?
RW: The most important 
sentence in there, in my 
opinion, is that God did not 
want man to be alone. Period. 
I think this is true even today, 
when so many people, young 
people and older people, 
have trouble committing to a 
relationship because they always 
think there’
s something better 
out there. So, I think that is 
one lesson to be learned. The 
Bible, and certainly the Jewish 
tradition, wanted people to be 
in a relationship. 

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