Not only is your documentary really, really good,
but it could possibly be nominated for an Oscar.
You could win an Oscar for that documentary.
Tell your audience--
OK?
--That that's what I'm wishing for.
I want to one of those little statues
that I saw the other day at the dinner, at the Governors Ball.
I saw them.
And I was worried that they would give them all away.
I want them to keep a little one for me.
So tell them, tell them.
Yes.
Dr. Ruth should win an Oscar.
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This is Sex For Dummies.
This is your 45th book, is that correct?
Yes.
That's amazing.
I do talk the books, and Pierre Lehu writes them.
And this one is the fourth edition of Sex For Dummies.
And Wiley, the publisher, called me
and said that's what they want.
And I'm very happy because, look at your audience.
That's the book for them.
Uh oh.
She just called all of you dummies.
No, I say everybody can learn.
And what the wonderful thing is about this book,
you don't have to read the whole book.
You just look at the little symbols
here of what you want to talk about,
and I'm talking about some things--
don't read now.
OK, sorry, sorry.
Right now talk to me.
But what the wonderful thing is about the book
is that you can read only the things that you're
interested in.
I have new chapters in there.
For example, on a serious note, I'm
very worried about the millennials, your audience.
I'm really worried about them losing the ability
that you have, you are brilliant at it,
of having a conversation.
Because everybody, not your audience,
everybody else is on the phone.
And we are going to lose that ability of conversing
and of having conversation.
The other thing that I'm talking about here of all ages
is the issue of loneliness.
Because, and you have addressed that too,
and I'm worried about, of all ages,
I'm worried that people are kind of giving up
trying to have relationships.
They're giving up on making sure that they
find somebody who smiles when you come home at night.
And what you just did with that thing fits into my book.
You will give them a book, Sex For Dummies.
Oh, they know what they're doing.
Look at her.
But they don't read it.
We have audience questions.
I love things like this, because the audience
is going to ask you some sex questions,
and I-- and you're going to answer them.
OK.
Explicitly.
Oh, they're on the card.
Yes, OK, Tuesday Powers, that's your name?
Tuesday Powers?
Yes, yes it is.
Interesting.
Wow, what a great name.
At what age do men's sex drives decrease?
My friends and I are over 50, and we've noticed
that we want sex more often.
Women as they age want sex more often,
but the men's sex drive seem to decrease.
First of all, a very good question.
And I do believe I did a book, but I'm not bringing it here
now, Sex Over 50.
It doesn't fit your audience.
However, people have to learn that they
can be sexually active until the late stage in life
if they're smart.
If they know that at a certain age
to engage in sex in the mornings.
The testosterone level is highest
and people, older people, should get up in the morning,
go to the bathroom, have a little breakfast,
back into bed.
And it is not true that women don't like
to have sex in the mornings.
After a good night's sleep, and whoever they are with,
they should also go back into bed.
Women, if they're with a man and it is intercourse,
then women have to know to use a lubricant.
Never to engage in sexual intercourse
without a well lubricated vagina.
It holds true for two women, too.
They should also use lubricant.
I don't want people to tell me that intercourse was painful.
That's the important thing.
Because then she's going to say, it hurts, OK?
So the takeaway here is lubricant.
All right, we're going to take a break
and we're going to come back with more questions.
We have someone named Lind--
Not only the audience.
You, too.
You can say a friend of mine.
Yeah, you're helping everyone.
You're helping me and everyone.
Lindsey Greene is here, and she says, how often should you
be having sex with your partner to keep your marriage
healthy and happy?
Very important question.
I could never answer that.
There are times that you feel good, you have a good job,
you are visiting Ellen on her show,
and you might come home nice and sexually aroused.
Don't waste that.
Don't waste that moment.
Have sex, but don't just pick up somebody.
Have sex with that person that is your husband or wife
or companion or whatever, and make the best of it.
I don't think there's a normal.
I think you're also saying sometimes you're healthier
and in the mood more and sometimes you're not.
So there's not really a set--
it's not like you're supposed to have sex every day
or twice a week, or whatever.
It's just when you're healthy and happy.
Lisa McCarly, she says, is it common or normal
for women to lose interest in sex after menopause?
Definitely not.
Loud and clear, for your young audience,
make sure that everybody knows that that's a myth.
That's a myth.
There she is.
Tell her it's a myth.
Even after menopause, a woman still does feel sexual arousal
and wants to have that orgasmic response, especially
if she's in a relationship that she's happy about.
Again, I have to say something about the Jewish tradition.
In the Jewish tradition it says that, even after menopause,
a husband is still obligated to provide sexual satisfaction
to his wife.
So that proves it's not just for having children.
It proves that it cements the relationship
and it proves that you should never put sex on a back shelf.
All right, wonderful.
OK.
[APPLAUSE]
Those are great.
Ask Dr. Ruth is available on Hulu.
I want to thank Dr. Ruth, Maya Rudolph, and Jon Dorenbos
I'll see you tomorrow.
Be kind to one another.
Bye.
Be kind.