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By CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
 

Rose Hacker
Belly dancing, sex therapist, Rose to celebtrate 100 years

BRITAIN’S first sex therapist turns 100 tomorrow. Rose Hacker, born in Kilburn in 1906, spent her early years designing clothes for her father, a Polish immigrant, before marrying Mark, an accountant.
After having two children, she entered politics, representing Labour in the LCC (London County Council) in the 40s, which later became the GLC (Greater London Authority).
In 1948, Rose became a marriage guidance counsellor for Relate, which she did for 30 years, to help couples who had been made “strangers to each other” by the Second World War.
It was at this time that she wrote The Opposite Sex (Telling the Teenagers) – which has sold 250,000 copies – driven to write it because she felt people did not link sex with relationships. She said: “Marriage guidance put relationships on the map, where sex and relationships had always been seen separately.”
Rose, who once appeared in a TV show called ‘Grey Sex’, is also an advocate of the importance of sex for all generations. She said: “Sex is in everything – history, art, and literature. People need sex all their lives, and should be able to talk about it with their children, so they understand it is part of a relationship.” Rose, now lives in the Mary Feilding Guild in Highgate, a residential home. She says spending time with her large family and belly dancing has kept her young.
She will see in her centenery on Friday with fellow residents and is having a big party at a hotel with her family on Sunday.
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