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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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