(CNN) -- I've been given a lot of credit for opening up the airwaves to frank sexual material, but I doubt without Helen Gurley Brown's pioneering articles in Cosmopolitan that I could have gotten away with as much as I did. Hugh Hefner showed a lot of naked women in Playboy, and the Playboy Advisor did offer some advice on sexual functioning (in between answering questions about cars and stereos, but men weren't having quite the same difficulties finding sexual satisfaction that women were back in the '60s. The sexual revolution was upon us and young people were having more sex, but that didn't mean young women were having better sex.
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer says Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmopolitan sex articles were pioneering
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She says before that, many women didn't know sex should bring pleasure, orgasm
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She says women's power and prowess in bedroom could translate to the boardroom
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Dr. Ruth: Brown taught women not just to give others pleasure in sex, but themselves, too
As @placeholder's influence grew, spreading around the world, Helen's crusade to teach women how to fully enjoy sex had a worldwide impact.