FOG BLOG CANADA LOG: SUE JOHANSON , WHO FOR DECADES HAD CALL SEX SHOWS HAS DIED AT 93!

Sue Johanson, beloved Canadian sex educator, dead at 93 Broadcaster was known for Sunday Night Sex Show and Talk Sex With Sue Johanson Sue Johanson, the beloved Canadian broadcaster who in her golden years enraptured a generation with straightforward sex advice, has died at age 93, a representative confirmed to CBC News on Thursday.

Johanson died in a long-term care home in Thornhill, Ont., just north of Toronto, surrounded by her family, the representative said.

The broadcaster was best known for hosting the Canadian call-in radio and then television program Sunday Night Sex Show, which led to a successful U.S. spinoff called Talk Sex With Sue Johanson.

Born in Toronto, Johanson began her career as a nurse, receiving her training in Winnipeg. During the 1970s, she opened a birth control clinic at a Toronto high school and ran it for almost two decades. "She never brushed people aside. She treated everyone absolutely the same. She was never judgmental, nor was she condescending or disapproving of any question that came her way.… I think everybody felt like they had another mother or another grandmother with Sue."

Johanson's Sunday Night Sex Show premiered as a live call-in program on Toronto radio in 1984, with a television version of the show airing on W Network from 1996 to 2005. The U.S. spinoff, Talk Sex With Sue Johanson, began in 2002 and concluded in 2008.

"My mom was amazing. She could be anywhere at any time, and people would recognize her voice," Jane Johanson said.

She offered callers advice on everything from how to use sex toys and ways to spice things up in the bedroom, to navigating the taboos of the birds and the bees — always with her signature humour and candour.

"It didn't matter who you were, what your sexual preference was, how you identified, what you might be dealing with in terms of the time of AIDS — like, she embraced everybody and who they were. And that just … made me so proud. We are so proud of our dear Sue, my mom," Jane Johanson said.