Claire Berenice Rayner OBE (née Berk; born 22 January 1931) is an English journalist best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.

There was also a pathological curiosity that, frankly, she needed. She has been held up, rightly, as an expert on sex and relationships – though, intriguingly, this can't be said to have come from experience. Claire and my wonderful father Des, who were married for 53 years, have often said that their relationship didn't leave much time beforehand for experience with others. But she was unflinching in answering questions and, as a result, people felt able to ask her the difficult ones. In doing so, as in so much else, she educated herself. And of course a strong marriage – and theirs was remarkable – gave her a concrete base from which to strike out into the world. Claire Rayner, OBE, was an English journalist, novelist and television personality, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.Rayner is Vice-President (and former President) of the British Humanist Association, a Distinguished Supporter of the Humanist Society of Scotland and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. She is also a prominent supporter of the British republican movement. Condition: Very Good. Tony King (illustrator). Ships from the UK. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. I got this for my 2 year old. It's honest and not cutesy which I appreciate. I was looking for a book that explained body functions, sex, and death in a to the point frank way without being overly explicit. This absolutely fits the bill.

Rayner expressed delight to be an Ambassador for Hearing Concern in the charity’s Diamond Jubilee year: Condition: Acceptable. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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She is president of the Patients Association and is the author of a chapter in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr. Michelle Tempest.

In the 80s, when HIV/Aids emerged as a major public health issue, she was inundated with condom samples. They sat in boxes underneath her desk and we, and our friends, were encouraged to avail ourselves of their contents. More than once, friends (over the age of 16) who could find nowhere else to go to bed together were given the run of the spare room. Better there than somewhere unsuitable, she always said.They bloody will now. As thousands upon thousands of people have made clear to me over the past week, she was, for so many, more than just the kind of celebrity the internet age has gifted us. They tweeted about her being an important part of their lives, about the way her Body Book for children provided their sex education. She was a sane voice that could be relied upon to help them make sense of the knotty complications of their personal, sexual lives. There were no boundaries with Claire, nothing that could not be discussed. And if it was OK to discuss it – being gay, cross-dressing, waxing and waning libido, abortion, the evils of child abuse and violent marriages, the taboos of incest or underage sex, the huge technicolour cavalcade of being human – then the loneliness of a desperate problem was mitigated. She was unflinching, curious, reassuring. She knew stuff and she was bloody good at communicating it.