Alex Comfort
Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician best known for his 1972 nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex. He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector.
Read more about Alex Comfort: Early Life and Education, Life and Work, Personal Life, Partial Bibliography
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“My smiling child
Named for a noble ancestor
Great hunter or warrior
You will be one day.
Which will give your papa pride
But always I will remember you thus.”
—African Lullaby. As quoted in Roots, by Alex Haley (1976)
“What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)