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)
“It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)