Alex Comfort

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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