# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-comfort
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:17.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-comfort"
name: "Alex Comfort"
slug: "alex-comfort"
description: "Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician, writer and activist, known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972). He was a poet and author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, geriatrician, sexologist, political theorist and commentator, anarchist, and pacifist."
tagline: "British academic and physician (1920–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Comfort_appearing_on_After_Dark_on_1_July_1989.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-02-10"
deathDate: "2000-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump