Alex Comfort
British academic and physician (1920-2000) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 80
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.
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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 2000 · aged 80