Alex Comfort

Alex Comfort
Born
Alexander Comfort

(1920-02-10)10 February 1920
London, England
Died26 March 2000(2000-03-26) (aged 80)
Oxfordshire, England, UK
EducationMedicine
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Author
  • British physician
  • Gerontologist
  • Psychiatry professor
Known forResearch and study of human sexual behaviour
Notable work
Spouses
  • Ruth Harris
  • Jane Henderson

Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) 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.