Alex Comfort
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| Born | Alexander Comfort 10 February 1920 London, England |
| Died | 26 March 2000 (aged 80) Oxfordshire, England, UK |
| Education | Medicine |
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| Known for | Research and study of human sexual behaviour |
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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.