Alex Comfort
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| - | '''Alexander Comfort''' ([[10 February]] [[1920]] - [[26 March]] [[2000]]) was educated at [[Highgate School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and was a medical professional, [[gerontologist]], [[anarchist]], [[pacifism|pacifist]], [[conscientious objector]] and writer, best known for ''[[The Joy of Sex]]'', which played a part in what is often called the [[Sexual revolution#The Nonfiction Sex Manuals|sexual revolution]]. He was also the author of many other books on a variety of topics. {{Fact|date=May 2008}} | + | '''Alexander Comfort''' ([[10 February]] [[1920]] - [[26 March]] [[2000]]) was educated at [[Highgate School]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and was a medical professional, [[gerontologist]], [[anarchist]], [[pacifism|pacifist]], [[conscientious objector]] and writer, best known for ''[[The Joy of Sex]]'', which played a part in what is often called the [[Sexual revolution#The Nonfiction Sex Manuals|sexual revolution]]. He was also the author of many other books on a variety of topics. |
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Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 - 26 March 2000) was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge and was a medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex, which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution. He was also the author of many other books on a variety of topics.
Partial bibliography
- No such Liberty (1941) - novel
- Three new Poets (1942) - Alex Comfort, Roy McFadden, Ian Serraillier
- A Wreath for the Living (1942)
- Elegies (1944)
- The Power House (1944) - novel
- The Song of Lazarus (1945)
- Outlaw of the Lowest Planet by Kenneth Patchen (1946) - Preface by Alex Comfort
- Art And Social Responsibility (1946)
- The Signal to Engage (1946)
- Peace and Disobedience (1946) - pamphlet
- Barbarism And Sexual Freedom (1948) - non-fiction
- On This Side Nothing (1949) - novel
- Authority And Delinquency In The Modern State (1950)
- Sexual Behaviour In Society (1950) - non-fiction
- And All But He Departed (1951)
- A Giant's Strength (1952) - novel
- The Biology of Senescence (1956) - non-fiction
- Come out to Play (1961) - novel
- Haste to the Wedding (1962)
- Darwin and the Naked Lady (1962) - articles
- Sex in Society (1963) - non-fiction
- Koka Shastra (1964)
- The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking (1972)
- Come out to Play (1975)
- I And That: Notes On The Biology of Religion (1979)
- Poems for Jane (1979)
- Tetrach (1981)
- Reality And Empathy: Physics, Mind, And Science In The 21st Century (1984)
- Writings Against Power and Death (1994)
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