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, 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Biography of Alex Comfort - with attention to his anarchist politics
• See the Alex Comfort Page in the Anarchist Encyclopedia
• Guardian obituary
• Find-A-Grave profile for Alex Comfort