Alex Comfort

Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc was a British 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. Comfort was educated at Highgate School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and the London Hospital , qualifying in 1944 with both the Conjoint diplomas of LRCP London, MRCS England and the Cambridge MB BChir degrees. As a youth, Comfort... lost four fingers on his left hand in an explosives accident. Comfort served as a House Physician at the London Hospital and went on to become a lecturer in physiology at the London Hospital Medical College. In 1945 he obtained the Conjoint Board's Diploma in Child Health, and progressed to a PhD in 1950 and a DSc of University College, London in 1963.
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