We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
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| Birth: | 10th February, 1920 |
| Death: | 26th March, 2000 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Lecturer, Physician |
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Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc was a British scientist and physician best known for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex. He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector. Comfort was educated at Highgate School in London. He entered Trinity College at Cambridge University to study medicine. 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. He could be called an early biomedical gerontologist on the basis of his view that science could extend human lifespan.
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