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According to Wikipedia, Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician known best 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.

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The Biology Of Senescence (1978) (415)
Ageing : the biology of senescence (1964) (313)
THE PIGMENTATION OF MOLLUSCAN SHELLS (1951) (148)
Test-battery to measure ageing-rate in man. (1969) (142)
Effect of Ethoxyquin on the Longevity of C3H Mice (1971) (129)
Likelihood of Human Pheromones (1971) (120)
RECOVERY FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA (1983) (111)
A Good Age (1976) (101)
THE DURATION OF LIFE IN MOLLUSCS (1957) (92)
The Joy of Sex (1972) (65)
Odour-Blindness to Musk: Simple Recessive Inheritance (1973) (54)
Acid-soluble pigments of shells. 1. The distribution of porphyrin fluorescence in molluscan shells. (1949) (53)
Biological theories of aging. (1970) (51)
The life span of animals. (1961) (49)
The position of aging studies. (1974) (47)
Absence of a Lansing Effect in Drosophila subobscura (1953) (42)
A History of Ideas about the Prolongation of Life: The Evolution of the Prolongevity Hypothesis to 1800 (1967) (39)
Mutation, autoimmunity, and ageing. (1963) (34)
The anxiety makers (1967) (33)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shells. 4. Identification of shell porphyrins with particular reference to conchoporphyrin. (1949) (32)
The “Normal” in Sexual Behavior An Ethological View (1976) (31)
Natural Aging and the Effects of Radiation (1959) (31)
Feasibility in Age Research (1968) (30)
Sexuality and aging. An overview. (1991) (30)
The joy of sex : a gourmet guide to lovemaking (1975) (30)
Sexual Consequences of Disability (1980) (28)
Sexuality in Old Age * (1974) (26)
Cradle to Grave (1973) (26)
MORPHINE AS AN ANTIPSYCHOTIC Relevance of a 19th-Century Therapeutic Fashion (1977) (25)
The prevention of ageing in cells. (1966) (24)
Progress in Age Research (1966) (22)
The anxiety makers : some curious preoccupations of the medical profession (1967) (21)
Reality and Empathy: Physics, Mind, and Science in the 21st Century (1984) (21)
Measuring the human ageing rate (1972) (21)
BIOCHEMISTRY OF MOLLUSCAN SHELL PIGMENTS (1950) (20)
BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SENESCENCE (1954) (19)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shells. 2. Pigments other than porphyrins. (1949) (18)
Normal human urinary porphyrins. (1954) (18)
Immunological approach to ageing. (1970) (17)
Age Prejudice in America. (1976) (17)
Nutrition and longevity in animals (1960) (17)
Sex in society (1963) (16)
Lipochromes in the Ova of Pila (1947) (15)
Nature and Human Nature. (1969) (15)
The sexual radicals (1972) (14)
Out-of-body experiences and migraine. (1982) (14)
Morphine as an antipsychotic? (1977) (14)
MONOAMINE-OXIDASE AND MIGRAINE (1974) (14)
Molluscan shells as a practical source of uroporphyrin I. (1950) (13)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shells. 3. The indigoid character of the blue pigment of Haliotis cracherodii Leach. (1949) (12)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shells; identity of some subsidiary fractions derived from Pinctada vulgaris. (1950) (11)
ALCOHOL AS A SOCIAL DRUG AND HEALTH HAZARD (1984) (11)
Non‐Threatening Mental Testing of the Elderly (1978) (10)
Acid-soluble pigments of shells; the distribution of porphyrin fluorescence in molluscan shells. (1949) (10)
Coat-Colour and Longevity in Thoroughbred Mares (1958) (10)
Basic research in gerontology. (1970) (10)
Maximum Ages Reached by Domestic Cats (1956) (10)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE SHELL PIGMENTS OF LAND PULMONATES (1951) (9)
Adaptation to Age (1967) (9)
Distribution of Shell Porphyrins in Mollusca (1948) (8)
Homuncular identity-sense as a déjà-vu phenomenon (1977) (8)
Pop Charts for Science (1970) (8)
In my beginning is my end (1990) (8)
The Joy of sex: A Cordon Bleu guide to lovemaking (1989) (8)
The new joy of sex (1991) (8)
I and that: Notes on the biology of religion (1979) (8)
The myth of senility. Diagnosing nonspecific major illness in the elderly. (1979) (8)
The position of fundamental age studies (1961) (7)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement. (1982) (7)
Urinary porphyrins in lead-treated rabbits. (1953) (7)
CRIMES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE (1961) (7)
CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION IN TREATMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA (1978) (7)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shells; pigments other than porphyrins. (1949) (6)
"Existential" psychiatry and quantum logic. (1983) (6)
The Significance of Biology (1958) (6)
Long Lives (1951) (6)
Documents and Reports (1969) (6)
Practice of geriatric psychiatry (1980) (6)
Sexuality in a Zero Growth Society (1977) (6)
The Process Of Ageing (1964) (6)
Biology of Ageing (1956) (5)
DARWIN AND FREUD (1960) (5)
Trials of a lifetime (1989) (5)
Dependence of the Sex Ratio at Birth on the Age of the Father (1960) (5)
Darwin and the Naked Lady: Discursive Essays on Biology and Art (1961) (5)
Effects of psychoactive drugs on ejaculation. (1979) (5)
Sexual behavior in society (1950) (5)
Sorcery and Sudden Death (1981) (5)
Expected Rate of Senescence and Agedependent Mortality in Fish (1961) (5)
HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES AND IMMUNE DEFICITS (1982) (5)
The implications of an implicate (1981) (4)
What is a doctor? (1972) (4)
Demonic and historical models in biology (1980) (4)
Authority and delinquency in the modern state : a criminological approach to the problem of power (1951) (4)
Come out to play (1975) (4)
[The biological basis of aging]. (1969) (4)
LIPOCHROMES IN THE OVA OF PILA CANALICULATA (LAMARCK) (1949) (4)
The effect of plasma beta-lipoprotein concentration on the action of injected heparin in the rabbit. (1953) (4)
The almond tree (1942) (4)
Time, Cells and Aging (1963) (4)
A Subsidiary Shell Pigment of Haliotis cracherodii Leach (1950) (4)
LONGEVITY AND MORTALITY OF IRISH WOLFHOUNDS (2009) (4)
We Wuz Robbed (1966) (3)
PAVLOV OR FREUD (1961) (3)
Any wife or any husband (1951) (3)
SURVIVAL CURVES OF MAMMALS IN CAPTIVITY (2009) (3)
WERNER'S SYNDROME (1961) (3)
The novel and our time (1969) (3)
The Koka Shastra: Being the Ratirahasya of Kokkoka and other medieval Indian writings on love (1982) (3)
The Cartesian observer revisited: ontological implications of the homuncular illusion (1979) (3)
Quantum Physics and the Philosophy of Medicine (1984) (3)
Re-education of Germany (1946) (3)
"Anti-Americanism" in Europe (1954) (3)
MORPHINE AS ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUG (1977) (3)
On the Pigment of Ianthina Janthina L (1961) (3)
The Facts of Love (1979) (3)
THE RENAISSANCE OF LIFE (1948) (3)
Sexual Selection in Man-A Comment (1959) (3)
Letter: Monoamine-oxidase and migraine. (1974) (3)
Refractory period after ejaculation. (1972) (2)
The pattern of the future (1949) (2)
Geriatric psychiatry: mental symptoms in old people. (1981) (2)
Hell on Earth: Six Versions (1949) (2)
Accelerated ageing in young mothers of children with Down's syndrome. (1972) (2)
The Prolongation of Vigorous Life. (1970) (2)
Reverse Transcriptases and Ageing (1971) (2)
A giant's strength (1952) (2)
Authority and delinquency (1970) (2)
HYPERTENSIVE REACTION TO NEW ZEALAND PRICKLY SPINACH IN WOMAN TAKING PHENELZINE (1981) (2)
Identity of the Shell Pigment of Haliotis cracherodii Leach (1949) (2)
Dangerous dealings (1989) (1)
Occasional Book: PROSPERO COMES BACK (1959) (1)
Anxiety in adults. (1968) (1)
Space gerontology. (1979) (1)
Has sexual behaviour really changed with time (1990) (1)
The Biology of Old Age (1956) (1)
The Biological Approach in the Comparative Study of Ageing (2008) (1)
Disorders of sex and reproduction: psychosomatic aspects. Summing up. (1968) (1)
TEXTBOOK OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE AND GERONTOLOGY—Second Edition. (1981) (1)
Aspects of the biology of ageing. Epilogue. (1967) (1)
Porphyrins in the urine of normal men. (1953) (1)
Ethology of Sexuality (1972) (1)
The nature of human nature (1966) (1)
Sexual behaviour in society (1950) (1)
ON RESEARCH AND SUPPORT IN GERIATRICS, INCLUDING DESIGN FOR A STUDY OF MUSCULAR STRENGTH IN THE AGED * (1967) (1)
ART AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: The Ideology of Romanticism (2000) (1)
The Right and the wronged (1989) (1)
Institutions Without Sex (1967) (1)
CONGENITAL SYPHILIS IN AN INFANT TREATED WITH PENICILLIN (1945) (1)
Denial, fortitude, and isolation of affect. (1979) (1)
Art and social responsibility : lectures on the ideology of romanticism (1946) (1)
PROSPECT OF WAR (1951) (1)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shell porphyrins with particular reference to conchoporphyrin. (1949) (1)
A new line on age pigment? (1970) (1)
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF WAR (1956) (1)
Comment on ‘The biological foundation of space and the evolution of spatial dimension’ by Berkowitz and Tschirgi (1989) (1)
Effect of procaine on ageing. (1973) (1)
Dietary punishment in prison. (1948) (1)
Population Growth (1972) (0)
Gerontology—Implications for Future Mortality Experience (1969) (0)
Looking Through a Glass Darkly (1969) (0)
Urinary Porphyrins in Experimental Lead Poisoning (1952) (0)
Studies on the Longevity and Mortality of English Thoroughbred Horses (2008) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1965) (0)
A Technology of the Emotions (1968) (0)
Odder than we can think (1990) (0)
NEW WORDS REQUIRED (1959) (0)
Book Review:Childhood Sexual Learning: The Unwritten Curriculum. Elizabeth J. Roberts (1981) (0)
AIDS (and STD) prophylaxis: urgent need for an effective genital antiseptic. (1986) (0)
Directiveness in psychotherapy and the "sexual revolution". (1981) (0)
Comment by Alex Comfort (1983) (0)
The novel & our time (1948) (0)
Ciba Foundation Colloquia on Ageing Volume II—Ageing in Transient Tissues (1957) (0)
A BRIDGE TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCIENCE (1989) (0)
Diet and decline (1983) (0)
TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD (1966) (0)
THE TUBERCULIN-TESTED CHILD (1946) (0)
El placer del amor (1993) (0)
"DOCTOR" IN EUROPE (1988) (0)
$12.95Ernest G. McClain, Meditations through the Quran — Tonal Images in an Oral Culture, Nicholas Hays, Chicago (1981), p. 161. (1982) (0)
New road : New directions in European art and letters (1943) (0)
Estimation of plasma cholesterol fractions by elution from paper. (1954) (0)
Social responsibility in science and art : a talk broadcast on the Third Programme (1952) (0)
ILL-HEALTH AND CHILD ABUSE (1975) (0)
NIPPLE PULLING ON COS (1984) (0)
Barbarism and sexual freedom : lectures on the sociology of sex from the standpoint of anarchism (1948) (0)
The comparative biology of anxiety. (1947) (0)
SUN-BLEACHED HAZARD WARNINGS (1987) (0)
Hayflick-NIH Settlement (1982) (0)
Comfort for the ageing. (1978) (0)
[Not Available]. (1985) (0)
In Defence of Defensive Warfare (1968) (0)
MEDICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICANS (1950) (0)
Ageing Control (1970) (0)
Dietary prevention of atherosclerosis. (1970) (0)
Editorial (1985) (0)
DOES COITUS EMBARRASS THE FETUS? (1984) (0)
CLINICAL ASPECTS OF AGING (1979) (0)
Letter from Alex Comfort to Joshua Lederberg (1957) (0)
A Structural Detail Enlarged (1962) (0)
Understanding Human Sexuality.Janet Shibley Hyde (1979) (0)
Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Alex Comfort on 1962-08-13 (1962) (0)
Sexual abnormality and the law. (1947) (0)
ADVENTURES OF THE MIND By Arturo Castiglioni, M.D.; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. Demy 8vo. pp. ix + 402. Price 18s. net. (1948) (0)
Book Review:Aging. Volume 2: Genesis and Treatment of Psychologic Disorders in the Elderly. Samuel Gershon, Allen Raskin (1977) (0)
PREMATURE INDUCTION OF LABOUR IN HÆMOLYTIC DISEASE OF THE NEWBORN (1955) (0)
Ageing friends at a congenial meeting (1984) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1985) (0)
DARKNESS AS A BRIDE (1979) (0)
Geriatrics: a British view. (1977) (0)
Experimental gerontology and the control of aging. (1970) (0)
Education of Power-holders (1953) (0)
MEDICAL SCIENCES & RESEARCH (1951) (0)
Longeuity of Man and His Tissues (2008) (0)
From the Song of Lazarus (1946) (0)
VEGETARIANISM AND DRUG USERS (1972) (0)
Dart of an Extinct Mollusc (1947) (0)
BLOOD-SUGAR AND ACCIDENTS (1967) (0)
Michael Young, The Metronomic Society , Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, 301 pp., £16.95, ISBN 0 500 01443 4. (1988) (0)
SEX AND HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING (1977) (0)
Faust, Prometheus, and Methusaleh (1969) (0)
DEPRESSION IN THE ELDERLY (1986) (0)
Neuromythology ? (1971) (0)
On Ecstasy and Originality (1969) (0)
Morphic field sports (1982) (0)
The Individual and World Peace (1952) (0)
Points: Sweet tooth maketh a sour disposition (1986) (0)
HANDS ON IN CLINICAL TEACHING (1984) (0)
Gerontology and Geriatrics in Aerospace Medicine (1979) (0)
A matter of science and ethics; reflections on the B.M.A. Committee's report on homosexuality and prostitution. (1956) (0)
The Comparative Biology of Anxiety (1947) (0)
SKEPTICAEMIA (1989) (0)
Fate of the Foreskin (1950) (0)
THE GOLDEN LOTUS Translated by CLEMENT EGERTON; London: Geo. Routledge & Son. 1947. pp. 700. Price 88s. net. (1948) (0)
Nationalized Health Care--an American solution. (1980) (0)
Book Review:Theoretical Aspects of Aging. Academic Press Rapid Manuscript Reproduction. Morris Rockstein, Marvin L. Sussman (1975) (0)
Tyramine in food. (1971) (0)
Potential check on heterosexual transmission of AIDS. (1985) (0)
AIDS: Public Panic (1988) (0)
Say yes to old age : developing a positive attitude toward aging (1990) (0)
Childhood advisory clinics in Camberwell. (1947) (0)
McCarthyism - The Impact on Europe (1953) (0)
The urinary porphyrins of lead-poisoned rabbits. (1953) (0)
Gerontology in adolescence (1982) (0)
Effect of heparin and heparin clearing factor on lipoid transport in the rabbits. (1953) (0)
Authority and Delinquency in the Modern State@@@Sexual Behaviour in Society (1951) (0)
After You, Madam (1959) (0)
SURVIVAL CURVES OF SOME BIRDS IN THE LONDON ZOO (2008) (0)
MEDICINE AND SOCIETY (1964) (0)
A Summer Campaign (1948) (0)
Book Review: Talking Health – Conventional and Complementary Approaches (1988) (0)
Epitaph ; For Ruth (1944) (0)
The Colours of Dogs (1959) (0)
Longevity in a tapeworm (1955) (0)
Acid-soluble pigments of molluscan shells; the indigoid character of the blue pigment of the Haliotis cracherodii Leach. (1949) (0)
Geriatrics--the missing discipline? (1978) (0)
At an Exhibition of Mexican Art (1954) (0)
Medical Relief Appeal (1956) (0)
AS FAR AS WE'VE GOT (1965) (0)
The dual brain, religion and the unconscious: S.C. Liddon: Prometheus Books, Buffalo, N.Y. (1989). 265 pp. $21.95. (1990) (0)
Aged Ecuadoreans (1975) (0)
Stanford scandal (1989) (0)
The Martyrdom of the House (1943) (0)
Chance and Necessity: Monod's Evolutionary Position [Book Review] (1972) (0)
Chairman's Closing Remarks (2008) (0)
Points: Preventing AIDS (1987) (0)
Sex in history By Reay Tannahill. New York: Stein and Day, 1980. Pp. 480, $17.95 (1980) (0)
Pornography and sexual aggression. Edited by N. M. Malamuth and E. Donnerstein. Academic Press, New York, 1984. No. of pages: 333. Price: $39.00 cloth, $19.95 paperback (1987) (0)
A cure for mass medical meetings (1972) (0)
NURSING EXPERIENCE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS (1949) (0)
" FAULTS ", " HITS ", AND AGEING (1960) (0)
J. Weeks: sexuality and its discontents: meanings, myths and modern sexualities (1986) (0)
STUDENTS IN UNIFORM (1942) (0)
DATA ON THE LONG-LIVED (1951) (0)
The Social Adaptation of Institution Children (1950) (0)

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