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Salt Lake Tribune, February 7, 2012
...United States only in 1962, one year after Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and a decade before Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex. The Kama Sutra feels modern in its pleasure-seeking impulses, but much of the pleasure of reading it in 2012 comes from its...
Salt Lake Tribune, February 3, 2012
...United States only in 1962, one year after Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and a decade before Alex Comfort’s Joy of Sex. The Kama Sutra feels modern in its pleasure-seeking impulses, but much of the pleasure of reading it in 2012 comes from its...
Staten Island Live, January 1, 2012
...blueprint for their own aging, a classical case of bewitchment by expectation” according to “A Good Age,” by Alex Comfort. Assuming the above, so what? Sure, there are those who really do not enjoy sex. They are happy to see an end to it. They do...
TheStar.com.my, October 30, 2011
...RM50 for every time someone asked me a copy of Seks Islam, I would be as rich as Alex Comfort, the author of The Joy of Sex. On Oct 21, in Petaling Jaya, at a press conference organised by Obedient Wives Club (OWC), the author of Seks Islam, Perangi...
BBC, October 26, 2011
...was responsible for the book's black and white illustrations, took the photos. The book's author, Dr Alex Comfort, had given them dozens of positions to get though, and all were done for real over two hectic days in early 1972. The miners were on strike...
Kirkus Reviews, October 10, 2011
...absent from the scenes—ironic, given that his most-seen work overall remains the line drawings he did for Dr. Alex Comfort's 1972 bestseller The Joy of Sex. Those pictures (not reproduced in Hardware, and only glancingly mentioned) are a singular...
New Yorker, September 12, 2011
...In 1961, the British scientist and physician Alex Comfort wrote a novel (his fifth) called “Come Out to Play,” in which his alter ego, Dr. George Goggins, opens a clinic with his girlfriend to teach patients advanced sexual...
Brain Pickings, August 1, 2011
...Cycling poster for the Transport of London made the rounds. It’s based, of course, on illustrations from Alex Comfort’s iconic 1972 manual, The Joy of Sex . And of course, the mother of all remix culture studies, Kirby Ferguson’s excellent 4 part...
Books LIVE, July 14, 2011
...than by the Family Planning Association,” she says. Book details The Joy of Sex by Susan Quilliam and Alex Comfort EAN: 9780307587787 Find this book with BOOK Finder!...
L O G O S, May 31, 2011
...1973: The New York Times Best Seller List August 5, 1973 Non-Fiction 1 THE JOY OF SEX, by Alex Comfort. [Blogger note: Here is part of the cultural, collective brainwashing that sex was a sort of neutral, amoral form of pleasurable aerobics that could...
Still Not Going To Do This Every Day, May 9, 2011
...The essential 120 books that explain Britishness: untanglingtheweb:“What five books would you give to an alien so he can understand Britain?,” asked The Times in 2007. (no paywall - it’s FREE!)The list includes everything from George Orwell’s...
