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Assistant Superintendent at ZSL London Zoo

Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector.

Comfort has a passion for molluscs, and joined the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland when he was eighteen years old. He made many contributions to the literature.

He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge and studied medicine, qualifying in 1944 with the conjoint diplomas of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians London, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons England, and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery or MB BChir.

Copenhagen Zoo is a zoological garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1859, it is one of the oldest zoos in Europe. It was founded by the ornithologist Niels Kjærbølling. He was given the summer garden of "Prinsess Vilhelmines Have" (the garden of Princess Vilhelmine) by the chief directorate of Copenhagen