Attendant at the Works Gate at ZSL London Zoo
Secretary of the Reptile Study Society of America
Honorary Secretary of the Poultry Club
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.
Office Cleaner in the Old Sanatorium at ZSL London Zoo
Labourer in the Works Department at ZSL London Zoo