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Feb 2024
52m 56s

Dr Comfort, Mr Sex

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
About this episode
Gerontologist, pacifist, novelist, medical doctor and mollusc expert – Alex Comfort was far more than just the author of the staggeringly popular Joy of Sex. In her review of a new biography, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite navigates the convictions and contradictions of this bewilderingly polymathic thinker. She joins Tom to trace Comfort’s life from evangel ... Show More
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