| Title: | The Alex Comfort Collection |
| Collection No.: | X7905646 |
| Dates: | 1958-1983 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 2 Boxes Dimensions: 12" h x 15" w x 4" d |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 1 Box Dimensions: 10.5" h x 13" w x 15.5" d |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 2 metal boxes Dimensions: 4.5" h x 6.25" w x 15" d |
| Abstract: | Alex Comfort, Ph.D., (1920-2000) was a British biochemist, physician, sex researcher and author of numerous works including The Joy of Sex (1972), which sold over 12 million copies. This collection contains material on homosexuality, bondage, sexual health, etc. These items were used by Comfort for research for his book Joy of Sex . There is also material related to the Sandstone experimental sexual community where Comfort lived for a short time. |
| Language: | Undetermined . |
| Repository: | The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Indiana University 1165 E. Third Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Business Number: 812-855-7686 libknsy@iu.edu URL: https://kinseyinstitute.org/collections/library |
The Alex Comfort Collection contains 132 archival folders and card files of professional correspondence (1958-1976), manuscripts (1975-1983), research notes, clippings, illustrations and bibliographical citations on human sexual behavior. Also included in this collection are magazines, catalogs, advertisements, sketches and commercial photographs of bondage/pseudo-aggression (1971-1978), as well as material related to the Sandstone experimental sexual community where Comfort lived for a short time (1970-1972).
The Alex Comfort collection is divided up in 3 series:
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[item], The Alex Comfort Collection, Library and Special Collections, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington.
1992-06