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- Title
Sexography of Alex Comfort in Medical Journals.
- Authors
Kantha, Sachi Sri
- Abstract
Objective: Year 2020 being the birth centenary year of polymath physician Alex Comfort (1920-2000), I provide a synopsis of his sexography literature that remain dispersed in many medical journals as well as in the Nature, between 1950 and 1991. Methods: Alex Comfort's publications in bio-medical journals included in the Pub Med database (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pubmed/?term=Comfort+A) was searched. Secondly, only those items which indicated an appropriate sexuality theme were reviewed for this comment. Results: A total of 19 items in medical journals (with the exception of a review on pheromones in the Nature journal) between 1950 and 1991 were studied. Four could be categorized as lengthy essays or reviews on pheromones, psychotherapy and 'sexual revolution', sexuality and aging as well as sexual disorders. Other 15 items were 'Letters to the Editor' communications. Conclusion: Overall, Comfort had lamented on the difficulties in collecting quantitative data on human sexual parameters; coitus, refractory period, identifying human pheromones and sexual behavior of homosexuals.
- Subjects
AIDS; CIRCUMCISION; HOMOSEXUALITY; MEDLINE; ONLINE information services; SERIAL publications; HUMAN sexuality; SEXUAL intercourse; SYSTEMATIC reviews
- Publication
International Medical Journal, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 6, p755
- ISSN
1341-2051
- Publication type
Article