The Joy of Sex Revised Edition

The original sex book is back and completely revised. The Joy of Sex was not only a product of the sexual and social revolution, it also helped create it.

Dr. Alex Comfort’s aim was to write the first book that gave readers accurate knowledge about sexuality, and permission to use that knowledge.

The text and illustrations were designed to both re-assure readers that their sexuality was normal and to offer further possibilities with which to expand their sexual menu.

He was hugely effective in his intention - 8.5 million copies of The Joy of Sex have been sold to date, and it has been translated into fourteen languages. More than that, it was a key influence on the social changes of the late twentieth century and has been a byword for sexual vision ever since.

Why then, reinvent? There already have been content revisions, in the author’s lifetime and after his death in 2000. But the very changes that Joy itself wrought in society have meant that the book has come to need updating in a more fundamental way.

This was the author’s task - to re-create The Joy of Sex for the contemporary world; to do what Alex Comfort would have done had he been writing today.