Release Date

01 Oct, 2026

Runtime

00:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Alex Comfort, a British science professor specialised in the lifelong study of molluscs, thought he was writing ‘an antidote to war’. He, his wife Ruth, and her best friend Jane, an unconventional throuple in the quiet suburbs of 1970s North London, challenged societal norms, lasting a decade. It was the laboratory where recipes outlined in the manual, as well as the instantly recognisable hand-drawn sketches of hirsute hippies having sex, were born. The book was erotic, funny, and wholesome, reinventing sex and love for ordinary people and giving them permission to enjoy sex for the first time ever.

Original Title

The Joy of Sex

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Actors

Colin Firth

Laura Linney

Julianne Moore

David Tennant

Jason Watkins

Vicky Krieps

Crew

Sharon Maguire

Lise Mayer

Sharon Maguire

Alison Owen

Debra Hayward

Anand Tucker

Matthias Greving

Deepak Nayar

Colleen Woodcock

Philip von Alvensleben

Isabell Von Alvensleben

Marie-Claire Benson

Emma Berkofsky