G. Legman

About The Author

G. Legman started a short-lived Freudian quarterly, Neurotica, in the late 1940s. He wrote many books on the subject of erotica and sexual humor, including The Limerick, The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore, Oragenitalism, and No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke, Second Series. G. Legman died in 1999 in France.

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Books by G. Legman

Rationale of the Dirty Joke

An Analysis of Sexual Humor

By G. Legman

Why do people tell dirty jokes?
And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny?

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