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.

Books by G. Legman

Rationale of the Dirty Joke

An Analysis of Sexual Humor

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