Why do people tell dirty jokes? And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny?    G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject.   More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These folk texts are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety. Legman studies each for its historical and socioanalytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the people who listen and laugh.   Here -- back in print -- is the definitive text for comedians and humor writers, Freudian scholars and late night television enthusiasts. Rationale of the Dirty Joke will amuse you, offend you, challenge you, and disgust you, all while demonstrating the intelligence and hilarity of the dirty joke.

Rationale of the dirty joke: An analysis of sexual humor

Humor & Entertainment

Legman, G.

Humor

JONATHAN CAPE.

No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Indiana University Press

Because so much nonsense concerning the Order of Knights Templars has been promulgated in recent fiction (some of it unfortunately passed off as fact), it seems proper to make available this long out of print interpretation of the TemplarsÂ´guilt. Charged with heresy, sacrilege, blasphemy, and sexual perversion as well, the Templars were summarily arrested, tried, burned at the stake, and their Order extinguished in 1312. Whether the suppression of the Order was justified, and whether the Templars were guilty or innocent, are questions that continue to stimulate the minds of those interested in the intellectual development of Western civilization. Drawing on the actual depositions and confessions of the Templars, and probing deeper than the religious, financial, or political issues, Mr. Legman offers a searching analysis of the effects of suppressing normal sexuality. As R.C. Smail noted in the New York Review of Books, Legman tries to establish what happened at Templar ceremonies; by excursions into comparative religion and anthropology, he suggests the sources of their alleged malpractices, or compares them with similar phenomena in more recent times. Also included in this volume is Henry Charles Lea s oft-imitated work maintaining The Innocence of the Templars; The Templars and the Worship of the Generative Powers by Thomas Wright, George Witt, and Sir James Tennent; and a lengthy section of the proceedings against the Order in 1309 as vividly translated by Sir William Dugdale.

Guilt of the Templars

History

Basic Books

Rationale of the Dirty Joke: v. 1: Analysis of Sexual Humour

HarperCollins Distribution Services

Why do people tell dirty jokes? And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny? G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject. More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These folk texts are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety. Legman studies each for its historical and socioanalytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the people who listen and laugh. Here - back in print - is the definitive text for comedians and humor writers, Freudian scholars and late night television enthusiasts. Rationale of the Dirty Joke will amuse you, offend you, challenge you, and disgust you, all while demonstrating the intelligence and hilarity of the dirty joke.

Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor

Simon&Schuster

The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography

LYLE STUART +

Ora-Genitalism: Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation

Causeway Books

G. Legman is the author of several books concerning erotic folklore and erotic biliography. He also contributed excellent prefaces to many books in these fields and related ones. Here is the second part of his massive, intimate and anecdotal autobiography, portraying the world of books and love-making in the New York of the late 1930s. Scowling much of the time, in an effort to appear older, young Legman is launched into the world of libraries, book stores and book sellers, and ghost writing. He is nineteen, and must earn a living as he can, meanwhile studying intensely all the rich fields of sexuality, erotica, and erotic folklore and bibliography. He lays the foundations for his future scholarship. We meet a wide panoply of strange characters, as well as the various young women who attracted him. This is the time of the Spanish Civil War, and World War II is looming. Personal history is recounted against the background of world history, as in Book One of Legman’s Memoirs, “I Love You, I Really Do.”

Mooncalf (G. Legman's Autobiography of Innocence)

Biographies & Memoirs

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Writing pornography for a wealthy collector, printing and publishing books forbidden by the laws of censorship of the period (during World War II), young Legman also writes his first book, "Oragenitalism." This is published by Jake Brussel under a pseudonym, which Gershon didn't want to use at first. Most of the copies were seized in a raid, and to avoid going to jail, Legman must go on the lam. During the same period, he has his most torrid affair. He has encounters with Henry Miller, Ana#65533;s Nin, Mahlon Blaine and many others. This is the dramatic and savory continuation of Legman's life in New York in the early 1940s, with much bibliographic history and lore.ISBN-13: 978-1548442439ISBN-10: 1548442437

World I Never Made: Book Three of Peregrine Penis

Arts & Literature

Literary life and history in New York in the 1950s, publishing the magazine Neurotica, writing Love & Death, going to Europe to publish books illegal in the United States at that time, meeting with folklorists, bibliographers, and booksellers, in Paris, London, and Scotland, plus a very personal and intimate account of a varied and rich love life comprise these fifth and sixth volumes of G. Legman's wonderful memoirs.

Windows of Winter: Flagrant Delectations (Peregrine Penis)

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