No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, Vol. 1

Originally published under the title "Rationale of the Dirty Joke's" Legman's analytic study of erotic and scatological humor is based on material gathered in America and abroad over a forty year period. In two volumes the author presents and comments on over 2,000 jokes and folktales, which were selected from a collection of nearly three times as many (with 60,000 variants) as being the most typical and significant. An in-depth and widely influential work. See other listing for Volume 2.