erotic verbal behavior academically respectable" and who made accessible to other scholars material that scholarly journals had long been afraid to publish. Gershon Legman died February 23, 1999, in his adopted home country, France, after several years of debility, and a week after suffering a massive stroke. Legman's sexuality According to historian George Chauncey's book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940, Legman was gay and is credited with having invented the vibrating dildo when he was only twenty. However, Mikita Brottman holds that he was exclusively heterosexual, accounting for both the abandonment of his proposed volume on fellatio as well as, possibly and in some measure, for his contempt for Alfred Kinsey. He was married for many years to Beverley Keith (died of lung cancer, 1966), married briefly to Christine Conrad, ended by annulment, then to Judith Evans. Books 1940. 'Roger-Maxe de la Glannège' (pseud.). Oragenitalism. An encyclopedic outline of oral excitation. Part I. Cunnilinctus. N.p., N.e., (New York,Jacob Brussel),1940. 63pp. New revised and augmented edition : Oragenitalism. Oral techniques in genital excitation. New York, Julian Press, 1969. 319pp. Contains five sections. I – Cunnilinctus. II – Fellation. IIa – A practical treatise. III – Irrumation. IV – The Sixty-Nine. 1949. (With Burt Franklin). David Ricardo and Ricardian Theory. A bibliographical checklist. New York, Burt Franklin,1949. vi, 88pp. 1949. Love and Death. A study in censorship. New York, Breaking Point, 1949. 95pp. New Edition: New York, Hacker Art Books, 1963. 1950. (With G. V. Hamilton). On the Cause of Homosexuality. Two essays the second in reply to the first. New York, Breaking Point, 1950. 31pp. 1952. Bibliography of Paper-Folding. N.p., Journal of Occasional Bibliography, 1952. 8pp. 1953. (Jarry) Alfred Jarry. King Turd. Trans. G. Legman & Beverley Keith. Translator's Note by G. Legman. New York, Boar's Head Books, 1953. 189pp. 1953. The Limerick. 1700 examples with notes variants and index. Paris: Les Hautes Etudes, 1953. 517pp. 1964. The Horn Book. Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography. New York, University Books, 1964. 565pp. (U.K. edition : Jonathan Cape. 1970). Spanish translation: Mexico City, Ediciones Roca, 1974. 1965. (Burns) The Merry Muses of Caledonia. Collected and in part written by Robert Burns. Edited by G. Legman. New York: University Books, 1965. lxv, 326pp. 1966. (Farmer & Henley) John S. Farmer & W. E. Henley. Dictionary of Slang & Its Analogues. Volume I. Revised