Word: legman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neurotica essays were later published together as Love and Death, which has had considerable influence on many social and literary critics, most notably Leslie Fiedler (Love and Death in the American Novel). But Legman is no advocate of the so-called new freedom. The sex practiced in Last Tango in Paris revolted him no less than the plastic horrors of Jaws...
Back in the early '50s, the U.S. Post Office found Love and Death obscene and refused to deliver mail to Legman's Bronx home-a small, rundown cottage furnished ceiling to floor with books and cats. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife packed their belongings, including one of the world's largest private collections of erotic and scatological literature, and moved to France. Since the death of his wife in 1966, he has remarried and fathered three children. The Legman home is on fifteen acres in Valbonne...
...Legman has remained in Europe, with the exception of a misspent year teaching at the San Diego campus...
University of California in 1964-65. His principal subject was folklore, but his favorite activity seems to have been creating the Legend of Gershon Legman. "The kids would space out, disappear," he says. "I used to burn bonfires of pot in a living-room grate. The campus was rotten with drugs. At one stage, I got banned from speaking to the students because I ran two courses called Orgasm I and Orgasm II. They were about literature. If it had been Violence I and II, there would have been no problem...
Pocked Dignity. Legman's revenge was Fake Revolt (1967), an overheated assault on the youth rebellion. "COOL," he concluded, "is the new venereal disease." Despite such desert-prophet eruptions, Legman's scholarship continued. The Limerick is a massive accumulation of the world's most suggestive examples. The Horn Book contains studies in erotic folklore. The Guilt of the Templars is about heresy and sexual perversion in the medieval order of the Knights Templar. Ora genitalism is an elegantly written and anything but smutty study subtitled "Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation." Legman is also an authority on origami...