Bibliography of sexual humor

Sexual humor (erotic humor) consists of jokes of sexual / erotic content or intent. "Erotic humor is far & away the most popular of all types , and an extremely large percentage of the jokes authentically in oral circulation, in this and apparently in all centuries and cultures, is concerned with the humor ... of the sexual impulse."
Literature
Manuscripts in English
*"A Treasury of Erotic and Facetious Memorabilia "
*"Anecdota Erotica, or Stable Stories (New York, 1924 -- NYPL : 3*), compiled by the American philologist, Frank J. Wilstach"
*" "Unprintable" Ozark Folklore volumes (1949-57 : Library of Congress, Music Division) of Vance Randolph"
*"Idaho Barnyard collections (1952) of Kenneth Larson (Indiana Folklore Archive)"
*"Union Jack (Chelmsford, Essex, 1954)"
Published writings in English
*"the erotic British magazine, The Pearl (1879-1880)"
*"Forbidden Fruit : A Collection of Popular Tales "
*"The Stag Party "
*"the unexpurgated Anecdota Americana, Series 1 and 2, of Fliesler and of Smith "
Published writings in French, translations of Levantine originals
*La Fleur Lascive Orientale ('Oxford' , 1882), anonymously translated from the originals by J.-A. Decourdemanche, an even rarer English retranslation also existing ('Athens' , 1893)"
*Contes Licencieux de Constantinople et de l'Asie Mineure, collected before 1893 by Prof. Jean Nicolaidès, and published ... as the opening volume of a series imitating Kryptádia : "Contributions au Folklore Erotique" (Kleinbronn & Paris : G. Ficker, 1906-09, 4 vols.)"
*"Histoires Arabes (Paris : A. Quignon, 1927), ascribed to the admittedly pseudonymous 'Khati Cheghlou,' and its sequel or supplement, Les Meilleures Histoires Coloniales (about 1935)."

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