Sexual Slang: A Compendium of Offbeat Words and Colorful Phrases from Shakespeare to Today

by Alan Richter

Book Overview

Provocative, engaging, and informative, this dictionary is packed with more than 4,000 colorful slang words and phrases that have had sexual meaning at some point during the past 500 years. As entertaining as it is informative, Sexual Slang is packed with surprising facts, meanings, and insights sure to liven up anyone's language.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062725041
• ISBN13: 9780062725042
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Fine Work by Alan Richter

An engaging and sometimes hilarious glossary of the history and present of sexual slang. It's exploration of the roots of saucy language makes a fine coffee table book in spite of its academic approach. Richter is also an experimental musician of great renown!