Hee! That reminds me of the undergraduate student who once plaintively asked, of the various rude puns and dirty jokes in Shakespeare's plays, whether he actually enjoyed them or just put them in to please the groundlings (and was clearly hoping that the answer was the latter). I hated to break her heart by pointing out that he does the same things in the sonnets and poems (which intended for a noble audience and not for publication) too - and that he was writing at least in part for the Elizabethan court, which hired every year as part of its Christmas entertainment a fellow whose much-admired party trick was 'a leap, a skip and a fart' and so clearly did not always have the most elevated tastes in entertainment.

People can write both great music/poetry and extremely smutty puns...life's like that. At least my student was able to accept it eventually. One of the many ways in which she was/is a much better person than Margaret Thatcher.