Things Kids Don't Understand

Italo Calvino certainly  had a sense of humor when composing this tale, one I feel is aimed at adults.  After studying French fablieux, aka lais of a pornographic/inappropriate nature, I found similarities in the details that Calvino's tale offers and fablieux of the middle ages.  For example, when the little girl asks why the "grandmother" (ogress) is hairy in the hands, chest, and hips, I can't help but notice that these are all very sensitive, private, and references to erogenous zones.  The fact that they're so hairy and that the "grandmother" responds with answers that are very adult in nature (rings, necklaces, and corsets), I feel would have been a riot, of a lower-class humor, though.  Then later when the little girl has to relieve herself, I found that to also be particular in lower-class humor, understandable to adults who have already successfully passed through what Freud called the anal stage.