Latino Truck Driver Trade : Sex and HIV in Central America

ISBN-13: 9780789008824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 238 str.

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Examines the sex lives of Central American truck drivers, looking at the extent of homosexuality, prostitution, drug use, and vulnerability to HIV infection. Explores the concept of machismo and its role in straight and gay sexuality, and explains why Latin American sexual culture does not always define men who participate in sexual acts with other

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Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Theory on Machismo
• Honorable Machos
• Sexist Machos
• Always Machos
• Many Forms of Machismo
• Do Men Tell the Truth?
• Sex and the Church
• Is It True That Latin Men Are No Longer Machistas?
• Chapter 2. Methodology
• Chapter 3. The Place of the Mushroom Dwellings
• Chapter 4. The Rolling Bubble of Glass and Steel
• Chapter 5. The Long Wait From Morning to Night
• The Yards
• Paso Canoas
• Chapter 6. Sexual Discourses
• The Christian Discourse
• The Romantic Discourse
• The Erotic Discourse
• The Feminist Discourse
• The Scientific Discourse
• The Gender Discourse (Machismo)
• Chapter 7. Sexual Culture and Truckers
• Interpretation Problems
• Contradictions
• Resistances
• Compartmentalization
• The Bedroom versus the Road
• Escape from Culture
• Chapter 8. Bullying, or the Cult of Size
• Size Matters
• Admiration
• The Prerogatives of Size
• Does Size Confer Respect?
• Chapter 9. Hypersexuality
• Infidelity
• Married Adventurers and the “Second Front”
• Occasional Partners
• Chapter 10. Obscenity and Intoxication
• Chapter 11. Venereal Diseases
• Venereal Diseases
• Condoms
• Prevention and Masculinity
• Chapter 12. Prostitutes
• The Sex Appeal of Money
• The Official Excuse
• Pickup Places
• From Prostitutes to Friends
• Who Are the Sex Workers?
• Determinants of Unsafe Sexual Practice
• The Complexity of the Problem
• Chapter 13. Prostitutes or Feminists?
• Prostitution and Compartmentalization
• The Discreet Charm of the Wanderer
• Typical or Not?
• Chapter 14. Homosexual Relations
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Homophobia
• It Was the Worst of Times
• It Was the Best of Times
• Homosexual Practices
• Stories of Sodom
• Epilogue
• Appendix: Survey: HIV/AIDS and STD Prevention Among Central American Truckers
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Madrigal, Johnny