Quality research uniquely enhanced by the author's personal experience In one of the first books to examine machismo from the perspective of Latin American and Latino men, Chris Girman relies on a compelling combination of ethnographic research and personal experience to explain how macho men men like the author himself regulate and sustain same-sex erotic encounters. Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin men into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and vivid description that can only be related by someone who has lived the research he...

This book explores the concepts--and illuminates the realities--of macho and machismo from the unique perspective of a gay sociologist who is also a sexual tourist. Unlike most of the scholars who have written about same-sex Latino male attraction, author/ethnographer Chris Girman has experienced it firsthand. In his travels in South, Central, and North America, Chris has had intimate encounters with dozens of Latino men. He shares both his research and his personal experience in Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men."