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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790989803321

Autore

Schifter Jacobo

Titolo

Macho love : sex behind bars in Central America / / Jacobo Schifter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-56023-966-2

1-317-76588-5

1-315-80155-8

1-317-76589-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Haworth gay & lesbian studies Macho love

Disciplina

365/.6

Soggetti

Prisoners - Sexual behavior - Central America

Prisoners - Health and hygiene - Central America

Homosexuality - Central America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1999 by the Haworth Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Background: The Study and the Prisons; Information Sources; Admission; First Impact; The Scale of the Homosexual Phenomenon; Two Views of Homosexuality; Chapter 2. The Cachero and the Transvestite; Initiation; Sexual Practices; Cachero Love; Chapter 3. The Cachero and the Kid; Initiation; The Güila's Story; Changes in Sexual Practices; Chapter 4. Foxes; The Revolutionary Backside; Power and Sex; Chapter 5. Relationships of Power and Money; Prostitution Among Foxes; Rape

Chapter 6. Risk Factors in Sexual RelationshipsAlcoholism and Drug Addiction; Condom Use and Attitudes Toward Condoms; Intimacy; Chapter 7. Suggestions for Prevention; Drawbacks; The Holistic Model; Sexual Education; Accepting the Lesser Evil; Recognition of Homosexual Couples; Assistance in Detoxification; Prevention of Violence; Playing with Free Time; Microenterprises; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and AIDS specialists will discover how the interplay of sexual ideals, prostitution, manipulation, resistance, and



power relationships among prisoners and some staff are based on money, sex, drugs, and violence. Macho Love gives you a stirring and emotional look at the various risks and dangers lurking in the Latin American prison culture and discusses how Costa Rican and Central American prisons are improving the situation with