1st Edition

Macho Love Sex Behind Bars in Central America

By Samuel M. Steward, PhD Copyright 1999
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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 8 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 Relationships
  • Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
  • Condom Use and Attitudes Toward Condoms
  • Intimacy
  • Chapter 7: Suggestions for Prevention
  • Drawbacks 8 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

Biography

Jacobo Schifter