Macho love : sex behind bars in Central America / Jacobo Schifter ; English translation by Christina E. Feeny ; Jennifer M. Gaska, cover design.

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Schifter, Jacobo

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Haworth gay & lesbian studiesPublisher: New York ; Oxfordshire, England : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (126 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781317765882
1317765885
9781315801551
1315801558
9781317765899
1317765893

Uniform titles:

Amor de machos. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Macho loveDDC classification:

365/.6 22

LOC classification:

HV8836 .S3513 2013eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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