Jacobo Schifter

Macho Love

Sex Behind Bars in Central America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Schifter, regional director of the AIDS-prevention organization Latin American Health and Prevention Institute in Costa Rica, offers a detailed study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin American prisons. He explains 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. He also discusses how prisons in the region are improving the situation with new intervention programs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 347g
• ISBN-13: 9781560239659
• ISBN-10: 1560239654
• Artikelnr.: 20957165

Autorenporträt

Jacobo Schifter

Inhaltsangabe

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