Presented to American Anthropological Association Symposium on Homosexuality in Crosscultural Perspective, Mexico City, November 23, 1974, mimeographed. Preliminary report on homosexual subculture in Mexico. Is The Mexican Revolution Dead? Knopf, New York, p. Ficheras and free-lancers: prostitution in a Mexican border city. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico Grove Press, New York. IX Censo General de Poblacion: 1970 Direccion General de Estadistica, Mexico, D.F. Marriage and family in middle-class Mexico. Priests, machos and babies: Or, Latin American women and the Manichaean heresy. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. Culture and personality in a Mexican village.
(ed.), Sex Research: New Developments Holt, New York, pp. An empirical study of some relations between sexual patterns and gender identity in male homosexuals. (eds.), Sexual Deviance Harper and Row, New York, p. Sexual Identity Conflict in Children and Adults Basic Books, New York. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Irvine.įourth State of the Nation Report (1974). Urban Mexican male homosexual encounters: An analysis of participants and coping strategies. Participants in urban Mexican male homosexual encounters. In spite of cultural imperatives, however, individual preferences stemming from other variables such as personality needs, sexual gratification, desires of wanted partners, and amount of involvement may override the imperatives with resulting variations in sexual behavior patterns.Ĭarrier, J. Males involved in homosexual behavior in Mexico operate in a sociocultural environment which gives rise to expectations that they should play either the insertee or insertor sex role but not both and that they should obtain ultimate sexual satisfaction with anal intercourse rather than fellatio. The participation of masculine males in homosexual encounters is related in part to a relatively high level of sexual awareness in combination with the lack of stigmatization of the insertor sex role and in part to the restraints placed on alternative sexual outlets by available income and/or marital status. Effeminacy and homosexuality are also linked by the belief that as a result of this role preference effeminate males are sexually interested only in masculine males with whom they play the passive sex role. One result of the sharp dichotomization of male and female gender roles is the widely held belief that effeminate males generally prefer to play the female role rather than the male. The following factors are considered relevant: the sharp dichotomization of gender roles, dual categorization of females as good or bad, separate social networks maintained by males before and after marriage, proportion of unmarried males, and distribution of income. Some aspects of the mestizoized urban culture in Mexico are linked to male homosexuality in support of the theory that cultural factors play an important role in the kind of life styles and sex practices of males involved in homosexual behavior.