Laughter Out of Place: 6,7

1. "Carioca culture is immediately recognized in it's clothing styles that hug and accentuate the body, especially the buttocks"

2. "Rape of a child in a Rio shantytown can provoke a gang to murder"

3. "Husbands, fathers and brothers try to protect the bodies of their wives, daughters and sisters to which their own honor and reputation is tied"

4. "Why is violence and rape met by women with absurd humor, laughter through tears? Because of the distrust and fear of the police"

5. "It is difficult for younger women who are not virgins or older women without a stable partnership to meet court standards of a "honest" woman, thus win a rape case"

6. All of these quotes are best exemplified when Gloria does not go to the police after the rape/robbery, instead she seeks out the local gang for help..."not resting until the two rapists are in their graves"

7. "Sexuality in Brazil has emerged as a central issue at a social and cultural level"

8. "Sexuality is a key metaphor used by Carioca's in their evryday language, sexual joking and teasing are a friendly aspect of even the most benign social relations"

9. "Brazilian women of all classes enjoy being looked at, complimented and considered sexually desirable"

10. "The carnivalization of desire is largely (although not entirely) a masculinist vision of desire and transgression"

11. "Brazilian sexuality is of course more concerned with buttocks than with breasts"

12. "Male infidelity is disliked but percieved as normal repertoire of male behavior"

13. "Among working class Carioca's it is considered unhealthy to go too long without sex, it can provoke insanity"