Laughter Out of Place CH. 6 & CH. 7

1. permissive approach to sexuality

2. Sexual positiveness

3. More concerned with buttocks

4. Gendered doubled standard of fidelity

5. Men joke about infidelity, women can not

6. men are expected to act as trangressors/ women as boundary setters.

7. Sexual abuse on young girls and boys

8. Children must be protected from stepfathers

9. The importance of sexuality to Carioca identity.

10. Sexuality is central

11. Taken as a peculiar Brazilian reality.

12. Sexual joking and teasing common in most social relations.

13. Glorias daughters both raped. Stepfather/Mother failed to protect them.

14. Using humor to deal with the impossible

15. Black humor is the only response

16. Did not call the police instead went to the gang for justice.

17. One tragic example of the vulnerablity of the poor.