Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire and What's so Funny About Rape?

1. Ethnography: Local Sexual Culture in Felicidade Eterna

1.1. Metaphors about food and eating were used to express ideas about sexuality.

1.2. Gloria made her male partners become providers for her family. If they didn't she would deprive them of sex.

2. From Boys to Men: Normative Masculinization and Heterosexuality

2.1. It is considered unhealthy for men to go too long without sex: it can provoke insanity

2.2. As part of the expected ritual of turning a boy into a man, boys are encouraged and expected to become active seducers.

3. Sacanegem, Transgression, and Female Boundary-Setting

3.1. Sacanegem is linking notions of aggression and hostility, play and amusement, sexual excitement and erotic practice in a single symbolic complex.

3.1.1. These sex games are usually initiated by older and stronger males who exert their power over younger and weaker boys, claiming masculine sexual identities for themselves in the process of violating and symbolically feminizing others.

4. A Joke that Even Gl

5. Chapter 7

5.1. Gloria's two daughters get raped by gang members after the gang members say they needed to check if someone named Ceasar was in Glorias house. The gang members made everyone go on the floor in the bedroom while they raped the two girls who were only 14 and 15 in the front room.

6. Discourse of Sex-Positiveness

6.1. Sexuality is a key metaphor used by Cariocas in their everyday language and description of almost all aspects of social life.

6.2. Documentary film O Amor Natural captures the Brazilian culture, men and women from the different classes and their outlook and openness on sexuality.

6.3. Valdirene, Gloria's mother, spoke openly about a dream she had of her estranged husbands penis. After she had passed, Gloria shared the story with many others, including her children.

7. The Carnivalization of Desire

7.1. Sexual permissiveness and promoting self-image

7.2. Wearing tight fitting clothing especially around the buttocks

7.3. Public flirtation is appreciated as pleasurable and complimentary of women's bodies.