INDEX
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I.
Theory on “machismo”
Honorable machos
Sexist machos
Machos always
Many machos, emotional machos
Do men tell the truth?
What has this got to do with sex?
Is it true that Latin men are no longer “machistas”?
II.
Methodology
III.
The place of the mushroom dwellings
IV.
The rolling bubble of glass and steel
V.
The long wait from morning to night
The truck yards
Paso Canoas
VI.
Sexual discourses
The Christian discourse
The romantic discourse
The erotic discourse
The feminist discourse
The scientific discourse
The gender (“machista”) discourse
VII.
Sexual culture and truckers
Interpretation problems
Contradictions
Resistances
Compartmentalization
The bedroom versus the road
Escape from Culture
VIII.
Bullying or the cult of size
Size matters
Admiration
The prerogatives of size
Does size confer greater respect?
IX.
Hyper-sexuality
Infidelity
Married adventurers and the “second front”
Occasional partners
X.
Obscenity and intoxication
XI.
Venereal diseases
Condoms
Prevention and masculinity
XII.
Prostitutes
The sex of money
The official excuse
Pick-up points
From prostitutes to friends
Who are the whores?
Determinants of unsafe sexual practice
The complexity of the problem
XIII.
Prostitutes or feminists?
Prostitution and compartmentalization
The discreet charm of the wanderer
Typical or not?
XIV.
Homosexual relations
A tale of two cities
Homophobia
The worst times
The best times
Homosexual practice
History of Sodom
Epilogue
Bibliography
Annexes
