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Re: ASK a Mexican!!!
March 18 - 24, 2005
¡Ask a Mexican!: ¡Ask a Mexican!
by GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Dear Mexican,
My friend told me that Latinas believe in being virgins until marriage, so
if they decide to have sex before . . . they take it up the ass. He said
this is a common practice and quite a pleasurable one if you're a back-door
man. Is this a myth, or is there truth in his words?
Glenn G.
Costa Mesa
Is it true that in Latin cultures, it is considered gay to take it in the
ass, but it's not gay to give it to another guy in the ass? In other words,
catchers: gay; pitchers: not gay. What's the deal with that?
Confused Gabacho
Dear Gabachos,
I was ready to dismiss both of your inquiries as little more than American
stereotypes of lusty Latins along the line of the notorious Dirty Sánchez,
the sexual peccadillo whereupon you stick a finger up the culo and smear
feces on the lips of your beloved. But medical journals teem with studies
documenting ass love in Latin America. Por ejemplos, the Global Campaign for
Microbicides, a pro-contraceptive organization, notes on its website "the
frequency of anal intercourse has . . . been documented among heterosexuals
in Latin America [in other scientific publications]."
Confused, you're right: I own a 1989 UC Irvine-produced comic that lectured
immigrants on the dangers of AIDS and featured a man wistfully recalling a
Papa Bear amongst a lineup of señoritas from his immediate sexual past.
Mexican men are manly men, and they'll stick their pitos inside anything
that's warm and available (see the Edward James Olmos prison-love tale
American Me for further detail). But Glenn, you're wrong: the
everything-but-vagina virgin myth is something I've also heard of Afghan,
Persian, Jewish and Indian girls. If you believe gabachos, seemingly every
woman from a patriarchal, repressive culture loves ass play. Consider a 1994
report by Dr. Ineke Cunningham disclosing that 34 percent of female Puerto
Rican college students reported practicing anal sex. "When we wrote
questions in our second survey asking why this was so, some of our
colleagues belittled the idea," wrote Cunningham. "'That's already known,'
they said. 'In a Latino culture, women engage in that practice to avoid
pregnancy and maintain virginity.'" But Cunningham discovered that 56.2
percent of women indicated they had anal sex because their partners liked
it, personal pleasure accounted for 16.5 percent of the cases, "while birth
control and the maintaining of virginity together came to less than 10
percent." And yes: this is ¡Ask a Mexican! not ¡Ask a Boricua! but everyone
knows Puerto Ricans copy Mexicans porque they want to be us-even when it
comes to the butt.
Got a spicy question about Mexicans? Ask the Mexican at
[email]garellano@ocweekly.com[/email]. And those of you who do submit questions: give your
name or a pseudonym, por favor, or we'll make one up for you!
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