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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

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