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INDEX

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Theory on “machismo”

Honorable machos

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

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

Compartmentalization

The bedroom versus the road

Escape from Culture

VIII. Bullying or the cult of size

The prerogatives of size

Does size confer greater respect?

IX. Hyper-sexuality

Married adventurers and the “second front”

Occasional partners

X. Obscenity and intoxication

XI. Venereal diseases

Prevention and masculinity

XII. Prostitutes

The sex of money

The official excuse

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

The worst times

Homosexual practice

History of Sodom

Bibliography

Annexes