Central and South America is a melting pot of nationalities, denominations, languages, cultures of diverse morality - also erotic. Overlapping and interaction of indigenous Indian cultures, arrivals from Africa (slaves), Spain or Portugal contributed to the emergence of very interesting customs, as well as attitudes towards sex.
The Latin American family is characterized by the dominant position of a man.Around him, her life is focused. The woman is submissive and strives for durability and stability of the family. The sexual roles of both sexes are associated with the characteristic features of machismo, etiquette and marianismo.
Machismo is the dominant role of a man, the subordination of wives, fallism and the use of sexual submissiveness of women. Daughters are subordinate to fathers and brothers, later husbands and in this spirit are raised by mothers.
The label is based on extensive forms of gender relations and emphasizing their otherness through clothing, lifestyle, emphasizing the external attractiveness.
Marianismo means subordination to a woman and the durability of a traditional role. A good woman is one who listens to a man, satisfies his sexual needs and cares for him. Men subordinating themselves to the stereotype of machismo often make romances; some of them have two homes and extramarital children.
In everyday life there is a lot of ceremonies, courtesy, flirting, but also irritability. Family life, however, passes in an atmosphere of gentleness, a large number of various anniversaries and holidays, friendships and social contacts. The patriarchal model of the family also influences the upbringing of children - they owe it to obey the father whose role is irrefutable. Hispanic families can be divided into: typical patriarchal families, incomplete families with legalization of illegitimate children (there are a lot of them, mother takes care of education, and father helps financially), incomplete families without any financial help from father (there are also many families, because there is no maintenance obligation). The intergenerational bond is very strong. Mothers are more expressive in expressing feelings than their authoritative fathers. Children from extramarital relationships are accepted. The godparents play a big role. Parents towards children are often over-protective.
Family traditionalism is so strong that it affects extreme legal cases, for example, acquitting husbands-killers of wives on the grounds that a woman not showing obedience to her husband could lead him to a psychological state leading to murder.
Another typical problem is the woman's fear of abandonment, because a husband can start a new family without financial or legal obligations to the previous one.
The patriarchal family in Brazil differed from the similar one of the Hispano-speaking family name with greater spontaneity, eroticism, smaller borders and racial, age or generational barriers.
Universal toleration accepted the institution of concubines, lovers, early sexual initiation of the youth, and a gust of heart in the selection of the spouses.
In Latin American culture, in the relations between the sexes, it is assumed that if the situation allows a man to count on erotic success, he is not able to resist temptation; women - weak beings - can not refuse any man's attempts. In interpersonal contacts is kept less distance than in Europe, which is very embarrassing. The search for sexual pleasures, with little self-abilities, promotes numerous sexual seductions in families, sexual competition, a tolerant attitude towards masturbation and pre-marital sexual initiation.
Prostitution resulting from economic motives does not affect family relationships, the implementation of a wife or mother. In many families their real head is women. Women attach great importance to the look. Machismo is still a living tradition that makes sexual performance so important that any symptoms of its deterioration cause strong fears. This should be explained by the prevalence of sexual magic, aphrodisiacs and sexologists. Children of the street have become a problem now.
The slogans were prepared on the basis of: Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz: Love and Sex. Encyclopedic dictionary. Wroclaw 1999
