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Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil Richard G. Parker With a new preface by the author and Bodies, Passions Pleasures, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions [18.209.209.246] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:32 GMT) Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil second edition With a new preface by the author Richard G. Parker Vanderbilt University Press Nashville [18.209.209.246] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:32 GMT) © 2009 by Richard G. Parker Originally published in 1991 by Beacon Press. Second edition published in 2009 by Vanderbilt University Press. All rights reserved 13 12 11 10 09 1 2 3 4 5 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Manufactured in the United States of America Excerpts from Gilberto Freyre, Casa-Grande e Senzala: Formação da Familía Brasileira sob o regime da Economia Patriarcal, 22d edition (Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, 1983), translated as The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956), are reprinted here by permission of Fundação Gilberto Freyre. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy), 1956– Bodies, pleasures, and passions : sexual culture in contemporary Brazil / Richard G. Parker ; With a new preface by the author. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8265-1675-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sex customs—Brazil. 2. Sexual ethics—Brazil. 3. Sexual behavior surveys—Brazil. I. Title. HQ18.B7P37 2009 306.70981—dc22 2009007459 For Vavá [18.209.209.246] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:32 GMT) Ah esse Brasil lindo e trigueiro, É o meu Brasil brasileiro, Terra de samba e pandeiro, Brasil, para mim . . . Brasil, para mim . . . [Ah that Brazil, dark and beautiful, Is my Brazilian Brazil, Land of samba and tambourine, Brazil, for me . . . Brazil, for me . . . ] —Ary Barroso, “Aquarela do Brasil” (Watercolor of Brazil) ...