Spaces, relationships and meanings of anonymous sex between men in Mexico. Figurations between the alternative to the normative

Abstract

This text presents and analyzes some spaces, relationships and meanings of anonymous sex between men in Mexico, particularly in their capital city. The objective is not only descriptive, but analytical, trying to understand how two apparently contradictory meanings can coexist: on the one hand, the transgressive alternative of moral and sexual norms; and on the other, how heteronormative order is reaffirmed with them, where pleasure and power are present in forms of domination, abuse, discrimination or transgression. It is an interpretation of this practice from social considerations, local history and individual subjectivity, which is not intended to show a meaning behind the anonymous sex of homosexual men in Mexico, but to reflect on precisely the complex universe of meanings that determine.

It is intended to contribute to the discussion of the topic, providing data and research experiences, where it is necessary to rethink the so-called “dominant model of the understanding of homoeroticism among men” (See Núñez Noriega, 2001), since it is not a question of unique or identical phenomenon, but of one with a great variety of possible meeting places, very diverse practices among also diverse subjects, that interact under equally varied referents or imaginary, but that together, create or recreate shared interpretations. Under this dynamic perspective of significance, I will resume the concept of “figurations” proposed by Norbert Elías (1999), to highlight the processes in this practice.