A National Penchant for Anal Sex?
27 April 06 in Media
It may be old news, but this didn’t stop the New York Times from running a piece on Raquel Pacheco, aka Bruna Surfistinha, a Brazilian prostitute turned blogger turned best-selling author. Her book, The Sweet Venom of the Scorpion: The Diary of a Call Girl, has caused quite a stir in a country that’s more sexually conservative than most people realize.
“I think there’s a lot of hypocrisy and a bit of fear involved,” [said Ms. Pacheco]. “Brazilian women have this sexy image, of being at ease and uninhibited in bed. But anyone who lives here knows that’s not true.”
The Times trots out the usual experts to confirm the finding that most Brazilian women aren’t your stereotypical hot-blooded-Latinas. This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone living in the United States, which has its own reputation for sexual permissiveness. Many people outside this country are under the impression that it’s Girls Gone Wild here all the time, but anyone who lives here knows our deviance is matched only by our countervailing prudishness. Two other kinky countries, Germany and Japan, suffer a similar schizophrenia when it comes to human sexuality.
As a result, some Brazilians have applauded Bruna’s frankness and say it is healthy to get certain taboos out in the open, like what both she and academic researchers say is a national penchant for anal sex.
I couldn’t help but chuckle at the “national penchant for anal sex.” One wonders how academic researchers reached this conclusion.
More: Latin, Brazilian, Stereotypes, Raquel Pacheco, Blogging, Sex
