“Curas, Dones y Sodomitas”: Discursos de moralidad sexual y prácticas sexuales ilícitas entre sacerdotes en México Colonial

Guillermo De Los Reyes

doi:10.3989/aeamer.2010.v67.i1.332

Authors

Guillermo De Los Reyes University of Houston, Texas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2010.v67.i1.332

Keywords:

Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class, Sodomy, Nefarious sin, Inquisition, Catholic Church, Spanish Crown, New Spain

Abstract

This article analyzes how the Church, the Inquisition, and the Crown controlled and shaped colonial subjects, especially in terms of sexuality. It also looks at the interaction of social class and race and the way in which colonial subjects dealt with these social institutions. This essay seeks to shed light on the history of sexuality in New Spain, through an analysis of sodomy cases involving clergymen and these cases’ impact in colonial institutions. An examination of sodomy can increase one’s understanding of related sexuality and gender issues and, as the archival research done for this investigation has shown, may help clarify seemingly unrelated issues regarding social class and ethnicity.

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