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Iñigo Lamarca es homosexual, y este libro no sólo se limita a dar testimonio de ello, sino que constituye una reivindicación del derecho a vivir con total normalidad su condición.El libro comienza con sus recuerdos de infancia: es decir, es una crónica desgarrada que nos muestra el conflictivo despertar sexual de un niño, al que, mediante la coerción, le son impuestas las normas propias del modelo heterosexual.En la adolescencia, mientras el niño se va transformando en adulto, ese conflicto se convierte en un infierno. Para trasladar al papel de la forma más fidedigna posible el drama interior que vivió, el autor se ha servido de retazos de su diario personal.Lamarca es homosexual, sí. Pero no es sólo homosexual. Es, antes que nada una persona, una persona comprometida con su sociedad, tanto en el terreno de la cultura como en el de la acción civil. Muestra de ese compromiso es la alta responsabilidad institucional que actualmente desempeña como Ararteko (Defensor del Pueblo Vasco).Es difícil encontrar un testimonio tan directo, honesto y sincero. Lamarca da un paso adelante en su trayectoria personal y vital, un paso adelante en la perspectiva de la normalización de la homosexualidad. Pero también un avance en la normalización de nuestra sociedad. Un paso adelante en el fortalecimiento de la dignidad humana.
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sexhistory, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless.
The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive is sue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from.
Drawing upon extensive research from Dr Kate Lister’s Whores of Yore website and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex covers topics ranging from twentieth-century testicle thefts to Victorian doctors massaging the pelvises of their female patients, from smutty bread innuendos dating back to AD 79, to the new and controversial sex doll brothels. It is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang and illustrated by eye-opening, toe-curling and hilarious images.
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