The romantic image that most people have of Mexico is valid enough that most people who go there with romance on their minds usually find it, says Arizona-based author Boye Lafayette De Mente.
July 30, 2007 (Press Release) --
"Romantic Mexico," which author Boye Lafayette De Mente describes as a “culture insight guide, identifies and describes the exotic and erotic atmosphere of Mexico that makes it a happy hunting ground for men and women in search of romantic experiences.
De Mente says that Mexico owes its emphasis on the erotic to the macho cult brought to the country by the Arab-Moor-influenced Spanish conquistadores in the early 16th century, and to the new race of Spanish-Indian “Mestizoes” spawned by the hyper sexual Spanish conquerors and the administrators and soldiers who followed them.
For virtually all of the 300-year reign of Spain in Mexico, Spanish men, both those dispatched from Spain and those born in Mexico, had virtually free sexual access to both Indian and Mestizo women.
This situation, De Mente goes on, was unbearably frustrating to Mestizo men, and they compensated by behaving in an even more macho manner than their Spanish overlords.
“This same situation primed Mexican girls in sexuality from childhood on, but their behavior was extremely limited by the tenants of the all-powerful Catholic Church and by their fathers, brothers and husbands, making them even more frustrated than Mestizo males, who at least had access to mistresses and huge numbers of prostitutes,” he adds.
De Mente notes that the gradual emancipation of Mexican women since the mid-1950s and the accompanying erosion of the extremes of machoism in Mexico have given the urban areas of the country a kind of “sex-in-the-city” atmosphere…with do’s and don’ts for visitors going to Mexico in search of romance.
"Romantic Mexico" is available (in both digital and paperback editions) to consumers from Amazon.com and other regular book outlets.
De Mente says that Mexico owes its emphasis on the erotic to the macho cult brought to the country by the Arab-Moor-influenced Spanish conquistadores in the early 16th century, and to the new race of Spanish-Indian “Mestizoes” spawned by the hyper sexual Spanish conquerors and the administrators and soldiers who followed them.
For virtually all of the 300-year reign of Spain in Mexico, Spanish men, both those dispatched from Spain and those born in Mexico, had virtually free sexual access to both Indian and Mestizo women.
This situation, De Mente goes on, was unbearably frustrating to Mestizo men, and they compensated by behaving in an even more macho manner than their Spanish overlords.
“This same situation primed Mexican girls in sexuality from childhood on, but their behavior was extremely limited by the tenants of the all-powerful Catholic Church and by their fathers, brothers and husbands, making them even more frustrated than Mestizo males, who at least had access to mistresses and huge numbers of prostitutes,” he adds.
De Mente notes that the gradual emancipation of Mexican women since the mid-1950s and the accompanying erosion of the extremes of machoism in Mexico have given the urban areas of the country a kind of “sex-in-the-city” atmosphere…with do’s and don’ts for visitors going to Mexico in search of romance.
"Romantic Mexico" is available (in both digital and paperback editions) to consumers from Amazon.com and other regular book outlets.
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