ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the diverse ways in which ideologies of masculinity and sexuality manifest in the sexual lives of Peruvian migrant men. Taking into account different sexual geographies, it analyzes the structural conditions and cultural meanings that shape transnational migrant men's sexual relations, the uncertainty of their partners’ fidelity and long-term separation, as well as loneliness and isolation. It also explores social images of female sexual reputation that shape heterosexual men's narratives and approaches to women. The male group serves as the space within which heterosexual men organize their sexual relations with women. This chapter concludes by showing the changes and continuities in heterosexual and gay men's sexual lives in terms of sexual pleasure and sexual choreographies.