ABSTRACT
Oscar Zeta Acostaa often liked to describe his existential journey as divided into three major traumas. The first had to do with his first love affair. His second adolescent love was a young lady he addresses as June MacAdoo, a revision, a new version of Jane Addison provoking an essentially different affair. Alice Joy brought Zeta to his third trauma: religion. The knowledge of the Baptist faith he got from her was enough to make him switch faiths. Zeta is an example of genetic continuity. Spanish Catholicism instituted in the Americas the concept of original sin, and in colonial times, it generated a sense of shame and dislike for women. Zeta's hyperactive, incredibly convoluted machismo fits well the cultural habitat he came from.
