Federico Garza Carvajal works as a writer and translator in Bratislava, The Slovak Republic. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Amsterdam.

"Garza Carvajal's fascinating and thought-provoking book effectively analyzes the connections between masculinity and the discourse surrounding sodomy in early modern Spain and colonial Mexico... This book is extraordinary, and I strongly recommend it." Peter Sigal, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles

• List of Illustrations Notes on Translation and Transcription Abbreviations Acknowledgments Prologue: Varied Textures Chapter 1. A Total Man and a Total Woman Chapter 2. A Brief History of Early Modern Spain on Sodomie Chapter 3. Mariner, Would You Scratch My Legs? Chapter 4. Cotita and the Antipodas, or How a Cadre of Effeminate Sodomites Infested New Spain with an Endemic Cancer Known as the Abominable Sin contra Natura Epilogue: He Died of a Broken Heart Appendix 1: Natura Armada Appendix 2: Tentando pijas y siesos: Como se confirma el derramamiento de la suciedad Appendix 3: Cotita que es lo mismo que mariquita y sus lindas niÑas en la ciudad de MÉxico Notes Glossary Works Cited Index

Federico Garza Carvajal works as a writer and translator in Bratislava, The Slovak Republic. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Amsterdam.

"Garza Carvajal's fascinating and thought-provoking book effectively analyzes the connections between masculinity and the discourse surrounding sodomy in early modern Spain and colonial Mexico... This book is extraordinary, and I strongly recommend it." Peter Sigal, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles

• List of Illustrations Notes on Translation and Transcription Abbreviations Acknowledgments Prologue: Varied Textures Chapter 1. A Total Man and a Total Woman Chapter 2. A Brief History of Early Modern Spain on Sodomie Chapter 3. Mariner, Would You Scratch My Legs? Chapter 4. Cotita and the Antipodas, or How a Cadre of Effeminate Sodomites Infested New Spain with an Endemic Cancer Known as the Abominable Sin contra Natura Epilogue: He Died of a Broken Heart Appendix 1: Natura Armada Appendix 2: Tentando pijas y siesos: Como se confirma el derramamiento de la suciedad Appendix 3: Cotita que es lo mismo que mariquita y sus lindas niÑas en la ciudad de MÉxico Notes Glossary Works Cited Index