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Even as specialized police corruption and harassment increases for all sex workers, the men are still better off than the women. This is partly because pingueros recognize that their privileged position as men allows them to socialize on the street without suspicion. As I argued in my previous article, pingueros are more ideologically acceptable than jineteras, because they are nearly always the insertive partner during intercourse; they literally invade the bodies of foreigners. The bodies of jineteras, on the other hand, are symbolically and literally conquered and invaded. And for the most part pingueros are faithful Revolutionary citizens. They perform traditional and Revolutionary masculinity with little variation and fulfill their masculine obligations as eldest sons, brothers, husbands and fathers. Finally, pingueros usually do not wish to leave the island and they are critical of U.S. aggression. They are horrified, for example, that the ultra right-wing Cuban American National Foundation has urged the Bush Administration to do to Cuba what it has done to Iraq.
What is clear to pingueros is that some Cubans are now able to dress far better than others, and on this hierarchical axis they want to occupy a successful position. Their embrace of materialism puts them at odds with the state, which at least rhetorically still proclaims itself to be egalitarian. Despite their reproduction of other Revolutionary cultural and ideological norms, having disposable wealth and flaunting it makes them liable to social and legal persecution. Some Cubans, who are far wealthier than these youth, have new cars and cellular telephones. But this is real wealth, which protects them from legal persecution. Young people only have the symbolic wealth of Calvin Klein jeans, Tommy Hilfiger shirts and Nike shoes, making them both ideologically problematic and highly vulnerable to social and legal proscription.
The boys whisk their customers away from Kid Chocolate Arena and the CCTV cameras and the cops patrolling the Capitolia lickety-split, into a taxi, into the night. Gay is legal, hustling isn't. Male prostitutes, pingueros, have mixed in with Havana gays in growing numbers, numbers that correlate closely with the spread of private enterprise, income inequality, and foreign-made consumer goods. The sexuality of the pinguero is extremely specific, as per a fascinating study by G. Derrick Hodge, an anthropologist at Rutgers University. Dr. Hodge writes, "Pinguero is not primarily a category of sexual preference: it is first and foremost an economic category." Pingueros are neither definably gay nor straight. They possess the famously ample Cuban pinga, and that is what they sell. They don't kiss, don't allow themselves to be penetrated (except when they do), and will only do it doggie-style, if possible while watching a porn video.
In 1995, a new economic policy was introduced, marking the country's worst economic period.[39] Financial need was the primary motivation for people entering prostitution during this time, and Cuba gained a reputation as the "Thailand of the Caribbean".[4] However, in Cuba, the situation had some differences from other developing countries. Prostitutes in Cuba did not work in oppressive conditions, alcohol and drug addiction were not routes into prostitution, and people were not sold into prostitution by their families. Julia O'Connell Davidson noted in her 1996 article "Sex Tourism in Cuba" that, "In Cuba there is no network of brothels, no organized system of bar prostitution; in fact, third-party involvement in the organization of prostitution is rare".[40] Women's fiction increasingly included the subject of prostitution,[27] and Cuban theatres began to stage foreign plays about prostitution.[41] Prostitution also began to be presented in Cuban films, acting as a metaphor for the downfall of the socialist system and for the island being sold out to foreign tourists and investors.[39] Prostitutes were often represented as individualistic, greedy, lazy women.[25] Male-to-male sex workers, known as jineteros or pingueros, appeared during the Special Period, and were a significant part of the developing Cuban gay scene[42] when LGBT rights in Cuba began to develop.
It starts at any time of day, but this Internet scene has its prime time in the afternoon/evening, when pingueros (male sex workers) go down to the Malecon and start the show: What would you like me to show you? Look here, can you see it properly?
Son historias duras, incómodas y poco visibilizadas de jóvenes dedicados a la prostitución masculina, inspiradas en el libro Pingueros en La Habana, del historiador e investigador Julio César González Pagés. En Cuba, en el argot popular, el término pingueros identifica a los hombres que se dedican al trabajo sexual como forma de empleo.
So my experience of pingueros is admittedly small. But I met many people who were prostituting themselves, if not sexually. One day, a charming retired printer approached me as I was photographing a monument, offering to be my guide to the city. He insisted that he just wanted to be my friend. But of course, he also wanted me to pay him; this idea of friendship was a fiction he needed to maintain, to avoid humiliation. Could he make ends meet on his pension? No, he leaves home every morning and spends the day hustling one way or another for extra money.
-Fueron muchas. Estábamos sentados y vino la policía a pedirnos papeles, pensando que éramos pingueros, les explicamos y no pasó nada. En una ocasión se me acercó un alemán con insistencia y yo le decía: soy actor, no me puedo ir contigo. Su respuesta era: no importa, yo te pago y nos vamos. Me intentó presionar y entonces ahí descubrí que ese mundo es muy violento.
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