Contact Admin. Buenos Aires β Argentina patriciosimonetto gmail. The goal of this article is to analyze the meanings and androcentric practices employed by generals and colonels in the Argentine army in their complaints about the abolition of regulated prostitution. To this end, they proposed installing brothels near barracks.
Based on the analysis of reports, letters and interviews, this article studies the production of masculinity in institutional settings from a historical perspective.
In , the law of social prophylaxis abolished the legal listing of prostitutes on municipal registers, seeing them as a focus of contagion for venereal diseases Biernat, ; Guy, After this change, high-ranking military officers positioned themselves as representatives of paid sex and questioned a ruling that they believed limited their right to heterosexual intercourse.
In , parliament formally withdrew its authorization of brothels near regiments, with the ratification of the United Nations convention Argentina, 16 jul.
However, some months later, some congressmen complained that the military brothels were still open Merrero, 25 ago. Historiography has focused on studying the links between sexuality, health and prostitution policies.
