Abstract:
Between 1576 and 1662, the Inquisition of Mexico received only four accusations against imperfect sodomites: men who practiced anal sex with women. As the Hispanic Inquisition did not consider these practices as faith crimes (except the Aragon tribunal), there only remained the testimonies collected by the commissaries of the Inquisition, and the trials did not progress. Through these few testimonies, I try to show how the intimate practices became public in different ways and how the ideas of permitted and forbidden sexuality were in constant tension -under the sacrament of marriage-, and how the social control mechanisms moralized by verbalizing the unnominate, the nefandum.
Key Words:
Nefandum; imperfect sodomites; sexuality.