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A Man in the House by Don Kulick

Introduction

Don Kulick is a professor of Anthropology. The center for the study of sexuality and gender's director is Don Kulick. He is a professor at New York University. He did his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in Anthropology in 1990. His book “A Man in the House,” also talks about the same topic as he has his specialization in. He has talked about the Brazilian travesties, in his book. Travesties are male prostitutes, who like to dress like females. A travesti is a homosexual male, who has a feminine gender identity and is primarily sexually attracted to non-feminine men.

Discussion

The Brazilian travestis got highly stigmatised in Brazilian culture, apart from those rare cases where they become celebrities and achieve wealth and admiration. Kulick claims that:

“This travestis, the ones that most Brazilians only glimpse occasionally standing along highways or on dimly lit street corners at night or read about in the crime pages of their local newspapers, comprise one of the most marginalized, feared, and despised groups in Brazilian society. In most Brazilian cities, travesties so discriminated against that Making a living by working as prostitutes, which does not necessarily mean always taking the passive role, the travestis has organised themselves in ghettos, in the most notorious areas, in Brazilian cities. They usually occupy a tall building, where they all live together, and their lives centre around their boyfriends, who they call maridos, meaning husbands. These husbands are the centre of their attention, for they are a basic constituent of their sexual, economic and social life and identity. Whereas with their clients they can take the passive and regularly the active role possibly, an alleviation of guilt on the client's part, so that his manhood and image of masculinity not threatened, with their boyfriends they ...