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Sexuality is a construction of social ideologies, it is as, David M. Halperin argues a “cultural production: it represents the appropriation of the human body and of its physiological capacities by an ideological discourse. Therefore, while sex has no history because its grounded in the function of the body and lies outside of history and culture, Sexuality does have a history- though a very short one” (Halperin). Is Halperin right? Is sexuality indeed, as he and Foucault claimed, “a uniquely modern production” (Halperin). Pete Sigal seems to agree as he illustrates how sexuality in the pre and post-colonial time was a “slower and less consistent process then scholar assumed it” (Sigal) to be, but was non the less transformed over time. According to Haunani-Kay Trask, the U.S. came to existence through a history of violence. The notion of sex and sexuality was a result of the extermination of the indigenous people i.e the colonization of the Americas. Pete Sigal work, The Homosexual, explores how the Nahua culture, prior to the Spanish conquest, did not have a notion of sex or sexuality equivalent to the sexual ideals developed by colonial society or those promoted by western people. In his work, Sigal offers a “detailed interpretation of Nhaual ritual symbolism associated with sexual acts and gendered roles. He considers the differences between the noble and commoner experience, Spanish reactions, and changes over time from before the conquest through the early colonial era” (Sigal). In this article I will analyze western ideologies before the colonization and Nahual society pre and post-colonialism, focusing on Sigal work and analysis of the Nahual's culture: religion, rituals, beliefs, mythology, and documents written in the... ... middle of paper ... ..."The Flower And The Scorpion: Sexuality And Ritual In Early Nahua Culture."American Historical Review118.2 (2013): 556-557.Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 May 2014. Gutiérrez, Ramón A., When Jesus came, the corn mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1991. Print Mottier, Véronique. “Before Sexuality.” Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. 3-24. Web. 26 May 2014. Overmyer-Velazquez, Rebecca. "Christian Morality Revealed In New Spain: The Inimical Nahua Woman In Book Ten Of The Florentine.."Journal Of Women's History 10.2 (1998): 9. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 May 2014. Sigal, Peter Herman. "The Homosexual." The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011. 177-205. Web. 26 May 2014

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