Building on my Sexual Identity: Significance of the First Sexual Experiences of a Middle-school Immigrant ("Mazahua") Girl, in Mexico City

Abstract

This paper presents a deep study about the build meaning of the first sexual experiences of a native ("Mazahua") Mexican girl; She is a teenager, located as a typical student of a public middle school in the "La Merced" neighbourhood in Mexico City. This work records, and analyses, the love-erotic happening---either lesbian or bisexual---as an important transition component build for the (ethnic, sexual and gender) identity of this young woman. We also discuss that her self-image is constructed as a response of the violence environment against women in this community; also, as a consequence from the urban violence from the city.